John and I had the pleasure of attending the First Responder Pistol class offered by Hardwired Tactical Shooting this past weekend. Hardwired Tactical Shooting is the brainchild of Wayne Dobbs and Darryl Bolke and is based in the Dallas, Texas area. Both are former police officers (Texas and Southern California, respectively), both have served as […]
“Those who can, do; those who can’t, teach.” I’m not sure who first coined that phrase, but he or she was only right about half the time. For I know from first-hand experience that if you want to get really good at something, try teaching it. Once you have a room of students asking every […]
Suddenly and unexpectedly being called upon to coach little league baseball this Spring, with games EVERY Saturday morning for a few months, forced me to delay my first foray into competitive pistol shooting this year. Though it was fun to spend that time with my son and his teammates, I had really hoped to get […]
Regular readers of this blog, especially those who might focus on my AARs and my range visit posts, might have been surprised over the last couple of years at the number of malfunctions my OD Generation 3 Glock 19 has experienced (Glock perfection?). My black Glock 19 has suffered three or four malfunctions over its […]
It’s been quite some time since I’ve posted one of these articles (see some prior iterations here, here, and here). Though my writing productivity for the blog has slowed a bit in recent months, I am happy to say that I have been shooting a bit more than last year. Changes The biggest change I […]
We’ve all heard it before, right? Borrowing from the series of classic lines from “The Good, The Bad, and The Ugly”, it is often said that there are two kinds of gun owners: those who have had a negligent discharge, and those who will. While this sounds defeatist on many levels, I believe that, if […]
My blog partner John has mentioned more than once in his articles on shotgun patterning (see here, here, and here) how I too have been working on an article addressing this same need. John and I largely ignored the shotgun—in terms of training classes and articles—during our first couple of years writing for the blog. […]
