After only shooting in four matches in 2019, I was excited to have the opportunity to shoot in my first IDPA match of 2020 just a few days into the new year. Hopefully, this is a harbinger of things to come. The Match The match was a little bit unusual in that it consisted of […]
As I do each year, I like to get at least some general goals and objectives laid out for the year. These aren’t resolutions per se; in many cases, funds have already been paid and this is just a way for me to give our readers a sneak-peak into what I plan to do this […]
Once again this year, separate from my annual “Pay to Play” article, this is what has become another tradition: looking back at my year. What goals did I achieve or fail to achieve? What surprises came up along the way? Formal Training As I predicted in my 2019 Training Goals article, I could not maintain […]
Happy Holidays to all of our readers! Each of the last few years (see here, here, and here) I have written an article along these lines. Frankly, I mostly write these articles for myself, as I find it interesting (and somewhat depressing) to see how much I spent on classes and competitive matches over the […]
I had figured that my third match of 2019 would be my last, but as it happened all of the holiday “life events” my kids were involved in were stacked upon each other two weekends ago. Thus, I was happy when a friend of mine asked me if I was free to shoot in an […]
The time that John and I have been putting into the study of the shotgun continued for me last week. Less than two months after taking “Shotgun Skills” with Tim Chandler and Ashton Ray (taught under the FPF Training banner), I once again got to learn under the expert tutelage of Tim in his Home […]
As noted in the report from my last match, “life” events this year just haven’t had me shooting as many matches as I had hoped. I did not expect to have time to compete in a match this weekend due to more stuff going on. However, it was announced on Monday afternoon that my school […]
How sad is it that it took me all the way until the last weekend in September to shoot my second match of the year? That’s how it goes sometimes. (See description of my first match of the year here.) Family illnesses, family vacations, scheduling conflicts with classes I took, etc., all conspired against me […]
Regular readers of this blog have seen, over the last two years, how John and I have written more and more “shotgun articles”. We have both been enjoying an increasing interest in the “scattergun” over that time, leading to articles about shotgun modifications, buckshot reviews and patterning, and reviews of some classes we have taken […]
Since I began training in earnest back in 2013, I have made it a point to take at least one dedicated handgun class per year. A look back at my AARs will reveal such classes with Steve Fisher, Tom Perroni, Jeff Gonzales, Kyle Defoor, John McPhee, John Murphy, Tom Givens, and Darryl Bolke. After having […]
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