Tag: Pistol
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Take Instructor Gun Recommendations with a Tactical Grain of Salt
If you go to any shooting classes at big named schools, you will likely hear a lot of chatter about guns and gear. The instructor will usually tell the students that they need at least X caliber with Y capacity and prefer you get Z brand. They will shake their heads at you if you carry…
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Daddy’s New AR-15 Pistola
Gear: Not my Usual Hangup I’m really not a gear guy. No, really. I tend to abide by very practical set of rules. I dedicate most of my practice to what I feel are the most likely scenarios. This puts me in the basement gym and on the mats first, practicing applying tourniquets to myself second,…
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Shooting Technique: One Handed Shooting, Canted or Vertical?
This is a short post about pistol shooting technique. One of my readers noticed that I was using a traditional strict vertical one handed shooting technique. Like most things, it’s been a work in progress. Here’s my reasoning for using a more traditional vertical hold instead of a more canted ‘high speed’ one handed technique. I was…