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Neuroplasticity on the Range: Designing a Firearms Training Regime Around the Mind
Article By: Leo H. To perfect human performance, the question often becomes, “To change, or not to change?” Specifically, in the realm of firearms training, we often look at change as it relates to the type of gun, barrel design and length, the method of aiming, trigger design or adjustments, ammunition design, weight and velocity,… Continue reading
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I use State of the Art Technology
Article by: William G. Fads and trends come and go. Some are ahead of their time. Some are forgotten. Some endure. Some are forgotten until someone “invents them” for the hundredth time. The cycle repeats. Regardless, most all of us want whatever the best of the best we can get for protection life and limb.… Continue reading
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Tactical Entertainment: When High-Volume Shooting Masquerades as Advanced Training
Article By: Leo H. Retired folks browse the internet. Well… maybe not all retired folks. In fact, it could just be something I do with the overabundance of spare time I seem to have nowadays. At any rate, I seem to find myself wandering down various rabbit holes, pursuing tidbits of information on a daily… Continue reading
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Observations From Teaching Non-Dedicated Personnel, or the OSS Methodology and When a “Compromise” Isn’t
Article by: William G. For a while now, I have been asked by either my Chief or my Father to teach women’s introductory handgun classes. A good friend of mine who is a judge teaches the legal portion, and I and a few of my shooting buddies teach ballistics, storage, handling, and shooting. It is… Continue reading
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Competency Based Training
Article By: Leo H. Dispatched to a suspicious person call, Officer Friendly, a popular seven-year veteran and incident report writer without peer, found himself in a deadly force encounter behind a local convenience store. The shadow he encountered raised a weapon. Friendly drew. His hands shook. His grip faltered. The fundamentals he’d “qualified” on six… Continue reading
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Are You Prepared for THE Gunfight?
Article by: William G. What is a gunfight? It is a situation when one or more persons, using weapons (specifically guns) that can inflict greatly bodily harm or death, are actively trying to use said weapons to inflict great bodily harm or death on you; and in which you use your own gun to stop… Continue reading
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The Secrets of Life, and the young Firearms Instructor – A letter to my friend, the Captain
A friend of mine, who is a younger aged Captain with a metro agency in the belly of the beast, called me to ask my opinion on a pistol mounted optic technique. Tony is a very articulate, enthusiastic, and analytical man. He asks very well thought out, reasoned, and intelligent questions. I spent hours on… Continue reading
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There’s a Fudd on the Firing Line
Article By: Leo H. Every range has one. The retired legend with the battered ball cap, still running the same 7-yard, single-target drill from 1993… and calling it “tactics.” He’s not a villain; he’s a Fudd—a career firearms instructor frozen in time, resisting modern, evidence-based police training like it’s some YouTube marvel’s current trend. The problem… Continue reading
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Chasing Rabbits
Written by: William G. Perhaps a hookah smoking caterpillar has given you a call. Go ask Alice. I think she’ll know what I am raving about tonight while I’m on this airplane. I have carried a variety of guns on duty over the last three decades. Some issue, some personal. At times, I carried some… Continue reading
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Cold On Demand, or Cold in the Morgue – Shooter’s Choice
Article by: William G. We have touched on this before, but I was recently doing some YouTube research, and saw something I just cannot wrap my head around. The person was recording themself shooting a “test.” Before they started, they did a bunch of practice draws, and made sure to get their dot just right… Continue reading
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