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Why Everyone Should Be Getting Into VR Training

March 10, 2025April 16, 2024 by Jennifer Sensiba

When I was a teenager, I liked to play paintball with cousins and friends, along with a few army guys from church. The realistic fighting environment, including some pain if you lose, was a lot of fun. Being one step removed from risk of death along with some people to teach me about things like … Read more

The AceXR VR Shooting System: “It’s Like Shooting A Competition With .22”

March 10, 2025January 16, 2024 by Jennifer Sensiba

In some ways, hyper-realistic firearms training has been the holy grail of the defensive, police, and military shooting worlds. While there’s a lot you can do on the range, there are still some steep downsides to being limited to live fire. The biggest one is cost, especially for those of us who can’t print money … Read more

Members, Instructors and Students Need REAL NRA Reform

March 10, 2025January 11, 2024 by Jennifer Sensiba

As a firearms instructor, I want to share my ideas for the reform the NRA needs as it heads into a trial its leadership will NOT win. The court will order that the organization be rebuilt, but if we don’t make it clear what’s really needed, we won’t get the results we need. If you … Read more

27,000 Tons of “Carpet-Like Material” Still Litter Abandoned Gun Range Two Decades Later

March 6, 2025July 30, 2021 by Jeremy S.

Want some free carpet? Or “carpet-like material,” whatever that is? Well, you’re in luck. The Maine Department of Environmental Protection (DEP) is accepting proposals from companies willing to remove 27,000 tons of it from an abandoned gun range in Warren, Maine. Better yet, there’s up to $250,000 on the table for taking this stuff off … Read more

Maintain Your Shooting Range or You’ll Burn, Baby, Burn [VIDEO]

March 6, 2025December 7, 2020 by Kat Ainsworth Stevens

This is why good gun range management and maintenance is so important, boys and girls. Unless you enjoy flash fires, of course. Based on the officers’ uniforms, it appears this took place in the city of Aracaju, Brazil. Take a look (the action starts at about 1:20): It’s not clear what that mat in front … Read more

Gear Review: K Rounds Range Back Pack (Gen1)

April 28, 2017 by Conner W.

K Rounds is a company that’s not afraid to experiment. In fact, they have a solid reputation of making products like the Pancake-Thigh Rig come to life in their custom shop by tapping into their extensive manufacturing resources. Of course, not all products in their catalog are customer-initiated – most are internal creations. Case in point: … Read more

Green Watch: Neighbors tell range to “get the lead out.”

July 18, 2011 by ttag

I think it must be all that rain. People in the Pacific Northwest march to the beat of a different Doumbek. Up there, they take all this environmental stuff more like a religion, than a philosophy or a political statement. Me? I’m a believer in moderation in all things. Saving the planet is a great idea, just as long as the planet actually needs saving. For instance, if you’ve been doing something for, say, 40 years or so with no adverse effects, I find it a little hard to believe that, just because somebody’s consciousness is raised, you’ve got to change everything you’ve been doing Right Now! or risk Destroying Mother Earth! The conflict between Mother Nature, Father Time, tree-huggers and shooters is coming to a head in Oregon. And I’m afraid the results aren’t gonna be pretty.

Question of the Day: Can You Think of Any New Handgun and Rifle Drills?

August 31, 2010 by Robert Farago

A member of TTAG’s Armed Intelligentsia named washlefi writes:

I’m trying to come up with some new (at least new to my audience) training drills for the handgun and rifle. Our range isn’t as swank as the Scottsdale facility above (whose is?), but we have a lot of capabilites at our range. Unfortunately we tend to not use them as much as we should. We have three bays of six steel plates, numerous “pepper popper” steel targets, 24 shooting lanes with turning targets, up to 50 yards on our lower range and up to 100 yards on our upper range. The lower range has the capability of shooting in 270 degrees, which is nice. We have mobile barricades and a patrol car.

Is CSI Gun-friendly?

April 30, 2010 by ttag

I’ll admit it. I’m a sucker for CSI. Not CSI: Miami. Can’t stand David Whats-his-name’s overacting. Nope as much as I like Lieutenant Dan, I’m a big fan of the original CSI show. Vegas, baby! Tonight’s episode was of interest to TTAG readers, as it involved a corpse shot with several hundred rounds of everything from .50 cal Ma Duce rounds to .38s. I don’t wanna spoil it for you, but it also involves an outdoor gun range. The episode should be online in a couple of days. When it is, I’ll update the post, so you can see it for yourself.

In the meantime, let me point out that the script has the CSIs, shall we say, express disdain for citizens celebrating their 2nd Amendment rights by shooting fully-automatic weapons. That’s not completely unexpected. Hollywood is not exactly teeming with people that support gun rights. (They are more than willing to exploit guns for their ratings, but they want nothing else to do with them.) However, the show did feature something that caught my eye (in more ways than one).

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