“Charisma is not fact, scientific sounding, nonsensical jargon is not fact, having a great time on the range is not fact, feeling cool and looking good is not fact. The fact is if you get it wrong you could die… “Your instructor has told you that actual conflict experience is not necessary? Gee…I wonder why? […]
By Jeff Gonzales What have you done to earn it today? It’s a straightforward question focusing on what have you done to better yourself, your position or your lot in life. That also extends, of course to your shooting skills. The Forging Process The concept and desire for continual improvement was instilled into my very […]
“If (God forbid) you ever get into a situation where you have to use your firearm in self-defense, you need to know the issue you’re facing: one or more people of unknown skill level and undetermined will have placed you and your loved ones at deadly peril. They’re actively trying to kill you and they […]
In the decade since dropping my daughter off for her first day of kindergarten, things have changed. Yes, Columbine took place in 1999 while I was still in college, and there was even a school shooting way back in 1840. Even so, things have changed. Despite living in good areas in different states during her […]
This July, for the first time ever, TacCon was held in the Pacific Northwest (thus becoming Northwest TacCon). During NW TacCon, Chief Deputy at Oconee County Georgia Sheriff’s Office Lee Weems put a group of us through the Rolling Thunder shotgun drill. The drill is designed to put shooters through the paces of reloads, rapid […]
TTAG Hunting Editor Kat Ainsworth was interviewed by Cheryl Todd of Gun Freedom Radio this week. Topics of conversation on the podcast included Northwest TacCon, which was hosted by the Firearms Academy of Seattle, and the importance of training and having a plan. They also discussed TacCon training blocks such as Moving Targets, which was […]
By George Zener The fight-or-flight response is “a physiological reaction that occurs in response to a perceived harmful event, attack, or threat to survival.” The people who are reading this article likely have plenty of training to ready themselves for a fight. Many People of the Gun have spent hundreds of hours sending many thousands […]
By DrewR A large percentage of the People of the Gun are relegated to shooting in a “static” or restrictive range, often indoors and sometimes lorded over by a range master calling when to fire and when to stop. I’ve been there, and I know how difficult it can be to meaningfully improve practical shooting […]
By Kevin P. Like a lot of gun owners, I train to shoot. Shoot fast, hit the target. In IDPA, you move, find the target and shoot it. I’m a B+ shot, usually in the top third or quarter in my pistol matches. (I do better when the really good shooters don’t show up, ha, […]
Stress. It can be categorized by type – distress, eustress, neustress – and classified by hormone – adrenaline, norepinephrine, and cortisol. Some of its effects can be positive, at least in the short-term, while others are overwhelmingly negative. When it comes to the role of stress in hunting one factor rules them all: training. Yes, […]
Shooting a bullseye target can only improve your technique so much. People come up with all kinds of paper target drills, but is it possible to build a real self-guided curriculum around a specially designed paper target? RE Factor Tactical answers that question with a creative-looking paper target (below), designed to be used with their […]
John Farnam writes [via ammmoland.com]: Conversations with “precision riflemen” often get into tedious, esoteric mathematical realms, and usually very quickly. Many factors influence the bullet during the brief fraction of a second (sometimes longer) while it is in free-flight between when it departs the muzzle and the point of ultimate impact (exterior ballistics), but the two […]
