KR Training August 2019 Newsletter

Welcome to the KR Training August 2019 newsletter! It’s training season. Sign up now for any classes on the schedule by clicking the “Register” link at the top of the page. Check the schedule page on the KR Training website for the full list of upcoming classes. SEPTEMBER CLASSES September is shaping up to be …

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Jeff Cooper’s First Article

Here is a scanned copy of Jeff Cooper’s first published article, from the Marine Corps Gazette, in Sept 1946. Titled “What Good Is A Pistol?”, it discusses pistol training and caliber selection. Highlights: Cooper comments that the semiauto pistol be redesigned to have more slant and a slight curve — essentially describing the difference between …

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Understanding Blink Impact on Shooting Precision

Roy Stedman posted these slow motion videos about shot calling back in 2009. The way to use these videos is to watch the sights, and try to “call” where the shot is going to go based on the visual information you have in the last microsecond before the shot is fired. This is very difficult …

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Small changes

The discussion today is all about making big changes in response to the recent active shooter events. Most of those big changes will not occur, and particularly with regard to gun control measures, even if they do occur they are incredibly unlikely to prevent future events. I have to wonder how many guns were in …

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