KR Training July 2021 Newsletter
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Target Evolution: B-21, B-21X, to B-27 and beyond
In the spring 2021 Historical Handgun course Tom Givens and I co-taught, Tom presented some information about the history and evolution of the B-27 target. After that course, a retired Indiana police instructor named Bob Givan found one of my blog posts about the B-21 target and contacted me. Bob shares our interest in the …
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Book Review: The Search for an Effective Police Handgun (Bristow, 1973)
During the recent Historical Handgun class Tom Givens and I co-taught, Tom mentioned a book I hadn’t heard of: “The Search for An Effective Police Handgun”, by Allen Bristow, published in 1973. This book came out prior to his more complete Modern Police Firearms book (previously reviewed on this blog). It’s basically a collection of …
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KR Training May 2021 Newsletter
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Book Review: Jelly Bryce: The Legend Begins (Conti, 2014)
Firearms trainer Mike Conti has written a three-book fictionalized history of the life of famous FBI agent and gunfighter Jelly Bryce. “The Legend Begins” is book 1 of that series. Bryce was an influential figure in the history of shooting training. His techniques became the core of FBI firearms training, which were taught to law …
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Historical Handgun class April 2021 (part 2)
As part of the 6 days of training Tom Givens (Rangemaster) taught at KR Training’s A-Zone Range in April 2021, Tom and Karl co-taught a one day session of Karl’s Historical Handgun course. The course consisted of a 4 hour lecture from Tom, and a 4 hour block of live fire drills from the 1910’s-1980’s …
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Historical Handgun class April 2021 (part 1)
As part of the 6 days of training Tom Givens (Rangemaster) taught at KR Training’s A-Zone Range in April 2021, Tom and Karl co-taught a one day session of Karl’s Historical Handgun course. The course consisted of a 4 hour lecture from Tom, and a 4 hour block of live fire drills from the 1910’s-1980’s …
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Book Review – The Book of the Pistol and Revolver (Pollard, 1917)
In 1917, WWI veteran and British gunwriter Hugh Pollard published “The Book of the Pistol and Revolver”. Pollard wrote for magazines and authored shooting books from 1912-1945. He was a soldier, possible spy, firearms expert, widely published author, sportsman, social butterfly (son of a surgeon), forensics and ballistic expert, historian and collector. This particular book …
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KR Training April 2021 Newsletter
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Rangemaster Instructor Course AAR
“Context, you’re going to hear that word a lot for the next few days, so pay attention people” was one of the many memorable quotes said by Mr. Tom Givens. He said that to use on day 1 of the Rangemaster – Instructor Development Course and applied it throughout all 3 days. My name is …
March 2021 Preparedness Seminar Videos
In March 2021, Paul Martin gave a well-attended presentation on preparedness. We were able to capture the entire presentation on video, and it’s now available as a series of low cost videos on our Vimeo site. Rent the entire set for 3 months for $19, download the entire series for $25, or get the 2018, …
TacCon21 (part 3)
The KR Training team taught, competed and attended sessions at the 2021 Rangemaster Tactical Conference, held in Dallas at the Dallas Pistol Club (DPC) facility. In part 1 of this series I wrote about the KR Training team’s participation as trainers, staff and competitors. Part 2 covered the sessions I attended. This part shares four …
The M&P Shield Experiment
Several years ago I was carrying an M&P Shield and experimenting with different modifications that could be made to it. I ran the gun, with a variety of increased capacity magazines, in a John Farnam class and wrote a blog post about it. After that class I did some additional experimenting, posted about it in …
TacCon21 (part 2)
The KR Training team taught, competed and attended sessions at the 2021 Rangemaster Tactical Conference, held in Dallas at the Dallas Pistol Club (DPC) facility. In part 1 of this series I wrote about the KR Training team’s participation as trainers, staff and competitors. This post will cover the sessions we attended and other events …
TacCon21 (part 1)
The KR Training team taught, competed and attended sessions at the 2021 Rangemaster Tactical Conference, held in Dallas at the Dallas Pistol Club (DPC) facility. This was the 24th TacCon. I’ve attended 22 of them and been a presenter at at least 20 of them. For many of us, the event is a family reunion, …
TacCon 2005
Back in 2005, the Rangemaster Tactical Conference was featured on an episode of Shooting Gallery. The event was held at “the mothership” – the original Rangemaster facility in Memphis. Back then the event was called the “Polite Society Conference”. Sharing these videos as I and several on the KR Training staff head to Dallas for …
KR Training March 2021 Newsletter
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Book Review – Legal Boundaries By State (Concealed Carry.Com, 2021)
The folks at ConcealedCarry.com have released a new state-by-state gun law book called “Legal Boundaries by State”. It’s available as a print book, but also as an e-book that comes with lifetime updates. In my opinion the e-book version is more useful. Load it into the reader app on your phone, and you will always …
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Two From the Vault
Here are two videos from our archive, recently added to our youTube channel. This is one is the full video podcast of my appearance on the Civilian Carry Radio podcast from 2019 And this one is quite a bit older: Penny is interviewed on local Austin news, during a Refuse to Be a Victim class …
Exhibition Shooting
For the first half of the 20th century, exhibition and trick shooting was a common and popular form of entertainment. Famous shooters from Annie Oakley, Ad and Plinky Topperwein, Ed McGivern and Bill Jordan put on shooting demonstrations as part of Wild West shows, circuses, county fairs, and later, on TV shows. In the second …