Posts about guns and shooting
I taught a lot of private handgun lessons over the past two weeks, and I wanted to share some of the observations and lessons learned from those classes, which I taught at KR Training’s A-Zone Range facility. Private lessons are available, by appointment, on most weekdays and weekday evenings. Often these take the form of …
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In 2015 & 2016 KR Training partnered with the Texas A&M Huffines Institute to jointly fund and conduct an academic study comparing shooter performance using iron sights, green lasers, and slide mounted red dot sights (with and without backup iron sights). This blog post summarizes the key findings from that work. My motivation for doing …
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Small Gun Class Every year I offer a special 3 hour session of our Defensive Pistol Skills 1 class, with drills modified specifically for small guns, pocket guns, and guns carried in anything that’s not a belt holster. I do this because of this silly idea I have that people should train with the guns …
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April is almost over, and it was another busy month, with Massad Ayoob and Gail Pepin visiting to run a MAG-40, and Tracy Thronburg, John Kochan and I teaching multiple sessions at the national A Girl and a Gun conference, and full classes in our regular program. If you aren’t already a subscriber to receive …
The A Girl and a Gun club started as a small group in Austin and quickly grew to a national level organization with members and chapters all over the country. In April 2017 they held their 5th annual conference, a multi day event attended by over 300 women shooters and dozens of instructors. Events included …
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The Beyond the One Percent presentation explores the topic of how many people train, why they train, what courses they choose and why, and ways to possibly motivate more than 1% of adult gun owners to take training beyond their state minimum. It is based on my presentation at the 2017 Rangemaster Tactical Conference. Part …
The Beyond the One Percent presentation explores the topic of how many people train, why they train, what courses they choose and why, and ways to possibly motivate more than 1% of adult gun owners to take training beyond their state minimum. It is based on my presentation at the 2017 Rangemaster Tactical Conference. Part …
The Beyond the One Percent presentation explores the topic of how many people train, why they train, what courses they choose and why, and ways to possibly motivate more than 1% of adult gun owners to take training beyond their state minimum. It is based on my presentation at the 2017 Rangemaster Tactical Conference. …
On Thursday and Friday (April 6-7, 2017) I attended the MAG-20 range class, taught by Massad Ayoob, assisted by Gail Pepin, Tracy Thronburg, and Greg Taggart. It was part of the full MAG-40 (classroom and range combined) that I hosted at KR Training. I’ve hosted Mas several times over the past 3 years, including multiple …
The Beyond the One Percent presentation explores the topic of how many people train, why they train, what courses they choose and why, and ways to possibly motivate more than 1% of adult gun owners to take training beyond their state minimum. It is based on my presentation at the 2017 Rangemaster Tactical Conference. Part …
The Beyond the One Percent presentation explores the topic of how many people train, why they train, what courses they choose and why, and ways to possibly motivate more than 1% of adult gun owners to take training beyond their state minimum. It is based on my presentation at the 2017 Rangemaster Tactical Conference. Part …
The Beyond the One Percent presentation explores the topic of how many people train, why they train, what courses they choose and why, and ways to possibly motivate more than 1% of adult gun owners to take training beyond their state minimum. It is based on my presentation at the 2017 Rangemaster Tactical Conference. Part …
The Beyond the One Percent presentation explores the topic of how many people train, why they train, what courses they choose and why, and ways to possibly motivate more than 1% of adult gun owners to take training beyond their state minimum. It is based on my presentation at the 2017 Rangemaster Tactical Conference. Here …
March is almost over, and it’s been a very busy month, with the Rangemaster Tactical Conference, our own classes and Craig Douglas visiting to teach his ECQC course. Here’s my AAR from the Conference and an instagram post from Craig about an interesting moment from ECQC. If you aren’t already a subscriber to receive this …
The Beyond the One Percent presentation explores the topic of how many people train, why they train, what courses they choose and why, and ways to possibly motivate more than 1% of adult gun owners to take training beyond their state minimum. It is based on my presentation at the 2017 Rangemaster Tactical Conference. Part …
The results from the 2017 Rangemaster Tactical Conference live fire match are up. The spread between the top 20 was tight, only a few seconds between Kirk Clark’s 22.78 win, Dave Reichek’s 25.90 5th place, Massad Ayoob’s 26.86 7th place, and my own 27.51 11th place finish. The split between 18th and 19th place was …
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2023 UPDATE: the material in this blog post series was expanded, compiled and combined with previously unpublished material from other Rangemaster presentations into a book: Strategies and Standards for Defensive Pistol, which was originally published in 2019 and revised to include another 50 pages of new content in 2023. If this material interests you, I …
I just got back from the 2017 Rangemaster Tactical Conference, which was held at the Direct Action Resource Center near Little Rock, AR, March 17-19. This was the 19th annual event. TacCon is the event where many of the big names in the private sector training community get together each year to present on new …
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On February 18-19, 2017 I hosted (and attended) two days of unarmed training taught by Cecil Burch. I brought Cecil to KR Training because I had trained with him at one of the Rangemaster Tactical Conferences a few years ago, and because Craig Douglas recommended him as an instructor that could teach students skills that …
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