What Is A Drill? Drills are a method of repeating something over and over until you can't screw it up. Courses of fire are timed scenarios that are designed to test our skills and diagnose what we need to work on. If there is one thing that I have learned from my time using guns, professionally or otherwise, its that drills are important. Drills are a great way of … [Read more...]
It is very popular these days to crap on milspec triggers on rifles, and stock triggers on pistols. I think this comes from a passed down misconception that you cannot hit a target unless you lower the trigger weight to the point that you can eliminate the trigger control variable. This is a huge problem because if you take a minute to look at the designs of the triggers … [Read more...]
Every time you buy a new firearm, even if it within the same line of manufacturers you are used to, you will have to conduct training with it. There is not much a way around this if you are serious about your training. Practicing and training to perform at your highest potential is a great necessity if you are going to be better prepared in the unfortunate event of having to … [Read more...]
As we all have heard, practice makes perfect, and that is not necessarily true since perfection is the goal, but hardly possible. Practice in my experience can enhance skills to a great degree, but will only benefit you as much as you let it. Now what does that mean? Well, consider the fact that shooting in competition takes speed, concentration, and quick movements, all in all … [Read more...]
For some reason, point shooting is considered an actual shooting skill, but I have some reservations about calling it a SKILL. A skill, as far as I define it, is something you can continually refine and practice to get extreme precision. Point shooting is a way of engaging a target with a combination of throwing lead as fast as possible while pointing at the general direction … [Read more...]
