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How To Perfect Your Handgun Skills

October 17, 2019 By Tom McHale 2 Comments

As any good handgun skills instructor or coach already knows, a required component of improvement is an accurate and immediate feedback loop. If you don’t know exactly what you’re doing wrong, it’s awfully hard to get better. If you don’t have a way to confirm when your actions are correct, you don’t know when you’re […]

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How Lack of Time Can Make You a Better Shooter

August 9, 2018 By Tom McHale Leave a Comment

With many things in life, I deliver better results with aggressive time limitations. There’s nothing like a tight deadline to make me focus and produce. Unfortunately, shooting isn’t one of those activities. In fact, adding a time crunch to basic shooting tasks has the opposite effect of degrading performance, sometimes to near comical levels. Also […]

Filed Under: Competitive Shooting, Concealed Carry, General Tips, Shooting Tips Tagged With: Beretta, shooting tips, shot timers

What You Need to Know About Shot Timers

August 7, 2018 By Tom McHale Leave a Comment

If you want to improve your defensive shooting capabilities or perhaps move up the action pistol sports ladder, being able to shoot accurately under time pressure becomes important. A simple shot timer is a great addition to your range kit. Here’s what you need to know about how they work. Read the rest: What You […]

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How to Use a Shot Timer [VIDEO]

September 8, 2017 By Tom McHale Leave a Comment

how to use a shot timer video

Using a shot timer can really help you improve your competitive and defensive handgun skills. Without measurement, how to you know if you’re improving? The timer also adds just a tiny bit of pressure, and that helps you learn to operate your gun under a little bit of stress. You’ll be surprised at how quickly […]

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Getting Into Long Range Shooting

April 26, 2017 By Tom McHale Leave a Comment

For this NRA High Power F-Class competition, I used this Masterpiece Arms BA Lite PCR Competition model chambered in 6.5 Creedmoor.

This article originally appeared at Ammoland. What’s hotter than Captain Gastroplasty at a Texas Chili Cookoff? Long range shooting that’s what. While we throw around the term ͞Long Range Shooting like it’s a discrete sport, it’s really a collection of multiple games of varying styles. Sure, they all have extended distance in common,  but beyond […]

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Three Gunning for Home Defense?

July 2, 2014 By Tom McHale Leave a Comment

Two of the pistol choice contenders: Springfield Armory TRP 1911 (left) and Beretta PX4 Storm (right)

In a rare fit of advance planning and organization, I’m starting to think about what gear to use at this year’s Crimson Trace Midnight 3 Gun Invitational match. The event takes place August 12th through 17th in the high desert outside of Bend, Oregon, so I’ve got a little time. As the event title implies, […]

Filed Under: Competitive Shooting, Events, Shooting Tips Tagged With: aimpoint, Beretta, crimson trace, glock, midnight 3 gun invitational, rock river arms, Springfield Armory

Try Competitions To Become A More Effective Shooter

June 25, 2014 By Tom McHale 1 Comment

Competition shooting

There’s a big difference between good and effective. If you are involved in shooting purely for recreation and the joy of punching holes in paper or tin cans, then being a good shooter is, well, good enough. If you intend to use your gun for self or home defense, then you need to think about […]

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How To Get Started Trap Shooting

June 5, 2014 By Tom McHale Leave a Comment

Recently, I wrote The Rookie’s Introduction to Clay Shooting to help new folks get a handle on what the various clay shooting sports are all about. Now, let’s get serious and take a look at how to get started. Although you can start your clay target shooting career in any of the primary disciplines – trap, skeet or sporting […]

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The Rookie’s Introduction to Shotgun Sports

May 9, 2014 By Tom McHale Leave a Comment

Trap Shooting: Competitors fire at targets moving away from the shooting line.

When I first expressed interest in the shotgun shooting sports, I was completely confused. In their enthusiasm to share the sport, all my shotgun friends started right into detailed knowledge and tips and tricks. For example, they talked to me about how to aim a shotgun, how to get ‘classified’ and how to lead clay […]

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Shooting Myth: Competitive Shooting Will Get You Killed On the Street

April 22, 2014 By Tom McHale 1 Comment

Competitive Shooting is not only fun, it can help you build basic skills.

Why is it that Internet opinions are so binary? Black or white, right or wrong, my way or the highway – it’s kind of like politics in the real world. 45 is the only caliber! Because you only need to shoot once! 9mm is fantastic – if you want to shoot balloons. Competitive shooting skills […]

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Hello, my name is Tom McHale. I'm the creator and primary author of the Practical Guides series of how-to shooting books. I've been an avid shooter, reloading, and student of things self-defense, concealed carry, reloading, and long-range shooting for the past two decades, give or take.

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