Here’s another Shoot Better in a minute video we produced with the good folks from Range365:
Overcome Instinct! Avoid These Three Natural Shooting Mistakes
Every time I go to the range, I see new(er) shooters missing a lot of targets. That’s to be expected, as shooting is a skill that like anything else, requires practice. Yesterday, while doing some “work” at the range, it occurred to me that many of the challenges we face as developing shooters are the […]
Shoot Better! A Target That Teaches
Out of all the steps you have to take in order to fire a perfectly accurate shot, I contend that properly pressing the trigger is the easiest of them all to screw up. It’s fairly easy to point sights at a target. Keeping those sights from moving off target is less easy, but not particularly […]
A Simple Trigger Pull (Press): More Than Meets the Eye
Trigger (noun) – a small projecting tongue in a firearm that, when pressed by the finger, actuates the mechanism that discharges the weapon. Pulling, or more accurately, pressing, a trigger sounds like such a simple thing, doesn’t it? Yank that thing backward and you can’t help but hit whatever you were aiming at, right? If […]
Dry-Fire for Handgun Shooting Success
If I told you there is one technique that, once mastered, will allow you to hit your target every single time, you’d probably write me off as one of those infomercial con guys. But, believe it or not, I speak the truth, and there’s no trick, no gimmick to it. What is the technique? Perfect […]
These Sights Are Off!
We humans don’t lack confidence. A couple of years ago, I was assistant coaching a youth Steel Challenge team. Every other week or so, we would get a new shooter or two, usually between the ages of 12 and 16. One week, I had a new young man, about 15 years of age as I […]
10 Things I Like About the Smith & Wesson M&P 9 Shield
Much has been said about the Smith & Wesson M&P 9mm Shield. A true pocket-sized 9mm, it’s smaller in almost all dimensions (except height) than a Glock 26 and can easily be concealed in a milliondy-seven different ways. Pocket, inside the waistband or outside the waistband holster, ankle, purse, fanny pack, crotch carry holster, you […]