Over the weekend, I got a little first-hand experience with Steel Challenge for the very first time. It was the smallest possible little slice of the game I could get: shooting one stage with no special gear, just my carry gun. But even that much has given me a lot to think about on the topic of this sport. I never really paid much attention to it, because it’s like a run-and-gun sport without any …

I’m now about a month in to owning the first really real pocket knife in my life, a Kershaw Skyline. It replaced my old EDC knife, a Gerber Evo Tanto Mid combo edge which was a heck of a knife for being as skinny as it was and took a beating in the three years I carried it. However, it was never really sharp to begin with, and trying to sharpen the tanto blade on …

Morrisville Mayor Jackie Holcombe, member of Mayors Against Illegal Guns, is looking for a loophole in HB937 to let her continue to ban concealed carry in Morrisville parks. “Accidents happen, and families know they happen. And they would like for us to lessen the risk so that their children can play safely on playgrounds,” Holcombe said. Holcombe has asked Morrisville staff for a review. “I think that’s what’s appropriate is if there’s a compromise here …

Since I’ll be missing this week’s podcast due to 1) being in Virginia and 2) being replaced by the awesome Humble Mechanic, I couldn’t help wrapping up my thoughts on the RRRC USPSA match this weekend. Before we roll the tape, a little back story: three weeks ago, I shot the Sir Walter Gun Club USPSA match in Creedmoor, NC and sucked. Bad. The culmination of it all was the classifier stage where I was …

This weekend, I added a new target to my dry fire target array: a 2 inch dot drawn in Sharpie on a piece of tape, to mimic the exact kind of precision shot I found myself having difficulty with at the range this weekend. My competition gun, an M&P 9mm Pro with an aftermarket KKM barrel, is a very accurate gun on paper, but I found an odd tendency to hit low when shooting precise …

The “Gun Geo Marker” app that we mentioned on Episode 38 popped up on my radar again today when Luke posted a link to an article where the NRA-ILA, bless their hearts, and a Missouri state senator are trying to petition Google to remove the app from the Play Store (their version of Apple’s “App store”): Google recently released the Gun Geo Marker app which was misguidedly designed to encourage users to “geolocate dangerous guns …

You, like me, may have been hearing the name Andrew Branca over the past few weeks. He’s been guest-blogging the Zimmerman trial over at Legal Insurrection, on loan from his own blog. Oh and by way of credentials he’s written “The Law of Self Defense”, which seems to be a definitive text about, well, the law and self-defense. Oh and he’s also a multi-division IDPA Master. As if that’s not enough, though, he was recently …

I’ve seen it stated repeatedly that the NC Sheriffs’ Association’s opposition to removing the Pistol Purchase Permit system is about revenue for the department. I find this claim difficult to believe because they derive so very little money from the permits, especially compared to the manpower required to actually run the system. To put it in perspective, it costs about the same to get a PPP requiring a state-level background check and a Federal NICS …

I just recently stumbled on a Saint Louis University Law Journal article by Associate Professor Caleb Mason entitled “JAY-Z’S 99 PROBLEMS, VERSE 2: A CLOSE READING WITH FOURTH AMENDMENT GUIDANCE FOR COPS AND PERPS” which is exactly what it says on the tin: a line-by-line breakdown of the police encounter in “99 Problems”. It is also totally awesome. For reference, in case you didn’t immediately read the article after that freaking sweet title or don’t have …

It might be an oversimplification to say that steel is for speed and paper is for accuracy, but it’s close enough that I’ll call it a rule of thumb. When you go to the range to train, which is as simple as having a goal aside from “shoot 100 rounds”, part of figuring out how to achieve that goal is working on the right skills on the right types of targets. Now, most of us …