A few weeks ago, I spent an hour with Sean Sorrentino, walking him through three basic dry fire drills to help him hone what seemed to me to be the three basic skills of IDPA: drawing (from concealment), reloading (from concealment), and shooting around cover. He just shot his first match since starting to practice with them, and posted a quite positive progress report. I don’t want to overemphasize the results of a single match, …
Read More »How To Shoot Professionally
One of the more popular search terms that brings people to Triangle Tactical is “How to shoot professionally” or some variation of that phrase. A lot of people seem to have an idea that it’s fairly easy to become a professional (i.e. paid a salary by a company in the industry because you’re an awesome shooter/spokesman) but that isn’t really the case. I probably get more people sent to this website using that search term …
Read More »[Video] Optic Height Over Bore
(Naughty language warning) Here’s a video I found that shows the importance of being aware of the height of your optic above the bore line: Post by Buffalo Arms Trading LLC. Height over bore seems simple enough, but it’s something that I see a lot of shooters struggle with at action rifle type matches. A lot of people will pull short range head shots down into the Charlie zone in the chest because they don’t …
Read More »Question of the Day: Knife + Flashlight or Gun?
If I’ve said it once, I’ve said it a hundred times that if I had to choose between carrying my knife and flashlight every day or my gun, I’d choose the knife and flashlight every time. I use my knife and flashlight every single day, and thankfully I’ve never had to use my gun. What say you? If you had to choose, which would it be?
Read More »They’re Winning? Or Are We Winning?
Found this on the Million Moms Against Gun Control Facebook page tonight: So, if Shannon is blocked from tweeting the NRA, but she also blocks pro-gun folks that disagree with her, where does that put us? Surely by her own logic, they can’t be winning…
Read More »New Years Resolutions:
Last year I made one new years resolution, and I borked it right out of the gate. (I resolved to see 199 on the scale at some point during 2014, but as I’m writing this on December 26th, I still weigh the same 233 pounds as I did when I made the resolution.) Anyways, I want 2015 to be the year that I buckle down and focus on my shooting. 2014 was a rough year …
Read More »OPSEC: Cut Up Your Boxes
Yesterday was Christmas, and I’m sure many of you have boxes from gifts and all sorts of other trash generated from the big day that you want to get out of the house. I get that, but I beg you to take a couple minutes with a utility knife and cut the boxes up into small enough pieces that you can get them out of sight. As I was walking the dog tonight I saw …
Read More »Glock 40 = Optics Ready Long Slide 10mm?
According to Weddles Gun Shop on Facebook, that could be the case. We don’t have much to go on here, but this seems to be the first report on what may be coming at SHOT show next month from Glock. The Glock “MBS” is the “multiple backstrap system” on the Gen4 pistols, so I don’t really know what to think about “MOS”, but I suspect they may be right about some sort of optic ready …
Read More »Are Shows Like ‘The Walking Dead’ Pro 2A?
Interesting thoughts from the folks at PJ Media. Are the anti-gun folks in Hollywood aware that they’re promoting our cause with shows like The Walking Dead where good guys use guns to save themselves?
Read More »Anti-gun PSA Encourages Kids to Bring Guns to School
I have several problems with this video, but the biggest one is that instead of encouraging kids to have a dialogue with their parents when they have something they are concerned about, it encourages theft, unsafe/illegal transport of a firearm, violation of the Gun Free Schools Act, and a while lot more bad juju. See, if the kid in the video would have had a talk with his parents about not being comfortable with a …
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