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Brouwer M1811 Grip Makes Your P320 Point Like a 1911

Brouwer M1811 Grip Makes Your P320 Point Like a 1911

M1811 Module design borrows characteristics from the legendary 1911 grip and seamlessly blends them to the grip of the P320. To my hand it is definitely an improvement to the curvy factory grip.

Learning to Shoot a Handgun with a Red Dot: Simple but not Easy

Learning to Shoot a Handgun with a Red Dot: Simple but not Easy

Red dots sights (RDS) on handguns have been around competitive shooting, SWAT teams, and special military units for decades.

Safariland Changes the Rules with the Skeletonized SCHEMA IWB Holster

Safariland Changes the Rules with the Skeletonized SCHEMA IWB Holster

Just in time for Halloween, I’m replacing the old holster and hanging a new skeletonized holster on my belt.

Battle Ballistics For Easy Elevation Holds

Battle Ballistics For Easy Elevation Holds

Speed Drop is taught by a company named Accuracy 1st that is a method that provides fast, accurate elevation holds using a mil reticle.

How to Mount a Scope (the Right Way)

How to Mount a Scope (the Right Way)

Proper scope installation isn’t difficult, but it helps to have a few special tools, and it often takes a little patience.

Stuck at Home? Ten Ways to Train and Thrive

Stuck at Home? Ten Ways to Train and Thrive

Many of us are working from home or remaining out of the public for a while. With time on your hands, you can binge-watch Netflix and overeat or you can study something useful and train. As a trainer, I have some suggestions for you based on what am I doing and some of my favorite training systems.

Jeff’s Five Favorite Targets

Jeff’s Five Favorite Targets

With so many different types of rifle and pistol shooting it can be a real challenge to pick the best targets for your money to take to the range. However, after 30 years of shooting these are my top five picks for getting in some great practice, and they can be used for rifle or pistol.

Shotgun Stock Fitting - Get it to Hit Where You Look

Shotgun Stock Fitting – Get it to Hit Where You Look

How a shotgun feels when it’s thrown up on your shoulder is typically our first and most important impression. However that first impression can sometimes be wrong, I’ve had several shotguns that felt really good but never delivered when it was time to hit the targets.

Rifle Drill: 'Friends, Not Friends' (aka Engaging Multiple Targets from a Vehicle)

Rifle Drill: ‘Friends, Not Friends’ (aka Engaging Multiple Targets from a Vehicle)

Sometimes your friends turn out to not be friends. While deployed overseas as a security contractor I ended up coming up with this rifle drill. The premise of it was derived from the daily task of checking in on our local guard posts.

Shotgun Target Leads - Four Techniques Explained

Shotgun Target Leads – Four Techniques Explained

There are four types of lead that can be used in shotgun shooting in order to break a target or hit a bird, they are; Spot Shooting, Swing Through, Pull away, and Sustained Lead. Each one of these can be effective given the right situation. In this piece, I will go over what type of lead is best in each situation and clay target game as well as which one provides the most consistent results.