Category Archives: Brain Based Pistol Training
5 Quick/Easy Spec-Ops Trigger Control Tips For Defensive Pistol & Long Range Precision
One of the most important things you can learn as a shooter—especially a defensive pistol shooter or long range precision shooter—is how to press the trigger without disturbing where the sights are pointed. A bad trigger press can cause you to miss man-sized targets at incredibly close distances. When you’re shooting paper in front of…
My Weekend With 350+ Woman Shooters…And Why They’re The Future Of Shooting
This last weekend, I was outside of Burnett TX at Reveille Peak Ranch for what might be the largest women’s shooting event in the world. The A Girl And A Gun National Conference. 350+ women working with instructors for 3-5 days. The facility is amazing…during the conference, shooters were doing pistol, carbine, shotgun, long…
THIS is the quickest thing you can do to shoot better…but you shouldn’t do it.
I’m going to let you in on a little firearms training secret today. It’s a trick used by instructors to get shooters on target quickly when they’re having problems, but don’t have the time to work with every shooter on the line as much as they’d like. Roughly half of the shooters I work with…
AR-15 “overpenetration” only exists if you do THIS wrong…
Today, we’re going to talk about one of the biggest misconceptions that people have about the AR-15. To be fair, they get this misconception honestly. They’re repeated ad nauseam at gun ranges, in articles, blogs, forums, videos, and even on TV without proper context. To complicate matters even more, there’s an element of truth…
3 Tricks to speed up your reaction time
In a recent survey that I conducted, one of the most common problems that shooters had was that they wanted to improve their reaction times. Specifically, how to cut the time that it takes to respond to a stimulus and put an accurate round on target. So, today, I’m going to share 3 tricks with…
High Speed Trigger Control Drill For Ranges With Restrictive Rules
Today, I’ve got a great live fire speed drill for you that you can do at any range, regardless of how restrictive their rules are. Even if they won’t let you do tactical reloads, draw from the holster, or shoot faster than one round per second, you can still do this speed drill. This drill…
Top 5 Laser Training Pistols Compared
Today, I’ve got a video for you that’s a first of it’s kind. I get asked all the time about various laser training platforms, including the SIRT Dry Fire Pistol, the M&P SIRT, the SIRT Pocket Pistol, Laser-Ammo’s laser barrel insert for airsoft guns, and the CoolFire Trainer. It took me awhile (monthS) to get…
Shooting the 5 Yard Roundup With A Sub-Compact
I’m getting back into live fire practice after a long winter’s break where I’ve been doing almost 100% dry fire practice and ran across a great drill/test/standard I want to share with you… It’s called the “5 Yard Roundup.” I learned about it from Claude Werner and it originally came from Justin Dyal. It’s 4…
How To Boost Firearms Learning Speed (From The Queensland Brain Institute)
I ran across a neat chart today on 6 techniques for boosting learning speed from the Queensland Brain Institute. I was linking directly to their website, but the traffic seems to have bogged down their server, so now you can click on the image above to see a bigger version. Or, you can still go…
3 things we can do RIGHT NOW to make schools safer that are better than marching
Today, Bloomberg’s Everytown organization is sponsoring protest marches across the country to demonize and hopefully criminalize legal gun ownership by responsible, law abiding adults. They say that the goal of the marches are to stop gun violence, stop mass shootings at schools, and to keep kids safe, but, as I’m about to show you, all…
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