Last weekend we held a class for the TN Handgun Carry Permit.  This is always a fun class to teach, because so many of the shooters are newer to the shooting disciplines and don’t have the bad habits already formed.  They literally soak up every thing you have to say and start shooting better by the end of the day. At the end of the class we let the students shoot many of our personal guns so they can get a feel for what’s out...

In the old days of shooting, most magazines need to be tuned for reliability.  Thankfully we have come a long way in magazine production.  If you find yourself dealing with a pesky mag, check out the following article I wrote for guns.com for a possible solution.

We have been really busy lately teaching classes and generally sweating to death.  In the last class we had, I was asked the question that keeps coming up in all our classes; “What do you think about lasers?” I personally like lasers for those of you who need help seeing the sights because of being in the bifocal stage of life, but they may not be as beneficial to the rest of the shooting world as you are being led to believe. Check...

These are unscientific but fun to watch.  You might be surprised to see how well some of them do. [youtube=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UCFXcOOb4jc&feature=player_profilepage]

I was teaching a TN Handgun Permit Course last weekend when the unthinkable happened; a Glock malfunction.  I was using a very old 1st or 2nd generation magazine that I had not tested in a long time.  Bottom line is that I got 2 stove pipes in about 10 shots. I can’t stress this enough.  If you are going to carry a gun, you need to MAKE SURE IT RUNS!!  Don’t think it runs.  Take the time to run your carry rig with the ammo you are...