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Shooting Problems? Use Technology to Train Yourself with MantisX

Shooting Problems? Use Technology to Train Yourself with MantisX

MantisX uses gyroscope motion detectors, computer software, and apps to provide you with expert coaching. Through the magic of technology, that I have no way of explaining on my own, the device records and analyzes every shot you make on your firearm. When I received a MantisX as a gift, I was a bit perplexed […]

Shooting May 02

Bring fun back to shooting with Firebird Targets

Bring fun back to shooting with Firebird Targets

Have a Blast Shooting Bring back the fun of shooting with Firebird Targets pyrotechnic exploding targets. Use them to improve marksmanship, provide instant hit recognition, for situational training and more – but don’t forget the fun. Found at SHOT Show 2019 SHOT Show 2019 was fun and a bit overwhelming as usual with the plethora […]

Rite in the Rain notepads & targets: Defying mother nature

Rite in the Rain notepads & targets: Defying mother nature

Anyone who has tried to make notes on a notepad standing outside during bad weather knows the agony of soggy paper. I can say that in my 20+ years of professional work experience from being a deployed USAF Civil Engineer to my current career as an Emergency Manager more than once I’ve tried to decipher […]

Gear Reviews Feb 02

The T2 Command Target from Modern Warrior

The T2 Command Target from Modern Warrior

Incorporating technology into training can be an invaluable means to increase your overall proficiency. Modern Warrior has a new target known as the T2 Command Target. We previously reviewed the T1 target from Modern Warrior and their introduction of the T2 is another step forward. The T2 Command Target combines both the efficiency of a […]

RE Factor Tactical: Targets Aimed at Improving your Marksmanship

RE Factor Tactical: Targets Aimed at Improving your Marksmanship

Range Day should leave you with one feeling, and one feeling along, accomplishment. If you leave and you don’t have that overwhelming feeling of: “I’ve really got some quality training in today,” then you might want to rethink your target use. How might you do that? With better targets of course, because the best shooting […]

Tactical Christmas Gifts for 2018

Tactical Christmas Gifts for 2018

A Gear-End Review sure to help you find a Tactical Gift this Christmas. If you have a black nylon and Velcro person in your world that’s tough to gift shop for, we have a list of ideas for you to put under the Christmas tree this year. Here’s my Gear-End Review from 2018. Knives When […]

Concealed Carry Nov 26

Take it With You With HatPoint Target Stands

Take it With You With HatPoint Target Stands

HatPoint Target Stands are a solution to a problem that I knew I had. Sometimes I have to take my show on the road and teach at guest ranges. Sometimes what I have available to me for a range environment can be less than desirable. I’ve seen some creative and some dangerous setups. I needed […]

Shooting Oct 11

CTS Targets: Solid Solutions for Shooting Steel

CTS Targets: Solid Solutions for Shooting Steel

Shooting steel targets is a valuable option for training and it’s fun. CTS Targets offer innovative solutions to the problems you encounter when wanting to shoot steel without losing the basic needs of superior quality, hard steel, with exceptional value. The target I had the opportunity to test and evaluate was the 8” 3/8” Gong […]

The Modern Warrior T1 Target – Train Like You Fight

The Modern Warrior T1 Target – Train Like You Fight

The military moved away from standard bull’s eye targets years ago when it comes to combat training. You’ll see them here and there for fundamentals training, but when it comes to stacking bodies they use man-shaped targets. Why? Because the idea is you train like you fight. The man shaped targets give soldiers a more […]

Bad Guys Move, So Should Your Targets: Behold the Challenge Targets’ Texas Star

Bad Guys Move, So Should Your Targets: Behold the Challenge Targets’ Texas Star

The Challenge Targets’ Texas Star is a moving, reactionary, and steel target that lets you train like you fight. Real targets move, they aren’t just static pieces of paper waiting for us to score a great hit in the ten-ring! The list of excuses of why we don’t train on moving targets can run rampant; […]

CTS Target: The Ring of Steel

CTS Target: The Ring of Steel

I was standing in what looked to be a cowboy town made out of fence post lumber, and I was being directed to shoot the steel targets in front of me. The place was a range called Tac2 in East TN. The targets were in various configurations; I recall a steel plate rack, some silhouettes, […]

Video: Hang Targets the Smart Way with CTS

Video: Hang Targets the Smart Way with CTS

The ring and dance of gong targets is a rewarding joy. Useful for simply adding some fun or to confirm hits at distance. Cable or rope tends to fray and fall apart, weak chain can’t take the shock loading and snaps. Complete Target Solutions (CTS) has once again shown how they got their name. Gong […]

Action Target’s Everyday Carry Steel Target: the PT Scout

Action Target’s Everyday Carry Steel Target: the PT Scout

Action Target, famous for innovative target design, has announced the release of a tool-free target system designed to utilize a 2×4, ring louder, maximize portability and allow for predictable splatter patterns. I got a chance to get my hands on the PT Scout. It is strong yet light, collapsible and portable. It is extremely well […]

Defense Targets RST: 2 Years and 6000 Rounds Later…

Defense Targets RST: 2 Years and 6000 Rounds Later…

Every so often here at the Loadout Room we like to take a look back at a product or piece of kit that has really stood the test of time. A little over two years ago I used my own hard earned cash to purchase a 3/8″ thick steel target from a company known as […]

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