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Become a Better Pistol Shooter by Doing This Vision Training Drill

Vision training is an often neglected, but very important, aspect of pistol training. This easy drill will help make you a better shooter.

Shooting Tips & How-To Jun 21

Neurological training and shooting performance: Situational awareness

Neurological training and shooting performance: Situational awareness

Training yourself to improve gaze stabilization, which can help improve shooting performance, is simple. However, it takes discipline to “put in the work.”

Shooting Tips & How-To Apr 02

Perfecting your zero | A little help goes a LONG way

Perfecting your zero | A little help goes a LONG way

In the world of marksmanship, more specifically, precision rifle, there are a million different opinions on how to do things. “I’m an NRA shooter and this is how I do it”. “My grandpa fought in WW2 and he said this is the best way to do this”. “I read the blog of a guy who […]

Shooting Tips & How-To Sep 16

How To Improve Your Ability to Hit a Moving Target

How To Improve Your Ability to Hit a Moving Target

One of the best lines about SOF I ever heard when I first made it into CSOR was from the RSM (Regimental Sergeant Major) when someone asked if us new guys would be on probation. “You’re on probation your entire career here.” That always stuck with me, that just because I had made it, didn’t […]

Shooting Tips & How-To Aug 03

3 Firearms Training Myths and 3 Quick Fixes to Improve Your Shooting

3 Firearms Training Myths and 3 Quick Fixes to Improve Your Shooting

Record numbers of new shooters combined with a HUGE number of firearms instructors with combat experience have created an explosion in firearms training. In almost all cases, the schools are delivering great instruction. But most students leaving these classes are buying into one, two, or three of the following gun training myths…even though the instructors […]

Shooting Tips & How-To Aug 02

Need A Trigger Job on your Glock? Try This First!

Need A Trigger Job on your Glock? Try This First!

When looking at a trigger job, usually people have this image of what they want. If shooting in competition, people seem to want their triggers to be as light as 2LB in order to shave time off of their courses of fire, which makes sense right? There is also the long-range shooters who want to be able to shoot accurately […]

Shooting Tips & How-To Jul 08

How to paint your AR-15/M4 Rifle

How to paint your AR-15/M4 Rifle

In the following video, I take a quick moment to discuss some of the finer points of painting a rifle. Materials needed, patterns and color are all discussed while I demonstrate how I paint my rifles.

Shooting Tips & How-To Jun 28

CQB | Introduction to Entry and Limited Penetration

CQB | Introduction to Entry and Limited Penetration

Hi guys, We have been playing for some time now with the idea to do an instructional video that addresses some of the common questions we often get regarding our CQB methodology. In the video: Introduction to modern CQB methods Common types of room shapes Angles relevance The NDIA The content in this video will […]

Shooting Tips & How-To Jun 16

Kyle Defoor on lubing your M4 carbine during training

Kyle Defoor on lubing your M4 carbine during training

I took a student’s carbine that was completely dry and showed how I lube an M4 without taking anything apart by dropping oil in the bolt carrier exhaust ports then firing 5-7 rounds. Obviously, this is mostly used in training although some have used it for real. This will lube the necessary parts of the […]

Shooting Tips & How-To Apr 23

Israeli SOF veteran Garret “Machine” on concealed carry and pistol fundamentals

Israeli SOF veteran Garret “Machine” on concealed carry and pistol fundamentals

Garret “Machine” is a SOF veteran of the Israeli Defense Forces (IDF) and is currently a firearms cadre for GORUCK’s firearms training events. Machine is a former Duvdevan operator and is therefore well-versed in counter-terrorism tactics. As an international SOF veteran, he offers a unique perspective on concealed carry techniques and pistol training. Though there might […]

Ranger sniper discusses getting on the rifle

Ranger sniper discusses getting on the rifle

One of the best sayings I heard as a Ranger was, “the experts don’t have a bunch of secret knowledge, they’ve just mastered the basics”. Mastering your standard shooting positions, trigger control and sight alignment are the vast majority of what is needed to shoot precisely. Every now and then, former Ranger sniper team-leader Ryan […]

Shooting Tips & How-To Mar 23

Weapons maintenance tips: Cleaners, lube and protectants

Weapons maintenance tips: Cleaners, lube and protectants

As we commonly see in firearms training, weapons maintenance is a reoccurring issue, most often due to too little or too much, in respect to both maintenance and application of products like cleaners, lube and/or protectants. Personally, I pre-treat the applicable parts of my weapons and mags with Militec-1, clean and preserve them with RemOil, and […]

Shooting Tips & How-To Mar 17

The Polymer 80 PF940V2: Build Review

The Polymer 80 PF940V2: Build Review

I was torn on how to start this Polymer 80 review, I thought at first to do a how-to article, however, there are tons of better videos and guides out there than what I can make. Then I thought I’ll review it once it’s assembled and I go shoot it. I still plan to do […]

Shooting Tips & How-To Mar 15

Hop up your Glock for $20! Change your safety plunger!

Hop up your Glock for $20! Change your safety plunger!

Glocks are loved and hated for their tune-ability. Owners are constantly in pursuit of that promised “Perfection”. Fortunately, there is more than enough after-market available to build a complete Glock without using any Glock parts. Some of those parts can be a bit pricey for the layman but that’s not true about all. One part […]

Shooting Tips & How-To Mar 14

Shooting the perfect group: When stars align

Shooting the perfect group: When stars align

We all go to the range with hopes of besting our last time out. What happens when you finally do? Let’s say your significant other shoots an amazing group, then you follow suit, and get it all on camera: what do you do then? It’s what we always dream of, but never seems to happen. […]

Shooting Tips & How-To Mar 13

Navy SEAL shoots with Taran Tactical: Gun setup and shooting techniques for competition

Navy SEAL shoots with Taran Tactical: Gun setup and shooting techniques for competition

We’ve all seen the Taran Tactical shooting videos with Keanu Reeves training for the John Wick movies which is bad-ass. I’m not usually one to watch videos on competition shooting since that is not my thing, but I have to say the following video held my attention the entire time. Here, Navy SEAL Shawn Ryan takes the time […]

Shooting Tips & How-To Mar 02

Dot Torture: Improving handgun accuracy

Dot Torture: Improving handgun accuracy

I’ve covered a number of different shooting drills one can do to improve their shooting speed, accuracy, and target discernment. Today, I’d like to take a more in-depth look at one of them, “dot torture”. This specific drill was created by David Blinder of Personaldefensetraining.com. It’s an excellent accuracy drill that starts out at three […]

Shooting Tips & How-To Feb 24

Concealed carry tips with Kyle Lamb

Concealed carry tips with Kyle Lamb

Kyle Lamb is a retired Army Veteran with 21 years of service. In 1991 Kyle got selected for the Army’s Tier 1 Special Operations unit (Delta Force) where he stayed until he retired in 2007. He has seen combat ranging from the Battle of Mogadishu to the current War on Terror. Because of his experience […]

Shooting Tips & How-To Jan 27

Range estimation simplified from an Army Delta Operator

Range estimation simplified from an Army Delta Operator

Modern-day range estimation has become a lot easier for the common man to accomplish thanks to technology. Most optics these days can be had with range estimation built in, whether that is a spotting scope, scope mounted on your carbine or long gun, or a pair of binos. Back in the day the Marine Corps Scout […]

Shooting Tips & How-To Jan 22

Remington 700 Magpul detachable box mag install

Remington 700 Magpul detachable box mag install

The Remington 700 is the all-time best selling bolt-action rifle in America. Despite issues in recent years leading to a lot of bad press for the venerable 700, it is still a favorite of many shooters. Part of the 700’s success in enduring difficult times is it’s robust aftermarket support. The 700 is like the […]

Shooting Tips & How-To Jan 03

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