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August 5th, 2011

Become a Better Shooter!

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This diagram shows how to set up and run the "Two-minute Torture" drill properly.

 

The key to becoming a better shooter is practice, practice, and more practice. But make the practice count—“no pain, no gain,” as they say. As shooters we often take the path of least resistance. Driving to the range, schleping our gear onto the shooting bench and firing several hundred rounds of “practice” before reversing the process. This does not teach us what it takes to make a shot with an elevated heart rate, from a difficult position or what a “good enough” sight picture looks like. Iain Harrison, season one winner of the Top Shot TV challenge on the History Channel suggests a two-minute drill that will make you a better shooter—it’s called the “Two-Minute Torture.” CONTINUE READING »

July 29th, 2011

It’s Fun When You Win–and Even When You Don’t!

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The ladies do very well in 3-gun competition.

The action starts when the buzzer goes off!

I’m back from attending the Shooting Industry Masters last weekend. The event was sponsored by FMG Publications, at the spectacular Rockcastle Shooting Center, located near Park City, KY. Rockcastle is part of the Park Mammoth property, which is a 2000-acre shooting resort and golf course owned and managed by Nick and Nate Noble. It was fascinating to see a golf course incorporated into a sporting clays course and 3-gun range.
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July 15th, 2011

Recalling the Beginning and Respecting the End!

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On July 8, 2011 Space Shuttle Atlantis lifted off from Cape Canaveral for the last time.

In 1961 when Shepard was mastering space, I was mastering the FBI stance with Mattel's .38 "snubbie."

It was May 5, 1961 when Alan Shepard piloted NASA’s Freedom 7 mission to become the first American to travel into space. A Redstone rocket thrust Shepard into a 15-minute suborbital flight to carry him 116 miles above the earth and bring him to a splashdown location out in the Atlantic Ocean 302 miles from Cape Canaveral. The launch was watched live on TV by millions.

Last week I journeyed back to my old hometown—Cocoa Beach, Florida—for a visit. Not by accident, it happened to coincide with the final launch of Space Shuttle Atlantis—the last launch in the Space Shuttle program. It was scheduled for Friday morning, July 8, 2011.

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