Scenario-Based Training

09 June 08

FIGHTING WITH A PISTOL

The root word of gun-fighting is "fighting," not "gun!"

Come and join us as we explore the realities of fighting.

We have developed a new course that will enhance your shooting skills on a live-fire shooting range. We then work on the next level of fighting skills, necessary for you to seize the agenda and emerge victorious!

We will do that by incorporating Air-Soft simulator guns in a variety of exercises, resembling range drills. We then escalate to scenario-based drills designed to test/exercise your decision-making, protective, and fighting skills.

How will you perform in your next lethal encounter?

Come train with us and find out.

These are new classes that fill quickly, so be sure to register early to insure your slot!

We're scheduled for the weekend of 25-26 Oct 08 in Columbia, SC. Get hold of Rich Wright at _labradorone@bellsouth.net_ (mailto:labradorone@bellsouth.net) For details.

/John

9mm Going Away?

09 June 08

The Amaranthine 9mm:

At several recent Pistol Courses, we've had small-statured students, mostly women, show up with little, 40S&W pistols, like the G27, SIG 239, and Kahr/40. All have reported a rapidly-diminishing interest in additional shooting after the two-hundred-round mark!

The 40S&W pistols they brought to our Courses had been provided to them by well-meaning husbands, fathers, and fiancees. However, sharp recoil (even with "practice" ammunition) combined with loud, concussive muzzle blast conspired to progressively diminish their enthusiasm for continuing with their training. In one case, my student even developed a blistered palm!

I suggested to all that they abandon their 40S&W pistols and substitute 9mms. Upon taking my advice, most rediscovered their interest in continuing with the Program! Even with the most powerful, high-performance 9mm loadings, recoil is still relatively mild, and noise is greatly reduced. Control ofthe pistol during recoil is also significantly improved. Particularly popular was S&W's M&P/Compact 9mm, with the smallest of the three grip-size options.

40S&W and the 357SIG are wonderful calibers, and both represent substantial improvement in terminal performance over the 9mm. However, modern, high-performance loadings currently available for the 9mm surely qualify it as a " serious" caliber, and I, for one, would have no compunction about carrying a 9mm pistol for personal self-defense, loaded with nearly any modern, 115-125gr high-performance round from Cor-Bon, WW, Remington, Federal, Speer, and a number of other reputable manufacturers.

Of course, most of us agree that 9mm hardball is not appropriate for serious applications and is suitable only for practice. On the other hand, given the choice, I wouldn't carry hardball ammunition, in any caliber, anywhere except the practice range.

Glib predictions of the decline and eventual death of the 9mm appear to have been untimely and naive. With interest in personal-defensive pistols surging among women, and even small-statured men for whom the discipline of serious shooting has held scant interest until recent times, the 9mm will likely be around for at least another hundred years!

/John