Revolvers in the Philippines
6 July 99 I just received this from a friend in the Philippines. He attended their first ever IDPA match and has this to say: “Only two revolver shooters showed up. One of them was VERY good. He put a lot of autoloader users to shame. And no, he wasn’t using a full-moon clip-capable revolver, […]
Georgia
30 June 99 This appeared yesterday on a local TV news station in Georgia. It seems that the often touted, transcendental “genetic osmosis” which is supposed to instantly convert all American Southeasterners into gun experts at birth didn’t work in this case: “A prisoner, serving a life sentence at the State Penitentiary, complains of an […]
Comments from a fellow instructor
29 June 99 This is from a friend and fellow instructor in the Midwest. He is describing the kinds of people who come to him for training: “(1) Casual Shooters: Although they don’t train seriously, consider their firearms as little more than magical talismans against evil, and live most of the time in Condition White, […]
Comments from a student
29 June 99 This from a student at a Course in the Midwest, just a week ago: “As you may remember, I had a dead battery in my Jeep on Friday and ________ gave me and____ a ride to our motel. After depositing ____ back to the room, I decided to walk about a mile […]
Incident in the Philippines
21 June 99 This just in from a friend in the Philippines: “I had just come in from a late-night date with some old friends and almost got into a mistaken identity encounter. One of our group brought a bodyguard, but failed to tell any of the rest of us. When we left the restaurant, […]
Negligent discharge
16 June 99 This just in from California. A female police officer was shot in the head during a recent range exercise. Here is what the subsequent investigation revealed: “A Montclair Police Dept detective, who suffered a near-fatal gunshot wound to her head during firing range practice, accidentally caused the gun to go off when […]
Immature strategy
15 June 99 I was just shown this quotation from a friend by Miyamoto Musashi. It describes a lot of police ‘training’ these days. However, he said it eight hundred years ago. Some things, it seems, never change: “Recently, there have been people professing themselves to be ‘strategists,’ but they are usually just game-players with […]
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9 June 99 This from a friend who is with a police department on the West Coast: “I know a Sheriff who is always playing ‘musical guns,’ looking for one that ‘shoots good’ (whatever that means). He can never quite seem to find a handgun that he ‘likes’ (read that: ‘can handle without looking like […]
Trends
9 June 99 This from a friend in the Federal System: “BATF is switching from SIG 228s to SIG 229s and 239s in 40S&W. They apparently think the additional power of the 40S&W round more than makes up for the decrease in the number of rounds available. Now that the FBI is issuing all new […]
Even more on 1999 NTI
7 June 99 I also need to mention that I wore my CCC vest from my good friend, Walt Brewer, throughout the entire event, and it performed wonderfully. I’ve seen wearing it ever since. I recommend the lightweight fabric. Walt Brewer CCC PO Bx 237 Saunderstown, RI 02874 888 959 4500 ccconcealedcarry.com /John
More on 1999 NTI
7 June 99 At this year’s event I used a S&W 4556, smoothed up by my good friend and master gunsmith, Don Johnson, converted to self-decocking (DAO) by my good friend Bert DuVernay and the wonderful folks at the S&W Custom shop, and finally refined my good friend and also master gunsmith, Jim Garthwait. It […]
1999 NTI
7 Jun 1999, (Mon) 6:14pm 1999 NTI This year’s NTI was great, and, once more, I had a chance to see good friends and participate in a number of excellent tactical drills. Much learning, rethinking, and refining took place (on my part)! Skip, Bob, Jim, and the entire crew, as always, worked tirelessly to create […]
The ATSA BEAUTY PARLOR
4 June 99 This was just given to me by a friend associated with the NTI. Some excellent tactical points made: “The ATSA BEAUTY PARLOR The September 1998 ATSA study day force-on-force (FoF) exercise seemed simple enough when first explained. You dropped your wife/sister/friend (innocent) off at the beauty parlor an hour ago. You remember […]
Ammunition
30 May 99 This from a friend in the testing business: “I recently tested a .357 SIG barrel in my G23. Works like a charm. I fired the .357 SIG against several soft armor samples during a recent test and found that they all were stopped. The 125g. CorBon SIG did penetrate 18 layers of […]
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29 May 99 This just in from a lawyer friend in California. It’s a copy of a letter sent to another law firm. Nice to know there are some honorable lawyers of the warrior ilk out there, eh? “Neither my partners nor I would ever feel helpless in the event of a crazy client with […]
From a friend in the Balkans
24 May 99 This just in from a friend in the Balkans. He is working for the UN: “Some local politico decided he was going to engage in some tax extraction at the ‘Arizona Market.’ Now, there’s a man who does not understand the concept of a black market. He gathered the local police, and […]
Incident
21 May 99 This from a police officer friend in Maryland: Quoting from a Baltimore Newspaper, dated 8 May 99: “A City police officer shot a woman yesterday after she stabbed him in the back in an apparently unprovoked attack. The injured officer was in uniform, but he and the attacker had never met. Officer […]
More on Shooting Sports
18 May 99 Comments about competitive shooting from several colleagues: “I quit this stuff, right after I faced an armed belligerent while participating in a weekend ‘action shooting’ match. I unexpectedly found myself (while carrying, of course, an unloaded pistol) confronting an enraged drunk, who was wearing a loaded pistol and who thought he was […]
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