Episodes

  • State of Play: Political and Legal Trends to Watch For

    State of Play: Political and Legal Trends to Watch For
    Nov 12 2024
    A bit of an off-the-cuff musing about the current state of the second amendment legal world. I've been in this debate for a long time, and I think we've got a lot of momentum behind us- but I also think there's some serious risk in the future. The debate is not over, not by a long shot.
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    17 mins
  • Pistols and Patriotism: Project Appleseed Pistol Clinic AAR

    Pistols and Patriotism: Project Appleseed Pistol Clinic AAR
    Oct 13 2024
    At the start of October, I went to a Project Appleseed Pistol Clinic to get a refresh on my pistol skills and see what the new program was all about. I came away both satisfied with my performance and appreciating the hard work that the Appleseed folks put into developing this new curriculum. Let's dig in!
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    15 mins
  • The Everyday Gunslinger: Starting the Path to Pistolero

    The Everyday Gunslinger: Starting the Path to Pistolero
    Jul 10 2024
    I've got a bit of a confession to make, and it's embarrassing. I'm not all that great with pistols. I'm not a bad pistol shooter, per se. But on balance, my pistol shooting lags way behind my rifle shooting. I think that's a problem, so let's talk about why I'm going to fix it.
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    15 mins
  • Four Years from Friday: Approaching Your Training Life in Seasons

    Four Years from Friday: Approaching Your Training Life in Seasons
    Jun 11 2024
    Let's talk long term. Too many people think that success is just a few weeks or months away, when that is far from the truth. In reality, success is a culmination of long term effort often years in the making. In this piece, I take a little known two day challenge and show you how I would break it down into a series of seasons and blocks that could be repeated over and over again, always driving closer and closer to success.
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    32 mins
  • Thinking Beyond the Drill, or the “Teaching to the Test” Fallacy

    Thinking Beyond the Drill, or the “Teaching to the Test” Fallacy
    May 15 2024
    I've got a little bit of a bone to pick with how a lot of the shooting culture talks about drills. Much like weight lifting and gym bro culture, it seems a lot of shooters are more interested in flexing their egos than actually using drills as a way to improve. But how, exactly, should we approach that?
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    19 mins
  • Starting From Scratch, a Beginner’s Guide to a Basic Armory

    Starting From Scratch, a Beginner’s Guide to a Basic Armory
    Apr 11 2024
    There's been a question floating around the web that I wanted to take a poke at. If you were advising someone on how to start their own "serious" arsenal, what would be your suggestions? In what priority order? HEre's my answer.
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    24 mins
  • Prioritizing Your Marksmanship Training Zones

    Prioritizing Your Marksmanship Training Zones
    Feb 14 2024
    My recent post on establishing a fitness hierarchy made me realize that I need to do the same thing for marksmanship training. So here we are. Today I'm discussing my breakdown for prioritizing training distances and my reasoning for them.
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    21 mins
  • Transformation Requires Sacrifice and Other Uncomfortable Facts

    Transformation Requires Sacrifice and Other Uncomfortable Facts
    Jan 10 2024
    In the last episode, I mentioned something called the homeostasis problem. It's a way of viewing why big changes in life are so difficult to make. It was going to be a large aside in that article, so much so that I decided it was worth its own post. So here we are: the homeostasis problem.
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    12 mins