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  • Pistols and Patriotism: Project Appleseed Pistol Clinic AAR
    2024/10/13
    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 分
  • The Everyday Gunslinger: Starting the Path to Pistolero
    2024/07/10
    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 分
  • Four Years from Friday: Approaching Your Training Life in Seasons
    2024/06/11
    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 分
  • Thinking Beyond the Drill, or the “Teaching to the Test” Fallacy
    2024/05/15
    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 分
  • Starting From Scratch, a Beginner’s Guide to a Basic Armory
    2024/04/11
    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 分
  • Prioritizing Your Marksmanship Training Zones
    2024/02/14
    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 分
  • Transformation Requires Sacrifice and Other Uncomfortable Facts
    2024/01/10
    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 分
  • The Martial Marksman Mindset: A Deeper Dive
    2023/11/29
    Mindset is one of the core topics of The Everyday Marksman, and it's one of the four corners in our pyramid of performance, but I've never planted a flag in the ground about what exactly I mean by, "Mindset." So let's fix that.
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    18 分