Training Tips

Radians Custom Molded Earplugs

The Radians Custom Molded Earplugs are similar to the product you can have done professionally at a hearing aid office or many major gun/outdoor consumer...
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Feed Your G3 For Pennies...

The ammo shortage is no longer news and has sharply limited most of our ability to practice.
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Self-Defense vs. Negligent...

A look into the events that typically follow a (claimed) negligent discharge where injury or death has occurred.
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Cheap, Portable,...

Mantis Laser Academy Training Kit is advanced, technology driven, training system that uses the shooter’s gun and equipment without modification.
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HITS Arms G3 Real Dry Fire...

HITS Arms laser bullets function as SAAMI-spec snap-caps with a built-in laser for visual feedback.
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Top Four Factors In...

If you’re considering buying your first gun, it can be very confusing. Here's a list of the top four considerations for selecting a handgun.
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A Bump in the Night

CRASH!!! I sat bolt upright in bed after a smashing, clattering noise burst from my living room.
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Force Continuum - How much...

The idea is you use the lowest level of force needed to handle the situation. What is too much and how much is enough?
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Champion Duraseal Targets

Some years back I acquired three samples of the doggonedest targets I’d ever seen — a trio of long-lasting bullet stoppers from Champion made from some...
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Pistol Versus...

The PCC (Pistol Caliber Carbine) is all the rage today. Its relatively mild sound signature is less damaging to the ears than pistol, rifle, or shotgun if...
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5 Reasons You Need a...

How you can turn your fun time into training and improve how well you handle and shoot your firearm.
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60 Second Shooting Tip:...

American Handgunner Editor Tom McHale offers another quick shooting tip on how to manage recoil when shooting a handgun.
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Shots Fired in Anger

Shots Fired in Anger (1947) was written by Major (later Lt. Colonel) John B. George.
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Murphy's Law Strikes...

Is it the shooter or the equipment? How do you really know?
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Accuracy vs effectiveness

Accuracy is one stop on the road to effectiveness.
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The Zen of Combat: Soft...

"Soft Skills" are the things we should be doing prior to combat, to perhaps avoid a fight altogether.  In this episode we talk to Steve Tarani,...
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Mantis Laser Academy...

I’ve made no secret of the fact I love the Mantis X10 Shooting Performance System.
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The DIY Instructor | GMP #88

While professional firearms training is always preferable, most new shooters start their learning journey under the auspices of a friend or family...
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Understudy Guns .22

“Understudy gun” was a term first heard in these pages and is now more relevant than ever.
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Palma Rifle Competition

The jaws immediately drop. “You shoot 1,000 yards? With iron sights?” It’s amazing how many people think it’s impossible.
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Longshot Camera
Longshot 2-Mile Target Camera

Longshot's innovative target camera makes sighting in, training, and plinking more fun, allowing you to record videos and see shots without walking downrange.
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Self-Defense For The...

I’m a serious gun toter who has in recent years become a mobility-impaired person.
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Realistic Air Gun Training

Air guns have come a long way. Daisy, Crosman and Beeman are brands I’ve known forever and they have been joined by several other companies
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Gun Training For Women

Training for personal defense incidents is a priority now more than ever. Attacks on private citizens have increased.
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The “Play Like You ...

It’s axiomatic — we “play like we practice,” and therefore should be “building our repetitions” with the same gear, even the same clothing, and...
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"Top Secret" Handgun Tips...

Whether you’re a first-time gun owner or range regular, becoming a better shooter is simple, but not easy, so the Gun Cranks share their most helpful...
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Top Secret Training Tips

Wanna know the "insider" tricks to becoming a better pistol shooter? The Gun Cranks crew share some of their favorite training tips gleaned from decades of...
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Become A Gunfighter in 3...

Spoiler Alert: Not really! The three easy steps talked about are "training, training, training."
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Fighting Frustration

Sometimes, we all have bad days at the range — we get frustrated. Rather than waste our time (and money), here are a few tips for how to end things on a...
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Self-defense Advice From A...

A self-protection expert who served on Donald Trump's pre-election protection detail, Steve Tarani shares tips on how to keep your most "precious cargo"...
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Quartermaster Trigger...

American Handgunner's Roy Huntington reveals his secret to his steady hand when pistol shooting.
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Sub-caliber Trainers

Like most of us, my introduction to shooting was with a .22 rifle. Mine was a single shot Winchester Model 60A my grandfather gave to my father, who gave it...
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Mantis X10 Training System

“I can help 94 percent of shooters improve in 20 minutes.” Sounds pretty presumptuous and smacks of those Get-Rich-Quick or Lose-50-pounds-in-two-weeks...
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More Than Equal

When my editor assigned me to an upcoming concealed carry class, I cringed. Not another “ladies-only concealed carry course,” I thought. Needless to...
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Behind the Scenes at...

Editors tend to spend a fair amount of time at a desk, hovering over a keyboard, wrangling text, photos, and videos. But every now and again we get out to...
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Gabe White Pistol ...

When Gabe White first trained with me in the early 2000s, he was already well along the way to mastering the handgun. Gathering much training in a broad...
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Training For The Real Deal?

My introduction to shooting was through the shotgun sports — trap and skeet specifically. It was through my own initiative. My dad didn’t shoot...
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LONE STAR SUMMIT

I’m writing this shortly after returning from the Texas Firearms Law Seminar hosted annually by the State Bar of Texas. It’s a CLE (Continuing Legal...
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Top 20 Things To Know...

Why a tactical shotgun, you may ask? This question comes up all the time. A tactical shotgun can be a great option for defensive use.
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"Air Defense Understudies"

The mere mention of “BB gun” inevitably conjures up the Daisy Red Rider. But let me tell you, BB guns have evolved well past this stage. Thanks to my...
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5 Tips To Better Shooting

How to shoot accurately is simple to explain. In reality there are only two things necessary: (1) Stabilize the muzzle in the proper perspective to the...
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Short And Serious

I spent 25 years in captivity. No, not in North Vietnam or North Korea, but in a desperate day-to-day fight for survival in the pit of weekday despair known...
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Airsoft — The Ultimate...

The last few years have witnessed an unprecedented growth in the rise of airguns in the role of firearm trainers. At the forefront of this training wave are...
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.22 Caliber Cross-Training

When the Summer Olympics took place in Rio de Janeiro the entire world focused on the myriad of sporting events on display. One of the techniques many of...
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Spare Ammo

How much spare ammo should you be wearing for your carry gun?
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Vital Points

Many, if not most, defensive firearms programs these days emphasize three points of aim on deadly human opponents: center chest, brain and pelvic girdle
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The 3 “P’s” of Training

There are a lot of obstacles to competing: The travel, the equipment, the guns, the ammunition, learning and mastering the game. But, I find, the obstacles...
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If One Is All

In reality the possibility of using and firing a handgun with one hand in a fight exists. Are you ready?
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Applying Light

Lights are a good idea so you don’t shoot the wrong thing.
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Airborne Ammo

How I learned (the hard way?) to not throw stuff like ammo, boxes of ammo, loose rounds, loaded magazines and or full-moon clips.
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Thoughts On Defense

Thinking and training beyond the firearm, the acquisition and practice of personal awareness and personal tactical skills are probably as important as the...
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Clicks And Booms

Two things in life are very loud in the overall audio spectrum: a gun going click when it supposed to go boom, and a gun going boom when it is supposed to...
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So You Want A Shotgun?

Enough has been written about shotguns to fill several books, yet there are still plenty of people who misunderstand what the shotgun does and why.
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You Might Be A Brain Surgeon

If you practice this well enough, you too may qualify to be a doctor of sorts—not of brain surgery—but perhaps a doctor of sight alignment and the...
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