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The following post is an excerpt from My Range Won’t Let Me, an eBook discussing the issues that most of us face in trying to train realistically and effectively in restrictive environments. To read the rest of the article, you can download the book when it becomes available this January. Mostly, I want this book […]
November 30, 2011 by richardrohlin
For the month of December here at the Gentleman Adventurer, I’ll be posting a series of excerpts and photos from a new eBook I’m working on entitled My Range Won’t Let Me. The purpose of the book is to help establish meaningful training exercises for “normal” shooters – every day people who need to develop and maintain […]
November 16, 2011 by richardrohlin
I’ve written extensively in the past about the need for integrity in our training. Integrity, as it relates to firearms training, is the concept that we should train with the some equipment and techniques that we are going to use in real life. This may sound basic, but most of us don’t realize the things […]
November 9, 2011 by richardrohlin
“I don’t like revolvers. They’re just not as accurate with that heavy trigger pull.” It’s the most frequent complaint I, as the local “gunny” and avowed wheelgun apologist, hear about revolvers. Usually, it’s from someone who is used to shooting a single-action or safe-action pistol. I will usually proceed to point out to them the […]
November 2, 2011 by richardrohlin
For the last three weeks, we’ve been looking at the fundamentals of combat shooting and how they differ from the fundamentals of target shooting. For the purposes of our training, we defined the fundamentals of combat shooting as: Orient yourself toward the threat Extend the handgun toward the threat Press the trigger until the threat […]
October 27, 2011 by richardrohlin
For the last two weeks, we’ve been looking at the fundamentals of combat shooting and how they differ from the fundamentals of target shooting. For the purposes of our training, we defined the fundamentals of combat shooting as: Orient yourself toward the threat Extend the handgun toward the threat Press the trigger until the threat […]
October 19, 2011 by richardrohlin
Last week we started a look at the fundamentals of combat shooting, specifically as they relate to the fighting revolver. We determined that combat shooting fundamentals are not the same as target shooting fundamentals, and defined the former thusly: Orient yourself toward the threat Extend the handgun toward the threat Press the trigger until the […]
October 12, 2011 by richardrohlin
Learning to shoot the fighting revolver (or any handgun) correctly is, alas, yet another area of defensive doctrine that is fraught with controversy. There are a lot of schools of thought on this subject, some of which are founded in reality and some of which are not. In such a broad field you are likely […]
October 5, 2011 by richardrohlin
As discussed in the last entry in this series, there are certain fundamentals of reloading your revolver that will remain true regardless of what we are using to reload our revolver: be it speedloaders or speed strips. From there, we need to what our needs are (what you can carry, how much of it you […]
October 1, 2011 by richardrohlin
Regardless of how or when you are reloading your revolver, there are a few basic principles you should always follow: When manipulating the revolver, the gun should be held in the high compressed ready position. This means your shoulders are hunched, the gun is held high and against your sternum, with your arms bent and […]
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