RETURN TO APPLESEED
The Evil Princess’ grandson is in town for a shooting visit. At 18, he has made a commitment to join the Marine Corps. He signed up having fired a real gun exactly twice in...
INTERESTING WEEK SO FAR
Spent the last Friday through Sunday at the Rangemaster Tactical Conference hosted by Tom and Lynn Givens at the Memphis, Tennessee Police Academy. Over 200 students and dozens of designated instructors, all of us...
ALL WOMEN SHOOTING MATCH
A few weeks ago, I attended a way cool pistol match. Usually, I go to these things as a competitor. This time, my function was reporter, spectator, and “ammo boy.”
The occasion was the first...
TOWARD REALISTIC SHOOTING PRACTICE
As a teenager, I discovered “turkey shoots” in New Hampshire. Turkey shoots are run different ways in different places, but in the Granite State they revolved around shooting full-size deer targets at 100 yards,...
NATIONAL TACTICAL CONFERENCE 2011
Tom Givens’ National Tactical Conference and Polite Society match finished up last weekend at the fabulous US Shooting Academy range in Tulsa. About 100 attendees picked from a smorgasbord of hands-on fighting classes, live-fire...