ALL WOMEN SHOOTING MATCH

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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...

NATIONAL TACTICAL CONFERENCE 2011

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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...

A COOL SHOOTIN’ MATCH

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For a few years now, the Central Florida Rifle and Pistol group in Orlando has been running a major International Defensive Pistol Association match that has earned a reputation as one of the best...

A PERSONAL ANNIVERSARY

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Got a personal anniversary this week: January 8, 2005 was when I became the first five-gun master in IDPA.  The acronym stands for International Defensive Pistol Association, and until January ’05, there were four...

THERE’S SUCH A THING AS A TOO-SMALL GUN

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If you’ve read my column in Backwoods Home Magazine for any length of time, you’ve noticed how frequently I’ve made the point that it’s close to hopeless for a smaller person to try to...