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...
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...
A COOL SHOOTIN’ MATCH
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
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
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...