scottishclaymore
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For the month of December over at the Gentleman Adventurer (my personal, somewhat multi-topic blog; gun posts are on Wednesdays ), 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 actual gunfighting skills but do not have access to a gun range that will allow them to do such things as “rapid” fire, drawing from concealment, shooting on the move – basically all the things they don’t appreciate you doing at a normal gun range (usually for good reason).
These exercises will also take into account the fact that most of us have limited budgets for ammunition, and can only expend so many rounds in an individual session. The idea isn’t that you get something for nothing – competency in any skill requires a certain level of investment. But I also believe there’s a lot of room for improvement and efficiency in how we spend our range time. And that’s what this eBook is about.
I intend for the eBook to be fairly short. Really, it's just the outgrowth of some thoughts I've had and observations I've made teaching private lessons in the DFW area. It's not intended to be a replacement for high-quality, professional instruction. Rather, I want to supplement that instruction by giving shooters - especially those who aren't gunnies - something they can use to regularly keep their skills sharp, beyond just punching paper at a range. And I want to get feedback from the excellent folks here at the High Road as I go along so that you can call me on my BS when it's BS.
For starters, I'd like your input on three very basic, very general questions:
These exercises will also take into account the fact that most of us have limited budgets for ammunition, and can only expend so many rounds in an individual session. The idea isn’t that you get something for nothing – competency in any skill requires a certain level of investment. But I also believe there’s a lot of room for improvement and efficiency in how we spend our range time. And that’s what this eBook is about.
I intend for the eBook to be fairly short. Really, it's just the outgrowth of some thoughts I've had and observations I've made teaching private lessons in the DFW area. It's not intended to be a replacement for high-quality, professional instruction. Rather, I want to supplement that instruction by giving shooters - especially those who aren't gunnies - something they can use to regularly keep their skills sharp, beyond just punching paper at a range. And I want to get feedback from the excellent folks here at the High Road as I go along so that you can call me on my BS when it's BS.
For starters, I'd like your input on three very basic, very general questions:
- What are some things you do to maintain your skills on a regular basis?
- What are some frustrations you have with your range time and what are some ways you would like to see it improve?
- Is the gun that you carry the most the gun that you shoot the most? Why or why not?