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Archive for January 2008

Dry Fire: Improves Your Trigger Control and Smooths the Trigger

By Richard on January 31, 2008 1 Comments

One of the best things a person can do to improve their ability to shoot a handgun is to dry fire.

Dry fire practice allows you to concentrate on sight alignment and your trigger control without having to be at the range or spending money on ammunition. As they say, perfect practice makes perfect, and dry firing allows you to perfectly practice trigger control and sight alignment.

There is a lot of concern about damaging the firing pin on a gun when dry firing. I have dry fired thousands of times with a variety of revolvers and autoloaders. To date not a single problem. Nor have I ever met anyone who broke a firing pin while dry firing. If you are concerned, no problem, buy some Snap Caps.


RangeMaster is a range, gun store, and training school in Tennessee that offers excellent firearms and tactics training from instructors that include Tom Givens and Jim Higginbotham. On their website, they have a series of dry fire training exercises. Just click the ‘dry fire drills’ link on the left side of their web page and follow the instructions.

The main objective of dry firing is to improve your shooting skills. The fantastic side benefit is you also improve the quality of the trigger pull. As you repeatedly work the trigger, you end up smoothing the pull much like a stream wears a rock smooth. I’ve got a Smith and Wesson Model 10 revolver that has a double action trigger pull that is as smooth as glass from all of the dry firing I have done with that gun.

Just remember: safety first! Make sure the gun is unloaded and only dry fire in a safe area where you are not pointing the gun at anything (your TV for example) that you would rather not shoot…just in case you failed to pull that round out of the chamber.

Categories : Training
Tags : dry fire, firearms training, practice, shooting, trigger, trigger control

Armed Response: A Comprehensive Guide to Using Firearms for Self Defense by David Kenick

By Richard on January 18, 2008 No Comments

One of the books I got for Christmas this year was Armed Response: A Comprehensive Guide to Using Firearms for Self-Defense. I thoroughly enjoyed reading the book. I found the writing style kept my interest and the content was well researched.

Armed Response is an excellent book that introduces the reader to the use of firearms in self-defense. The author, David Kenik, does a superb job in discussing the relevant issues in self-defense and the carrying of a firearm.

Kenik starts off the book with the Misconception of Police Protection. While some readers may be startled by such a statement, the fact is simply that the police cannot be everywhere, protecting everyone at all times. If they could, there wouldn’t be any crime. However, the majority of the public has the notion that the police will protect them. The reality is that people have to survive long enough for the police to arrive.


As radio host Tom Gresham says “When seconds count, the police are only minutes away.”

Massad Ayoob explains in the forward “…[Kenik] is being frank…law enforcement is necessarily reactive… If there is a crime of violence, the potential victim needs the wherewithal to stop the deadly danger and stabilize the scene until [the police] can get to the scene and do their job.”

Once Kenik discusses the need of the individual citizen to be an active participant in his or her own survival, he moves into the practical areas of self-defense and the use of firearms. Chapters include information on the reasonable use of force, body alarm reaction (the fight or flight reflex), action/reaction, Tueller Drill, safe gun handling, malfunction drills, reloading drills, realistic shooting practice, holster selection, back-up guns, post-shooting actions, and
much more.

Armed Response is a great book for any citizen considering the purchase of a firearm and for the officer starting out their career. I highly recommend it.

Categories : Books, Training
Tags : Armed Response, book review
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