Triangle Tactical

Ben in Dallas recorded a voicemail on his phone, and emailed the file to . It’s a real easy way to send in your voicemails to us, don’t worry about file format, we’ll figure it out.

Now until the weekend or so, if you send an email to with your competition/concealed carry/firearm/tacticool question, and and we decide to use it on a future episode of the Q&A podcast, I’ll send you a link for $5 off a shirt.

So, this is pretty exciting! Episode 1 of the Triangle Tactical Podcast released on May 14, 2012, so it’s officially 3 years old now.

Yay.

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Ben writes in from NYC for today’s episode.

Frightening stuff here. The bad guys clearly had very bad intentions after arming themselves and getting cabling (presumably to tie up the homeowners).

What scares me is how long these guys were able to move around inside the home unnoticed. Also, good on the homeowner and his girlfriend blfor being armed, although I personally wouldn’t sleep in bed with a firearm in my bed, I prefer to just have it handy.

(H/T r/firearms)

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Lester shot us a message on the Triangle Tactical Facebook page, asking about hat tools make the shooter better.

I know y’all have been waiting for like 2 whole days for this, so try to contain yourself! As of the time of writing this post, the Q&A podcast isn’t showing up in an iTunes search, but you can find it by clicking here.

Today’s Q&A Podcast comes from Scott, he emailed in his question to us. If you’d like to have your question answered on the show, drop us a line at or call in to the voicemail line at (919) 295-6128.

Back in February I wrote a post about being “out” as a gun owner, and how it’s been pretty awesome for me. Late last week a friend told me that I should introduce myself to a new guy at work, just saying “You guys would probably get along really well.”

KevinC phones in on Speakpipe and asks for ideas of practical shooting drills that can be shot on a square range.

Fantastic video that really gets the point across regarding suppressors. Share the video, it does a good job showing what suppressors really do and in a way that’s easy to understand. I dig it.

Now I want a suppressor even more.

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WBTV is reporting that a Concord, NC police officer shot himself in the lower calf while training at the range yesterday. The article vaguely mentions that the incident happened while the officer was holstering his pistol.

Just a quick reminder that there’s no need to race the pistol back into the holster. When training, the clock has stopped before its time to reholster, and if you’re involved in a defensive shooting, I don’t think it could hurt to take a deep breath, and assess what you’re doing before you go shoving the holster back into the holster.

I hope the officer recovers quickly, hopefully the news of this incident will keep others from getting hurt the same way.

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Like… nearly 50% off just because you’re a USPSA member. Pretty cool, although the guns on the list aren’t the greatest for USPSA, unless you want to shoot Singlestack. Either way, it’s cool of Remington to do it, maybe once production gets scaled up on the re-branded Para stuff they’ll have some deals on some doublestack 2011’s or something so I can get a Limited pistol… hint hint…

Full details here.

Pricing list here.

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This week Ben and I talk about the importance of practicing little things, in small steps, one at a time. Seems like there’s a divide among the shooting community where some trainers tend to have students practice large, complex drills, and other folks (generally the more competition minded) tend to break things down a bit more. We’ve both found that breaking things down for a bit, and then putting them back together tends to work well.

So the episode of the Practical Pistol Show with Ben and I is up. It’s got some naughty language in it, so if you’re easily offended by such things, you should harden up and watch it anyways.

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Man or woman, if you don’t read Cornered Cat, you’re wrong.

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Last week I shot the H2O Fowl Farms Adam Ginette Memorial IDPA match with my Glock 19 from t-shirt concealment.

This afternoon Ben Stoeger invited us on the Practical Pistol Show, to talk a little more about the Anti-Competition Competitors topic that we talked about in Episode 130 of podcast.

I’m not totally sure when it’ll air, but it will be on Ben’s YouTube page when it does air.

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When people get into competitive shooting, they inevitably fall into the trap of buying more gear to try and get better, instead of putting in the time to practice and become a better shooter. We’ve both been down this road, and now that we’re on the other side of it we’ve realized that for the most part, the modifications just aren’t worth the money invested. However, there are a couple modifications that you’ll probably need on most guns that you choose to shoot in competition.