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Movement is one of the best things you can assess with match video. In the video clip above, watch how much more confidently I move into the first position, than the second position. You can tell as I’m moving into the second position I wasn’t quite sure where the fault line was and I didn’t …

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A video posted by Lucas Apps (@triangletactical) on Jan 18, 2017 at 9:12am PST I’ve heard Steve Anderson talk about “shooting sooner” a thousand times, and it really became apparent after looking at my match video from last Saturday. In the video above, I engaged the targets to the left while on the move, then …

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A striker fired 1911. A new pistol caliber carbine that’s just like the rest of them, only a little different. There’s one innovation I’d like to see, that I probably won’t ever see: Training magazines for dryfire. Here’s what I want it to do: Weighted to be about the same weight as a magazine with …

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Listen to the Podcast On Saturday I shot a Day/Night IDPA match at H2O Fowl Farms. We shot all 6 stages once during the daylight, and then when the sun went down we shot the match again with flashlights. If you’ve never shot with a flashlight before, it can be a challenge that you’re not …

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Listen to the Podcast Winterpocalypse 2017 rolled through Raleigh, NC this weekend and we got a ridiculous .5″ of snow that brought the city to it’s knees once again. Once again, I’m just shocked at how folks knew the storm was coming, and were just completely unprepared. After the snow and ice came, most of …

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A couple days ago I received an email from USPSA regarding this new decision from NROI about allowing half-sized targets at Level1 USPSA matches. Personally, I think this is a great decision. I’ve shot the half-size targets at different outlaw matches over the years, and they’re really not a big deal, just treat them like …

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This is how you should grip a pistol. This is how you should pull the trigger. This is the best gun. This is the best load for Production division. This is the best stance. I could go on, but I’ll spare you. I’ve noticed that the shooting community, and maybe humanity as a whole, has …

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Time and again I hear how the flip and catch is unsafe (mainly from IDPA SO’s), but I’m here to tell you, it’s not. Above is a video of me doing a flip and catch in my kitchen with a dummy round. Watch my muzzle, it stays pointed exactly where I want it to be …

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If there’s one thing that I’ve learned on my journey to become a better shooter, it’s that a bunch of the stuff that’s passed around as fact on the internet, isn’t. Every couple weeks I see this picture or one like it that seems like it makes a lot of sense on the surface, but …

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I’ve seen this picture around the internet several times over the years, and I’ve seen it making the rounds again recently. It came up in a post where someone was asking whether or not this sort of thing was applicable to people carrying lawfully. I spent a long time working a job where I conducted …

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Listen to the Podcast This is the last podcast episode of 2016, and if you’ve been listening for the past couple weeks I’ve been begging for voicemails telling me your 2017 shooting goals. Well, y’all sent in a bunch of them, so here they are. Anyways, my 2016 goal was to have more fun, and …

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I haven’t seen something so stupid in a piece of gun legislation in a very long time. I literally jumped off the couch when I read it. South Carolina S0088 is a bill filed about a week ago in the SC Senate. It’s generally a good bill, except for section C, which is some of …

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Listen to the podcast: So a bunch of text about the newest IDPA rules appeared in my inbox, and on a few different forums and discussion boards a couple days ago. The sources I got the text from are credible, in my opinion. The text talks about what the new IDPA rulebook will be for …

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There’s been some drama in the world of shooting/gun forums in the Carolinas over the past month or so, and in response to that, a group of folks have banded together to start a new web forum to serve the Carolinas. It is, and will remain locally owned. I personally know several of the folks …

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Listen to the Podcast In the modern times we’re in, when we want to learn about something new we go to web forums, subreddits, and Facebook groups that are based around the topic we’re interested in. I’m a member of web forums based around a TON of different topics, because I like to learn about …

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Listen to the Podcast This week on the podcast I interviewed Arik Levy of the Shooters Summit, which is a cool project he’s got going on where he interviwed 23 of the heavy hitters in the shooting world, and will be releasing the videos FOR FREE December 12 – 18th, (of you can pay $19.95 …

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Arik Levy from FirearmsNation has something pretty awesome going on right now. He’s launched the Shooters Summit which is a bunch of online interviews of 20+ heavy hitters in the shooting world. He’s got the big names among competitive shooters, as well as the tactical crowd, which makes an awesome bunch of interviews. Each interview …

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2017 is fast approaching, and I think the new year is as good a time as any to set some goals for the upcoming shooting season. I don’t care what your goal is, it could be anything from shooting your first match (or even shooting for the first time) to becoming a Grand Master, or …

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Listen to the Podcast Just a few things I’ve learned from competitive shooting over the years: If you want to get better, stop chasing the newest, latest, greatest. Find some gear that’s good enough, and stick with it. If you can afford the best gear, awesome, if you can’t, that’s fine too. Stop trying to …

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Way back when I used to ride mountain bikes in junior high school I just pushed my mountain bike down the trail, and never really learned how to do things better. I rode a lot, put a lot of miles on my bike, but I didn’t practice. Listen to the Podcast: I did the same …

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