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Story of a Gun Fight

Mon June 9th, 2008 at 2:32 pm
FrontSight, Guns

This is a video - the raw video - of an interview with a man involved in a gun fight where two others were killed.
It is a good follow up to my article on what to do after a gun fight.. Dr Piazza has some take aways on the FrontSight Blog as well.
Heaven forbid I’m [...]

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Navy Firearms Training

Wed January 30th, 2008 at 11:02 am
FrontSight, Guns  |  1 Comment

Got one of my weekly emails from FrontSight offering their current deal. The thing that made it blogworthy was the included letter from a Navy Petty Officer about their firearms training.
Speaking only for myself, my firearms training is limited to what I received in boot camp, which was two hours of classroom instruction, two hours [...]

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Front Sight Membership Deal

Mon December 3rd, 2007 at 6:23 pm
FrontSight, Guns  |  1 Comment

If you remember the Mrs and I went last February for the 4 day handgun class at Front Sight, which was excellent. We both really learned a lot and I would have loved to become a member, but most of Front Sight’s memberships are outside our price range. But for the next week they are [...]

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Shooter and Front Sight

Mon July 9th, 2007 at 11:04 am
FrontSight, Guns, Media

I finally got around to watching Shooter last night. I’d mentioned the movie in an earlier post because Front Sight trained Mark Walberg to be a sniper. Well if you watch the Making Of special feature on the DVD you’ll see a lot of Front Sight. The main sniper consultant on the film was [...]

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Front Sight Links

Mon June 4th, 2007 at 3:11 pm
FrontSight, Guns

Front Sight is running a promotion where if you’ll post this list of links to their website, they will give you a free four day course. As you know I’ve been to one of their four day courses - posts - and think it is worth it. I’d like to go again, but at this [...]

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Can’t Ask For Higher Praise

Thu March 22nd, 2007 at 9:25 am
Blogging, FrontSight, Guns  |  1 Comment

Woke up this morning to a trackback from Say Uncle, which lead me to Kim du Toit’s blog entry about my post on What Happens After a Gun Fight. While he has some critique, he makes this comment:
The link above is worth remembering. Study it, commit it to memory, and do a lot of role-playing [...]

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Front Sight Trained The Shooter

Wed March 14th, 2007 at 2:13 pm
FrontSight, Guns  |  1 Comment

I got an email from the people at Front Sight firearms training saying they have a credit in the new Mark Walberg movie Shooter. They trained Mark, who plays a sniper in the movie, how to make those long shots.
Shooter is based on the book Point of Impact, which I own on the recommendation of [...]

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What Happens After the Gun Fight

Tue February 20th, 2007 at 3:04 pm
FrontSight, Guns  |  16 Comments

I’ve blogged about how to shoot welland what mental preparations you need for a gun fight. Now we need to think about what happens after the fight. There are three main parts I’ll discuss: what happens in your head, what happens when the cops get there, and what happens in the courts.
This discussion is based [...]

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