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Timing the Hits

This started with Ken Hackathorn. During one of his pistol classes, he demonstrated the time difference between two different engagements of two targets (VCAs). The IDPA targets were side by side and Ken had the following COFs. COF A: Target Y gets a double tap, then Z gets a double tap. Compared that to: COF B: Target Y gets a single, Z gets a double tap, then Y gets a second single. Which of the two scenarios gave Ken the best performance regarding time and power delivery? I have always thought practical or self-defense shooting was a thinking game. I'm 10 yards from the center target. Can I deactivate each shooter before they shoot me? I have the actual numbers somewhere in my notes, but I remember the time difference between the two courses of fire was measured in hundreds of seconds. Ken suggested that that tiny time difference makes no difference at all, and either approach works. To be clear from the start, Ken Hackathorn is a world-class shooter, an

The Secret to the IDPA SO Test

IDPA is changing. The International Defensive Pistol Association has changed and not for the better. Accompanying this change is the requirement that current SOs test out on the new rule book. IDPA should be about shooting your best tactics and having fun. IDPA has tightened the rules in an effort to eliminate cheating and level the playing field. This has lost IDPA the sense of wonderment that came with a sport that let you try out your tactical skills and compare them to other shooters. The comment “Good tactics!” from an experienced IDPA shooter meant more than winning first place. Now it’s about points, power factors, challenging the scores and rulings and legal dissection of distances, word meanings, management levels, and being a five gun master. There was a time when we asked each shooter if they understood the course of fire and if they didn’t, the safety officer would re-explain it. Not anymore. That question is not part of the offi

Tactical Safety

Let's think about the tactics of safety. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ujpbrRgKrSs&feature=youtu.be (Just in case the link breaks) Christmas time pushes people to do crazy, frenzied activities as we rush to make it a perfect holiday. Let’s talk about putting things in place so they are ready when we need them. I’m not talking about bug-out bags, stashed guns or even determining lines-of-sight in your house. I’m talking about smoke detectors. So many of us use a cut Christmas tree to celebrate Christmas. These trees were cut 3 months ago or longer and are so dry and are so filled with resin that they practically explode into a ball of fire with the touch of a spark. Even the live ones you cut at the tree farm are very flammable. So put in fresh batteries in your smoke detectors for Christmas. Most of them use a common 9 volt radio battery available at Mega-Mart and corner stores across the nation. If you don’t have a smoke detector b

So What Is it?

I’ll give you hint. Bull's-eye shooters know better than to store this in oak boxes or this happens. It’s a badly corroded lead .22 bullet. I took the photo at 35X with a Scanning Electron Microscope to show the crinkly surface. It’s lead carbonate. It should be metallic lead. . This one is in great shape. I can even see my reflection in the bullet. So what happened to this happy-go-lucky little .22LR? As Ricky use to say “You got some ‘splainin’ to do Lucy!” But I’ll let the Navy conservators do it for me: “The chemical process is: Acetic and some other acids, in the presence of carbon dioxide, (in the air) catalyze with lead to produce lead acetate and lead hydroxide. Lead acetate and lead hydroxide together react with carbon dioxide and form lead carbonate. Lead carbonate then releases acetic acid and the process becomes self-sustaining.” I used to hate those ads for genuine Civil War battlefield bullets. The ad shows some featureles

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