The Seven Deadly Sins of Handgun Shooting: Not Flipping the Bird

How many stories do we have to read about some average Joe (usually not Jane as they are better at paying attention) shooting himself in the leg, or worse? None of these are accidents in the strictest sense. To me, an accident is a fluke of nature, engineering, and animal husbandry. Like those times when…

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The Seven Deadly Sins of Handgun Shooting: An Undisciplined Muzzle

Most disciplinary issues are simply annoying. When it comes to gun muzzles, disciplinary failures can be really, really bad. So what is muzzle discipline? Simply put, it’s making sure that the muzzle of your gun obeys your safe intent – at all times – no matter what. It can never, ever, ever point at anything…

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The Seven Deadly Sins of Handgun Shooting: Inappropriate Racking

This racking discussion focuses on racking the slide on semiautomatic pistols. For anyone not familiar with the terminology, racking the slide refers to vigorously drawing the slide all the way back in order to eject a chambered cartridge or spent casing and/or allow the slide to strip a new one from the magazine and jam…

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The Seven Deadly Sins of Handgun Shooting: The Crossed-thumb Grip

This week’s Seven Deadly Sins of Handgun Shooting Tip involves keeping (most) of your body parts attached. Specifically, we’re talking about your thumbs. You see, opposable thumbs are one of the things that give us humans a real advantage over the rest of the animal kingdom when it comes to important things like opening Pringles…

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