Student of the Gun University

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When it comes to buying a gun for yourself, that choice is easy. You pick whatever has gotten you excited this week/month. But what about picking a gun for the non-shooter in your life? How can you best serve a person in your life who is going to learn to use a firearm, not out of passion, but out of a sense of duty? 

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During this episode, we will address the 3 Things or topics that every person who owns a gun, any gun, needs to understand. This is fundamental or foundational knowledge that is critical to gun owners, regardless of what plan to do with a firearm.  

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Gun people are often asked to give advice about the choice of firearms and accessories.  How can we give the best advice possible? What is the definition of “good advice”? 

Ask Questions, Listen, Remember for whom the advice was given. Be Honest.

https://www.thetruthaboutguns.com/how-to-give-good-advice-when-youre-asked-about-guns/

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Poor choices in gear; ammo, holsters, belts, accessories, etc. can and will distract you and effectively handicap you during training. Paul has some advice to help you have a better training experience.

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Gun people are often asked to give advice about the choice of firearms and accessories.  How can we give the best advice possible? What is the definition of “good advice”? 

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During the process of writing a new book, I had the opportunity to once more closely examine what it takes to achieve mastery with a firearm. Some people think that they need to master just one more high speed technique or add one more custom part to their pistol. Shooting well is 90% mental and 10% physical. 

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Having learned how to dry-fire decades ago and having used it successfully to fire “Expert” on the Marine Corps rifle range, I was surprised when an instructor of whom I had great respect disparaged the use of dry-fire. I set out to figure out why this was the case.

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The purpose of our collaboration with Spike’s Tactical was to create a practical, rugged and reliable rifle that had everything a fighting gun needs but nothing it does not.  K.I.S.S. Principle in action or application. https://www.spikestactical.com/collections/complete-rifles/student-of-the-gun-the-lexington-concord-an-instrument-of-liberty/

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Keeping with our recent theme regarding long distance and precision shooting, we pose the question: how much scope is enough? We could also ask, how much scope is too much?

Do you really need a 20x scope to hit a target at 1000 yards? We have an extensive amount of experience in this subject and have some suggestions to make.

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Lesson from long range shooting; if you want to experience real change and improvement, you need to be willing to make bold adjustments. This lesson applies not only to the elevation knob on your rifle scope, but to other aspects in your life.

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