Triangle Tactical Podcast - Competitive Shooting, Mostly

This week Ben and I talk about why stages and drills are two different things, and why it always makes a crappy stage when someone tries to use a drill as a stage in a match.

You’ve got until about midnight on Thursday of this week to get your shirts.

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8″ Shoot-n-See targets are a good thing to keep in the range bag. If you find yourself at the range and forgot your targets at home, you’ll at least have something to shoot at, and they’re also great for kids and new shooters because they provide instant feedback.

Tac Insider Network. These folks are hilarious, go follow them on Facebook (and tell them we sent you).

It’s been a while since we’ve really explained any of the sounds that we play regularly on the show, so we decided to take a couple minutes this week and go through them and let y’all know what they actually are.

We’re still mailing out Triangle Tactical stickers if you send in a voicemail question for the Q&A podcast. Go to traingletactical.net/voicemail to find out how to do it.

We’ve got another run of T-shirts and hoodies going on right now. If you want one, go buy one before November 19th, 2015.

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An Amish man is suing the government because it’s against his religion to have his picture taken, and he needs a picture ID to buy as gun from an FFL. 

A single feature “assault weapon” ban was introduced in Wisconsin. This thing is just sad.

A stabbing at a California college was interrupted by a good guy without a gun. It was then stopped by good guys with guns.

Ben’s been experimenting with making visually distinct dummy rounds again. He’s now usingBrass Black and Montana Gold bullets to make all black dummy rounds for dryfire that are visually distinct from real ammo.

Here’s the post he wrote about it a while back.

Ben talks about some of the USPSA strategy differences that he’s noticed coming from shooters who shoot Major power factor, and those who shoot Minor power factor. Turns out, when accepting advice from another shooter on a certain stage or strategy, you should weigh whether or not they are shooting Major or Minor power factor, because if you’re shooting something different, you may want a different strategy.

The LA city council has passed a un-enforcable safe storage law for the city. People should store their guns safely, but government shouldn’t mandate it. It’s bad law.

A hunter in Indiana’s dog stepped on their shotgun and discharged it into the hunters foot. Dog’s name? Trigger.

There’s an interesting new pistol due to hit the market this month. It’s called the Honor Guard, and it looks surprisingly good, coming from a company that we’ve never heard of before. I think it looks like a love child between a S&W Shield and a Caracal. Takes Glock sights, which is genius.

Streamlight ProTac 1L

This is the light that Ben’s been running for a while now as part of his EDC, and the light that he’s planning to run in all of the fall/winter night matches that we’ll be shooting. It’s small, but not too small, bright enough, and it’s way cheaper than a lot of the competition. It’s a good piece of gear, whether you’re looking for a basic EDC light, or something to shoot matches with.

This week on the podcast, we sat down with Chris Tilley, just a couple days after he got home from winning the 2015 USPSA Open National Championship. It's funny, Chris lives right here in the Raleigh area, and we've never had him on the podcast before. 

Lots of good stuff in this interview, check it out, and tell your friends.

Things are pretty good these days, so house economist (Ben) digs a little into why were seeing certain things from gun and accessory manufacturers right now.

California Lt. Gov Newsome is pushing a ballot initiative in California. It's bad juju. Stay on top of this.

A 5yo girl finds an SBI agents gun in a restroom of a restaurant. Her parents prepared her for this, and she ran and told her mom.

The Salt Lake Practical Shooters Association was broken into and had all of their timers, range equipment, tools, etc stolen. They currently have a GoFundMe running to try and get new stuff. Check it out if you can help.

Paint a lot of steel targets at major matches? Hate trying to paste targets or shoot after you get paint goo on your trigger finger? One of the guys at the NC Sectional match this year showed up to our stage with one of these Can Guns and they were surprisingly amazing. Get a couple, chuck them in your range bag. They're amazing for stages where you have a lot of steel to paint between shooters.

USPSA has a bunch of videos from Limited/Open Nationals on their YouTube channel. Unfortunately they're not labeled or organized or anything.

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