Triangle Tactical Podcast - Competitive Shooting, Mostly

This week we have a bit of a rant, where we talk a bit about people who shoot competition, who are anti-competition. We're not slamming the people that are just there to have a good time, but rather the folks who brag about not practicing, or rag on the people who do practice and want to get better.

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This week we talk about a bunch of stuff. Some listener questions from Facebook, some new stuff from the NRA show (we're not there), and a bunch of other stuff too.

We'd like to get some more listener feedback from y'all for future episodes, so shoot an email or a voicemail (919) 295-6128 and let us know.

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In the past couple of weeks here in NC, we’ve seen several bills flow into the state legislature that would make some positive changes to our concealed carry (and other gun laws). The biggest of which is HB562. Among other things, HB562 would allow a little more leeway for people bringing guns onto school grounds in their vehicles, add an exception to an exception to allow concealed carry at the state fair (which in our opinion, adds to the “Quagmire of Stupidity” that we talked about back in Episode 103), adds a vehicle storage law that basically says that employers cannot disallow people from having a gun in their locked car, and would standardize signage requirements no guns signage. The bill does a lot more than what I mentioned here, but these are the parts we cover in this episode.

We also have a look at SB708, a bill that makes for an extra special concealed carry permit in the state. I’m all for expanding carry privileges, but I don’t think this bill is really the way to do it. I outline some of my problems with it here and here.

Taurus recalls the Curve pistol. Unfortunately for Taurus, word of the recall hit social media before their press release about it, and people were jumping all over the pistol before they found out it’s only being recalled because a batch of them left the factory without having the caliber engraved into the barrel. I had the chance to shoot a Curve a few weeks ago, and it wasn’t as awful as some people make it sound, so there’s that.

Distance Change Up: Here’s a video of Ben Stoeger explaining it.

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This week we had a chance to meet up with USPSA Grand Master and current Production National Champion Ben Stoeger. We talk a lot about how he got into shooting, robocop, Mel Gibson, mullets, and goons.

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Nothing but listener feedback in this episode! Marty tells us about his first match, Mike is going to shoot his soon and asks about a Bravo Concealment holster for IDPA, Brian emails in from Canada (America's Hat), Ron sets us straight about local 2-Gun matches, Terry asks about Major vs. Minor power factor scoring, and Steve has a couple retarded questions for us. 

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At the top of the show we talk a bit about USPSA and our practice regimen. I mentioned a couple of Instagram videos on the Triangle Tactical Instagram page where I FUBAR a reload in a drill, and some video of the “Drill of the Week” from last week. Find them all here.

I was inspired to talk about this topic after listening to the latest episode of the PARAcast podcastwith Tom from the GunDudes. I’d recommend you go have a listen to it in addition to this episode. He’s got iTunes and RSS feed links here on his website.

Anyways, we talk about the difference between Training and Practice, and why you should practice more than you train. It seems that there are a lot of people in the firearms community who love to go get training classes from experts, but they don’t really practice all that much. If we think about athletes, lets say someone like a basketball player, you would think they were odd if they were going to training camps all the time, and never practicing with a ball and the hoop in their driveway. For some reason though, when it comes to firearms it’s generally accepted as the opposite, lots of people train more than they practice, and they really shouldn’t.

Here are the links to all of my “Photo Forensics” posts about the new Glock:

As mentioned in the show, Andrew Branca who we interviewed in Episode 86, is going to be teaching a NC specific Law of Self Defense seminar in Raleigh on May 3rd, 2015. It’s $99 right now (I think the price goes up in a few weeks) and you can save $10 at checkout with the code triangle.

Sign up here. 

6 Reload 6

For this drill you need 3, 1/3 scale dryfire targets and a couple magazines loaded with dummy rounds.

Stand 7 feet from the targets, and on the buzzer draw and fire 2 “shots” at each target, perform a reload, and fire 2 shots at each target.

We both like this drill because you can really mix things up to keep it interesting. You can start hands relaxed at your sides, or with your wrists above shoulders, and you can add in a turn and draw every now and then as well. As you get better with turn and draws, you may find that you can turn and draw just about as fast as you can just draw. It’s a good drill.

As we mention in the episode, take a video of yourself running the drill of the week and tag us (@triangletactical) on Instagram in the description.

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This is an exciting episode for us, because for the first time ever, Ben and I recorded this episode with both of us in the same room. Anyways, here’s the shownotes:

We’ve both had a few things that have been bothering us for a little while, and we decided to vent about it this week. In the main topic segment, we vent about the following:

10mm. We don’t really have a problem with the 10mm itself (it’s a fine round), but rather the rabid fan-boys that seem to think every firearm should be chambered in 10mm.

.45 GAP. On the other hand, people really bag on the .45GAP too much. It’s a fine round, get over it.

“Patriots” who love freedom, until they realize someone else is making money. Specifically people who cry “PRICE GOUGING!” whenever someone decides to sell their own property when demand goes up.

“Because mil-spec”

The News:

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Oh boy, this episode has been... interesting to get published. Anyways, after using 3 computers, a phone, and 2 different cloud data storage sites, it's finished. 

We talk about confidence as a shooter, just listen to it, ya hoser!

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When learning a skilled trade in the old world, people fell into one of three categories: apprentice, journeyman, and master. The apprentice was the first step to learning the trade, and the apprentice would be paired with a master with whom he would learn all there was to learn from that master. The apprentice would then graduate into a journeyman, where he would go and learn from many different masters. After the journeyman had completed his learning, he would then become a master himself and have his own apprentice.

In the shooting world, these categories aren't as hard and fast as they were way back when, but most shooters can probably fit into one or two of them. Ben talks about his beginning as an apprentice to one instructor, and when he learned more, and became more skilled he began to learn from other instructors and shooters basically graduating to a journeyman, but for a new shooter who he showed the ropes to, he was a master.

The News:

A person was stabbed in the eye at 2:30AM near Moore Square in downtown Raleigh. Just a reminder that when you're out at the swanky bars downtown you need to be vigilant. If you have a designated driver, consider having a designated carrier as well.

A NJ man is facing 10 years in prison for having a 300 year old flintlock pistol in the glovebox of his car. Here's the NRA News interview with him.

A WV Pharmacist was able to draw and fire on a robber attempting to rob his pharmacy. Interestingly, the Pharmacist shot the robbers gun right in the muzzle, locking the slide and causing it to be inoperable. It's a fluke that it happened, but interesting none the less.

Dryfire Drill of the Week:

This is Ben's drill this week: Start with your unloaded pistol on the target (No magazine in the magwell, empty chamber, slide forward). At the beep initiate a reload, and get the sights back on target before the second beep from your par timer. Don't pull the trigger, because on a single "shot" drill, you'll start rushing the trigger. Ben said he'll practice this drill without a par timer as well and pull the trigger that way he doesn't get in the habit of pulling the trigger before he's ready just to make the par time.

Plugs of the Week:

We couldn't decide on a single plug this week, so we plugged two things:

- Latest Episode of Dan Carlin's Common Sense podcast. He focuses on the current situation with Russia/Ukraine/NATO/etc. This episode shed some light on the whole story that the network news doesn't explain.

- Brian Aitken (The guy who got railroaded by the NJ "justice" system for doing something that I do every day (having a couple guns in his car)) is trying to get his kid back. He's trying to crowdsource some cash to pay for a lawyer. Here's what I recommend: Go buy his book, and read it. It's available here on Amazon, and I'm not using an affiliate link, because I want him to make as much money as possible off of the sale.  After you read the book, go to his new website at http://www.loganshero.com and toss him a few bucks.

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This week we try to define, and explain our perspective on things as shooters. In the world of gun owners, there are a bunch of different types of folks, but most commonly, we find ourselves interacting with shooters, and gun guys.

Shooters tend to be more focused on the aspect of shooting, and less focused on gear. We try to find gear that is good enough, and leave it at that. Gun Guys however are the dudes you see on the range constantly looking for the latest/coolest/newest piece of gear to help up their game.

Simply put, the Gun Guy tends to have more money invested in his gear, where the Shooter invests more time in his gear.

There's nothing wrong with fitting into either category, but we wanted to define where we're coming when we answer questions for listeners.

The News:

A Federal Judge ruled on the Mance vs. Holder case, which has to do with interstate sales of handguns (you know, how if you buy a handgun from a vendor that isn't in your state, you have to have it shipped to an FFL in your state). Immediately this doesn't mean a whole lot for us, but it kicks the Second Amendment ball further down the road, and that's a good thing. Rather than trying to get into all of the specifics of this, I'll defer to friend of the show Andrew Branca who did a great, thorough YouTube video on the subject.

The BATFE is looking to redefine M855 (Green tip) 5.56 ammo as "armor piercing". Unfortunately, it doesn't look good for M855. Here's the current definition of Armor Piercing under the 1968 GCA:

“(i)      a projectile or projectile core which may be used in a handgun and which is constructed entirely (excluding the presence of traces of other substances) from one or a combination of tungsten alloys, steel, iron, brass, bronze, beryllium copper, or depleted uranium; or

(ii)        a full jacketed projectile larger than .22 caliber designed and intended for use in a handgun and whose jacket has a weight of more than 25 percent of the total weight of the projectile.”

DryFire Drill of the Week:

A couple weeks back I mentioned that I was having some issues getting my eyes to snap focus from the target to my front sight in dryfire. Listener Robert emailed in and suggested I work some draw strokes with no targets in front of me, just a blank wall. I was skeptical at first, but it is a good drill for getting my eyes used to grabbing the front sight on the draw.

- No target, just a blank wall

- Full speed draws, lining up the sights with a par timer

- Don't pull the trigger, otherwise you'll start mashing it just to make the timer

Plug of the Week:

This week we plugged this blog post from the Modern Service Weapons blog. Time and again people ask us which gun is better than whichever gun, but the fact is, there are a LOT of really good guns out there. Check it out, and make sure to add MSW to your feed reader. Great blog, and if you aren't following them, you're wrong.

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