Triangle Tactical Podcast - Competitive Shooting, Mostly

Rob calls in a match report from his first competition shooting match at the Wake County Firearms Education and Training Center this past Wednesday. He shot his Glock 41 with reloads from his pocket, and emailed in his thoughts on shooting a competition for the first time.

Kenny called in on the Triangle Tactical Voicemail line (919-295-6128) and left us a voicemail asking about why we tend to bash the 1911 pistols on the podcast. He left two voicemails, the first one got cut off, but I liked it the best, so I spliced the two together as best I could.

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Two students that were caught in the FSU library shooting were members of the Students for Concealed Carry on Campus organization, but were not able to carry (and potentially stop the threat) because of the law.

USPSA’s website was hacked, and many usernames and passwords were leaked.

Remington issues a recall for the 887 shotgun. It appears that something is causing the firing pin to stick out of the breech face which can create a condition where the 887 can slam fire when a round is chambered.

When installing a new set of dovetail sights, I always put a glob of loctite in the dovetail before pushing in the new sight. It seems to act like a little bit of a lubricant when pushing in the new sight, and when it sets up it helps to hold the sight in place.

The main topic for this episode comes from a voicemail from a listener (who didn’t leave his name) about whether or not it’s okay to shoot competition with a pistol that isn’t your carry gun. Ben and I both carry different guns than we generally shoot in competition, but there is a bit of philosophy there which we go into in this episode.

H2O Fowl Farms is hosting their BUG match on Saturday, Nov. 29th 2014. This is a great match for a new shooter to get started in, you don’t need a holster or mag pouches, just a pistol, magazine, and 60rds of ammo. This particular match is benefiting Toys for Tots, so it’s also for a great cause! More details over at Carolina Shooters Club…

Alan Gura is spanking Washington DC again over their concealed carry situation.

A 12 year old in Ohio was shot and killed by police while reaching for an airsoft pistol in his waistband. An unfortunate situation for everyone involved and a reminder to be extremely cautious when carrying, and informing police that you are carrying. Just because you know that you don’t mean anyone any harm doesn’t mean that they know that.

I wrote a blog post about protecting yourself from holiday scams. Black Friday is this week, and the holiday shopping season will soon be in full swing. Know what’s up!

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Full shownotes are forthcoming. Basic rundown of this episode is this: We recap the Gun Powder Gals IDPA clinic that we helped with on Saturday, we look at a couple of bills that have been introduced in Texas that would allow for open carry, and constitutional carry, Ben reviews the Steve Anderson class, and we go through some listener feedback.

You can order your Triangle Tactical shirts until about 10PM on Monday 11/17/2014, so you officially have less than 24 hours. Go get one or three!

Check back to this post as the day goes on, I'll be updating it throughout the day.

Ben is taking a 2 day handgun class with Steve Anderson from That Shooting Show and he had a chance to sit down with him and record an episode. They talk quite a bit about USPSA, and the mental game. If you aren't familiar with Steve, he's known in the competitive shooting world as the dry fire guy. He's written a few books on the subject, and now he hosts a podcast (along with his dogs and David Lee Roth) where he talks more about the practical shooting mental game, dry fire, and match management.

"Where's the improvement gonna come from if you don't strap on the gear and get to work?"

You can find Steve at AndersonShooting.com with links to purchase his books, sign up for classes, and subscribe to his podcast.

Early this evening IDPA sent an email to it’s membership that has caused a bit of a stir on social media. The biggest piece of news is that they are getting rid of the “flat footed reload” rule that has caused so much stir around the game since it was introduced last year that you can hardly mention IDPA without having someone mention the rule.

Also of note in the email blast:

They are considering adding a new division, either a “Compact Carry Pistol” division for Glock 19/M&P Compact sized pistols, or a “Laser and Optic Pistol” division for guns with laser sights and slide ride optics.

In the rules clarification they also ruled that ALL “bullets out” magazine pouches are not suitable for all day carry, and thus illegal for IDPA. This really sticks in my craw…

Get your shirts! Y’all asked for another run of shirts, and this time we decided to add some more colors, and a little nicer typography on the front of them. The shirts are available for 14 days from the time of this posting (11/3/2014 – 11/17/2014) and then they will not be available until we do another run.

A couple months back we discussed a ruling by the BATFE that ruled that trusts (like the ones many people use to own NFA firearms and suppressors) are not people. This opened the door for adding machine guns to the machine gun registry, given that the law states that people may not register machine guns after the registry was closed in 1986, but the law doesn’t say anything about trusts. There is now officially have a lawsuit on this issue. Fingers crossed.

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I’ve mentioned a bit on the blog and Facebook page over the past couple of days that I picked up a Glock 19 Gen4 to act as my primary CCW pistol for a while. I’ve been wanting to go back to a doublestack gun with decent capacity, and finally made the plunge for a whole host of reasons that I go through in this episode. What I haven’t mentioned is that Ben inherited my XDs 9mm to act as his new summer carry gun. He fell in love with it after we did the “Pocket 9mm Shootout” back in Episode 68, and has been kicking around the idea of buying it since then. We spend a bit of time in the episode going through our reasons for making the switch.

We’ve talked extensively in the past about the shenanigans going on at the NC State Fair regarding concealed carry. Linoge reported that when he went to the fair last week, the security was incredibly lax, and other listeners have reported just the opposite on the Triangle Tactical Facebook page. It seems that security has been inconsistent to say the least. Furthermore, Saturday night, some folks were robbed at gunpoint while walking back to their vehicle after leaving the fair. With all of the media attention about the ban on carry at the fair, the criminals almost certainly knew that they wouldn’t encounter an armed victim.

An NC family was the victim of a home invasion last week, that ended in a shootout between the grandfather, and three home invaders. The grandfather was shot 8 times, and one of the bad guys died. The other two home invaders were also shot.

A Minnesota woman somehow found out that a man local to her has a CCW permit, and walks his daughters to school. She decided that this just can’t be, and has posted a sign in her yard with a picture of the man that says “This man carried a loaded gun around your children every day”.

One of the most common questions that Ben and I get from people interested in competitive shooting is about what division they will shoot in with their particular pistol. It seems that there’s an abundance of concern placed on getting into the correct division for their first match, and when it comes down to it, it doesn’t really matter what division you shoot in for your first match, because the chances that you will be competitive in the match are very slim.

Andrew Branca is offering a coupon code for Triangle Tactical listeners for his new Law of Self Defense webinars. Use the code “TT” when signing up for the webinars and get $10 off. More here.

A feminist video game critic cancelled her appearance at a Utah university after receiving massacre threats. That’s the headline we’ve seen all over the internet, and it’s not wrong, but it’s not telling the whole story either. She did apparently receive some baseless threats, but she really cancelled her appearance at the university after the campus police refused to ban concealed carry during the event. Utah law doesn’t allow the police to do so, and they decided to follow the law.

People in Chicago are opposing the opening of an indoor shooting range because it’s within a mile of a school – like bullets radiate out of indoor ranges in all directions creating unsafe conditions from people in all directions…

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Last week Ben was out in Utah for the 2014 USPSA Handgun Nationals, so this week on the podcast he gives us a nice rundown of the match, and what it was like working as a range officer at the biggest match out there.

Cody Wilson from Defense Distributed has debuted a CNC machine in a box that finished 80% AR-15 lower receivers. It’s called the “Ghost Gunner”, and it’s awesome.

NC Commissioner of Agriculture Steve Troxler is stating that he will post the NC State Fair against concealed carry because he believes there is “gray area” in the law.

350 CCW Permit holders in SC are having their permits revoked after it was found that their instructor wasn’t teaching the state mandated course. I’m unsure if he was just taking cash and issuing completion certificates, or if his course just varied from what the state mandates.

Recently Australian police broke up a ring of Al Qaeda ISIS terrorists who were planning to head out into public and behead people at random. Late last week a man went into his former workplace where he had been recently fired, and beheaded one woman, and was attacking a second before he was shot by the COO of the company. News is still breaking with details on the case, but both of these incidents have me really evaluating my CCW rig. The weather is cooling off a bit, and having a little bigger gun, with more ammo would be a more comforting for the type of situation mentioned above. I’m thinking I may grab a Gen4 Glock 19 to throw back into the CCW rotation for the winter months with a spare mag, and a leather pancake holster.

Ruger has been killing it with new products. The LC9s and Gunsite Scout rifle in .223 didn’t really do it for me, but since those announcements they have announced that they will be making their Ruger American line of bolt action rifles in left handed models, the Ruger American Ranch in .223 and .300 Blackout (possibly the best out of the box deer rifle there is), and the Ruger LCR in 9mm. I don’t know why I wan a 9mm LCR so bad, but I do.

A Wilmington, NC man was selling a gun on Craigslist (or was it Armslist?) and when he met the buyer, the buyer took the rifle, and pointed it back at the seller. The seller, knowing the rifle was unloaded drew his concealed pistol, and ordered the men down onto the ground while he ran to safety and called the police.

Shaneen Allen will be receiving pre-trial intervention and avoiding a prison sentence. I wasn’t too interested in this case until I saw that an NC resident was arrested for the same thing as her, and was looking at a much lighter punishment than what they were trying to do to her.

Episode 28 of 2AToday – They talk about gun rights for the blind, something that I hadn’t really thought about before.

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