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WITH YOUR PALMS FACING AWAY, RAISE your hands to eye level and extend your arms. Rotate your wrists inward, allowing the fingers of one hand to overlap the other, stacking [...]

I know PeoPle who are vastly knowledgeable about cameras, know all the specs in minute detail and can discourse about various features for hours but hardly take a picture. I [...]

Many students at Gunsite comment on how we emphasize the small details throughout a class. Students pay good money for tuition, ammo, travel, lodging, meals, etc., so it only makes [...]

Like a kid choking down broccoli, we know dry-fire training is good for us, but that doesn't mean we like it or partake in it as often as we should. [...]

Double-action revolvers are the rednecks of the gun race: loud, powerful, frequently big and reliable in a 'git 'er done' kind away. I've been dragging a double-action of one description [...]

IT'S QUITE SATISFYING TO PRESS THE trigger on your handgun and have the bullet impact precisely where you were aiming. In fact, this feeling is what keeps most shooters returning [...]

Tactical shooting is like musical chairs; where one is when the music stops is important. For the officer on patrol, maintaining a mindset of identifying and using cover is prudent [...]

THERE IS A NEW KIND OF INSTRUCTOR WORKING IN THE FIREARMS-TRAINING ARENA THAT I LIKE TO CALL 'RESEARCH GURUS.' THESE FOLKS HAVE LITTLE PRACTICAL EXPERIENCE FACING ANY REAL DANGER, BUT [...]

Aprecision shooter must be able to make a shot under any condition. This means any weather, angle, distance or timeframe. Shooters also should be able to deliver accurate fire after [...]

The Gunsite Training Ranch offers some of the best firearm instruction in the world. The ranch is a modern training facility covering 2,000 acres where there are 27 different purpose-built ranges for classes, including six outdoor and six indoor simulators, and a variety of ranges with moving targets.

A real rifleman is a person who can cope with any weather conditions that are offered by Mother Nature. A clear, calm day, temperature 72 degrees, with a low sun behind are the ideal conditions for shooting, but variations are most likely to take place and have to be dealt with.

The resurgence of the popularity of bullseye pistol shooting lies in the relaxed atmosphere of the competition, which emphasizes shooting accuracy without any time pressure. The advent of red-dot sights, as well as the low cost of equipment in the sport, adds to the lure of this type of shooting.

Few handgunners are lucky enough to shoot as much as they would like to. For many, particularly city dwellers, just getting to the nearest range or legal shooting area can [...]

THIS DRILL WILL HELP YOU IMPROVE your draw speed and target transitions--along with reloading skills and sight picture and trigger control. It also reinforces the importance of controlling the gun's [...]

THIS DRILL WILL HELP YOU IMPROVE your draw speed and target transitions--along with recoil mitigation, and sight picture and trigger control. This is a great one to force you to [...]

Rimfire squirrel sniping when it's still hot enough to skinny-dip requires serious rifle skills. At best, you'll have just aglimpse of a squirrel's head to aim at and no margin [...]

THE BEST DRILLS ARE THE SIMPLEST, and it doesn't get any simpler than this one. But at the same time it combines almost every skill a defensive handgunner needs. I [...]

I'M SURE THIS IS SOMEBODY'S OFFICIAL drill or is a derivation of one, but it's an exercise I came up with one day when I had a limited amount of [...]

HERE'S THE SITUATION. YOU HAVE YOUR CONCEALED carry permit, bought a pistol, and decided which tactical loads work best. Now you need practice ammunition so you can really get to [...]

FAST HANDGUN SIGHTS * Recently I have seen a lot in print about hip shooting, point shooting, instinct shooting ... a thorn by any other name. That is the technique [...]

THIS VERSION OF THE BILL DRILL IS PROMOTED by Kyle DeFoor, and it's great for people who have mastered the fundamentals but want to shoot faster with accuracy. It will [...]

Byline: JOHN B. SNOW YOUR HEART IS POUNDING AND YOU NEED TO SHOOT NOW. HERE'S HOW YOU DO IT You crest the hill and there it is. Standing broadside 200 [...]

Byline: Ralph Carlson FIVE WAYS TO SCORE DURING THE RUT'S PEAK Steve snow doesn't sugar-coat the difficulties of hunting the peak breeding period, which many people refer to as the [...]

Byline: Philip Bourjaily How not to miss an unexpected flush A gamebird flushing underfoot can wreck your composure. There's no reason to miss when a sudden flush startles us, but [...]

Byline: Philip Bourjaily FOUR (LEGAL) WAYS TO IMPROVE YOUR AVERAGE NEXT MONTH Opening day of dove season is nigh. Soon, your shooting skills will be on display for all to [...]

Byline: Philip Bourjaily DON'T JUST PRACTICE THIS SUMMER--GET FAMOUS If you shoot clay targets purely to warm up for hunting season, you might think the only way you could ever [...]

Byline: Philip Bourjaily HOW TO HIT THE HARDEST SHOTS Sporting clays targets don't all duplicate live birds and rabbits. Some curl through the air. Others bounce, blast straight up, or [...]

Byline: Bill Heavey He is on the back side of 70, with a farm boy's jug ears and a slight stoop from arthritis. But archery coach Terry Wunderle still moves [...]

Byline: Philip Bourjaily KIM RHODE HAS A BUNCH OF BLOND hair, long, white-lacquered nails, bangles on her wrist, and bite marks on her arm courtesy of her pet iguana. She [...]

Byline: Sam Fadala Here's a device that will help you more easily start your campfire. Buy an 18-inch-long neoprene tube and a 3-inch piece of copper piping of a diameter [...]

Byline: David E. Petzal Q: Why do some whitetail deer end up with nontypical racks? A: Genetics, injury, and food supply all play a part. I've seen deer with massive, [...]

Building the perfect training shotgun EVERYONE FACES IT SOMETIME. Your wife, girlfriend, son, daughter, or neighbor's kid wants to learn to shoot a shotgun. You check your vault, and what […]

When It Comes To Bowhunting Practice Punching Paper Will Take You Only So Far 'How could I have missed an animal the size of an elk at 15 yards? I [...]

Most shooting ranges are not set up for the purpose of patterning shotguns. Range managers don't want their target stands and backers peppered with shot and I can't blame them. [...]

I'm continually running across new, fun targets for rimfire plinking. The latest is a collection of brightly colored targets from Newbold. The targets are made of self-sealing Elastimax elastomer. When [...]

Empty cola cans aren't ideal targets for rimfire plinking. Bullets often pass through the thin aluminum shell without even moving the can. When the shooting's over, you're left with a [...]

Want to impress your friends by busting thrown targets with your .22 rifle or handgun? The recipe is simple. All you need is a .22 firearm, an assortment of water-filled [...]

RELOADING IN A PERSONAL DEFENSE pistol fight is a rare event, but the truth is, if you run out of ammo in a pistol fight, you need to reload real [...]

CREATED BY TODD GREEN OF Pistol TRAINING.COM, this drill is intended to help shooters learn to change speeds as the situation requires. GEAR Gun, holster, four-plus rounds of ammo, shot [...]

THE THREE-SECOND HEAD SHOT STANDARD was created by instructor Ken Hackathorn as a test of essential pistol shooting skills. It teaches target transition as well as front sight focus and [...]

THIS DRILL WAS DESIGNED BY TEAM SIG Sauer shooter and former member of the U.S. Army Marksmanship Unit Max Michel and has found great popularity with both competition and defensive [...]

I'VE SHOT AT A WIDE VARIETY OF targets over the years. Some were just paper plates; others were elaborate, electronically controlled human torsos capable of life-like movement. Each type has [...]

'Don't believe the playing field will be level when you're attacked. Conditions will be most advantageous to your attacker, and you will be most vulnerable.'--Kelly McCann THE PRECEDING QUOTE BY [...]

THIS DRILL WAS ORIGINALLY SHARED with me by John Benner of the Tactical Defense Institute as a basic trigger-control drill. The beauty of it is its simplicity and the fact [...]

THIS IS NOT AN OFFICIAL DRILL TAUGHT at the Gunsite Academy, although it did stem from a gun writer event I attended there. I noticed a number of shooters had [...]

THIS DRILL WAS DESIGNED BY MASTER instructor Ken Hackathorn to refine essential skills such as deployment of the pistol from ready and holster positions, trigger control, sight alignment/sight picture and [...]