Episodios

  • The Everyday Gunslinger: Starting the Path to Pistolero

    The Everyday Gunslinger: Starting the Path to Pistolero
    Jul 10 2024
    I've got a bit of a confession to make, and it's embarrassing. I'm not all that great with pistols. I'm not a bad pistol shooter, per se. But on balance, my pistol shooting lags way behind my rifle shooting. I think that's a problem, so let's talk about why I'm going to fix it.
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    15 m
  • Four Years from Friday: Approaching Your Training Life in Seasons

    Four Years from Friday: Approaching Your Training Life in Seasons
    Jun 11 2024
    Let's talk long term. Too many people think that success is just a few weeks or months away, when that is far from the truth. In reality, success is a culmination of long term effort often years in the making. In this piece, I take a little known two day challenge and show you how I would break it down into a series of seasons and blocks that could be repeated over and over again, always driving closer and closer to success.
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    32 m
  • Thinking Beyond the Drill, or the “Teaching to the Test” Fallacy

    Thinking Beyond the Drill, or the “Teaching to the Test” Fallacy
    May 15 2024
    I've got a little bit of a bone to pick with how a lot of the shooting culture talks about drills. Much like weight lifting and gym bro culture, it seems a lot of shooters are more interested in flexing their egos than actually using drills as a way to improve. But how, exactly, should we approach that?
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    19 m
  • Starting From Scratch, a Beginner’s Guide to a Basic Armory

    Starting From Scratch, a Beginner’s Guide to a Basic Armory
    Apr 11 2024
    There's been a question floating around the web that I wanted to take a poke at. If you were advising someone on how to start their own "serious" arsenal, what would be your suggestions? In what priority order? HEre's my answer.
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    24 m
  • Prioritizing Your Marksmanship Training Zones

    Prioritizing Your Marksmanship Training Zones
    Feb 14 2024
    My recent post on establishing a fitness hierarchy made me realize that I need to do the same thing for marksmanship training. So here we are. Today I'm discussing my breakdown for prioritizing training distances and my reasoning for them.
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    21 m
  • Transformation Requires Sacrifice and Other Uncomfortable Facts

    Transformation Requires Sacrifice and Other Uncomfortable Facts
    Jan 10 2024
    In the last episode, I mentioned something called the homeostasis problem. It's a way of viewing why big changes in life are so difficult to make. It was going to be a large aside in that article, so much so that I decided it was worth its own post. So here we are: the homeostasis problem.
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    12 m
  • The Martial Marksman Mindset: A Deeper Dive

    The Martial Marksman Mindset: A Deeper Dive
    Nov 29 2023
    Mindset is one of the core topics of The Everyday Marksman, and it's one of the four corners in our pyramid of performance, but I've never planted a flag in the ground about what exactly I mean by, "Mindset." So let's fix that.
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    18 m
  • The Martial Marksman’s Training Philosophy: Simple, Not Easy

    The Martial Marksman’s Training Philosophy: Simple, Not Easy
    Oct 31 2023
    In the last episode, I discussed the Martial Marksman ideal and how it relates to the various topics I talk about here. One of the challenges that anyone going down this path quickly runs into is the fact that there is a lot of “stuff” to learn and practice. It’s one thing for a professional soldier to do these things, but it’s a very different beast for Everyday Marksmen like you and I.
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    18 m