Women of USPSA interviews Rob Leatham, this year’s Springfield Armory/USPSA Single stack Nationals Champion. It is the last in a series of interviews with the top 5 shooters from the event.
The Steel Challenge Shooting Assn. announced that firearms maker Springfield Armory, optics maker ADCO and custom shotgun barrel maker Vang Comp Systems will all be gold level sponsors of the 2010 Steel Challenge.
For some, the word bodyguard conjures up the mental image of a hulking brute in an ill-fitting suit just waiting to pound someone into a pile of goo. In the world of private security, however, the opposite is almost equally true. A bodyguard is also light and agile and oriented toward avoiding conflict, but still [...]
This past weekend just north of Indianapolis, over 200 shooters got together to shoot the Indiana USPSA Section Championship Match. This is the largest Section match in USPSA and attracts top flight grandmasters from surrounding states. This year, I was among the shooters at the match running the Ruger SR9c as a part of the [...]
Michael Bane has been on vacation, but despite the rumors, he did not go to Italy. Question is…. are we now talking about a major boycott of Italian wine or maybe a desire to follow through when shooting flying pizzas with a Beretta A400 Xplor Light? Reference Links: Beretta Firearms Ruger® SR9c™ Named 2010 “Handgun [...]
This week Michael returns from vacation in a melancholy mood after spending too much time with Charlie Brown and Snoopy. Luckily, he has a major interview with TBD co-host Rob Pincus to wile away the lonely minutes…also, some thoughts on training and the path to mastery. Listen here: Down Range Radio Sponsor: Ruger Firearms * [...]
A couple weeks ago they held the Wyoming State Steel Challenge. And while the turnout wasn’t huge – Steel Challenge is still expanding beyond Piru – it did draw a good crowd with lots of enthusiasm.
Southport, CT July 30, 2010 – Sturm, Ruger & Co., Inc. (NYSE:RGR) is proud to announce that a Ruger® handgun has been named the Shooting Industry Academy of Excellence “Handgun of the Year” for the third straight year. The Ruger SR9c™, the first line extension in the SR9® striker-fired pistol, is the compact version of [...]
Puyallup, WA (July 22, 2010) Blade-Tech Industries, the leading manufacturer of custom thermoplastic and injection molded tactical holsters, knife sheaths and magazine pouches, introduces the Eclipse Series pancake style holster. Your gun is an investment and your holster should be too. Going with a cheap, one-size-fits-all nylon holster doesn’t make sense. The Eclipse is constructed [...]
This week I am spending a couple of days in Mansfield, PA supporting the NRA’s Youth Hunter Education Challenge (YHEC). This is an amazing event bringing together nearly 400 children from the ages of 8 to 18 from almost 20 states as far away as Oregon and New Mexico. Participants must have a completed a [...]
