As instructors and influencers, we have a significant impact on what our students and followers perceive to be the “best” firearms for them. Most probably carry a similar gun to that of an instructor…

Years ago, my friend Steve Gilcreast instructed me to shoot a firearm at a target … holding the handgun upside down and manipulating the trigger with the middle finger of my non-dominant hand. A…

As an educator who spent many years in the “traditional classroom,” I couldn’t be more pleased to share — and support — National Train a Teacher Day (NTATD). This third annual event, officially…

Getting out to a shooting range is certainly fun. And for those of us who carry a firearm for self-defense, it is vital. Proper training and practice can literally be a matter of life and death.…

Girls compete with each other. Women empower one another. I really love that quote. There’s a powerful truth to those words that a good many of my female friends (now that we are “older and wiser”)…

A primary goal for any firearms instructor is improving a student’s performance. One of the best — but, unfortunately, often overlooked — ways to improve that performance is to fit the gun to the…

We all have limited time and money to spend on the range. That makes it critical that every round have a training value. If you have just one box of 50 rounds to fire each week at the range, here are…

A lot more people have been spending time at home recently. Perhaps you’re an independent contractor and always work from home. Maybe you are temporarily working at home or are furloughed. Maybe…

Mini red-dot sights (MRDS) have been around for some time in sport shooting and competition arenas but have only recently been seriously considered for personal defense on concealed carry firearms.…

Practicing in order to develop shooting skills is not only vital but also fun, which is why it never takes much encouragement to get most of us out to the gun range. But our ability to survive a…

A few weeks ago, my husband and I were demonstrating the “Tueller Drill” in the Women’s Introduction to Pistol class we were teaching. In this aptly named “21-Foot Drill,” we can show that an…

With a new administration firmly in office, it seems unlikely the ammo shortage brought on by a pandemic and civil unrest is going to end soon. Then there’s the sharp increase in new gun owners. The…