Excellent magazine this month!

I recieved my copy today and havent been able to put it down yet. As always Pat's article is top notch. I had been waiting for Scott Oldham's Surefire article. Nice to see the LaRue girl on the back cover Keep it up!

Thanks for the kind words! I like writing that type of article, and hope that it does some good for people.

Originally Posted By GreenRifle: I recieved my copy tody and havent been able to put it down yet. As always Pat's article is top notch. I had been waiting for Scott Oldham's Surefire article. Nice to see the LaRue girl on the back cover Keep it up!

I saw the girl, but for the life of me I did not see any LaRue gear advertised. I will have to look again...


Pat, I also just finished reading your article last night. I agree it was some good perspective on training mistakes (or lack of training mistakes) people make. The biggest mistake being not training, but it can be worse to train incorrectly. I'm looking forward to being able to take a carbine class from you at some point. Any plans to come train with Sully and Defensive Edge in the future?

Thanks again for an insightful article. Looking forward to more.

I want to third that. This issue is my first from you guys and I'm very impressed. Thanks for a great publication.

Thanks for the kind words. Sully is a friend and a great guy and does a terrific job teaching carbines.
MN is outside of my travel parameters. My plate is full going into 08 at places that are less difficult to reach, so my priorities will be to service those contracts that make my life easier and with less time away from home.
Sorry!

Thanks for the kind words on this month's issue.

I've been fortunate to have trained with both Pat and Sully. You can't go wrong with either of them.

"Two blind men will see about the same thing as two equally inept people bump firing into a lake."

SWAT = the best gun mag there is.

SWAT isn't a gun magazine, per se. It is more of an EVERYTHING magazine. The articles tend to vary widely in content, which is what makes the magazine so good. With regular pieces from folks like Jeff Randall, Louis Awerbuck, Pat Rogers, and more, the emphasis is not on guns and gear, it is on much more. Mindset, training, tactics. I can read any old "gun magazine" for articles on gear. There is no other magazine that I have found that has such quality contributions, filling the whole magazine, from so many quality instructors, EVERY MONTH.

If you don't have a subscription to SWAT, get one. If you don't have a woman who renews your subscription for Christmas, you can't have mine.

If you don't have a woman who renews your subscription for Christmas, you can't have mine.

Before I commit, kindly provide a picture and savings account statement.
Rich

Good reading cover to cover as usual...

...I particularly liked the Tax article. After having about 80% of everything I sunk into a 10 8 Carbine Course last fall get deducted on my taxes, I was very pleased. It's almost like getting to go train for free! All the more reason to train-I'll be going to a Shotgun Course this August, again w/ 10 8 and Rob Haught as the Instructor. Can't wait!

Of course, Pat's articles are the first read for me every month.

Keep up the good work!

SWAT is a thinking man's gun mag.

Just finished reading several articles out of this month's issue and I was very impressed, particularly with the shotgun article (really makes me want to train with that instructor) and with Pat Roger's self-training article.

Something that really struck me from Roger's article was his statement that people only train in the things they are already comfortable in. I paused for a moment and did some objective introspection after reading that line and determined that his point was an accurate one.

I never go the range to 'shoot', I go there to train. I don't do mag dumps, or shoot at the berms, or shoot TVs for fun or anything like that. I try to gain training value from every round I put downrange. Having said that, while I have practiced quite a few different drills in the past, my usual training session comes down to three drills - draw/fire from concealment, draw/fire at extreme close range (usually with some sort of palm or knee strike to the target beforehand), and reload drills. I'm pretty good at all three of those, so I end up focusing on those drills exclusively. I occasionally perform weak hand drills, shooting on the move, changing levels, etc - but not enough.

I'm going to start focusing on the things I have neglected now, and have my shooting partners critique me instead of just doing there own thing while I train on my own. It's not perfect, but it will lead to improvement in my opinion.

And of course, I need to sign up for more classes when I can.

Try some weak hand only drills for the entire day. Throw dummy rounds into all your mags. That will really expand your training effectiveness!

Never ASSUME was a good article. We have some new rookies comming out soon. It will be copied mentioned and the magazine will be floating around the squad room.

Our prisoners usually are patted by everyone they come in contact with. Never know when you or a partner is going to have that "off night".

Thanks and keep up the good work.

edit to add... Need to go back to the range and retest the pattern on the new Fed Tactical 00 Buck load.

This was an excellent issue...partly because my beautiful face is found on page 53.

Originally Posted By Pat_Rogers: Thanks for the kind words! I like writing that type of article, and hope that it does some good for people.

It does....

Sadly the people who need it most won't bother reading it.

Pat, I just wanted to say that your training article was excellent. I've attended about three pistol courses: two were local and one was at ITTS. Good classes, but it's been awhile since I attended those courses, and I haven't been shooting as much as I should. And when I do go to the range, I don't really have solid idea as to what I should be focussing on as the courses I have attended have been basic courses that really concentrated on the following: 1) front sight, trigger press, follow through, 2) presenation from CCW/training holster to engage targets at close, medium, and long range. I recently started to participate in my club's combat-type matches to get more trigger time, but I don't think this is reinforcing good habits. Although it was an eye opening experience the first time I competed: shooting at speed while surging with adreneline sure makes everything more difficult to excecute. I guess on some level there is a benefit to particpate in matches of these type, but without someone to correct the things I'm doing wrong I'm sure I'm only going to reinforce bad habits.

At any rate, what I would like to see would be an article on some fundamental/basic drills that I could follow in order to have a better sense of what I should really be concentrating on and to help create some continuity between courses. What say you, Pat? Would this be something you could possibly do? Or has it been covered? Thank you for your time.

Sorry for the delay Urban- i try not to visit here too often.
Thanks for the kind words. I appreciate your input, and have considered such an article.
Time is kind of tight now, but will try to get in finished when things slow down a tad.

Pat, I'm glad that this is something you are considering. Would be of great benefit to people that are serious about trying to improve their skills sets.

Another topic of interest that I think would be a great article for SWAT would be one on malfunction drills and how to execute the immediate action required to get the pistol going again. Plus, and explanation of the nomenclature used to describe the malfunctions, e.g., What does type 1, type 2, type 3 mean.

Thanks for your response and I look forward to reading the practice drill article sometime in the near future.

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