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Comprehensive List of Popular Dry-Fire Firearm Training Tools

By Jacob Paulsen / June 20, 2025

An overview of all the various training pistols, targets, cards, and other tools designed to enhance your dryfire training experience and results. There are as many dry fire techniques as there are products to support them!

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Comparing The 3 Dry Fire Gun Options

By Jacob Paulsen / June 24, 2022

I’m going to assume you’ve read one of the many pieces of content we have on our website explaining the importance of dry fire practice. If not, you cant check…

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S5E2: Dry Fire – 3 Challenges and 7 Solutions

By Riley Bowman / January 27, 2022

Riley Bowman and Jacob Paulsen talk about some of the challenges associated with dry fire practice and then propose a bunch of solutions for overcoming those. We can attribute obtaining much of our skill to regular, effective dry practice, now let’s make sure we’re doing it safely and maximizing our time doing it. Tune in!

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Own an AR-15? Check out the Blackbeard from Mantis

By Matthew Maruster / November 18, 2021

The Blackbeard AR-15 laser training device is relatively new to the market. However, it’s already dominating the competitive products in the space with its impressive features and performance. For those…

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Episode 498 – Rapid Fire with Bryan Eastridge

By Jacob Paulsen / April 22, 2021

Jacob asks Bryan a large number of questions and he has 1 minute or less to answer. Bryan is an active LEO in OK and the host of the Off Duty On Duty Podcast.

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How To Dry Fire A Glock: 3 Challenges, 7 Helpful Tools

By Jacob Paulsen / April 21, 2021

An analysis of 7 tools used to enhance dry fire with a Glock and the three specific problems we need to solve to have an effective dryfire session

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Review: The New Mantis Laser Academy

By Matthew Maruster / March 25, 2021

What is the Laser Academy from MantisX? Mantis Laser Academy is a laser, shot recording smartphone application with built-in training modes. The app is from the same well-known company that…

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LASR VS iDryfire – Software For Detecting Laser Shots in Dry Fire Practice

By Jacob Paulsen / January 10, 2020

In Pittsburgh last year at the USCCA Expo I was stopped at a booth as I walked past it. The man working the booth asked me to please try their…

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LASR VS Mantis X – Comparing These Training Tools

By Jacob Paulsen / August 6, 2019

How do these two popular firearm training tools stack up? What do they each bring to the table? Read now to understand the differences between MantisX and LASR and how you might choose between them.

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Handgun Lasers: The Good, The Bad, and the Ugly

By Eve Flanigan / November 29, 2018

Laser attachments are often a selling point for a new gun, as well as a pricey add-on that many people choose. Is a laser really superior to traditional sights including…

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Tactical Vs. ‘Tacti-cool’ : Lights on Your Everyday Carry Gun?

By Matthew Maruster / April 20, 2018

Gear that has traditionally be used by law enforcement and military, is becoming more popular amongst concealed carriers. A lot of this gear is absolutely beneficial to civilian concealed carriers, and some is more mission specific and probably best left for the specific needs of the military and law enforcement.

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LaserLyte VS SIRT Laser Training Pistols Review [VIDEO]

By Jacob Paulsen / December 18, 2017

A head to head matchup between the two most popular training pistol companies out there. There are some key pros and cons here that you need to be aware of before buying.

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Episode 162: Handgun Lights & Lasers – Part 2

By Riley Bowman / October 4, 2017

A podcast listener requested we give our take on lights and lasers for handguns. Jacob and Riley did their best to do so, but after an hour of just talking about the lights piece, they decided to break it up into 2 parts! Today they give the pros and cons and some important training considerations to think about, so don’t miss this episode to get everything you wanted and then some on lasers for your handgun.

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Episode 160: Handgun Lights & Lasers – Part 1

By Riley Bowman / September 29, 2017

A podcast listener requested we give our take on lights and lasers for handguns. Jacob and Riley did their best to do so, but after an hour of just talking about the lights piece, they decided to break it up into 2 parts! More to come obviously on the topic, but don’t miss this episode to get everything you wanted and then some on handheld and weapon mounted lights for your handgun.

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Interview with John Wallace – Founder of LASR – Laser Training Software

By Jacob Paulsen / August 13, 2015

This video recording of my interview with John is focused on telling the story of L.A.S.R. and getting to understand the upcoming and burgeoning industry of laser simulated training within the Firearm Training industry.

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