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The 3 Most Common Safety Violations At The Gun Range

By Jacob Paulsen / September 26, 2025

Discover the three most common gun range safety violations—unsafe reholstering, poor muzzle direction, and lingering fingers—and how to avoid them.

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S8E3: SHOT Show 2023 RECAP

By Riley Bowman / February 10, 2023

Riley Bowman and Matthew Maruster recently returned from SHOT Show! In this episode we talk about all the cool new gadgets and gizmos we saw at the show, what we liked, what we didn’t, and what are some of the trends we can expect to see in 2023

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S8E2: “Can it be Used Against Me?” with Don West

By Riley Bowman / February 2, 2023

Today, Riley Bowman and Jacob Paulsen sit down with Don West, National Trial Counsel of CCW Safe, to discuss common ideas that people have about what can and cannot be used effectively against a person in a defense trial. Tune in!

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Should You Modify the Trigger of Your Everyday Carry (EDC) Gun?

By Matthew Maruster / August 22, 2022

For example, your firearm may come from the factory requiring 5.5 pounds of force on the trigger to fire a cartridge. Reducing the weight of the trigger pull to 3.5 pounds of pressure needed to fire the cartridge would make it easier to pull the trigger.

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Where Does the Glock E-Trainer Fit In Your Dry fire Training Strategy?

By Jacob Paulsen / May 24, 2022

Dryfire training is important but does the Glock E-Trainer do more harm than good? A quick look at the product that is getting everyone talking.

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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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Tyrant Designs – Brand New P320 Trigger Released

By Matthew Maruster / October 14, 2021

Tyrant Designs just announced that they are accepting pre-orders of their brand new Sig Sauer P320 trigger upgrade. Tyrant Designs CnC: The company is known for its machined and skeletonized…

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S3E13: The Physical SECRET to Becoming Both Fast AND Accurate

By Riley Bowman / September 2, 2021

Today, Riley Bowman and Matthew Maruster discuss the “secret” to being both accurate AND fast at shooting. We talk about one method for being able to develop the physical skill necessary to achieve this in dry fire practice, and this method was recently featured on the latest Shooter Ready Challenge.

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Trigger Reset Simplified : 3 (or More) Reasons Why Everything You Know About it is Probably Wrong

By Riley Bowman / July 28, 2021

A recent online post reminded me of something that I’ve sort of taken for granted. However, it wasn’t long ago that a discussion with a world-class shooter challenged and ultimately…

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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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Episode 463: Optimizing Performance Practically with AJ Zito

By Riley Bowman / December 10, 2020

Today, Riley Bowman interviews AJ Zito of Practical Performance to discuss methods and means we can enhance and optimize our training and performance in a way that’s practical. AJ is a USPSA Master shooter, as well as a multi-division Master in IDPA. He is an active competitive shooter, firearms instructor, and custom gunsmith specializing in 1911 and 2011 pistols. Plus he’s a great all-around guy, so tune in!

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Episode 449: The One Thing That’s Made All the Difference in my Shooting

By Riley Bowman / October 13, 2020

Riley Bowman and Jacob Paulsen reunite for a power-packed episode discussing the ONE THING that’s helped us level-up in our shooting. If you pretty well have grip and trigger control figured out, and you’re looking for that thing that’s still eluding you, this just might be the episode for you!

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Episode 447: [DEBATE] Gun Modifications and Upgrades

By Jacob Paulsen / October 1, 2020

Today we test a “Debate” Style format where we each take opposing sides of an issue. We start with something simple… gun modifications. The good and the bad.

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Apex Tactical Springfield Hellcat Trigger Review

By Joshua Gillem / September 3, 2020

The Springfield Armory Hellcat has received a mostly positive reception from the industry. Boasting very large capacity in a very small form with the elimination of the infamous grip safety,…

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All About Isolation of the Trigger Finger

By Joshua Gillem / August 25, 2020

I watched a video of someone who was clearly a new shooter this past weekend who had a serious case of over-gripping her gun. It was so bad I was…

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