Nothing wrong with cheating
There have been moments in my training experience where I did have to speed up the process and get people in a position where they felt confident enough to have a firearm. I’m not talking about skipping safety, I’m talking about skipping the 1000rd experience on a firing range. I had a friend that was taking custody of a cousins baby while the baby’s mother went to drug rehab and the Father of the baby had recently gotten out of jail. That individual broke into the home of my friend and tried to steal the baby back. Sound crazy? It’s actually true and although she had some level of firearm experience, I didn’t expect to teach her how to disassemble and reassemble a Glock, but I did want her to know how to clear a malfunction.
She asked about putting a laser on a gun and I paused for a moment and asked her if she wanted one, she said yes, so I told her what to get. She felt comfortable shooting a Sig 230 with a Crimson trace laser grip and that’s all I needed to know. She put one box of ammo through it and had the right mindset to protect herself and I was done. This wouldn’t have been ideal for many people, but while she planned on moving out of the area, she was unarmed and we all know what the police will tell you to do, buy a gun.
Hogue grips are molded from a synthetic rubber that will help you keep your grip during rapid fire or slow fire engagements. There are other options for replacing your factory grips on semi-autos and revolvers. Remember that it is normal to have to customize a firearms grips because all of us are not the same, and one way to improve our accuracy, and shooting skills is to customize a firearm to our particular tastes. You may want to think about this the next time you go to a gun shop and check out the same model firearm, but with different grips.
Which gun is best for CCW? Which caliber is better than X? 9mm Vs. 45acp, which has more stopping power? I’ve been shooting guns for decades and carrying for close to 30yrs. I remember the early days when I was carrying a full size 1911 because I expected the worst and wanted the biggest possible gun I owned to be on me 24/7. As the years went by I got more involved in reloading bullets for handguns and then I started to notice the differences from caliber to caliber. I was amazed at the number of guns that are being used nowadays that all shoot the same bullet, but at different velocities.