This Sunday, August 9th, Leslie Buck and Ernie Ballarta will be offering a one day Edged Weapon Defense class at Leslie's martial arts school. Sign up direct through Tactical Arts Academy.
Tom Schaefer will be offering his Beginner Pistol class August 15th. It is a small group course focused on .22 pistols.
We're offering our Handgunning: Beyond the Basics course on August 22. This course covers material not included in the Defensive Pistol Skills 1 and 2 classes. This course focuses on teaching techniques for improving speed on close targets and accuracy on longer targets. The skills taught in this course are essential to anyone competing in IPSC, IDPA or Steel Challenge style competitions.
We will also be offering our usual monthly CHL new permit and CHL renewal courses.
Check our main page or schedule page for more class details.
On Sept 11-13 we will be hosting Tom Givens of Rangemaster and "Southnarc" of Shivworks for a 2.5 day, 20 hour combined skills course that will teach handgun, unarmed and knife skills. If you are one of the people who keeps asking me "when will you run another AT weekend?", this class is for you. It is very similar in format to an AT weekend with roughly equal emphasis on gun skills and tactics/unarmed/knife training. Tom and Southnarc are only running 2 of these classes in the US this year. This is a very special training opportunity that we highly recommend for graduates of our Defensive Pistol Skills courses and anyone at or beyond the CHL level. Cost is $400. We still have slots available in this course.
The Austin Lone Star Practical Pistol Club will be hosting a USPSA Pistol match this Sunday at the Austin Rifle Club located in Manor, Texas. The match will consist of five stages with an approximate round count of 125 rounds. The signup begins 9:30 am and the shooting starts at around 10:00 am. They are anticipating many new shooters so it may take a little longer to get started. Seasoned shooters please plan to be at the match to help new shooters. New shooters should bring 200 rounds, a handgun 9mm/.38 or larger caliber, a belt holster, 3-4 spare magazines or speedloaders, magazine pouches to carry the spare magazines in, and eye and ear protection. Match setup begins at 7:30 am, please make every effort to be there to help. For more information: www.alsppc.org
The NRA has created a new website designed to help Instructors manage their courses. The site address is www.nrainstructors.org
The Austin Lone Star Practical Pistol Club has scheduled a Range Officers Class Sep 26-27 at the Austin Rifle Club. Cost is $55. The class will run from 8:30am to 5pm on Saturday, and from 9:00am till around noon on Sunday. All attendees of the class are required to be members of or sign up for USPSA prior to the start of the class. Attendees are required to have their own copy of the current USPSA rule book. A small number will be available at the class for those who have lost their originals. Plan to shoot one stage on Sunday, so bring your normal match equipment and about 50 rounds of ammo. For information contact Jim Bennett.
The Central Texas match schedule has been updated to show new ranges and match dates for area clubs running pistol matches. https://krtraining.com/FAQs/Central%20Texas%20Match%20Schedule.htm
As expected, having teachers carrying concealed guns to school has resulted in no problems in the small Texas town that allowed it.
http://www.reporternews.com/news/2009/aug/06/packed-for-school/
BSA Troop 878 is looking for certified instructors to assist with their upcoming Annual Turkey shoot. If you are in the Spring, TX area and are willing to assist, contact Tom Millikin.
The August 2009 eJournal is up on their website http://www.armedcitizensnetwork.org/Network_8-2009.pdf
Some engineers over at National Instruments in Austin having fun with accelerometers sensing bullets hitting drywall to make a "real gun" user input device for first person shooter games.
http://waterloolabs.blogspot.com/2009/08/fps-with-real-guns-episode-02.html
regards,
Karl, Penny and the KR Training crew