It’s December…Have You Been to An Outdoor Range Lately?

By Johannes Paulsen

We firearms owners who aren’t fortunate enough to live in one of the southerly settlements of the American Republic like Phoenix, Austin, or, say, Charlotte Amalie, typically go into “winter training mode” when the temperatures dip below freezing and snowflakes start to fall. In the best-case scenario, “winter training mode” meaning going exclusively indoors, where one sets up in a single stall and shoots at flat paper targets between 10 and 50 yards, with rules governing how and when a firearm can be drawn from a holster, and no ability to move while shooting. In the worst-case scenario, “winter training mode” actually means sitting in an arm chair with a remote control in one hand, a beer in the other, and the closest thing to firearms or self-defense being the shotgun formation on the TV . . .

Anyone in the snowbelt who carries a firearm when they go beyond the wire needs to devote a bit of time to training to draw, present, and fire that sidearm while wearing their winter gear. From what I’ve heard, gun fights occasionally take place in cold snowy weather, too. If all of your self-defense practice has been done while wearing …Read the Rest

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