The Safety Solutions Academy Podcast
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In episode 0329 we discussed why it is that we may want to choose a handgun for defense. A handgun has many positive attributes including:
In today’s podcast going to take some time to discuss the specific attributes of handguns and why some are better for home defense than others.
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When it comes to choosing the best defensive firearms we need to spend some time working to understand why we make the choices that we make so that we can make the best decisions.  Too often our choices are based on poor advise, misunderstanding, misallocation of resources, history or tradition.  Instead, we need to base our decision off of sound information.  After all we are making a high stakes decision when we talk about defensive firearms.
0329 - Considerations in Selecting the Best Defensive Firearm [ 17:54 ] Play Now | Play in Popup | Download (999)
Trigger control can be an issue for many shooters when it comes to precision and shooting. Although there can be a hyper-focus on precision in defensive shooting, it is an issue that needs to be addressed. Getting the hit when the target dictates precision based on size or distance is a complex motor skill that requires the defensive shooter to maintain proper sight alignment and sight picture while pressing the trigger to the rear. Any deviation in the sights during the trigger press results in deviation on the target. Too much deviation and the shot is a miss. Many people believe that the proper solution to this issue is dry fire practice and to some degree they are correct. The issue with dry firing, however, is that there is very little feedback to the shooter. Thousands of rounds of dry fire practice isn’t going to help you if what you are doing is WRONG! Today we will take a look at how the products that LaserLyte produces can give you the quality feedback you need to help make your dry fire practice more efficient.
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For everything there is a tipping point. Malcolm Gladwell wrote about the concept in his book The Tipping Point. I have to wonder if we aren’t nearing a tipping point when it comes to optics on defensive handguns. From a historic perspective, when we look at rifles used in combative situations there was a point of no return where red dots caught fire. When was the last time you saw an AR-15 without a dot? In that application, the red dot sight is more efficient than irons and the issues that made dots problematic in the beginning have largely been mitigated by technology.
So the question is: Where is that tipping point for dots on handguns? Has the battery life, the size of the optic, its reliability and durability reached a point where the balance tips to the advantage of speed and precision at distance? Are there other factors that we don’t even understand yet that may make red dots problematic?
These are the questions that I am interested in answering and of course, the way to do it is to jump in and study then procure and test an optic. The Trijicon RMR is one of the premire optics to mount on a handgun and Trijicon is who I am asking questions of. Click on play and listen in!
0314 - Trijicon RMR Ready for Defensive Pistols or Not? an Interview with Trijicon's Nick at NASGW [ 18:57 ] Play Now | Play in Popup | Download (760)
