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DESIGNATED TRAINING GUNS
DESIGNATED TRAINING GUNS
WHEN IT COMES TO FIREARMS TRAINING, MANY OF US DEDICATED TO THE DISCIPLINE WILL SPEND HOURS
ON THE RANGE SENDING HUNDREDS IF NOT THOUSANDS OF ROUNDS DOWN RANGE EACH MONTH. SADLY, IT IS
A HARD FACT THAT MOST WILL NOT SPEND JUST AS MUCH TIME OFF THE RANGE HANDLING OUR FIREARMS,
WORKING ON BASIC FUNDAMENTALS SUCH AS DRY FIRING OR MORE ADVANCED TECHNIQUES SUCH AS
MOVEMENT OR WEAPON RETENTION DRILLS. ONE OF THE PRIMARY EXCUSES FOR NOT DOING SO IS SAFETY.
While we are off the range in the
classroom and at home much more
than on the range, safety concerns
of long term wear on your firearm
while dry firing thousands of cycles,
accidental discharge or damage to
your firearm from pushing yourself
past the fail point to get better are
all valid concerns. This is the perfect
opportunity for shooters to make
invaluable investments into their
skillset improvement by purchasing designated training guns.
For this issue, we take a look at two specific companies and
their products that are clear leaders in the training firearm
industry, the SIRT by Next Level Training (NLT) and the military
/ law enforcement classic Red Guns by Armament Systems &
Procedures, better known to the industry as ASP.
These two great options offer a variety of different
benefits at varying price points to help shooters to improve
off the range and make the most of their time and investment
on the range as well!
SIRT BY NEXT LEVEL TRAINING
With striker fired pistols such as the Glock 80% of the world’s
shooting population, the slide must be manually cycled to
reset the trigger each time it is dry fired, which may cause
the shooter the bad habit or “training scar” to break from
their master grip during live fire in order to subconsciously
try to cycle the slide as they would in dry fire practice.
Fortunately for the majority of the industry’s shooters today,
the SIRT pistol is one product that will NOT do the hard work
and time invested for you, but WILL give you the means to be
able to make your time off the range just as valuable as the
time spent with live fire.
SIRT is an acronym for “Shot Indicating Reset Trigger” pistol
produced by Next Level Training ( www.NextLevelTraining.
com ). The company is headed up by SIRT inventor, CEO Mike
Hughes. For those who followed television’s reality shooting
show, TOP SHOT on the History Channel, may remember Mike
as the season 3 finalist cutting the Superman-like physique
and square jaw. Mike originally invented the SIRT pistol as
self-diagnostic tool to improve his shooting through laser
feedback.
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