Available soon in Bluray, Magpul Dynamics presents “Art of the Tactical Carbine” (both Vol I & II). In addition to the 1080i remastering, there is some additional content including Vol 1 Bloopers and the fabled Lost Chris Costa Interviews.
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Art of the Tactical Carbine – Second Edition
Wednesday, November 16th, 2011StrikeMark Glass Holder
Tuesday, November 15th, 2011Once StrikeMark Targets released their affordable and extremely popular SM-1 target, one of the first things they set about to do was develop accessories to enhance the versatility of the system. Initially StrikeMark released a stand and now they have produced a glass holder. It is useful for training shooters to engage targets located behind windows or doors made of glass.
The new glass holder is designed to hold glass in a variety of shapes, sizes, thicknesses (up to 3/8″ thick and 18†wide), and at a wide range of angles. It is designed to mount to the target stand.
Visit strikemark.com/products/sm-glass-holder for more info.
Make Ready with Travis Haley: Adaptive Handgun
Friday, November 11th, 2011Panteao Productions presents the latest in their video series; Make Ready with Travis Haley: Adaptive Handgun. Veteran trainer Travis Haley built his handgun fighting program around mindset and skill. In this video, he’ll reveal his take on fundamental mechanics, break them down, and demonstrate them in a one-on-one setting. Travis also addresses failure points and problem solving in a clear and concise manner.
The DVD will begin shipping on November 30th with pre-orders beginning now. Visit the Panteao website at www.makeready.tv .
Costa Ludus
Tuesday, November 8th, 2011Sometimes you have to just sit on a good story until it’s time. About a week-and-a-half ago we posted an article about Chris Costa running a couple of courses solo for Falcon Ops Group. We had to play it off that it seemed “interesting” that he was doing it. The reality is that we knew he was leaving Magpul Dynamics to do his own thing somewhere around the beginning of the year.
Yesterday, Magpul Industries announced Chris Costa’s departure:
Chris Costa to Branch Out On His Own in 2012
Since 2007, Magpul Dynamics has trained thousands of professional and civilian shooters, and reached countless more through a comprehensive collection of instructional DVDs. With an emphasis on real world techniques, consistency, and efficiency, Magpul Dynamics has brought tactical instruction to the forefront of the shooting community. The application of these philosophies to high quality multimedia productions has helped propel the entire firearms training industry to new heights, garnering the attention of a larger audience than ever before.
The entire instructor cadre has been instrumental in the success of these endeavors, not the least of which has been Chris Costa. Chris will be moving on in early 2012 to pursue new projects within the industry, including his own training company. Magpul will continue to explore future opportunities to work with Chris, and looks forward to these projects. It has been a privilege to work with Chris for the last five years, and Magpul wishes him the best of luck in the future. The fundamentals of Reality, Consistency, and Efficiency that Chris helped instill are central to the entire Magpul Dynamics instructor cadre, and will continue to drive their training philosophy and mindset.
He will be moving on to run Costa Ludus. Ludus is the Latin word used in ancient Rome for a training school of Gladiators.
Updated: While the word Ludus is used to refer to a “gladiator school,” in Latin it is also used to refer to a school for learning the basics of a craft.
Military Times Gear Scout spoke to Costa about his new venture.
NATO Cold Weather Seminar
Monday, November 7th, 2011Hosted by the Centre of Excellence for Cold Weather Operations, the 2nd NATO cold weather seminar is from the 21st until the 23rd of November at the Norwegian Vinterskole in Oslo. This seminar’s theme is “Winter as a friend or foe.â€
According the Royal Norwegian Armed Forces COE-CWO, “The main audience is military winter and mountain instructors and officers on the tactical/ operational level that need a wider perspective in winter operations.”
Both Arc’teryx LEAF and Vertx will be on hand showing their cold weather gear and collecting info for future product development.
Here is a link to the conference report from the first iteration, earlier this year.
Travis Haley on Airsoft X Training
Friday, November 4th, 2011Travis Haley makes a compelling argument that airsoft has a place in a well rounded training regimen. Remember, if it’s a tool you are going to use, identify its limitations and use it to supplement rather than supplant live fire.
Zombie Targets from ZERO Heavy Industries
Friday, November 4th, 2011ZERO Heavy Industries isn’t a company that jumped on the “Zombie Bandwagon” to make a couple of quick bucks. On no, they recognized the Zombie menace from the git go and set up an entire company specifically to deal with the newest threat to our way of life.
In addition to full line of carbines, they’ve elected to produce a series of training aids. The Zombie targets are a full 23″ x 35″. Printed on 70 lb offset paper in full color on an earth tone background, using vegetable (soy) based inks. Additionally, there’s ample space to make notes in the margin. Heck, they’ve thought of everything. Even the environment. They print with vegetable (soy) based inks, and these targets are printed completely with wind-power credits. Available in packs of 3,6,12, or 24. Did we mention they are Made in USA!?
Look for an article on their line of Zombie neutralizing carbines soon, here on SSD.
BOLO Report – Zombie Outbreak to Test Ohio First Responders
Monday, October 31st, 2011The BOLO Report ran a story about how an Ohio county are running a training exercise using an innovative scenario to train first responders.
“More than 225 volunteers in Delaware County north of Columbus signed up to dress as zombies Monday in a drill for officials who would deal with real-life situations involving hazardous materials and disaster response. Emergency responders will test their capabilities as they use standard decontamination procedures to “treat†the zombies and make them “human†again during the exercise at Ohio Wesleyan University.”
Maybe they should reviewTactical Fanboy’s article before beginning their exercise.
Read the rest of the story at boloreport.com/zombie-outbreak-in-ohio-to-test-first-responders.
-Susan Reeder
