by Michael de Bethencourt | Mar 25, 2025 | Blog, Mike Boyle, Range Drills, Shooting Drills
Objective: The shooter must balance speed and practical accuracy when firing the combat shotgun on multiple targets. A smooth, safe transition to the handgun will also be considered. Targets: 3 cardboard negative IPSC, T1-T3 (or similar). Targets spaced 4 feet apart....
by Michael de Bethencourt | Mar 25, 2025 | Blog, de Bethencourt, De-Coder mystery
This week’s de-coder puzzle: SLR TWDP YDXP L QHSC SXXP N L SXO L YLQQ ZLQQ N LM CDX UNPXA ALP’C DXHR BA UNPOA; HQQ WM LC ANRS CRNQA, GG E-mail your solution to Michael@SnubNoir.com. All correct solution should be collected before March 4, 2025 and a winner...
by Michael de Bethencourt | Mar 20, 2025 | Blog, de Bethencourt
Equipment Last and least on our Mindset list is equipment. Choosing a specific snub model or an appropriate aftermarket feature is only important after the issues of mindset, tactics and skills have been thoroughly attended to. I have my own theories about the ideal...
by Michael de Bethencourt | Mar 19, 2025 | Blog, Mike Boyle, Range Drills, Shooting Drills
Objective: This drill is designed to assess practical marksmanship and basic operational skills with the combat shotgun. Ammunition Required: 10 rounds of buckshot Target: Negative IPSC with the A-zone cut away Begin Exercise: Phase One @ 15 yards- Combat load one...
by Michael de Bethencourt | Mar 6, 2025 | Blog, Claude Werner
r “Sounded like a cap pistol when it went off. Old ‘R-P’ (Remington) nickel cased, factory ball round. I immediately recalled the Range Command speaker crackling from some forty years ago with the ‘Pop and no kick’ warning [and so I didn’t fire another round].” A...
by Michael de Bethencourt | Mar 4, 2025 | Blog, Mike Boyle, Range Drills, Shooting Drills
An “old school” test for snub revolvers Objective: This course is designed to measure marksmanship potential with a snub revolver. Rounds Needed: 30 Target: Two silhouettes with a realistic size, high value scoring area Begin Exercise: Load with at least 5 rounds and...
by Michael de Bethencourt | Feb 28, 2025 | Blog, de Bethencourt, De-Coder mystery
This week’s de-coder puzzle comes from our good friend Jerry Amstutz. Jerry shares with us the following: When I was an MP in the US Army in Frankfort during the early 1980’s, I was dispatched to an assault upon a young lieutenant that had just recently arrived...
by Michael de Bethencourt | Feb 26, 2025 | Blog, Mike Boyle, Range Drills, Shooting Drills
Objective: The shooter must demonstrate the ability to fire an accurate shot in a compressed time frame without hitting the “friendly” in close proximity to the threat. Targets: Rifle grade steel steel silhouette (T1) and balloon (T2). No shoot (NS1) can be paper,...
by Jason Chandonnet | Feb 25, 2025 | Blog, Training, Videos, Weekly Training Tips
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by Michael de Bethencourt | Feb 21, 2025 | Blog, de Bethencourt
Small bookkeeping item. We send every new member and renewal Snub Noir member, in additional to his new member welcome letter, and invitation to add is shooting score to our seventeen round EZ Qualifier, his Snub Noir message decoder. Currently, the de-coder is...
