by Michael de Bethencourt | Sep 18, 2025 | Blog
I had a chance today to do what I enjoy more than any other free time pastime, snub training. Today I swapped out one of the many five shot .35 I usually practice with for a classic two-inch m10 revolver. I picked the six shot S&W snub because I wanted to get in...
by Michael de Bethencourt | Sep 15, 2025 | Blog, Mike Boyle, Range Drills, Shooting Drills
Fast Pace Shooting with a Snub or Pocket Pistol Introduction: Given enough time, most of us can shoot our preferred carry piece with a fair degree of precision. But can we do it at speed? Unlike the practice range, a real life encounter would require you to put...
by Michael de Bethencourt | Sep 15, 2025 | Uncategorized
Seductive Lies, a GatZette Code… One of the foundation stories of Noir, “The Heart of Darkness” by Joseph Conrad, was first published in 1899 in serial form and then in book form in 1902. About 80 years later, the story came to disturbing modern life in 1979 as a...
by Michael de Bethencourt | Sep 15, 2025 | Blog, de Bethencourt
Gun writer and former Secret Service special agent Walter Rauch is credited with publicizing the importance of religiously checking the firing condition of your self-defense gun any time it has been out of your hands. I thought that this suggestion was so valuable...
by Michael de Bethencourt | Sep 11, 2025 | Blog, de Bethencourt, Range Drills, Shooting Drills
Left a sportsmen’s club meeting two evenings ago and once again I have to marvel at how ignorant I am. In the course of a conversation on handgunning I suggested that a serious gun owner is required to invest in a smaller caliber version of his favorite carry...