Sunday, August 10, 2014

Sunday Thought 8/10/14

Just a quick thought today as I already pushed out a decent review of the Griffon Industries HMMS.

Speaking of gear and equipment, particularly with the AR15 platform and variants and then handguns my piece of advice would be this:

Don't be in a rush to add the latest tacti-COOL piece of hardware or upgrade to your weapon.  The fundamentals never change.

I am firm advocate of training to use your AR15 with iron sights before learning how to shoot with an optic.  If you can fight effectively with just irons, then when you "upgrade" to a red dot or holosight, that's just icing on the cake to take your mastered fundamentals to the next level.

Same with handgun upgrades.  Unless you bought a brick like a Hi-Point, there really isn't anything you should be gunning to upgrade at once except for sights on a handgun, especially the Glock.  Stock sights on a Glock should be upgraded at the time your buy your Glock.  That's about the only caveat to gear.

Triggers, optics, barrels (for handguns) should only be explored after you have a firm grasp of the fundamentals and make a stock gun run.  After that the upgrades become enhancements and not crutches.

Train Hard, Train Often.

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