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Zackary Scott

An Alarming Trend - Women Are Shooting - Aegis Academy - 0 views

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    An Alarming Trend - Women Are Shooting takes a look at the various reasons for 'the rising trend' of female shooters in the firearms world. The professional firearms instruction community is indeed witnessing more and more women of all demographics arming themselves in America. Female graduates of defensive firearms training from all over the country, provides a means of leveling the playing field, ensuring personal safety, and a sense of being in control. So when a predator hunting for his next victim, may cause him to realize that he may be the one in harm's way. Read article for more.
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    An Alarming Trend - Women Are Shooting takes a look at the various reasons for 'the rising trend' of female shooters in the firearms world. The professional firearms instruction community is indeed witnessing more and more women of all demographics arming themselves in America. Female graduates of defensive firearms training from all over the country, provides a means of leveling the playing field, ensuring personal safety, and a sense of being in control. So when a predator hunting for his next victim, may cause him to realize that he may be the one in harm's way. Read article for more.
Zackary Scott

Resilience - Why it matters - 0 views

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    Resilience is the key component in responding effectively to unforeseen events and we can develop that skill in individuals, organizations and our community. As we look at threats to organizations or individuals, we see a list of potential inputs and the correlated appropriate responses, all with the goal of mitigating the risks we know about. Those are not the risks that tend to cause truly negative outcomes. It's the ones we didn't see coming that consistently take the largest toll. Read the complete article for more.
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    Resilience is the key component in responding effectively to unforeseen events and we can develop that skill in individuals, organizations and our community. As we look at threats to organizations or individuals, we see a list of potential inputs and the correlated appropriate responses, all with the goal of mitigating the risks we know about. Those are not the risks that tend to cause truly negative outcomes. It's the ones we didn't see coming that consistently take the largest toll. Read the complete article for more.
Zackary Scott

Enhance Firearm Proficiency with Pistol Speed and Time Workshop - 0 views

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    Find and push the limits of your pistol speed and improve your firearm proficiency and capability to hit quickly at Aegis Academy located in San Diego. This course is specially focused on improving your practical pistol speed and times and give you the opportunity to do things with gun you would probably never do anywhere outside of military and law enforcement circles! Learn pistol shooting for home and personal defense with this fun and exciting firearm safety course. Every step you take toward increasing your personal safety and security is one step closer to the safer community.
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    Find and push the limits of your pistol speed and improve your firearm proficiency and capability to hit quickly at Aegis Academy located in San Diego. This course is specially focused on improving your practical pistol speed and times and give you the opportunity to do things with gun you would probably never do anywhere outside of military and law enforcement circles! Learn pistol shooting for home and personal defense with this fun and exciting firearm safety course. Every step you take toward increasing your personal safety and security is one step closer to the safer community.
Zackary Scott

Tactical Shotgun Training at Aegis Academy - 0 views

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    Why not take a little step towards building safe and happy community for our loved ones this Christmas! Instead of buying lose tangible gifts, spend time with your family or friend by attending a Gun Safety course this holiday season. Take advantage of this "two for one offer" to any Day one course offered on the schedule in 2014 or 2015 at Aegis Academy facility located in San Diego. Day one Course are the Firearms Safety and Familiarization Course, the Pistol, Shotgun or Carbine One courses and the introduction to edged weapons. Confidence, experience, capability and independence are what this nation is built on. Tell your loved ones how much your care and want them to be safe! Voucher Expires Dec 31, 2015.
Zackary Scott

Pistol Correction Charts with Common Errors to Master Shooting Technique - 0 views

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    Pistol Correction Charts or Common error charts are the probably the most misused thing in the training industry. It is a chart for pistol shooters, shaped like a bull's-eye with the typical errors associated with impacts listed in their respective zone. If one didn't make the pistol correction chart, that chart is not universally applicable to them. It might be that error, or any other number of combinations of errors that is causing you to miss the center of the target. The pattern of bullet impacts can only provide evidence that there is an error in shooting technique. Read out to find how common error are listed on chart.
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    Pistol Correction Charts or Common error charts are the probably the most misused thing in the training industry. It is a chart for pistol shooters, shaped like a bull's-eye with the typical errors associated with impacts listed in their respective zone. If one didn't make the pistol correction chart, that chart is not universally applicable to them. It might be that error, or any other number of combinations of errors that is causing you to miss the center of the target. The pattern of bullet impacts can only provide evidence that there is an error in shooting technique. Read out to find how common error are listed on chart.
Zackary Scott

Legal and Practical Benefits of Secure Gun Storage - 0 views

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    If you are a current gun owner, how do you secure your firearms when not in use? Gun safety is not about a particular device, it is about the person who owns, operates, and secures/stores the gun. As a responsible gun owner or prospective gun owner, it is incumbent upon you to stay abreast of the laws that govern gun ownership in your locale. Read about the federal and state laws regarding securing firearms and a number of methods to safely store firearms.
Zackary Scott

Thalys Train Attack - A Cultural Bias for Action - 0 views

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    Genetically, nearly every human is primed for physical action under extreme stress. In the Thalys Train Attack in France, we saw the actions of six people thwart what would mostly likely have been very severe on the Thalys Train traveling from Amsterdam to Paris. There were over 500 people on the train, and yet only six acted. Undoubtedly, there were others in the vicinity who could have acted, but they choose not to, or chose instead to distance themselves from the attacker. Read out the complete article.
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    Genetically, nearly every human is primed for physical action under extreme stress. In the Thalys Train Attack in France, we saw the actions of six people thwart what would mostly likely have been very severe on the Thalys Train traveling from Amsterdam to Paris. There were over 500 people on the train, and yet only six acted. Undoubtedly, there were others in the vicinity who could have acted, but they choose not to, or chose instead to distance themselves from the attacker. Read out the complete article.
Buthaina Al-Othman

Pontydysgu - Bridge to Learning » Blog Archive » Integrating personal learnin... - 0 views

  • We had also agreed that we would produce such a paper to inform the work of the European Union Mature project which is looking at knowldge maturing and developing Personal and Organisational Learning and Management Environments. It is a longish paper and covers such issues as: new ways of learning using Web 2.0 schools deschooling society workbased learning and the social shaping of work and technology organisational networks and communities of practice Personal Learning Emvironments the future of universties informal learning knowledge development and sharing We were given a wide brief to look at what might happen up to 2025 and what developments we thought were likely and what were desireable. We have used the opportunity to think a little more freely than is often possible within the scope of traditional academic papers.
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      Topics included in a research paper by Graham Atwell and Cristina Costa on working and Learning. This is a test note to see / learn how Diigo works...
Zackary Scott

Where to Find Good Sources of Information When Looking at Personal Security - 0 views

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    Unfortunately, if you rely on the sensationalized media reporting to make risk assessments, you are quite likely basing your decisions on bad sources of information. The risks you need to be concerned with when looking at personal security are such as illness prevention, access to medical care, crime rate and threats, food & water quality and local security forces. The goal of collecting this information is to mitigate the risk, to which you are choosing to expose yourself.
Zackary Scott

Handgun Ammunition Velocity - 0 views

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    Know everything about handgun ammunition velocity and relationship between barrel length, temperature, and muzzle velocity. Determine which personal defense ammunition is best for your applications that is also matched to your firearm. This is an important consideration when choosing personal defense ammunition. What is printed on the box is a performance guideline that may not function exactly as advertised in your particular personal defense firearm. Read the article and share your experience related to it.
Zackary Scott

Product Review: Sig Sauer P227 Nitron - 0 views

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    Check out the Sig Sauer P227 Nitron review with a detailed range report on its function, reliability, and precision. Sig Sauer P227 combines all very best features of P226 and P220 into one rugged, reliable and available high-capacity non-polymer. This pistol is simply a joy to shoot due to its ergonomics and inherent precision. It is even rumored that the Sig Sauer P227 will fit into holsters made for the P226 with an integrated light rail.
Zackary Scott

Improving your trigger control one finger at a time - 0 views

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    Finger exercises can help improve your trigger control and tune your fine motor skills. Fingers, especially their ability to smoothly pull the trigger without disturbing the sights, are hugely important in becoming accurate shooters. Each time we press the trigger on a handgun, the bottom four fingers tense and grip slightly. Frequently this results in a downward and inboard movement of the gun. Read out the complete article and find out how to exercise your fingers to improve trigger control.
Zackary Scott

Shotgun Internal and External Ballistics - 0 views

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    What makes shotguns unique among other firearms is the wide variety of projectiles that can be fired from the same platform. Since slugs and sabot projectiles are single solid projectiles, their ballistic characteristics are very similar to the pistol and rifle projectiles covered in the Ballistics Series. While there is plenty of math and physics behind shotgun ballistics, read the article and get all answers of the questions related to shotgun internal and external ballistics.
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