In this issue:

Free Gun Cleaning Classes

We set aside the first Tuesday night of each month for our Free Gun Cleaning Class. Bring your handgun, rifle or shotgun along with its owner's manual if you have one, and come prepared to learn and enjoy the company of other gun owners. There is no cost, but please register online at TexasGunPros.com to insure we have the necessary work area and cleaning materials set up.

Reloading Classes

Interested in learning to reload handgun or rifle cartridges? Our NRA Metallic Cartridge Reloading class will help get you started. There is some classroom work, but this is primarily a hands-on class. You'll learn about the minimum equipment you need to get started, plus the procedures for safe reloading of your own ammunition at about 1/3 the cost of factory ammo.

Handgun Reliability Tips

Ideally, you'll carry your handgun for a lifetime and never need it. But if you need it, it must go "bang" the first time and every time you pull the trigger. Here are some tips to help make sure that happens:

Keep your ammo fresh. Shoot the ammo that is in your magazines from time to time and replace it with fresh ammo. Sure, we all shoot FMJ ammo (frequently called "ball" ammo) for practice because it's cheaper. But you need to periodically shoot enough of your carry ammo to insure that it feeds, fires and ejects reliably every time. Shooting the ammo that's in your loaded carry magazines accomplishes this and more. It keeps you from walking around with corroded ammo. It insures your magazines are functioning properly and it boosts your confidence in both your carry firearm and defensive ammo.

Take care of your magazines. Most experts recommend not loading magazines to full capacity to prolong spring life. A ten percent reduction will do just fine. For a 14 or 15 round magazine, load it to 12 or 13 rounds. Load a 10 round magazine to 9 rounds, an 8 round magazine to 7. Clean your magazines periodically and keep your ammo wiped down as well.

Rack your slide properly. This means not using the slide release to allow the slide to ram forward. Instead, grasp the slide with your thumb and fingers, pull it back slightly and release it. Using the slide release to perform this function will put excessive wear on the slide and when you need it to lock back when it's empty, it may not, costing you extra time in reloading in what could be a critical situation.

Keep your gun clean. Of course you clean your gun after shooting it, but if your gun is like mine, it gets dirty just riding in my holster. Wipe it down from time to time, cycle the slide and make sure it is lubricated. Treat your gun like your life depends on it. It just might.

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Texas Law Shield

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Texas Gun Pros Training Center

All classes held at:
Texas Gun Pros Training Center
5121 Davis Blvd., Suite A
North Richland Hills, TX 76180

Class Schedule for August & September

You've asked us for more options as far as class days, so here they are:

Texas Concealed Handgun

These are all-day classes - 8:00 a.m. to 6:00 p.m.

NRA Safety & Training

Class times vary - click on the link for actual times.

Hunter Education

These are afternoon or evening classes - click on the link for actual times.


Featured Handgun of the Month

 Beretta PX4 Storm

The US Army has been using Beretta 9mm pistols for more than 25 years. Beretta as a company has been around for 500 years or so. They must be doing something right. The Army's pistol is the M9. The civilian model of that gun is the Model 92. But there's another semi-automatic pistol Beretta makes that we really like - the PX4 Storm. Jerry had one first. One day he and David were in Academy Sports and Jerry suggested to David that he take a look at the Storm. That pistol became one of two guns that David owns that he has in collection simply because once he held it, he didn't want to put it down.

The PX4 is available in either 9mm, 40 S&W or 45 ACP. It comes in multiple sizes - Full size, Compact, Sub-Compact. The Sub-Compact has a different action, so it's really not the same gun. This article is about the full-size PX4 in 9mm.

The full-size PX4 comes in four different models:

  • Type F: Single and double-action. Decocker. Manual safety.
  • Type C: Double-action only ("Constant Action"). Spurless hammer. No decocker. No safety.
  • Type D: Double-action only. Spurless hammer. No decocker. No safety.
  • Type G: Single and double-action. Decocker. No manual safety.

We have a Type F. All have Short recoil, locked-breech, rotating barrel lock actions. This is one thing that sets the Storm apart. Where most semi-automatic pistols use the tilting, locked breech type of action to extract a fired cartridge and load the next round, when a PX4 is fired, the barrel rotates as it comes back. The rotation absorbs some of the recoil, making felt recoil significantly less than that of many other semi-automatic pistols of the same caliber.

We bring our Storm to every CHL class for students who require a loaner to complete their shooting proficiency exercise. The Storm is easy to load, you can work the slide easily, it's easy on the hands when shooting and it is very accurate. In short, it's a joy to shoot. Also, we never have any failure to feed, failure to fire or failure to eject problems with the Beretta. It's a great pistol. Prices have come down a little since we bought ours for $519 at Academy Sports. Academy now has them for $499. This is a gun you'll never be sorry you own.

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