About the Show
The PowerFactor Show is catered towards practical pistol shooters, both existing and future. Steve and Rick will cover rules, shooting techniques, equipment and everything you need to either get into the sport, or to improve the sport that you're already in and love.
Steve started participating in the action shooting sports in 1993. Today, he primarily shoots in USPSA Limited Division using a custom STI Edge pistol in .40 S&W. He also shoots in USPSA Production division using his Glock 19 carry gun. Recently Steve has become active in the shotgun sport and likes to shoot sporting clays, skeet and 5-stand as well as trap. Steve holds the following rankings/classifications: USPSA Master, IDPA Expert, Firearms Academy of Seattle -- Handgun Master, National Range Officer Institute (NROI) - Chief Range Officer
Rick is an Enthusiastic and very active member of the practical shooting community. With more than 15 years of experience in the sport, Rick is a USPSA “A” class shooter, and IDPA Expert. He is an IDPA Safety Officer Instructor, and has been Match Director for ten IDPA state championships. He is also a NROI Range Officer, and holds NRA Instructor certification in Basic Pistol, Personal Protection and Home Firearm Safety.
Larry was introduced to USPSA in 2002 starting in the Production Division with a Glock 19 and then a Beretta 92G-E2. He has years of experience shooting custom SV and STI Limited and Open guns, but primarily shoots the Glock 24 and Glock 35 in the Limited Division today. Larry also enjoys shooting local Steel Challenge matches with his USPSA Limited guns and Sig 522 in .22LR. As somewhat of a "stunt" for the PowerFactor Show, he decided to shoot one IDPA match with the Glock 19. Now he's hooked, has just joined IDPA, and plans to shoot more local and state matches. Larry has been a USPSA life member since 2007, NROI Chief Range Officer since 2008, and achieved a ranking of A-Class in the Limited 10 division in 2012. He has served as Chief Range Officer at three Area 1 Championship matches and MD/RM at several local matches
Caleb is a competitive shooter from Redmond, Washington. 1 of only 13 certified IDPA 5-Gun Masters, he also founded Gun Nuts Media, the leading online shooting sports information website. When he's not flying around the country for major matches, running Gun Nuts Media, writing magazine articles, or working as the VP at GunUp, Caleb likes to post cat pictures on his facebook page.
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January 2nd, 2011 - 22:46
Hey Steve and Rick! Nice. I have sent everyone on my email list your site and posted a link in Seattleguns.net (Competition Shooting area)
January 2nd, 2011 - 23:48
Hi Young. Thanks for the nice words. Hey, if you do another one of the “ccw shoots” at Renton, please let Rick and me know as we’d be more than happy to come down and put on a IDPA/USPSA stage like we did previously. That was a lot of fun.
January 5th, 2011 - 03:32
I’d like to see a 3-Gun episode ?
February 4th, 2011 - 10:45
I really appreciate the info having just recently gotten seriously interested in IDPA shooting. Watching the grip/draw episode has really improved my abilities 200% (and I though I was pretty good before!) still not to the level I want to be at yet though to compete… Thanks again for a great show! Do you ever shoot at the Bellevue Gun Club? Great facility! Thier LE training room is hands down the coolest! Being able to shoot however you want (safely of course) is well worth the membership. – (I have no affiliation asides from being a lifetime member there)
March 5th, 2011 - 16:42
Hey guys!
Awesome stuff here! How often and when are you coming out with more videos? My son and I love them.
Ha Ha I blew through these fast! They are great! Thank you guys’
Would love to help my son succeed with shooting, what’s the best tip for him.
He’s new at it, but would love to compete in the future’
March 9th, 2011 - 12:20
Perfect practice makes perfect, so try to teach your son correct techniques from the start, so he doesn’t have to break any “bad habits” later. Steve and I see a lot of shooters who are just getting into competition in our IPSC 101 class, and even shooters with lots of trigger time can have problems with their basic techniques that need correcting.
April 4th, 2011 - 11:26
Thank you for all of your suggestions and tips. I have tried to apply them to the weekly plate shoot I participate in. I have been ranked in the bottom 40% of plate shooters at the club until recently. Now I’m shooting into the top 20% and the guys are calling me “sandbagger” as though I wasn’t showing my abilities before. ( feels good )
My question is about grip tension. How tight should I hold the pistol? 50/50 or 60/40 only tells me what percentage from each hand. Can you put it in percentage of overall grip strength capacity?
Franky 2
April 7th, 2011 - 23:52
Some people recommend a 60/40 grip (60% weak hand, 40% strong hand) however I
use a 50/50 grip to keep things completely balanced…that way I’m not putting
anymore tension on one side than the other. Regarding how hard do you grip….I
grip about as hard as I would hold a hammer or maybe a tennis
racket….basically enough to keep the gun from rotating out of your hands
during recoil (anything more than that is unnecessary). If you over grip the
gun, you’ll develop tension in your forearms and thats a bad thing.
Steve
May 3rd, 2011 - 17:16
Great show! Its so full of information I’ll have to watch episodes twice to remember it all! I am a new IDPA shooter who appreciates the work you do with this show!
Keep up the great work!
Dave
May 20th, 2011 - 15:22
Many thanks to Rick, Steve, and your producer for creating these excellent shows! The information is really great and your presentation style is down to earth and fun. I’m learning SO MUCH from watching your show. I’ll let all my shooting friends know about it. Keep up the great work and many thanks from a new competitive shooter.
Joe
June 2nd, 2011 - 14:27
Rick, Steve:
I just want to say thanks for a excellent and informative show, podcast! I’ve been a shooter for many years, but am just now getting into USPSA and IDPA shooting. In fact, the couple of podcasts that I watched helped prepare me for my first USPSA club match.
Thanks again, blessings!
September 23rd, 2012 - 18:13
Hey Steve and rick love the videos and all the tips hope the keep coming I was just curios what you boys do for a living.I am thinking law enforcement
Thanks again for the great info.
Keith.
September 23rd, 2012 - 18:46
Hi Keith. I frequently get “confused” for being associated with either ex military or LE but in reality I’m neither. I’m an embedded software engineer…I’m a code hacker!
Steve
September 24th, 2012 - 09:26
Keith – I thought I wanted to be a cop, and interviewed at a half-dozen departments, but ended-up in the paper-management business. I worked in a corporate research library for a number of years, and am now the Records Manager for a Seattle law firm.
Rick