This will be my review, so please be indulgent 
THE BUY: So yeah, basically, one day I was wandering on SSD and found out about TACOST. It is made by Trident Concepts, a US firearms training company. Tacost is basically a card game (literally) with drills on them. They offer it for pistol and rifle. I'll get onto that later. As I was on their website, I saw that the Rifle was on sale at 19,99. I went on to buy it, but I couldn't order for Canada. I had to contact them, give my info and them item I wanted. They sent me an invoice, which to my big surprise happened to be at 40,99$, so 21$ of shipping for a 19,99$ item. Well bummer. Two weeks later, it was home. When I opened it I had two surprises. First, there were 2 samples of Slip 2000, one EWL gun oil and 725 gun cleaner degreaser. I'm no big fan of ''super oil'' and stuff, but what the hell it's free. Second surprise, less fortunate, was that my card box was damaged. Thanks USPS and Canada Post. At least the cards are OK.
THE PRODUCT: This program offered for Rifle and Pistol is a series of drills in 4 groups of exercises, set in a regular deck of cards. It comes also with three extra cards. One thank you card with some info on it, a legend and a safety rules and brief. The idea was that if you ever lack ideas in your shooting sessions, before leaving home, you shuffle the deck, pick a few cards, go pew pew pew, came back home, grab beer, be happy. The exercises are in Marksmanship (Spades), Speed (Hearts), Dry Fire (Diamonds) and Baselines (Clubs). Each card present you the title, the exercise, range, rounds fired and point penalty. For me, I think leaving the dry fire group separated from the rest, 'cause you know, dry firing at the range, yeah, you get the point. I'll leave you the number 2 of each suits for you to see the setup and maybe try it.
2 Spade : Global - Fire 1R SS (strong side) standing, 1R ss kneeling, transfer to WS (weak side) & fire 1R standing then 1R WS kneeling WS x5. Range 25 yd. Rounds Fired: 20. Point Penalty: 5.
2 Heart : Pistol Transition - Fire 2R then TX (transition) and fire 2R pistol vs 8'' x5 in :05. Range 10 yd. Rounds Fired: 20. Point Penalty: 5
2 Diamond : Follow Trough - Mount the rifle and perform a single dry fire trigger press, then hold the position with the same tension for :30. Perform 5x repetitions. Range 7 yd. Rounds Fired: None. Point Penalty: None.
2 Club : 25-2+2-8 - Fire 2R reload fire 2R x7 vs 8'' with 100%. Discard Fastest and slowest times and average for baseline. Range: 25 yd. Rounds Fired: 28.
Point Penalty: None.
CONCLUSION: Since I haven't been to the range to try it and won't be able to go 'till nest weekend, I won't be able to draw any conclusion for now. I will try the dry fire group. Until then, shoot safe. Here are the pictures, first is the received product, the damaged box and the cards.
THE BUY: So yeah, basically, one day I was wandering on SSD and found out about TACOST. It is made by Trident Concepts, a US firearms training company. Tacost is basically a card game (literally) with drills on them. They offer it for pistol and rifle. I'll get onto that later. As I was on their website, I saw that the Rifle was on sale at 19,99. I went on to buy it, but I couldn't order for Canada. I had to contact them, give my info and them item I wanted. They sent me an invoice, which to my big surprise happened to be at 40,99$, so 21$ of shipping for a 19,99$ item. Well bummer. Two weeks later, it was home. When I opened it I had two surprises. First, there were 2 samples of Slip 2000, one EWL gun oil and 725 gun cleaner degreaser. I'm no big fan of ''super oil'' and stuff, but what the hell it's free. Second surprise, less fortunate, was that my card box was damaged. Thanks USPS and Canada Post. At least the cards are OK.
THE PRODUCT: This program offered for Rifle and Pistol is a series of drills in 4 groups of exercises, set in a regular deck of cards. It comes also with three extra cards. One thank you card with some info on it, a legend and a safety rules and brief. The idea was that if you ever lack ideas in your shooting sessions, before leaving home, you shuffle the deck, pick a few cards, go pew pew pew, came back home, grab beer, be happy. The exercises are in Marksmanship (Spades), Speed (Hearts), Dry Fire (Diamonds) and Baselines (Clubs). Each card present you the title, the exercise, range, rounds fired and point penalty. For me, I think leaving the dry fire group separated from the rest, 'cause you know, dry firing at the range, yeah, you get the point. I'll leave you the number 2 of each suits for you to see the setup and maybe try it.
2 Spade : Global - Fire 1R SS (strong side) standing, 1R ss kneeling, transfer to WS (weak side) & fire 1R standing then 1R WS kneeling WS x5. Range 25 yd. Rounds Fired: 20. Point Penalty: 5.
2 Heart : Pistol Transition - Fire 2R then TX (transition) and fire 2R pistol vs 8'' x5 in :05. Range 10 yd. Rounds Fired: 20. Point Penalty: 5
2 Diamond : Follow Trough - Mount the rifle and perform a single dry fire trigger press, then hold the position with the same tension for :30. Perform 5x repetitions. Range 7 yd. Rounds Fired: None. Point Penalty: None.
2 Club : 25-2+2-8 - Fire 2R reload fire 2R x7 vs 8'' with 100%. Discard Fastest and slowest times and average for baseline. Range: 25 yd. Rounds Fired: 28.
Point Penalty: None.
CONCLUSION: Since I haven't been to the range to try it and won't be able to go 'till nest weekend, I won't be able to draw any conclusion for now. I will try the dry fire group. Until then, shoot safe. Here are the pictures, first is the received product, the damaged box and the cards.
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