The Ace Insights Blog
Training tips, champion shooter spotlights, gear guides, and deep-dives on getting measurably better with Ace Virtual Shooting.
SCSA Steel Challenge: A Defender's Guide to Faster, Cleaner Hits
Eight stages, five plates each, one timer. The SCSA Steel Challenge is the most approachable speed-shooting sport in the country — and an honest scorecard for defensive shooters. Here is how the sport works, which skills carry over to carrying a gun, and how to build the reps that drop your times without burning hundreds of rounds.
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Ace XR for Defenders: Building Real Pistol Skills at Home
Ace XR turns a Meta Quest and a weighted handset into a home training bay for defensive shooters. Here's what transfers to the range, what doesn't, and a weekly plan that fits a real schedule.
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Ace VR Shooting: The Defender's Guide to Training That Transfers to the Range
Range time is limited and ammo costs money, but the skills defenders need most are the hardest to rehearse on a public lane. Here's how Ace VR shooting builds draw speed, trigger control, and threat discrimination in 15 minutes a day — plus the five drills to run every week and the research behind why VR reps carry over to live fire.
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Staccato Pistols for Defenders: How to Train Like You Carry
A Staccato 2011 gives defenders a flatter-shooting, higher-capacity platform than most duty guns — but the pistol only pays off if you put in reps. Here's how to choose a model, what skills actually matter in a defensive encounter, and how to train your Staccato at home with licensed VR handsets when range time and ammo are limited.
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TTI Sand Viper: A Defender's Guide to Training With Taran Tactical's Race Gun
The TTI Sand Viper is Taran Tactical's flagship double-stack 1911 competition pistol. Most defenders will never carry one, but the grip, trigger, and vision skills it rewards transfer straight to your carry gun. Here's what the Sand Viper is, what actually carries over to defensive shooting, and how to train those reps at home in VR.
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Laser Dry Fire Training: A Competitor's Guide to Real Gains
Laser dry fire turns every trigger press into measurable feedback. Here's how competitive shooters use it to build trigger control, faster draws, and cleaner transitions — plus the safety protocol, a 20-minute drill block, and where VR training fills the gaps a wall target can't.
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Ace: How Ace Virtual Shooting Builds Real Defensive Skills
Search "ace game" and you'll find Ace Virtual Shooting — certainly not an arcade shooter. Here's what Ace actually is, what the research says about virtual-to-live skill transfer, and a four-day weekly plan defenders can run in 15 minutes a session.
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Dry Fire Training: The Competitive Shooter's Guide to Faster Reps
Dry fire training is the quiet engine behind almost every competitive shooter's improvement curve. Here's the safety protocol, the four skills it develops best, a five-day plan you can actually follow, and where traditional dry practice falls short compared to scored VR reps.
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How to Improve Pistol Accuracy at Home: A Defender's Training Plan
Range time is expensive and infrequent. The fastest accuracy gains come from safe, structured reps you can run in your living room. Here's the setup, the five fundamentals worth drilling, a 15-minute session plan, and how VR shot tracking closes the gaps dry fire leaves open.
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How The Fairfield, IL Police Department Used Ace Virtual Shooting to Get Measurably Better
If you've followed Ace for a while, you've heard us say it a hundred different ways: deliberate practice builds permanent skill, and improvement in Ace drives…
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Ace + Ronin Tactics: Launching “Urban Defense” with Tu Lam
We’re excited to share that Ace has teamed up with Ronin Tactics founder Tu Lam to launch a brand-new VR training stage: “Urban Defense.” This partnership…
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Train Smarter: Using Red Dot Optics in the Ace VR Platform
If you’ve ever mounted a red dot sight on your pistol, you already know the difference it makes. Faster sight acquisition. Better target focus. Cleaner…
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Why is Ace a Subscription? (And Why It’s Worth It)
If you’ve spent any time with Ace, you already know it’s not just another shooting game. Ace is a complete shooting experience. It is your companion helping…
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World Champion Eric Grauffel: Ace is An Extra Layer of Training, Dry Fire is Boring
Today we’re sitting down with World Champion shooter Eric Grauffel to hear about his background, his time as a professional shooter, and to learn about how…
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World Champion Shooter Max Michel Uses Ace to Enhance his Pistol Training
Before he became a World Champion, Max Michel was drawn to the “family” like nature of the shooting community. September 11th made him even more mission…
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Rob Epifania: Transforming Firearms Training with Virtual Reality
Rob Epifania’s story isn’t one you hear every day. Once a high-level athlete excelling in basketball and volleyball, Rob’s life took an unexpected turn in…
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Ace Controller Orientation
The Ace Virtual Reality App will determine your controller orientation setting during initial setup. However, you may need to update your orientation at a…
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How Ace Bridges the Gap Between Dry Fire Training and Live Fire
What was that “Wow!” moment the first time you started using Ace?
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USCCA Firearms Instructor Uses Ace VR to Train Defensive Shooting at Fire Dragon
Today we’re joined by Andrew Lauckner, founder of Fire Dragon Tactical Shooting. He’s an accomplished professional shooter, former Law Enforcement, now a…
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Ace Member Spotlight: JJ Racaza, World Champion
This week, we sat down with World Champion and Team Beretta shooter JJ Racaza. As an early Ace member and ambassador, we wanted to take in all we could and…
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Ace Member Spotlight: Q&A with John Keys from Guns Out TV
This week, we sat down to talk with John Keys, a Marine veteran and co-founder of Guns Out TV platform, a growing YouTube channel about gun culture and…
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Ace Member Spotlight: Q&A with Matt Little
This week, we sat down with Ace Founding Player Matt Little, known online as Greybeard, to chat about his background in Army Special Forces Green Beret and…
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Ace Member Spotlight: Q&A with Justin from Controlled Pairs
This week, we caught up with Justin from Controlled Pairs Gaming to find out how Ace supports his training and skill development goals, and how he sees skills…
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What Meta Quest VR Headset Should I buy for Ace Virtual Shooting? (3S vs 3 vs 2)
Pros:
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Ace Member Spotlight: Q&A with Tim Herron
Continuing with our Ace Shooter Spotlight Q&A series, this week we had a chat with Tim Herron, from Tim Herron Shooting. Tim is a renowned firearms…
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Ace Member Spotlight: Q&A with Neil Weidner of Active Self Protection
We had the chance to sit down with Neil Weidner from the popular YouTube channel Active Self Protection and an active Ace Club Member, to chat about his…
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Developing Shooting Skills: Accuracy, Transitions, and Speed
If you are new to shooting, Ace wants to help you improve. Every skill starts with a solid foundation. They build with perfect practice. For handgun training…
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5 Ways Ace Revolutionizes Dry Fire Training Systems with Virtual Shooting
While Ace is more than just a training tool, many users have commented how it has transformed their dry fire training. Many agree that dry fire training…
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