I cannot imagine there are too many people in my shoes. I have been to many classes over the years, almost all of them documented here on the blog. I have met a lot of people in those classes. Accountants, police officers, information technology specialists, lawyers, doctors, army reservists, etc. I cannot ever recall meeting […]
No, sorry, this is not an article about dry practice. You should already be doing dry practice (a.k.a. “dry fire”) anyway. While the current ammunition shortage might have you doing more dry practice in order to preserve the ammunition supplies you have on hand, this article is more about training options you might want to […]
Veteran cop, trainer, prolific blogger, adventure traveler, friend, all around good guy, and now published author Greg Ellifritz of Active Response Training just shared today that his new book has reached a milestone of 1000 copies sold! I’m responsible for both a Kindle version and a paperback version of those sales and can recommend the […]
After attending my first Tac Con last year, I had pretty much made up my mind early on that I wanted to attend this year’s 20th Anniversary Tactical Conference, held at the Direct Action Resource Center (DARC) in Little Rock, AR for the second year in a row. (Check out 2017 AARs here and here.) […]
As I did last year, I thought it would be a good idea to look back at 2017 to see how many classes I took, how many matches I competed in, how much money I spent on those endeavors, and how many rounds I sent downrange in classes and matches. In 2017 I attended a […]
Recently, some erroneous self-defense advice came across my personal Facebook newsfeed. Now, I rarely post about issues central to this blog under my personal account, but in this instance I did. I briefly and somewhat harshly commented about sharing bad advice that has been soundly debunked in the professional training world. I decided the subject […]
This week, I went to the range at pretty much the only time I had available. Unfortunately, it was raining and 49°. Undeterred by the weather, I went for the specific purpose of trying out a new front sight that I recently installed on my Ruger LCR. The stock front sight was a serrated ramp […]
This past weekend, both Robert and I were able to attend two excellent one day classes held in Virginia in the DC area. Robert covered the first day’s medical class in his AAR posted yesterday. This is my review of the second day’s groundfighting class. This was the third one day class that I’ve taken with […]
This past weekend, along with Robert, I had the opportunity to attend Greg Ellifritz’s Active Response Training one day Extreme Close Quarters Gunfighting class. As noted in Robert’s AAR, the class was hosted by John Murphy of FPF Training in Culpeper, VA. Like Robert, my only affiliation with the above organizations is as a paying […]
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