Last week, I was fortunate enough to get to train with Bill Rapier again. For those that may not know, Rapier is a retired Nayy SEAL and the owner and lead instructor of Amercian Tactical Shooting Instruction, LLC. Back in 2017, both Robert and I attended his Integrated Combatives course in Pennsylvania. I didn’t make […]
Although not one of the most popular, one of the most consistently viewed posts on this blog is the carbine setup article that I wrote back in 2015. To my mind, this speaks to the undeniable popularity of the AR-15. Given the continued assault on our rights and renewed efforts to legislate a ban on […]
Notice the title doesn’t say “First IDPA Match of 2018”. My first competitive match of the new year was something different for me: a carbine match. I first learned about this match on a local firearms forum about a year ago. Well, that is to say, I learned about the 2017 edition. I marked it […]
I had every intention of taking this course “someday”. While these days one can nearly throw a rock and find some ex-SOF guy teaching carbine classes, and I have trained with some of them, John Murphy of FPF Training is a known quantity for me (hereafter referred to as “Murphy” so as not to confuse […]
Regular readers of this blog no doubt know by now how John and I have both dabbled in the world of the AR Pistol. To date, I have written two articles on the subject (see here and here), and John has written one as well. These articles have been among our most viewed, so it should come […]
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