New for this year, Kyle Defoor has begun to offer one day carbine classes held either immediately before or after his regular two day classes. Fortunately, one such single day class was scheduled within easy driving distance for me. Seeing that it was on one of my normal days off, I jumped at the chance […]
Most of our readers have probably heard of the Rule of Four S’s. I think John and I have both referenced it before in articles in the past. I believe this rule is generally accredited to the great John Farnam (though I think his version had three S’s rather than four, but whatever). The rule […]
After the fantastic experience I had in Greg Ellifritz’s “Extreme Close Quarters Gunfighting” class in October of 2016—my final class last year—it seemed fitting to begin my 2017 coursework with two more classes from Greg. The two courses were “Tactical First Aid and System Collapse Medicine” and “Groundfighting”. John and I chose to take these two […]
In my article on my EDC gear, I included a flat-folded SOFTT-W tourniquet that I had been carrying for quite a while. Part of that time I had rubber-banded some flat folded duct tape and a package of Quik Clot Combat Gauze to it for a nice, compact blow-out kit I could carry virtually anywhere in […]
The title of this After Action Review should look familiar, as John took the same class about a month before. Based on his experience with the Defoor carbine class last summer, along with reviews found around the web written by others, I made it a priority to sign up for this class. Just like with the pistol […]
This past weekend, I was able to attend Kyle Defoor’s two day pistol class held at the Blue Trail Range in Wallingford, CT. Like most of Defoor’s open enrollment classes, this one had been sold out since a little over 24 hours after being listed! I’m glad I was able to get a spot. A […]
Last week I shared my opinion on what most civilian gun owners who carry concealed should focus on and carry every day… I tried to frame my argument in terms of absolute needs as opposed to wants with the aim of preparing for the probable vs. the possible. I was gratified by the number of […]
In this post, I want to talk about what is REALLY needed by the average person that carries a concealed weapon every day, and I want to do so against the backdrop of the ubiquitous “Every Day Carry” (EDC) discussion. I can actually summarize it in one sentence, and I’m not being flippant. Abide by […]
I don’t plan to write a report of each of my visits to the range this year, but I thought, in keeping with my thoughts here, that I would put some range updates out there about my successes, failures, drills, lessons learned, etc. The rationale behind this is to put extra pressure on myself to […]
Although our blog has not yet been in existence for a full year, I thought it worthwhile to do an end of the year assessment about what my personal journey has been like this year as well where we might be going. Training In terms of training, my goals this year were to start hitting […]
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