Early in June 2023, I received an email from Sportman’s Outdoor Superstore. In it, I saw that they had a deal on SCCY handguns. I was familiar with SCCY, and had actually looked at an earlier version of their CPX-2 in a local gun shop years ago. As I recall, it was priced at $289 […]
Countless times, other gun owners have shared their lessons learned with concealed carry while recuperating from various illnesses, injuries, and surgeries. The common advice is to have alternate holsters and the skills to use them already hardwired in place. That’s good advice, and below, I’m going to share my take on the subject. What follows […]
One of the many things that I consistently remember from two decades of training is Mike Pannone’s advice of “Avoid, Evade, Defend” as priorities of action. Similarly, Claude Werner, the Tactical Professor, refers to this as the “Avoid, Escape, Confront, Resist” paradigm. A few months ago, I found myself in a position to use this […]
This year makes the fourth time that I’ve attended the annual Rangemaster Tactical Conference (Tac-Con for short). I honestly wasn’t sure if I was going to go this year, although I had purchased a ticket when they first became available. The stress and time commitment of my recent job change have taken their toll, and […]
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.) […]
Last week, Robert wrote about the importance of using training drills when you go to the range. I have also been thinking about the subject, and I wanted to share my thoughts here as a follow-up to Robert’s post. For the past few months, I’ve been starting all of my live fire range sessions with […]
One of my consistent goals of late has been to focus on my pistol fundamentals, and become as good as I can with the weapon that I’m most likely to have on hand in an armed encounter. To that end, I usually attempt to get to the range at least once a week, dry fire […]
In a blog post earlier this week, Robert discussed shooting the NRA Basics of Pistol Shooting standards as suggested by Claude Werner, the “Tactical Professor,” on his excellent eponymous blog. In short, Claude suggested that not being able to shoot to a certain standard would be cause to seek out some competent instruction. If you […]
In keeping with my post last week outlining a trip to the range, this week I thought I would post the results of my latest range session. As readers of this blog are probably by now aware, I am a huge fan of the writings of Claude Werner, “The Tactical Professor”. I find all of his […]
You’ve probably already read Robert’s thoughts on this year’s Rangemaster Tactical Conference. If not, you can find his AAR here. Robert covered most of the basics of attending the conference, but as our schedules during the conference did not exactly coincide, I will talk a little bit about my experiences as well. Just getting to […]
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