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 […]
Back in May of 2017, while attending the American Tactical Shooting Instruction “Integrated Combatives” class with Bill Rapier (AAR here), I got to meet a gentleman who goes by the online moniker “VoodooMan”. VoodooMan is a police officer in one of the larger municipal police departments in the United States, a training junkie, blogger (see […]
. In prior articles (see here, here, and here) I have provided some tricks and tips for concealment that have worked for me over years. However, I must admit that I am lucky in that I am able to dress in a very casual way at work. While some old-timers might bemoan the fact that […]
I am not sure that I can definitively say exactly when or where Bill Rapier first appeared on my radar. I am fairly confident it was after reading an AAR of one of his classes on VoodooMan’s blog, most likely this one, which would put it around 9 months or so ago. I bookmarked Bill […]
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 […]
With the year coming to a close, I thought it might be a useful exercise to tabulate for our readers how much I spent this year on training. The after-action reviews (AARs) that John and I write tend to be among our most read articles, and I have received many “atta boys” for the information […]
With all the training I have done over the last few years, I thought it might be useful to make a list of useful training items to have. As such, this article can serve as a handy complement to my article on preparing for your first firearms class. The items discussed in this list, however, are specific […]
I enjoy the brief “American Gunfighter” videos. I have seen them all, regarding some as better than others, but Episode 7 really resonated with me. For those of you who are not familiar with these brief videos or perhaps missed this one: I think it is only natural, after viewing a video like this, to stop […]
This will be a brief article and serve as just a positive shout-out to Benchmade’s “LifeSharp” customer service. I do not regard Benchmade knives as super-expensive, certainly not in the range of some of the custom or semi-custom knife makers out there. But they seem to put out quality products with desirable features at reasonable […]
I love it when my mail carrier delivers some goodness! Armed with a gift card from Amazon (courtesy of the parents of one of my students last year), and with some money sitting in my PayPal account from some items I had recently sold, I decided to add to/upgrade my Everyday Carry (EDC) gear. What […]
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