I must admit that I have been intrigued with the advent, over the last few years, of appendix inside the waistband (AIWB) holsters that incorporate some sort of magazine carrier, either integral or one that attaches. The idea has appealed to me for two reasons. First, the concept of an all-in-one, grab-and-go package sounded good […]
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 […]
I’m on record here on the blog as being against the early-adopter philosophy, particularly when it comes to mechanical devices. Thus, when the Glock 43 was released in mid-2015, I did not run out and purchase one. Fresh in my mind were some of the issues with the Generation 4 Glocks—especially in 9mm (how many […]
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 […]
Quite some time ago, John posted this article about single-point slings. I must confess that, in my pre- and nascent training days, I dabbled around with a single-point sling on my first AR-15. Truth be told, perhaps I had watched a little too much Costa and Haley coolness in the Magpul videos! Probably not surprisingly, my […]
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 […]
Last year, I took the time to get some training/practice goals posted so then I could at least roughly evaluate my progress by year’s end. Frankly, as a teacher, I should do a better job of setting goals that are measurable and achievable within a year. For this post, however, I am going be more general […]
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 […]
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 often curse my parents. Though I consider myself fairly intelligent, and can thank their genes for that, I can also thank them for my lack of height, probable propensity for heart disease, and questionable vision. To be fair, my vision didn’t start to go south until my sophomore year in college, so I guess […]
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