I cannot imagine there are too many people in my shoes. I have been to many classes over the years, almost all of them documented here on the blog. I have met a lot of people in those classes. Accountants, police officers, information technology specialists, lawyers, doctors, army reservists, etc. I cannot ever recall meeting […]
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 […]
No, sorry, this is not an article about dry practice. You should already be doing dry practice (a.k.a. “dry fire”) anyway. While the current ammunition shortage might have you doing more dry practice in order to preserve the ammunition supplies you have on hand, this article is more about training options you might want to […]
This is going to be a post that is directed primarily at new gun owners that may have recently acquired a shotgun for defensive purposes. Both Robert and I have written extensively about shotguns, ammo selection, and training with them over the past few years, but I wanted to try to summarize some of the […]
It is great to sit down and FINALLY write this article that has been over a year in the making. Having said that, this article will serve as a bit of a monument to my thinking at this time, and no doubt the items described as well as the possible uses for this bag will […]
Veteran cop, trainer, prolific blogger, adventure traveler, friend, all around good guy, and now published author Greg Ellifritz of Active Response Training just shared today that his new book has reached a milestone of 1000 copies sold! I’m responsible for both a Kindle version and a paperback version of those sales and can recommend the […]
Last year, I read a blog article from Grant Cunningham where he advocated for having a defensive shotgun barrel threaded for interchangeable chokes instead of sending the barrel off for modifications such as lengthening the forcing cone and back-boring. Since then I’ve been meaning to put that idea to the test. While I am always […]
I attended my first Rangemaster Tactical Conference (TacCon for short) in 2017. I skipped last year’s conference for a variety of reasons, but was eager to get back this year and so registered quite early (I registered March 28th, 2018!). John attended with me and has shared his thoughts here. This year’s conference was held […]
This past June 28th, I made an impulse buy, and purchased a Striker Control Device (SCD) from Tau Development Group during the annual Tau Day sale. Although I had known about the SCD (aka “The Gadget”) for quite some time from frequenting pistol-forum.com, I had held off buying one for a variety of reasons. I’ll […]
I have not posted any “random visit to the range” articles in a while. That is because one of the things I have been doing of late is shooting the FBI Pistol Qualification Course. I wanted to shoot it on several different range visits with several different pistols to see how I might fair before […]
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