Par For The Course
I just finished up a piece for Springfield Armory on the implications of Karl Rehn's "Beyond The One Percent" series, where he lays out that only one percent of gun owners take any training beyond the bare minimum required by…
The Can, May, Should and Must of Open Carry
Next month, I’m doing a presentation for the Cape Coral branch of the Armed Women of America on open carry, and that forced me to revisit this often-touchy topic once again. It seemed to me that for some reason, I…
Processing Power
Brian Hill and Caleb Giddings probably won’t be co-teaching a class any time soon, but they both arrived at the same idea from different angles. Caleb thinks the Failure To Stop is the single most relevant drill for the armed…
Train Your Weakness, Race Your Strength
First off, I must credit my friend and mentor Michael Bane for this phrase. He learned it while training for a triathlon and then mentioned it on his podcast, where I picked it up. The idea is simple: Find out…
Mind Games
For the past year or so, I have been fighting what I thought was a flinch: about every fifth shot would land at least an inch below the others. It wasn’t a reaction to the noise and explosion of the…
Mind Games
"All things are ready if our minds be so." - Henry V, Act 4, Scene 3 Way back when, when I was doing marketing for a luxury gun club, I would describe the process of marksmanship as being like golf,…
The Centerline Blade
I’ve carried some sort of blade on me for over 30 years, but I wouldn’t consider myself to be a “Knife Guy.” I can’t tell you why one type of steel is better than another and other such things, and…
Playing The Odds
If you’ve been in one of my concealed carry classes, you know that I quote a statistic from a 2022 Georgetown University study which showed that 81.9% of lethal force encounters end without a shot being fired. The bad guy…
Lessons From New Orleans
Normally I follow the 72 Hour Rule and don't comment on these incidents until we know more about them, but I think there is enough information right now to talk about how everything went down and what we can learn…
Lose Your Illusions
There was a recent discussion on social media about why some people are obsessed with learning how to shoot from the driver’s seat of their car. Speaking as someone who set the internet on fire when he suggested that car…