Seeing The Elephant
Many years ago, I attended a two-day training class with a rather famous firearms trainer who was also a veteran law enforcement officer. Not only that, but he had served many years on his agency's SWAT team and was the…
The Iranians Are Coming! The Iranians Are Coming!
So, it looks like there have been at least four domestic terrorism events which have happened since the U.S. decide to finish a war that was started over 45 years ago. I have been hearing about "Iranian sleeper cells" in…
Can We Get Serious Here?
What separates a serious practitioner of the martial art of concealed carry (or someone who has fully embraced the concealed carry lifestyle) from the casual gun owner? I saw this question on social media recently, and my answer was, "A…
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…