Two New Classes
There's a saying in the movie biz: Sell a ticket to the guy, and you've sold a ticket. Sell a ticket to a woman, and you've sold two tickets. Guess what: The same is true of guns. The range where…
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…
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…
Philosophy Is The Talk On A Cereal Box.
Creating the Cadre Sessions has given me a chance to think about my own particular teaching style. Every instructor starts off mimicking a style, be it of the NRA/USCCA instructor who taught them or some other trainer they’ve learned from.…
So Anyway, I Started Blasting
I like competing in practical pistol, and honestly, I don’t do it these days as often as I should. I am much more in the defensive mindset now than I was a dozen years ago, where I would shoot at…
What Makes A Good Firearms instructor?
I think the one thing that separates great firearms instructors from all the rest of the instructors out there who takes a weekend’s worth of classes and hangs out a shingle is that a great firearms instructor is dedicated to…
Thoughts on Dry Fire
I’m doing more dry fire these days, partly because I know it’s the key to being a better shooter, partly because I have a cool new toy I’m trying out for work and partly because I’m telling my students that…
That’s A Cold Shot, Baby
Man, that’s a drag. One of the less-than-fun things about my job is moderating the comments on a Facebook page with over 2 million followers. Some of the comments are insightful. Some are… not so insightful. A common thread running…
The Concealed Carry Balancing Act
I'm meeting with a new student in a few hours to talk about her options for personal defense and look over some possible guns for her. She's a 65 year old widower and has a niece who is a trainer…
AUTOMATICITY NOW!!!
I freeloaded my way into Brian Hill’s “Pistol Essentials and Beyond” to write an article for work (full disclosure, Brian’s wife Shelley writes for us), and while there, I had some breakthroughs about the mind game of shooting. As some…