There Can Be Only One
I don’t believe in a “concealed carry rotation.” I carry one model of gun, not skitter around between many different types of guns depending on my mood or the phase of Jupiter. I started out in concealed carry with a…
Always A Student, Occasionally A Teacher
One of the reasons why Rangemaster instructors tend to be more clued-in than other firearms instructors is their commitment to lifelong learning. Rangemaster is not a closed system, where instructors are taught The Correct System and other ways of teaching…
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,…
Collateral Business
You can’t draw on a drawn gun, right? I mean, everybody knows this, so it by be true, right? Right? Well yeah, except when it isn’t, and John Corriea’s channel is full of incidents which show that yes, you actually…
Are We Training For The Right Thing? (Part Two)
Rich Grassi has an interesting article in The Tactical Wire, talking about what real-world timing looks like in an armed violent encounter. He talks about the old adage “There’s no timer in a gunfight” and shows that no, there isn’t…
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.…