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…
Three By Three By Three
Claude Werner has an interesting drill based on the "three yards, three rounds, three seconds" rubric for armed self defense. I'm neutral as to whether this idea is as applicable to the armed citizen as it is to law enforcement,…
The Expert’s Gun
I spent many a night in the darkroom of my local community college when I first started out on my (successful) quest to be a photographer, learning how to do black & white prints from 35mm negatives. The skill level…
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…
Trainer or Therapist?
Maybe we're approaching the 1 Percent Problem from the wrong perspective. We know, by the numbers, that almost 82% percent of all armed encounters end without a shot being fired: All the armed citizen needed to do was a) have…
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…
50 Rounds And A Cloud of Dust
I have never been a big fan of all-day practice sessions. I am not a sponsored shooter. I don’t have an ammo contract, and while yes, I could round up some practice ammo from the people I know in the…
A New Chapter. Thirty Eight of Them, Actually.
There are some big changes in store for Quietly Armed. The first is, after five or so years of on-again, off-again work, my debut novel is now available on Amazon. I put a lot of effort into this book, researching…
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…