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,…
"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,…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
Hey, when I suggested you train with people who recommended other trainers, I wasn't kidding, and February 7th through the 9th might be the best training opportunity you'll see in South/Southwest Florida all year. Tim Herron is coming to Okochobee…
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.…
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…