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,…
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…
I have recently become hooked on the Jon Gadget YouTube channel, which highlights the bits of pieces of EDC (Everyday Carry) meant to make our lives easier and safer. I have had 30+ years experience with the idea of EDC…
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…
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…
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…
As you know, due to some changes in my life, I've been cutting back the training schedule as of late and concentrating on other things in my life, one of which is my first novel. I did a bunch of…
I've owned an AR-10 for a few years now. I built one for my "Scout Rifle 2.0" series at Ammoman, but someone, the gun I built just never clicked with me. It's not that the pieces weren't there. The upper…
Justified was one of my favorite TV shows. The dialogue just sparkled, and the gun handling was... okay. There was one scene in particular, though, where Raylan Givens, our hero, is confronted by Dewey Crowder, a sub-genius bad guy who…
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…