The Secret to Effective Reload Practice

gun digest  It’s tempting to practice your reloads to make them faster. Many in the business will prescribe such things as weighted dummy practice magazines, or real magazines loaded with Snap-Caps or weighted dummy rounds, to practice with. My experience doing this in a competition environment was not altogether successful: While I got really fast at […]

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10 Skills that will keep you ALIVE in a fight

Shooting Illustrated  Mindset Personal security is exactly that—personal. However, as a professional self-defense instructor teaching worldwide, the single most common mindset I run into is “It will never happen to me.” Most people’s outlook on the subject is: “It didn’t happen to me yesterday, it hasn’t happened to me yet today, so it won’t happen to me […]

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The 10 Gunmandments For CCW

The Gun Digest writes I’m not Moses, let alone God, but the following 10 bits of advice are written in stone nonetheless. Not by God, but by the vastly powerful mechanisms of logic, law and reality. Understand your right to self-defense with Deadly Force. Commandment I: If You Choose to Carry, Always Carry As Much […]

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What is the Mozambique Drill, Why should you care?

Shooting Illustrated writes Most people who have been exposed to defensive shooting techniques have heard the little slogan, “Two to the body, one to the head, is guaranteed to leave them dead.” Fewer shooters know this refers to a defensive shooting technique called the Mozambique Drill. But a large number of defensive students may be confused […]

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One Gun to Rule Them ALL!

“Beware the man with one gun, for he probably knows how to use it.” Multi Breif writes Most of us in the shooting community have heard this quote at one point or another, and I firmly believe in this philosophy. As a law enforcement officer, I’m essentially limited to one gun choice for work. More […]

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First Aid- Seizures/Head Injuries

TRAINING TIME! I am going to keep this short sweet and to the point. There are many myths as to what a person is supposed to do in the event of a seizure. I have seen many situations both as a Hospital Corpsman and as a Paramedic that would make your head spin. (pun intended) […]

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First Aid Training- Bleeding

WARNING!! GRAPHIC PHOTOS! DON’T READ IF YOU’RE A WUSS! Now I know many of you have First Aid training at least. Some of you are probably EMT’s or even Medics. This is a laymen termed article for those that don’t have such training. So I am keeping it simple. I am going to cover a […]

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National Tactical Officers Association (NTOA) to Hold Legal / Use-of-Force Seminar Prior to SHOT Show

The NSSF® and NTOA have just announced this seminar right before SHOT SHOW! This is a HUGE opportunity to get some amazing training and instruction from some of the countries finest Instructors. I always say, “Train to Live, Live to Train…” This is most definitely a course that everyone should try to attend. The NSSF® Released this […]

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Surviving an EMP attack, what can you do?

survival secrets- In an April 16, 2005 Washington Post article written by Jon Kyle, he noted that at a Senate Judiciary Subcommittee Meeting he chaired the threat of an EMP attack was delved into. In sum, the devastation that such an attack could bring on its target area was looked at very closely during this […]

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