Jeff Gonzales: Resolve to Focus During Firearms Training
A common remark I hear in our classes: how easy sleep comes at the end of the day. How mentally tired students my students are after a full day of training and how surprised...
Buyer Beware: The Dangers of Craigslist ‘Bargains’
With Christmas approaching, who can blame people for trying to find bargains for gift-giving? But sometimes the search for a deal can come with all manner of danger. A dear friend of mine sought...
Include Plenty of Dry Firing to Improve Your Shooting – Guns for Beginners
If there's one thing that any concealed carry training regimen should include, it's dry firing practice. And plenty of it. Some might even argue that it's the most important training a concealed carrier can...
Jeff Gonzales: When it Comes to Pocket Carry, Keep it Simple
Pocket carry is hardly new. People have been stuffing derringers in to their vests and Colt 1903's in their jackets for well over a century. But the method seems to have grown in popularity...
Course Review: Tactical Fitness Mini Combat Rifle Low Light Course
I shoot a lot at night. Between shooting on my own home range and hunting pigs and varmints almost exclusively at night, I get quite bit of practice putting lead on target in the...
The Number One Mistake Shooters Make When Training
Over at ammoland.com, former cop Jack Billington reckons he knows the number one mistake shooters make when training for armed self-defense. "It’s not training the way they regularly carry concealed on the street. In other...
RF/JWT Square Range Call-Out Drill
Most indoor gun ranges ban drawing from concealment. Rapid fire mag dump? Mozambique? Nope. You're left practicing simple marksmanship. Which is important! But after a while . . . what? This! The COD (Call...
The Truth About Rifle Optics
John Farnham writes : Last weekend, a student brought an H&K MR762A1 Rifle to my Armed Response to a Terrorist Attack training course last weekend. It's the commercial version of H&K’s 417, a gas-piston, autoloading, military rifle in...
Three Lessons from the Sutherland Springs Shooting
After a mass shooting, the mainstream media fixates on motive. The People of the Gun are more interested in methodology. How was the slaughter accomplished? All observers wonder, what could have been done to...
NRA Lead Training Program Coordinator: How to Shoot a Moving Target
Brett Simon, NRA Lead Training Program Coordinator writes :
If you’ve ever watched competitive shotgun shooters or hunters tracking and hitting their targets, you might think, “wow, they make it look so easy.” Like most...
Gun Disarmament Training for People Who Know Nothing About Guns
When it comes to real world self-defense techniques and tactics, knowledge is power. If you understand the nature of the threat you're facing you can formulate a practical defense -- whether that's compliance, fleeing...
Question of the Day: Pistol Shooting Stance. Weaver or Isosceles?
Over at ammoland.com, NRA Training Counselor Program Coordinator Andy Lander takes on one of the great debates of our time: Weaver or Isosceles? Do you shoot your pistol standing in a boxer's stance (Weaver) or...