Street Smarts: Active-Shooter Training
Like everyone else in the world, I’ve been cussing and discussing the Newtown, Connecticut school shooting of December…
Training and Tactics: Lose The T-Shirt
Reloading is good, but I don’t want to have to do it in the middle of a fight.…
Go-To Compact Pistol: Ruger SR9C
I’m a 1911/.45 ACP kind of guy. I was one of a handful of deputies who lobbied our…
Tools for the Troubled Times: Get the Edge
During the Middle Ages, steel tools were kept under lock and key and often guarded. Quality tools were expensive and hard to get, and lots of work required good tools. Shovels, axes, hammers and chisels were required for virtually every daily chore. Knives were carried by everyone, and swords and battle axes by those who could afford them.
Problem Solving for Gunfighters: House Clearing
Learning occurs in many ways and at different rates. It is an individual endeavor, and most are able to crack the code once they put their mind to it.
Frontline Debriefs: Old West Gunfighters
Gunfighting is pretty much an American phenomenon. The trans-Mississippi West conjures up dust-blown streets, fixed gazes, and worn steel drawn from weathered leather. No other country has a gunfighting history equal to ours.
Offbeat: SureFire M720V RAID WeaponLight
When it comes to weapon-mounted lights, SureFire® wrote the book. Since its introduction in 1986 of the first weapon-mounted light (a novel concept at the time), SureFire has continued to set the standard by which all weaponlights are judged.
Training and Tactics: Go for the Throat
Many predators go for the throat. Usually deploying their fangs, damaging or destroying an animal’s throat rewards the…
The Cutting Edge: KA-BAR Becker Combat Bowie
When building a long, point-heavy knife, there are several things the designer has to get just right or he’ll end up with a chopping-only implement with built-in limitations. Few really worthwhile “do-it-all” features get added to knives, and when a knife comes along that does more than one thing very well without them, it usually reflects that the evolutionary stages were worked out by a designer who was also an experienced end-user.
Custom Lights for Any Mission: Elzetta Design Flashlights
Elzetta ZFL-M60 is available in both two- and three-cell models. On the first day, God created light and…