Defaulting to Zero: What’s Your Mindset?
How we fight has always been a complicated series of events, and the training required to accomplish the…
The X Factor: Lone Star Medics Medicine X Course
Face it: if you own or carry a gun for self-protection, you may be shot by the very…
Maintaining Situational Awareness – Scan and Assess
Maintaining Situational Awareness Over the years, we have been taught to scan and assess after a shooting incident. We…
Disaster Medicine: Gunsite Emergency Medical Preparedness Course
I’ve been fortunate to have done a lot of shooting over the years. Moreover, I’ve done much of…
FINISH THE FIGHT!
He was P.O.’d because he’d fired several shots from his AR at a range of ten yards and…
K9 and Air Operations: Law Enforcement’s Teeth and Wings
Our K9 teams got the description of a murder suspect reportedly hiding in a desolate, brushy area near the Colorado River Bridge in southeast Austin, Texas. An Austin Police Homicide Detective had briefed us via cell phone that he’d received a tip that the suspect was awaiting a ride to Mexico to flee the murder charges.
Rimfire Training Tips: to Improve Service Carbine Performance
AR-type .22 rimfire conversions and trainers have flown off dealers' shelves by the thousands, with shooters looking to mimic the appearance, form or function of their service carbines. Some of these shooters didn’t grow up on a steady regimen of rimfire shooting, while others are now shooting the .22 in volumes not encountered before.
From Dusk Till Dawn: LMS Defense Low Light/No Light Course
Advances in night vision were slow in the beginning. I can remember the first time I saw a Starlight scope on top of the CP Bunker on Hill 22, 45 years ago. We have come a long way since then. Night vision is of course expensive, and its primary users are the military. However, the technology is slowly spilling over into the LE community. Very slowly.
Gunning for the Job: Extended Weapons Qualification Course
or the class I mainly used a Springfield chambered in .45 ACP with a SureFire X300 light on the rail (supplemented by a SureFire LX2 Lumamax on my belt) and equipped with LaserLyte’s RL-XD rear sight Laser. Holster was Blade-Tech’s Tactical Modular Mounting System worn on a Blackhawk belt with Safariland magazine and cuff pouches.
Tombstone Wisdom: EAG Tactical Level Two Handgun
“I must be a bad instructor! Here it is 1422 hours on the second day and apparently I…