SWAT Training Goals: Planning and Practice
Training must be continuous and ongoing. Instructors and students must be willing to learn new information without any…
Offset: Understanding The Close-Range Solution And The 200-Yard Zero
The AR series is an extremely ergonomic platform, and provides the shooter with a weapon that is controllable…
Cross Training: Trainers Instruct Other Trainers
Several months ago, Rob Pincus called and told me Valhalla Training Center was hosting LMS (Last Man Standing)…
Girl Power: Tactical Carbine Training
Many women say they will never own a gun or have one in their homes. I’ve heard a lot of reasons why, but the most commonly cited reason is that they are afraid of guns—mostly because they don’t know how to operate them.
Offset: Understanding The Close-Range Solution And The 200-Yard Zero
The straight stock of the M16 family required that the sights be placed higher above the line of bore than with preceding U.S. service weapons, with some exceptions. The innovative Johnson M1941 LMG is a prime example, and the M60 GPMG the more common early example.
Into the Breach: Justifying An Explosive Breaching Program
The threat posed to America’s law enforcement community has never been greater. Ranging from global Islamic terrorist groups…
Three-Circle Response Theory: Options For Meeting An Attack At Various Ranges
It’s dusk. You’re in the grocery store parking lot with your children and spouse, loading your trunk as…
Bad Habits: One Trainer’s Opinion
Back in the mid-1970s, the United States had a mandatory top speed limit of 55 miles-per-hour (mph). Since that time, we've learned a few things about improving highway safety and the safety of our vehicles and, of course, we've dramatically improved the efficiency and cleanliness of the internal combustion engine. A lot of things have changed since that time in the world of firearms and tactical training as well.
Pre-Training Equipment Issues: Tactical Components for Carbine Classes
People attend training for a wide variety of reasons that may include a real world need or nothing more than an opportunity to have an Outward Bound-type trip. Regardless of the rationale for attending, the end state is to build new skill sets.
Doing the Double-Tap in Mozambique
It was known far and wide by savvy shooters (as in shooters with savoir-faire) as The Mozambique Drill, and was probably the most influential combat training drill of all time. Then the language-killers got in the act, politically corrected the phrase, sucked all the juice out of it and bestowed upon the famous firing sequence the inspiring title of “failure-to-stop” or simply “failure” drill in their manner of communicating like a rookie cop writing out a shoplifting report.