Combat Accuracy: What’s Your Goal?
How many rounds from your gun will it take to stop a lethal threat? Is it reasonable to…
Against All Odds: Signaling & Self-Rescue
Maybe it’s just the media giving more airtime to stories about human tragedy, but this past year seems to have had more than its fair share of people getting lost and dying in the wilds. While some of these events had heroic efforts at self-rescue, others showed signs of the victim just giving up and dying without a fight.
Realistic Field Medical Kits: What to Include and Why
Tactical medical care is a hot topic. The basic principles of this care were developed for the military but are equally useful in the tactical law enforcement environment. This care begins at the point of wounding and extends to definitive care or surgical intervention.
Urban Combat: Beyond the Basics
Gunsite. That single name means so much to so many: The beginning of modern firearms training, incredible facilities…
M.O.V.E.: A Shooter’s View Of Tactical Medicine
Motionless Operators Ventilate Easily (M.O.V.E.) is one of the phrases we use during our firearms training courses. It…
To Sight or Not to Sight: The Case For Point Firing
If one finds himself in a situation in which he has time to use the sights, then, by all means, use the sights. However, if the conflict begins at less than ten feet, in the dark, and very rapidly, as it is statistically likely to, point firing is the way to survive.
Combat Focus: Instinctive Shooting For The Real World
Within just a few short years, Valhalla Training Center has gone from relative obscurity to being one of the country’s top training centers. This is in no small part due to the Combat Focus™ course developed by Rob Pincus—Valhalla’s Director of Operations.
Gun Mavens: How the Experts Train
I have had a gun of one type or other in my hand for the better part of 40 years and consider myself, if you will, a “Gun Maven.” Others might say, perhaps more accurately, that I am just another old “Gun Crank,” but I take firearms ownership and skill maintenance very seriously, and it is my responsibility to honor the Second Amendment...
Shootrite Private Tutorial Combatives Course: Building On The Basics
August in Alabama is the time for sitting in the shade sipping lemonade and trying to stay cool. For fellow officer John Bryant and me, it's time to head to Shootrite Firearms Academy for a private tutorial pistol/carbine course with Tiger McKee.
Components of Self-Defense Success
Pick up any firearms or martial arts magazine and check the advertisements. You’ll be sure to see something…