An Excellent AIWB Draw Frame by frame lesson on a smooth AIWB (Appendix-Inside-The-Waistband) Draw. I think the most important lesson here is in Frame #1: Notice the trigger finger goes to the “high register” position of the gun on the outside of the holster. That way when the gun is deployed, the finger is…
Category: Pistol Corner
Drawing Your Pistol While Seatbelted in a Vehicle: Click It or Ticket?
Drawing Your Pistol While Seatbelted in a Vehicle: Click It or Ticket? This goes back to my previous article about Vehicle Security We spend a LOT OF TIME in our Vehicles, often times more than we think. Therefore, drilling on self-defense scenarios while driving are extremely important. From my experience, situations like this (while…
The Armed Citizen Corner: The Surreptitious Draw, A Neglected Skill
The Surreptitious Draw: A Neglected Skill I have long been a student of MAXIMIZING speed and efficency with weapons by MINIMIZING unncecessary body movement. This is why I am a proponent of AIWB carry (Appendix Inside the Waistband) for both handgun and fixed blade knife. “To draw the gun discreetly, focus on minimizing movement…
Practice Makes Permanent
From the Archives, 2015 I first heard this from a Military Drill Instructor while on the firing line a long time ago and it stuck with me. I apply it to just about every area of my life now, but especially FIREARMS TRAINING HABITS. To me, it is the essence of WHY we should…
It Pay’s to Be Armed
Another crazy video from Brazil, where two black thugs decided to rob a Dental Clinic. Except these morons picked a dental clinic where one of the patients was ARMED. While getting a routine cleaning, An armed Military Police Officer took quick, decisive action and subdued both knife wielding assilants, shooting one of them in the…
Shootout at 10 Feet
Lot of rounds fired at close range but only one ATF agent was seriously wounded and the Wanted Black Drug Fugitive in the Black SUV was killed. Amazing no by-standers were killed and wounded considering this was outside a busy family Restaurant on a busy street. Just goes to show how LOW LEVELS OF TRAINING…
Never Have a Favorite Weapon!
From the Archives, 2016 This short story reinforces the USMC Training mantra: “One Mind, Any Weapon” Don’t get hung up on the Tool. Always Train to WIN THE FIGHT, REGARDLESS OF THE TOOL! “Favorite” Weapons! “Warriors should not have ‘favorite’ weapons.” Miyamoto Musashi, from his “Book of Five Rings,” written in 1645AD, near the end…
Armed Citizen Video: How to Shoot through a Windshield
From the Archives 2018 A quick down and dirty 5 minute primer on shooting through a windshield when the shit hits the fan while in your vehicle. I would be remiss if I did not mention the obvious here: You are sitting in a three ton weapon made out of steel and aluminum…
Gross Motor Skills and Weapon Manipulation
From the Archives, 2015 We have discussed at length on this blog the reason why Gross Motor Skills (GMS) regardless of what tool is involved, are so important in a fight. Whether you are using empty hand, stick or knife, Gross motor movements work hand-in-hand with using the larger, more dense muscle…
Channeling my Inner Fudd
WARNING! If profanity offends you you’d best skip this one. Last week was the forty-first anniversary of my departure for Basic Training in the United States Army. I’m pushing sixty, and I figured it was time to adopt age-appropriate ways of thinking. To be in solidarity with others of my ilk; an advocate of time-honored… Channeling…