Not a bad primer to help get your mind in the right direction when it comes to preparing for when the Hammer drops. Remember, in Prepping, just like in Firearms and Combat Training, it is Software before Hardware. The Mind is the Ultimate Weapon, all else is Supplemental. -SF I have been reading the excellent…
Category: Training Tips
Crusader Corner: Killing The Terrorist Before They Can Kill You
This is not just great advice for LEO but also for Armed Civilians. Everybody say with me like you mean it: “Cut the Head off the Snake before they DETONATE!” -SF The video footage of the terrorist attack at the airport in Turkey will have to be developed into a police training tool. A new…
Practical Skill-Sets: Trapped in a Crowd – Why Crowds Get Dangerous & How To Survive A Crush
I used to lovegoing to sporting events. I regularly spent Saturday afternoons in a football stadium with 65,000 other fans, or in a basketball arena with 23,000 other basketball crazies, or a Friday night at Disney World with 80,000 of my newfound friends. I had no problem with large crowds. I loved the lack of…
Armed Citizen Training: CR Williams Releases New Firearms Training Book
My friend and contributing author to the blog, CR Williams, just released his new Firearm Training Book: Gunfighting, and other Thoughts about Doing Violence: More Musings about the Means and Methods of the Counter-Offensive Fight (Volume 4) It can also be had on Kindle. You can reach CR Williams for Training at his website InShadowInLight…
The Warrior Ethos
Zachary Mierva July 1, 2016 This essay was written in 2012 en route to my second deployment to Afghanistan with a reconnaissance, surveillance, and target acquisition squadron. A family friend and Vietnam veteran recommended I keep a journal to remember my deployments. I used this journal to create “dispatches” that I sent to my family…
Armed Citizen Corner Video: Off-Duty Cop ECQ Shooting
Several Things to Highlight Here: Extreme Close Quarters Shootings (Bad Breath Distance Encounters) are more frequent than most civilians or even Law Enforcement train for. Make it a point to make this part of your training every time you hit the range. A Smooth Presentation of the weapon enabled the officer to put rounds on…
Armed Citizen Corner: 6 Lessons from Orlando
By Greg Ellifritz Early Sunday morning on June 12, a murderer (who won’t be named here) pledging fealty to the Islamic terrorist group ISIS, entered an Orlando gay nightclub and shot more than 100 people. Preliminary accounts indicate that 49 innocent victims were killed and an additional 54 victims were hospitalized with injuries. It is…
Armed Citizen Corner: Train Like A Samurai…10 Arrows
Practice doesn’t make perfect. Perfect practice makes perfect. Imperfect practice makes rehearsed. You’ve heard a lot of advice on different training philosophies – ways to maximize the results you achieve. The fact is, desultory training (grunts: desultory) is a waste of time, ammunition and money. It may get you killed. Read this and pay attention….
Combative Strikes
These are some very old clips but are still IMO some of the best out there regarding realistic Combative strikes that work. *Use these strikes in your CQ empty-hand/stick/knife/gun training as a way to quickly “create distance” between you and the BG so you can draw your weapon. Always stay open to the ideal of…
Training Notes: “Line of Sight” Shooting
There is a lot to be said about how important it is to be fast and accurate with a gun when you are shooting to save your life or the life of others. I often tell students when they first start out that speed with a firearm is all about efficiency of motion. Start out…