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Tactical Training Scenarios

Your Tactical Training Scenario- Properly Timing your Resistance Efforts

Written by: Greg Ellifritz   Read this story and imagine a similar scenario happening to you.  An armed robber is holding you at gunpoint.  You think he’s going to shoot you whether you give up the money or not.  You have a concealed pistol, but you can’t outdraw a trigger press.  When should you make […]

Posted on October 17, 2022 by Greg Ellifritz in Tactical Training Scenarios
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Your Tactical Training Scenario…Attacked While Doing Yard Work

Written by: Greg Ellifritz   Husband Shoots Naked Man Attacking His Wife On Lawnmower     Have you ever thought about what you would do if you were attacked while outside doing yardwork?  Most people working in their yards aren’t expecting criminal violence.  That makes them a good target for predatory criminals.   Read the […]

Posted on August 22, 2022 by Greg Ellifritz in Tactical Training Scenarios
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A Late Night Knock At Your Door

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I’m a bit of a night owl.  I find my writing is more creative later in the evening, so I do most of my content creation between 11:00 pm and 3:00 am.   I was awake and writing at 2:30 am on a Thursday night a few weeks ago when I heard a very soft […]

Posted on July 20, 2022 by Greg Ellifritz in Tactical Training Scenarios
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Your Tactical Training Scenario- Dealing with Molotov Cocktails and Fire Bombs

  Ever since the police protests and riots began in the United States a few years ago, cops and innocent citizens have been required to deal with criminal attackers throwing Molotov cocktails and other forms of fire bombs.   The most recent attack happened last Saturday in North Carolina.  Read about it below.   Man […]

Posted on May 10, 2022 by Greg Ellifritz in Tactical Training Scenarios
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Tactical Training Scenario- A Reanimated Active Killer

I haven’t written a new Tactical Training Scenario post in quite a while.  I missed providing quality analysis of real-life criminal attacks and giving you folks good advice about how best to avoid or survive those attacks.  The idea of this series of posts (see Tactical Training Scenarios links to other similar articles) is to […]

Posted on April 11, 2022 by Greg Ellifritz in Tactical Training Scenarios
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Your Tactical Training Scenario…Position of Disadvantage

  You are walking home from the grocery store and carrying several bags of food. Two men are walking behind you and yell out to you: “Hey Johnny!”   You turn and tell them your name isn’t “Johnny” and that they have mistaken you for someone else. They apologize and you continue walking home.   […]

Posted on March 21, 2022 by Greg Ellifritz in Tactical Training Scenarios
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Your Tactical Training Scenario- A Weapon in Each Hand

  Written by Greg Ellifritz   You are walking along the street when a man on a bicycle rides along side of you. The man suddenly hops off the bike.  He has a gun in one hand and a knife in the other.   Before you can act, he has closed the distance to within arm’s […]

Posted on March 14, 2022 by Greg Ellifritz in Tactical Training Scenarios
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Your Tactical Training Scenario- Pharmacy Dangers

Written by Greg Ellifritz   Retail pharmacies are dangerous places.   While commercial robberies have decreased (likely due to Covid) in the most recent studies, we saw almost 900 pharmacy robberies each year in the United States.  As the effects of Covid decline, experts predict that these robberies will increase again.     Pharmacies are […]

Posted on November 17, 2021 by Greg Ellifritz in Tactical Training Scenarios
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Two Different Kidnappings- Would You Intervene?

Written by: Greg Ellifritz   One of the goals of any type of combative training is to “remove novelty.”  Novel situations combined with stress often force our brains to operate in a more instinctive manner.  When operating this way, higher order thinking isn’t possible.  Our goal as trainers is to introduce our students to as […]

Posted on October 6, 2021 by Greg Ellifritz in Tactical Training Scenarios
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Your Tactical Training Scenario- Haunted Forest Shooting

Written by: Greg Ellifritz Halloween is right around the corner.  ‘Tis the season for scary houses and “haunted forests.”  Have you ever thought about what you would do in one of these “haunted” houses or forests if real life gunplay starts to occur?  Consider the following scenario:   You are waiting in line to enter […]

Posted on October 4, 2021 by Greg Ellifritz in Tactical Training Scenarios
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Tactical Training Scenario- Crazy Man in the Park

Written by: Greg Ellifritz   A few weeks ago I saw this particular news article and thought that the event it described would be worthy of discussion.  Read the link below.   Man Fatally Shot By Armed Citizen After Harassing And Attacking Others At Outdoor Park   For the sake of argument, let’s state the […]

Posted on July 7, 2021 by Greg Ellifritz in Tactical Training Scenarios
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Your Tactical Training Scenario- Pistol as Impact Weapon

Written by: Greg Ellifritz   Have you ever considered using your handgun as an impact weapon?  Before you do, you may want to think about a few things.   Take a look at this article.  A cop used his pistol to break a car window and accidentally cranked off a round.   Don’t think that […]

Posted on June 14, 2021 by Greg Ellifritz in Tactical Training Scenarios
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Your Tactical Training Scenario- Attacked on a Bicycle

Written by: Greg Ellifritz   I was on my favorite bike path last week when I noticed that there was an incredible increase in the number of cyclists as compared to the times before Covid-19.  Even though the trail is very wide, at times there were traffic jams as bicyclists filled every foot of the […]

Posted on June 7, 2021 by Greg Ellifritz in Tactical Training Scenarios
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Your Tactical Training Scenario…Attacked on the Bus

Written by: Greg Ellifritz   Read the story below.  Imagine what you would do if you were riding the same bus.  Would you have intervened?   Detroit Bus Rider Killed Protecting Fellow Passengers   An aggressive (and likely mentally ill) man is threatening a young couple who are clearly terrified.  You don’t know either the […]

Posted on April 19, 2021 by Greg Ellifritz in Tactical Training Scenarios
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Your Tactical Training Scenario- Road Rage

Written by: Greg Ellifritz     I don’t know the back story for this video other than what the man filming the incident wrote.  That may or may not be correct, but here is his description of what happened:   “Yesterday I jumped out of my car to kick a lead pipe away from two […]

Posted on April 7, 2021 by Greg Ellifritz in Tactical Training Scenarios
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Your Tactical Training Scenario- “I’m going to kill anyone who breaks into my house”

Written by: Greg Ellifritz   Read the first article on this page.   Imagine a similar scenario.  You hear noises in your house at night.  Upon investigation, you find a man you don’t know sleeping on your couch. What do you do?   The homeowner in this story shot the intruder.  No doubt many of […]

Posted on March 22, 2021 by Greg Ellifritz in Tactical Training Scenarios
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Be Smart

 I live in Columbus, Ohio.  In the past couple weeks we’ve seen several shootings at local shopping malls (two at Polaris, one at Easton).  We’ve also seen a couple shootings outside of bars in seedier parts of the city.   It’s spring.  We see this stuff every year as the temperatures warm.  This year is […]

Posted on March 18, 2021 by Greg Ellifritz in Tactical Training Scenarios
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Your Tactical Training Scenario- Bank Robbery Gone Wrong.

Written by: Greg Ellifritz   Watch the video of this takeover-style robbery of a bank in Brazil.  It’s odd enough that it merits some discussion because the same type of events can also occur here.   Take a look at the surveillance video below before I detail some discussion points.   The video, along with a […]

Posted on February 8, 2021 by Greg Ellifritz in Tactical Training Scenarios
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Tactical Training Scenario- “They’re Putting On Ski Masks”

Written by Greg Ellifritz   I once responded to a very unique call in my cop job.  The details might generate some critical thinking on the part of my readers.   A woman and her infant child were parked outside a small electronics store on a busy thoroughfare in the suburban city where I work.  […]

Posted on January 25, 2021 by Greg Ellifritz in Tactical Training Scenarios
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Your Tactical Training Scenario…robbed with an airsoft gun

Written by: Greg Ellifritz   Imagine a scenario when you and your spouse were walking down the street at night.  A man approaches, draws a pistol and announces a robbery.  You notice that the pistol has a red tip and you believe the gun isn’t real.  You think it is  an airsoft gun (spring or […]

Posted on December 29, 2020 by Greg Ellifritz in Tactical Training Scenarios
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