After spending a couple days in Guayaquil, I was off to a little hippie surf town called Montañita where I was going to spend the majority of my vacation. I had originally planned on going by bus. Long haul Latin American buses are usually fairly comfortable and the bus fares are really cheap. The […]
I recently returned from a 16-day trip to Ecuador. As most of you reading this will probably never make it to this gorgeous country, I thought I’d write about some of my travel adventures there. Why Ecuador? I had originally planned a trip to Rwanda and Uganda to see the mountain gorillas in […]
I’m happy to announce a collaboration with Lone Star Medics to teach a unique class in the Dallas, Texas on October 2-3, 2021. Operation: “ALAMO” course description When we began talking about a collaboration, we looked at what was happening in the world. – The pandemic was raging, and people didn’t want […]
I just booked some short notice classes that will be running in a little less than a month. I think there is probably enough local demand to fill them quickly. I’m teaching “Impact Weapons for Personal Protection” and “Extreme Close Quarters Gunfighting” at James and Korey Cocking’s private range and training facility in Brookville, […]
About 15,000 of you have signed up to get email updates whenever I write a new article. The service I’ve used to provide those updates is Feedburner, a company now owned by Google. Back in April, Google decided to change the core functions of Feedburner. Sometime in July, Feedburner will no longer send you […]
Written by Greg Ellifritz My shooting skills have been slipping. I retired from my police job last August. Since I’m not confronting criminals on a daily basis, the motivation to stay in tip top form is diminished. Combine that with Covid-related range closings, high ammo prices, and the fact that I’ve nearly spent […]
Last weekend I taught a few classes at the annual Rangemaster Tactical Conference . It’s one of my favorite training events. This was my 9th year teaching there. I taught two sessions of my new lecture class “Safe Travels in Dangerous Places.” I also taught a beginner’s live fire class covering pistol retention shooting. I […]
Written by Greg Ellifritz This week marks the completion of nine full years of blogging about self defense, firearms, and personal safety topics. I started this website on March 18, 2012 and have posted 2071 total articles since then. The average novel is somewhere around 100,000 words. In the last nine years I’ve […]
Covid-19 combined with ammunition scarcity continue to make scheduling classes for 2021 quite difficult. With that said, I have quite a few classes open for those of you itching to train again. I’m doing more medical, shotgun, and knife classes in 2021. Shotgun ammunition has been the easiest to find during the ammo crisis. […]
A week ago I arrived home from an eight-day trip to Rio de Janeiro, Brazil. As I’ve written extensively about Brazil in past articles, I’m not going to cover the normal tourist stuff. Instead, I’m going to discuss travel during a worldwide pandemic and the different perspectives other populations have regarding Covid-19. I love […]
The latest issue of Recoil Offgrid just published a review of my travel safety book. Book Review: “Choose Adventure: Safe Travels in a Dangerous Place” by Greg Ellifritz Leaving the Comfort Zone Some highlights for those of you who don’t want to click through: “If you’ve never traveled outside of the […]
Written by: Greg Ellifritz Last week I was honored to have been invited to teach at the annual Pat Rogers Memorial Revolver Roundup organized by Hardwired Tactical. It was a weekend training event focused solely on using the revolver. Instructors Darryl Bolke, Wayne Dobbs, Mark Fricke, Chuck Haggard, and I all taught three to […]
I’ve been in the gun game for quite a while. The first “ammo shortage” I experienced was more than 20 years ago. I vowed a long time ago to make myself immune from temporary ammunition shortages by stockpiling a lifetime supply of ammunition. Back in the day, my police department only allowed .40 […]
Written by: Greg Ellifritz Election-related violence is increasing. So are the reported rates of Covid-19 positive tests. If I were to look into my crystal ball and prepare a worst case scenario forecast for the next few weeks, it would look like this: Street violence is going to increase as we get closer […]
The world of internet content creation is ever changing. I’m sending out this post to give you a behind the scenes look at what’s going on with my websites and how I’m going to utilize Patreon in the future. A little history… I started my blog in 2012. It did very well with […]
It seems that people are itching to train again after the Covid-19 layoff. All but two of my remaining classes in 2020 are completely sold out. The two that are still open don’t have many open seats and are likely to sell out as well. If you still want to train with me this year, […]
I’d been twitching for awhile. I hadn’t been out of the country since February. In a normal year, I travel outside the USA at least four times for a total of about six weeks. This is the first year since 2006 that I haven’t already taken at least three international trips by this […]
Last night I joined Chuck Haggard, Wayne Dobbs, and Darryl Bolke for a roundtable discussion of police training issues on Civilian Carry Radio. I haven’t done a podcast or radio interview for a few years. I honestly don’t enjoy them all that much and have been turning down any podcast requests. I promised CCR […]
Written by: Greg Ellifritz On Saturday, I taught my first open-enrollment class since February. That might have been the longest break I’ve had from teaching in more than a decade. My teaching skills are rusty. My voice is fried. But the class went well. It was a snubnose revolver class that was full […]
Written by: Greg Ellifritz Hey folks! I just wanted to give you all a heads up on my latest writing venture. I started a second blog. This one will provide daily links and commentary about travel in general and travel safety in particular. The blog is designed to support my current book and […]
