Knowledge to make your life better. If you have some free time, check out some of these links this weekend. The Perils Of Carrying An Unusual Pistol Tamara brings up an important point that many new gun owners fail to consider when making a firearms purchase. Guest Shot: My 9mm Journey Dave […]
Knowledge to make your life better. If you have some free time, check out some of these links this weekend. Ayoob: How to Find the Red Dot on Your EDC Massad Ayoob provides some advice for using your red dot equipped handgun. YOU’RE ON YOUR OWN There is more to this saying […]
Knowledge to make your life better. If you have some free time, check out some of these links this weekend. Is A Sub Caliber Enough Gun For Concealed Carry? I think this decision really comes down to an evaluation of both skillset and relative risk. Tested: Buffalo Bore 25 ACP 60 Grain […]
Knowledge to make your life better. If you have some free time, check out some of these links this weekend. So You’ve Decided to Purchase Self Defense Liability Protection I regularly get questions about self defense “insurance” or liability protection programs. I’m not an expert in this arena. Read Paul’s working paper on the […]
Knowledge to make your life better. If you have some free time, check out some of these links this weekend. Physical Fitness — Does it Impact Our Shooting Fundamentals? Getting fitter improves your life expectancy across multiple domains. Personal Safety Can Mean Seeming Rude “Even though it gets a bad rap, intuitive […]
Knowledge to make your life better. If you have some free time, check out some of these links this weekend. So You Want to Buy a Can: The Intricacies of Suppressor Ownership What you need to know before buying a silencer. THE STUPIDITY OF MAGAZINE CAPACITY LIMITS Mas shares his thoughts about […]
Knowledge to make your life better. If you have some free time, check out some of these links this weekend. Vehicle Tactics in a Carjacking — How To Play It Safe Most newer cars have chipped keys that make it much harder for criminals to hotwire vehicles to steal them. The easier option is […]
Knowledge to make your life better. If you have some free time, check out some of these links this weekend. With No Warning UPS Cancels Brownells’ & Ghost Guns’ Accounts-May ‘Seize and Destroy’ Packages I personally think that actions like this are more hazardous to our gun rights than much of the legislation being […]
Knowledge to make your life better. If you have some free time, check out some of these links this weekend. How to Find The Best Concealed Carry Holster Excellent tips for choosing and carrying a CCW holster. U.S. police trainers with far-right ties are teaching hundreds of cops My police instructor friends […]
Knowledge to make your life better. If you have some free time, check out some of these links this weekend. Stop Blinding Yourself Excellent advice for low light structure clearing. Gunfighter Pistol: The Fitz Special Part 1 This is an amazingly informative article series about the Fitz Special guns. Make sure you […]
Knowledge to make your life better. If you have some free time, check out some of these links this weekend. Making the J-Frame .38 Snub Work Some exceptionally solid snubby advice. “Clint Smith is reputed to have said something to the effect, “Handguns are meant to be comforting, not comfortable”. I tend to agree […]
Knowledge to make your life better. If you have some free time, check out some of these links this weekend. Some thoughts on speeding up that mount! Mike Seeklander provides some quality advice. 3 Practical Pistol Drills for People Who Don’t Go to the Range Enough You need to shoot more […]
I spent last weekend teaching at the Rangemaster Tactical Training Conference in Dallas. I’ve now taught at the last nine Tactical conferences and my TacCon blocks are regularly the most fun classes I teach every year. The conference is three days of material taught by 40 different world-class instructors. Each instructor teaches blocks on a […]
Knowledge to make your life better. If you have some free time, check out some of these links this weekend. 5 Different Shotgun Shell Holders – Which Works Best? While I would never castigate someone for carrying extra ammunition, it’s hard to find many armed citizen defensive shotgun uses where more than a couple […]
Knowledge to make your life better. If you have some free time, check out some of these links this weekend. Sometimes, Escaping Is The Path Forward Running away is a viable self defense technique. My question to you is “when is the last time you ran a sprint?” If it was in high school […]
Knowledge to make your life better. If you have some free time, check out some of these links this weekend. Concealed Carry: Vehicle Environment Skills I like the idea of “malignant compliance.” Securing your digital life, part one: The basics Very high quality information. Read Part Two and Part Three as well. […]
Knowledge to make your life better. If you have some free time, check out some of these links this weekend. 6 Dead Giveaways That You’re Armed “The operative word in “concealed carry” is “concealed.” While a lot of the public, even including some potential criminals, might not notice a lot beyond body language clues…but […]
Knowledge to make your life better. If you have some free time, check out some of these links this weekend. The Perfect Hiking Load-Out? Since I retired from my police job last year, I’ve made it a point to do much more hiking. For the last year, I’ve averaged hiking 15-20 hours a week […]
Before we get started with this week’s batch of links, I want to note that this is the 500th edition of the Weekend Knowledge Dump! Since I started the project, you’ve received the Weekend Knowledge Dump every week without a single exception for almost 10 years. Think about it. How many other tactical blogs do […]
Knowledge to make your life better. If you have some free time, check out some of these links this weekend. TFB Armorer’s Bench: Complete AR15 Disassembly – Bolt Carrier Group The rioting and the pandemic happening in the background of our lives over the past couple of years has prompted millions of people to but […]
