Posts about gun fighting

THE DISTRACTED GUNMAN

Gun disarms. It’s tricky business.In 26 years on the job, I have disarmed only a handful or two of pistols and shotgun incidents. This includes[…]

staying alive in active shooter searches

STAYING APART and STAYING ALIVE…

Through the years I have written quite a bit about staying apart from a tactical response team perspective and from solo police officers forced together[…]

PRACTICED AT THE ART OF DECEPTION. FAKES AND STRING THEORY!

A string! One great fake that opens a hole, then one stunning blow, then a tree-step combination…for starters. 5 parts of the string. 1 plus[…]

Poses show different concealed gun draws

IF YOU PULL? YOU MUST SHOOT! OTHERWISE, NO PULL!

Every once in a while, in my years in police work ranging back to the early 1970s, we would get a new shift supervisor like[…]

Police with guns drawn clearing a hallway

STAYING APART IN COMBAT

I am full of old-school mainstays. Some I like. Some I don’t. In military training tips – I was in at the tail-end of Vietnam[…]

THE POINTY END (of Knives and Bullets)

Like our Hoplite above. He stuck the pointy end in first, but then, what happens next? THE POINTY END (Of Knives and Bullets) “Just stick[…]

“INSPIRE NOT CONFINE”

  The “corporate” name for what I’ve been doing for 26 years this 2022, the big umbrella name is the “Scientific Fighting Congress.” Under that[…]

Getting a Grip on your Grips! Weapon Handling!

For starters, I am not a knife or gun collector, no more than I would collect hammers, screwdrivers or wrenches. I just don’t care. You[…]

How Long Before Perishable Skills Perish?

      We humans always knew we need to keep training to keep sharp, but still we “chip away” at the edges through time.[…]

Your Signature Moves?

Your Signature Moves and the Pareto and the Mental Model? Mental models are descriptions of reality that apply across every area of our life, usually[…]