I used the Sport for my shooting demos as part of my recent basic AR15 class last month. For this class, since I was teaching a group of shooters with both optics and iron sights, I removed the MagPul polymer folding rear sight and added a LaRue fixed
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This was a by request class that I held at my friend Buck Peddicord’s excellent Defense Midwest range and training facility. Buck has hosted a number of trainers over the years, including TDSA-Tulsa, Pat Rogers’ most excellent EAG carbine course, Max Joseph’s team tactics classes, etc. The
Read more →The training site for the day was the excellent Stout Training dojo in Pittsburgh PA, and I was hosted by Shawn Lupka of Antifragile Training. The class was a special request for training ref OC spray for a CCW or home defense person, and a module on low-light
Read more →Lots of good stuff in the one, and not just because I did one of the articles. The bit on OODA and Boyd by Claude Werner was very well done; http://www.theoutdoorwire.com/specials/ccse2015/
Read more →I saw this on my news feed yesterday. It’s yet another example of law enforcement needing training in TCCC (Tactical Combat Casualty Care) type training, and in use of TQs (tourniquets). This has been slowly realized in many places, and TQs have had a bad rep for
Read more →Another well written, and well reasoned, article on this subject. Note that Mike Pannone was a part of the same unit where the “This is my safety” while wagging trigger finger bullshit supposedly came from, yet he notes; “Keep your weapon on safe and finger off the
Read more →A few years back I gave a presentation at the first Paul-E-Palooza on the subject of Excited Delirium (aka ExD). I was a bit surprised by the level of interest in that class since the students turned out to be mainly non LE or medical folks (my normal
Read more →Kudos to John Johnston for tolerating me for a whole hour on Balistic Radio back in September. Always fun chatting with John. The podcast audio file is posted below. The topic was sighted fire versus unsighted fire. Hope you hear something useful. – Chuck
Read more →I originally wrote this article for the Tactical Wire back in 2008, but I got such a huge response from it that I figured I’d repost it here for anyone who’s interested. Enjoy. I welcome your feedback. – Chuck Single Officer Response in Active Shooter Events (originally published July
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