Through what we can only describe as a series of tragic mistakes and happenstance, our plan of sending Chris off to get kidnapped and sold into slavery in Paraguay via a Lebanese crime syndicate ended up with him at a 1MOA Solutions' precision rifle course, and...
Brain Dump
Ares Gear and the Sheriff of Baghdad | A week on the range
We spent a week on the range with John “Shrek” McPhee, the “Sheriff of Baghdad” of SOB Tactical. It was an intro to what would become Gunfighter University. Thanks Ares Gear!
Skinning a Cat Always Begins With a Sharp Knife
Graham Combat: ARAINDROP Environmental Manipulation AAR Tradecraft. We're not talking about all the skills and knowledge Robert Scott used to get the President's daughter back or all the methods Edward Lyle used to stay off the grid. We're talking about things you can...
More than just sustainment training: Victory First Pistol Workshop (PWSHP)
Some thoughts on the Victory First One day Pistol Workshop (if you want, use the convenient acronym: PWSHP)Photography by Mia Kiddo.Training is expensive. Missed days of work, gas, hotels, eating out while on site, and not to mention ammo. It’s a pain in the ass just...
Patrol Vehicle CQB Instructor Course
Recently there was a yeti sighting in Texas. Apparently the creature was shambling around cars and shooting through windshields while mumbling to a barely pubescent (and preternaturally ebullient) policeman. It occurred to us that a curmudgeon might make for an...
High Threat CQB
From somewhere in her secret HQ on Themiscyra comes this thorough (if breviloquent) review of a recent tactical course attended by our resident hawt female bad ass, Mad Duo Kim. Check it out. Mad DuoGrunts: breviloquentHigh Threat CQB - In ExtremisIntroduction to High...
Sentinel Concepts Critical Handgun Employment
(Note: Photography by Natalie Cake.) By the time I finished the first drill of the day I knew that I was in trouble. Day one of Sentinel Concepts “Critical Handgun Employment” began with Steve “YETI” Fisher lining the class up at the 25 yd line. Shooting for a...
Reflections on the Event and fighting: Graham Combat
ALCON - Today's article comes to you from our resident warrior princess Ell P. Though we've introduced her before, we have many thousands of new readers (which is humbling, by the way), so we'll remind you that you can read the background of our minions here. She is...
Life is all tracking
The Greenside tracking school, if you'll forgive us calling it that, isn't specifically for the military "combat tracker", nor for what first responders have taken to calling the "tactical tracker." Greenside teaches tracking skills, make no mistake, but more so they...