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Blog / 22.01.2016

IS IT A "TACTICAL RELOAD" OR A MAG EXCHANGE WITH RETENTION?

One of the skills that we teach in our Defensive Handgun I courses is the Magazine Change with Retention. We, and the firearms training industry in general, used to refer to this as a "tactical reload"... But we asked ourselves: "What is so damn tactical about it?"
Blog / 30.10.2015

A lot of people have asked me over my 22 years of Law Enforcement experience about how is the best way to secure their homes.  Many have been the victims of a break in and have had their personal spaces violated by criminals that have a total disregard for anyone but themselves.  As the years went by I started to see patterns in criminal behaviors as well as the way citizens went about securing their homes. 

Blog / 23.10.2015

Prove your Skill Set in 8 rounds.

We utilize the 1-2-3 Drill to test our on-demand performance capability to transition to our secondary weapon system when our rifle has run dry. This drill has the added value of requiring the shooter to then reload their rifle after engaging the target with their pistol, and then engaging with their rifle again. The 1-2-3 Drill goes like this: