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Be prepared with a variety of concealed carry and firearms tips and tactics that can help keep you and your family safe both inside and outside of your home. Find helpful articles and videos, including the Into the Fray training series, that cover everything from situational awareness and conflict avoidance to cover vs. concealment and the use of force in a critical encounter.
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The Seated Shooting Drill
The Drill: The Seated Shooting Drill is a dry-fire drill that incorporates a simulation of normal life. Since we find ourselves in a seated position at some point during the day, it is important to…
Continue Reading →How to Use the Clipless IWB Holster
If you are making your holster choice based on you reholstering, you might be making the wrong choice. For simplicity and versatility, the clipless IWB holster has a lot to offer. The Mainstay, from…
Continue Reading →One Thing I’ve Learned About Grip
A few weeks ago, I completed the Handgun 1 and Handgun 2 training classes at Close Quarters Tactical (www.cqtusa.com) in Shelby Township, Michigan. The content of each class rightly included — among…
Continue Reading →Focus on the Front Sight? Maybe. Maybe Not.
I did some shooting over the Memorial Day weekend and came away shaking my head. The reason for the headshake was that, over the course of about six hours, I figured out that, at ranges up to about…
Continue Reading →Road Rage: Getting Worse, Not Better
Frankly, I’m getting tired of having to write columns about road rage. You’d have thought that, as it becomes widely publicized and as more and more citizens are legally carrying guns for protection,…
Continue Reading →The Circle Drill
The Drill: The Circle Drill was introduced to us by longtime friend and mentor George Harris, co-founder of the SIG Sauer Academy. This drill is designed to help you improve speed and accuracy while…
Continue Reading →Basic Knife-Fighting Techniques
You have a knife, but do you know how to use it most effectively? If you think you are going to stop an attacker with a stab or two to the abdomen, think again. Cutting large muscles is the most…
Continue Reading →How Many Weapons Do You Carry?
What do you really want to know about concealed carry? I apologize if I sometimes fall into the trap of thinking that everyone reading this column has the same level of interest in concealed carry as…
Continue Reading →Why Bet Against the Odds?
Any good “Texas Hold’em” player can calculate at the drop of each card what his or her chances of winning that particular hand are. And even novices know that drawing to an inside straight is a…
Continue Reading →Situational Awareness Fail: Life-Altering Experience
SINCE JOINING THE USCCA last year and reading all the fabulous articles in Concealed Carry Magazine, I have learned to be intentional about living in Condition Yellow at all times. I thought I was…
Continue Reading →The Bill Drill (Version 2)
The Drill: The primary focus of The Bill Drill is to break the habit of firing the same number of rounds downrange when you train. People often shoot a single round, then look where it… and so on.
Continue Reading →Fight the Monsters Among Us
A gruesome murder on the streets of Cleveland was posted to Facebook. The incident began when one man stopped his car and approached another man. The two men were strangers. As I have said before,…
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