Welcome to the Hump Day Reading List! Here are what I believe to be the three most important articles you can read this week to enhance your personal and family safety:
It’s been a long while since I’ve featured any gear reviews here on the List. I intentionally don’t do much talking about gear, because ...
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It’s Wednesday, and time once again for my hand-picked selection of this week’s best articles to increase your safety, security, and survivability!
One of the things I’m most proud of is my involvement in the design of the Kimber K6s revolver. Getting the opportunity to make the vision of an ideal defensive revolver into an actual product that people ...
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Today I’m proud to announce the publication of a new book: PRAYING SAFE — The professional approach to protecting faith communities!
This book is all about helping churches, synagogues, temples — religious institutions of all types — protect themselves from a wide range of threats.
This book came about because my co-author, Joshua Gideon, and I have grown annoyed with the superficial and often ...
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I’ve got another great selection of articles for you this week!
This one happened last July; yesterday I read of a 3-year-old who died when he got hold of an unsecured firearm. Too many kids are dying from accidental gunshots, and we as responsible gun owners need to be at the forefront of reducing them.
It’s ...
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I’ve got an interesting mix of articles for you this week, all of which I believe to be worth your time to read. Yes, even the infuriating one at the end!
How should you handle a traffic stop when you’re carrying a defensive firearm? Greg Ellifritz is a police officer in Ohio, and he has some thoughts on the matter. ...
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I haven’t let this heat wave stop me from gathering more great self defense and preparedness articles for you! (Now, where did that iced tea go…)
“I don’t need to identify my target, because I can tell my girlfriend’s steps from an intruder in the dark”. Someone actually told me that, in explanation for not having ...
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Wow, is it ever hot here in Oregon! If it’s scorching where you are, cool off with a nice beverage and these great articles!
This is an article about how a photographer gets access to make pictures at the top of high-rise buildings. But it’s not a photography article! The reason it’s interesting and ...
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Spring has finally sprung in Oregon, and I’m celebrating with a great collection of articles for all aspects of your defense, safety, and preparedness!
Why do I say it’s dumb? Because these are five types of people you should ALWAYS avoid, whether you’re carrying or not! (Remember John Farnam’s famous advice: Don’t go to stupid places, do stupid ...
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If it’s Wednesday, this must be the awesome collection of personal safety and preparedness articles known as the Hump Day Reading List. What do you know — correct on both counts!
Those who’ve read Prepping For Life know that I make incessant fun of the “two is one and one is none” philosophy; it’s usually nothing more than a ...
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It’s Wednesday again, and here are more great self defense, travel safety, and preparedness articles for you to peruse while you wait for Friday to arrive!
Probably not, as John Farnam explains. I’ll deviate from his recommendations just a bit, though, and suggest that having fewer but higher quality lights is really the way ...
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Like a bad penny, I just keep turning up — but unlike a bad penny, what I bring you every Wednesday is actually worth something! Here’s another great group of articles to help you keep yourself and your loved ones safe from all sorts of bad things.
Claude Werner is fond of saying that gun ...
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In this week’s List you’ll find: a great review of my Threat Centered Revolver course; a look at the .22WMR revolver as a defensive option; another idiot shoots and kills someone he didn’t need to shoot at in the first place; some instructors don’t teach, they operate a buffet; how not to be seen (and therefore targeted); how to tell when things ...
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Online course review: Interactions With Law Enforcement While Armed from Personal Defense Network Academy
I’ll admit to being a little skeptical about this course when I first heard about it. I’ve sat in on a number of seminars covering this topic over the years, and frankly I didn’t really think it was a suitable subject for a standalone course. I ...
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About a week ago, Rob Pincus put up a video at Personal Defense Network regarding the use of the Weaver Stance in defensive shooting. Bob Owens at BearingArms apparently took exception to Pincus’ points and posted a personal invective at his own site titled “OH, DEAR: Rob Pincus Doesn’t Understand The Weaver Position.”
Rob asked me to take a look at both his video and Owen’s article; he said, and this is an exact quote from his email, that “I want an ...
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The other day I posted an article to social media about Eley’s newest .22LR hunting ammunition, suggesting that people who’ve never tried really good rimfire ammo haven’t a clue how much difference in performance it can make in their rifles. That comment reminded me of a .22 rifle “test” I read a couple of months ago, one which reinforced a simple fact:
.22 rifle reviews suck.
Darned near all of them, anyhow (and I’m only hedging my bets on the off chance that ...
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By Rob Pincus
Published by Personal Defense Network
This DVD was something of a surprise, largely because I didn’t quite know what to expect. When I saw the title “Personal Defense When The Gun Fails”, I immediately thought about malfunctions and remediation drills — and while the DVD touches on those, it goes well beyond them and includes some fresh ideas about how to look at the idea of a failure.
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Everyone, it seems, has an AR-15 these days and all of them have need for a good sighting system. There are lots of choices in the market, and this DVD attempts to make sense of the various choices by showing their strong and weak points relative to the job of personal protection at relatively close range.
It’s important to start off by saying that the material isn’t at all specific ...
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Over the years there has been much written and said on the topic of the defensive mindset. Many defensive shooting courses start with and claim to develop such a mindset, but usually amount to little more than trite sayings and broad exhortations.
Call me jaded if you will, but to be honest that’s what I was expecting when this DVD arrived in my mailbox. It was a pleasant surprise to find something very different than what I anticipated!
This ...
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This DVD is a bit of a departure from most of the Personal Defense Network productions that I’ve viewed. It’s entirely lecture-based, presented by Rob Pincus in a studio setting, and it’s also one of the most information-dense of the productions I’ve seen!
Comprehensive Guide To Self Defense is Pincus’ “50,000-foot view” of self defense, covering a wide range of topics all of which relate to personal defense in ...
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One of the questions all instructors get frequently is “how should I practice?” In this DVD, Rob Pincus shows what he considers to be a solid practice session even if you only have an hour and 100 rounds of ammunition to spare. It’s an interesting approach to the subject, but just how much valid practice can you do with two boxes of ammunition?
As it turns out, quite a bit!
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Surviving The Knockout Game DVD
Presented by Cecil Burch
Immediate Action Combatives
Cecil Burch has made a name for himself over the past several years for his sometimes unique approaches to defensive tactics: those things that you do when you’re engaged in a response to an attack. He’s trained with the best instructors in several types of martial arts and in the shooting world, and that wide background makes him a popular instructor with police, military special operations, and private ...
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Early in The Bullpup Experiment I mentioned that I had a few issues with the stock Steyr optic: while a good product, it fit neither my physical make-up nor my eyesight issues. I also mentioned that I contacted the folks at Meopta Sports Optics to find an alternative, and that they had sent out a couple of their products for me to use and abuse as part of my little experiment. Today I’d like to tell you a little ...
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As you may know, I’m a proponent of the rifle as a defensive tool — particularly for what I refer to as “perimeter defense”, which are threats at distances beyond which we think of the pistol as a more suitable tool, and for defense of a fortified or ensconced position (like being barricaded in your safe room.) The rifle’s greater power, greater precision, and corresponding ability to deliver both at extended distances makes it a formidable tool in the correct ...
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I’m initiating a new feature here on grantcunningham.com: every Friday (or as close to every Friday as I can get) I’ll be bringing you the Weekender: a wrap-up of stories and links that I’ve found during the week, items that I believe you’ll find informative, inspiring, and sometimes even entertaining — all of them, of course, related in some way to the topics on my site!
For Friday, September 25, 2015:
A NEW ENTRY IN THE .380 ACP PISTOL MARKET: the .380ACP ...
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Secrets Of The Snubby
Presented by Claude Werner
Produced by Armed Response Training Inc.
One of the pleasures of my job is getting to review the work of my esteemed colleagues, and today I get to do just that!
Claude Werner, who I consider to be one of the more important people in the defensive training field, has put out a DVD dealing with one of his areas of true expertise: using the snubnosed revolver as a defensive tool.
Claude has a long ...
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Defensive DVD Review: Interactions with Law Enforcement While Armed
Presented by Jeremy Wilson and Rob Pincus
Published by the Personal Defense Network as part of the Personal Firearms Defense DVD series
When the Personal Defense Network (PDN) sent me this DVD, I realized something about the defensive shooting world: there are two subjects about concealed carry (CCW) which no one seems to want to touch, yet they’re something that those people who ...
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Reality based training (RBT) is becoming a bigger part of the defensive shooting world on a daily basis. This DVD answers your most common questions!
DVD Review: Maximizing Reality-Based Training
Presented by Ken Murray and Rob Pincus
Published by the Personal Defense Network as part of the Personal Firearms Defense DVD series
Reality-based training, sometimes referred to as force-on-force or scenario-based training, is a teaching methodology that uses scenarios with live actors and non-lethal ...
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DVD Review: Bulletproof Mind – Mental Preparation For The Coming Hard Times
with Lt. Col. Dave Grossman and Rob Pincus
Published by the Personal Defense Network as part of the Personal Firearms Defense DVD series
Many people are already familiar with the work of Lt. Col. Dave Grossman. He’s the author of several notable books, including “On Killing” and “On Combat”, and is a frequent lecturer and seminar ...
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How do you deal with the increasingly common multiple attacker crime — armed only with a knife?
Knife Defense Against Multiple Attackers
Presented by Alessandro Padovani, Safer Faster Defense
I’ll admit it — I’m not a knife guy. Don’t get me wrong; I carry one (actually two) almost everywhere I go and use them as tools on a daily basis. I actually wear knives out from use! I’m not an expert in using ...
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In my ongoing review of new DVDs from the Personal Defense Network, I come across one that’s interesting and a little different from the rest of PDN’s offerings. This one deals with what you know that you probably shouldn’t!
Defensive Firearms Myths and Misconceptions
Presented by Rob Pincus
Do you know what a “negative target” is? It’s a cardboard target with shapes cut out of it; you’re expected to shoot into the holes ...
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