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What if you disagree with your defensive shooting instructor?

You’re at a defensive shooting class; maybe this is your first, maybe it’s your twenty-first. Your instructor says (or does) something you disagree with. What do you do? There are a lot of different approaches to teaching self-defense shooting, and while at least 90% of the mechanics that are taught are the same from instructor to […]

Posted by Grant Cunningham
On November 2, 2015

What’s the difference between tasks and skills in defensive shooting training? Does it matter?

When training defensive shooting techniques, it’s common — too common, in fact — to focus on the skill used rather than the task to be performed. Now some people will say that those are the same thing, but they’re not. In fact, they’re very different. I recently read an article on the importance of and […]

Posted by Grant Cunningham
On September 11, 2015

Incident Analysis: family threatened, attacker shot at home in rural Oregon.

Oregon is a wonderful state, generally very peaceful and tranquil. That isn’t to say crime doesn’t happen here, however, and there is the need to be prepared — just like you would anywhere else. Today’s case comes from the Medford Mail-Tribune and offers some lessons to heed. On the evening of July 14th, a man […]

Posted by Grant Cunningham
On August 20, 2015

Just what is a “critical skill”?

I really should stop reading stuff people link to on FaceBook. I really should. It’s like chocolate chip cookies; you know they’re bad for you, but you eat them anyway! The latest was a linked article which talked about practicing your reloading skills. In it, the other repeatedly referred to reloading the gun as a […]

Posted by Grant Cunningham
On April 29, 2015

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