Category: Gun Handling
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Improving ‘The Most Important Shot’
I don’t think it’s any real revelation to say that the most important skill in defensive shooting is the first shot from the holster. Every story you will read about an armed citizen using their gun in a shooting has one thing in common… They had to get their gun out and shoot! After the first shot rings…
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Shooting Technique: One Handed Shooting, Canted or Vertical?
This is a short post about pistol shooting technique. One of my readers noticed that I was using a traditional strict vertical one handed shooting technique. Like most things, it’s been a work in progress. Here’s my reasoning for using a more traditional vertical hold instead of a more canted ‘high speed’ one handed technique. I was…
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The Universal Draw Stroke
“The Draw Stroke is the Draw Stroke is the Draw Stroke.” -Paul Gomez explaining the drawstroke from several unorthodox positions Paul Gomez, the personal protection integrator who passed away well before this time, once said that simple phrase that has stuck with me ever since. He was good about quips that you would have to contemplate…
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The Underwear Gun (T.U.G.)
…police say the pair started demanding money, something the 28-year-old said she didn’t have. That’s when one of the attackers allegedly picked up a kitchen knife, turned on the stove, and put the blade in the flame. “And then four separate times burnt the 28-year-old female, burnt her face, both of her arms and her…