Strickly my opinion!

I have both known and felt, for along time, that the country that I live in has turned into a circus show.  With all the major & important problems we are faced with as a free nation who would think that the thing that so many people would be so interested in is this latest FREAK SHOW!   I am speaking about this deal with lady Bruce!  Of all the things that could be considered courageous and honorable what in God's Green Earth makes so many people think that this among them!  This includes our illustrious commander & chief and all his cronies.  Not one word mentioned from his lying mouth when a true American Hero was murdered, Chris Kyle!  But, he has the balls to comment on this.  What a disgrace!
A things like this remind me of the old saying, and I quote 
"When all you have is a piece of Shit, you can polish it all you want, it may shine, but it is still Shit. 

If this offends you, too bad!  Wake up before it is too late!    

The Four D's

I came across this information many years ago.  It was written by one of the foremost, experienced  and respected firearms instructors in the business.  The individual that I am speaking of is Mr. John Farnam, owner and chief executive officer of Defense Training International.  I hope to some day take one of his advance combat pistol classes.  I have had, and been blessed, to have had the opportunity to be able to train with some of the other top firearms professional in our business but it would be in my opinion the paragon of the of my training to be able to meet him and to train with him!  

Just so no body get their b....'s twisted in their shorts, Mr Farnam did not take the credit for the information that I am passing along here.  He plainly stated that the information was pasted on to him by a friend who's name escapes me.

This information is critical in a Deadly Force encounter.  It works hand to hand with the OODA LOOP, tactics that were first present by Ret. Col. USAF, John Boyd.

If you carried a gun especially in the direct relationship to your occupation, a PROFESSIONAL, or if you consider yourself to be a skillful well disciplined and responsible armed citizen then you need to understand how this information will contribute to being able to PREVAIL in that type of Deadly Encounter.  I hope you noticed that I said PREVAIL and not survive.  There is a big difference!

THE FOUR D'S

These four principal must be apply if you find yourself in that worst nightmare!

1. Divide your opponent's Focus!

2. Disrupt his Plan!

3. Disable his Body!

4. Destroy his will to Fight!  

Hope you find this informative, and add it to your little bag of tricks!

Thanks for stopping in.

Information

Talked to my buddy Pete last night and he gave me a price for the holsters that he will be making.  The belt version will be $50.00 and the ISWB version will be $40.00.  These are great prices for a holster of this quality.

Also, just a reminder that private and group lessons are available from beginner to advanced skills level.  

Basic Safety $ Skills Class scheduled at the Double Action Indoor Shooting Range, Yeadon, Pa this coming Saturday, June 6th.  Class starts @ 1100 and runs for between 4.5 to 5 hours.  Price for the class is $100.00.  If you are interested contact the range; 610-626-2995.  If you own a gun and have never taken any type of safety class you need to take this class!

We will also be scheduling a intermediate skills handgun course for sometime in June.  This class will provide you with the minimum amount of training that you need in order to apply for any the out of state Non-Resident CCW permits.  All classes provide you with a certificate of completions. 

Class date and time will be posted soon.

TRAIN HARD! / FIGHT EASY!  

Quality Holster

Hi folks, I just want to pass along some information regarding a new source for an outstanding quality Kydex holster.  Made right here in the Phila. Pa area.  The holsters are made by my very good friend Pete Cannella.  Pete has a You Tube Channel, The ARMORY Channel He also works at the Double Action Indoor Pistol and Archery Range in Yeadon, Pa.  Pete has a tremendous following on his channel.  His video are both informative and at times very humorous.  That why his channel is so popular.

Pete decided to get involved in making Kydex holster and he tells me that he will be making them for a wide variety of  handguns.

I have posted

a pic of a holster that he made for the mid size Glock.

More information to follow as I receive it.

HAPPY MEMORIAL DAY

THEY SAY "A PICTURE IS WORTH A 1000 WORDS"

THANK YOU! TO ALL THAT SERVED!

Wyatt Earp

WYATT EARP ON SHOOTING VS. GUNFIGHTING

Interview taken from “Wyatt Earp: Frontier Marshall” by Stuart N. Lake

“I was a fair hand with pistol, rifle, or shotgun, but I learned more about gunfighting from Tom Speer’s cronies during the summer of ’71 than I had dreamed was in the book. Those old-timers took their gunplay seriously, which was natural under the conditions in which they lived. Shooting, to them, was considerably more than aiming at a mark and pulling a trigger. Models of weapons, methods of wearing them, means of getting them into action and operating them, all to the one end of combining high speed with absolute accuracy, contributed to the frontiersman’s shooting skill. The sought-after degree of proficiency was that which could turn to most effective account the split-second between life and death. Hours upon hours of practice, and wide experience in actualities supported their arguments over style.

The most important lesson I learned from those proficient gunfighters was the winner of a gunplay usually was the man who took his time. The second was that, if I hoped to live long on the frontier, I would shun flashy trick-shooting—grandstand play—as I would poison.

When I say that I learned to take my time in a gunfight, I do not wish to be misunderstood, for the time to be taken was only that split fraction of a second that means the difference between deadly accuracy with a sixgun and a miss. It is hard to make this clear to a man who has never been in a gunfight. Perhaps I can best describe such time taking as going into action with the greatest speed of which a man’s muscles are capable, but mentally unflustered by an urge to hurry or the need for complicated nervous and muscular actions which trick-shooting involves. Mentally deliberate, but muscularly faster than thought, is what I mean.

In all my life as a frontier police officer, I did not know a really proficient gunfighter who had anything but contempt for the gun-fanner, or the man who literally shot from the hip. In later years I read a great deal about this type of gunplay, supposedly employed by men noted for skill with a forty-five.

From personal experience and numerous six-gun battles which I witnessed, I can only support the opinion advanced by the men who gave me my most valuable instruction in fast and accurate shooting, which was that the gun-fanner and hip-shooter stood small chance to live against a man who, as old Jack Gallagher always put it, took his time and pulled the trigger once.

Cocking and firing mechanisms on new revolvers were almost invariably altered by their purchasers in the interests of smoother, effortless handling, usually by filing the dog which controlled the hammer, some going so far as to remove triggers entirely or lash them against the guard, in which cases the guns were fired by thumbing the hammer. This is not to be confused with fanning, in which the triggerless gun is held in one hand while the other was brushed rapidly across the hammer to cock the gun, and firing it by the weight of the hammer itself. A skillful gun-fanner could fire five shots from a forty-five so rapidly that the individual reports were indistinguishable, but what could happen to him in a gunfight was pretty close to murder.

I saw Jack Gallagher’s theory borne out so many times in deadly operation that I was never tempted to forsake the principles of gunfighting as I had them from him and his associates.

There was no man in the Kansas City group who was Wild Bill’s equal with a six-gun. Bill’s correct name, by the way, was James B. Hickok. Legend and the imaginations of certain people have exaggerated the number of men he killed in gunfights and have misrepresented the manner in which he did his killing. At that, they could not very well overdo his skill with pistols.

Hickok knew all the fancy tricks and was as good as the best at that sort of gunplay, but when he had serious business at hand, a man to get, the acid test of marksmanship, I doubt if he employed them. At least, he told me that he did not. I have seen him in action and I never saw him fan a gun, shoot from the hip, or try to fire two pistols simultaneously. Neither have I ever heard a reliable old-timer tell of any trick-shooting employed by Hickok when fast straight-shooting meant life or death.

That two-gun business is another matter that can stand some truth before the last of the old-time gunfighters has gone on. They wore two guns, most of six-gun toters did, and when the time came for action went after them with both hands. But they didn’t shoot them that way.

Primarily, two guns made the threat of something in reserve; they were useful as a display of force when a lone man stacked up against a crowd. Some men could shoot equally well with either hand, and in a gunplay might alternate their fire; others exhausted the loads from the gun on the right, or the left, as the case might be, then shifted the reserve weapon to the natural shooting hand if that was necessary and possible. Such a move—the border shift—could be made faster than the eye could follow a top-notch gun-thrower, but if the man was as good as that, the shift would seldom be required.

Whenever you see a picture of some two-gun man in action with both weapons held closely against his hips and both spitting smoke together, you can put it down that you are looking at the picture of a fool, or a fake. I remember quite a few of these so-called two-gun men who tried to operate everything at once, but like the fanners, they didn’t last long in proficient company.

In the days of which I am talking, among men whom I have in mind, when a man went after his guns, he did so with a single, serious purpose. There was no such thing as a bluff; when a gunfighter reached for his fortyfive, every faculty he owned was keyed to shooting as speedily and as accurately as possible, to making his first shot the last of the fight. He just had to think of his gun solely as something with which to kill another before he himself could be killed. The possibility of intimidating an antagonist was remote, although the ‘drop’ was thoroughly respected, and few men in the West would draw against it. I have seen men so fast and so sure of themselves that they did go after their guns while men who intended to kill them had them covered, and what is more win out in the play. They were rare. It is safe to say, for all general purposes, that anything in gunfighting that smacked of show-off or bluff was left to braggarts who were ignorant or careless of their lives.

I might add that I never knew a man who amounted to anything to notch his gun with ‘credits,’ as they were called, for men he had killed. Outlaws, gunmen of the wild crew who killed for the sake of brag, followed this custom. I have worked with most of the noted peace officers — Hickok, Billy Tilghman, Pat Sughre, Bat Masterson, Charlie Basset, and others of like caliber — have handled their weapons many times, but never knew one of them to carry a notched gun.

There are two other points about the old-time method of using six-guns most effectively that do not seem to be generally known. One is that the gun was not cocked with the ball of the thumb. As his gun was jerked into action, the old-timer closed the whole joint of his thumb over the hammer and the gun was cocked in that fashion.  The soft flesh of the thumb ball might slip if a man’s hands were moist, and a slip was not to be chanced if humanly avoidable. This thumb-joint method was employed whether or not a man used the trigger for firing.

On the second point, I have often been asked why five shots without reloading were all a top-notch gunfighter fired, when his guns were chambered for six cartridges. The answer is, merely, safety. To ensure against accidental discharge of the gun while in the holster, due to hair-trigger adjustment, the hammer rested upon an empty chamber. As widely as this was known and practiced, the number of cartridges a man carried in his six-gun may be taken as an indication of a man’s rank with the gunfighters of the old school.  Practiced gun-wielders had too much respect for their weapons to take unnecessary chances with them; it was only with tyros and would-bes that you heard of accidental discharges or didn’t-know-it-was-loaded injuries in the country where carrying a Colt was a man’s prerogative

FOOD FOR THOUGHT

This is something that I have been preaching and supporting for a long time!  Thanks, Rich Grassi for this article!

Skill Set: What You Carry

There is no doubt that owning and shooting different type firearms is fun. But, if lives depended on it wouldn't you be better off choosing one type firearm, spending most of your time and ammo learning how to use it efficiently and effectively?

Sometimes I shoot for fun. Mostly I practice for defensive purposes. The pistols I carry are all very similar. For example one thing they have in common is that the every trigger press is always the same, as opposed to a double/single action type trigger. I'm not saying you shouldn't carry a pistol with a double/single trigger. If this is the type pistol you're going to carry it should be pretty much all you ever train, practice with and carry. Another example is pistols with thumb safeties. For those who regularly use a weapon with a thumb safety, such as a 1911, it's not that difficult to transition to a pistol without an external thumb safety. Attempting to disengage a thumb safety that isn't there ain't a problem. But, for someone who normally works with a weapon without a thumb safety, then decides to carry a weapon with a thumb safety, forgetting to disengage the safety during stressful conditions could be disastrous.

Think about the same thing when it comes to manipulations. You carry a pistol with an bi-lateral mag-release. You're right handed so it's become a habit to use your trigger finger to release the empty mag. On the day you have to fight you're toting a weapon that only has a mag release on the left side of the pistol. Time is lost as the trigger finger keeps reaching for a mag release that isn't there. In a situation that will likely only last a few seconds this confusion will not be good.

I don't think you should "test drive" pistols by carrying them. A weapon should only be carried once you are competent and confident with it. I won't carry one until it's had a few thousand rounds through it under a variety of different circumstances. Cold, wet, dirty, I know it will run. It may get beat up during this process, but when I start carrying it I have confidence in the weapon and my ability to operate it. Once I decide I like one, I'll get a couple more, performing the same modifications if any that I did to the first one. I test these during my practice sessions. Now I have one to carry, one to practice with – it gets abused a lot – and a backup if one of these is out of play. I know, having several of the very same pistol sounds boring, but it's hard to beat consistency.

If you are forced to use your pistol your performance needs to be spot on. You want and need every advantage possible. Lives will depend on your choices prior to the event. Yes, you should know how all pistols function, but there is no denying that constant and consistent repetition with one type pistol will produce the best results under stressful conditions. Focusing on one type firearm provides more benefits for the time invested and increases your chances of victory.