5.11 Tactical made big waves this year with the introduction of the new Hex Grid system they are using for packs, bags, and plate carriers. Needless to say, the idea of being able to mount gear at a variety of angles spoke to me. Upon seeing the All Missions Plate Carrier I knew I had […]
Tactical Training
CQB Tactical Tips | The After Fire Procedure
DISCLAIMER What you’re about to read represents a certain procedure, After Fire, that takes place after an engagement of a threat in short proximity. I am well aware, that no plan or idea stays intact with reality as many unseen variables lurk into the background. that is why we teach it as a procedure. Procedure tends […]
The Modern Warrior T1 Target – Train Like You Fight
The military moved away from standard bull’s eye targets years ago when it comes to combat training. You’ll see them here and there for fundamentals training, but when it comes to stacking bodies they use man-shaped targets. Why? Because the idea is you train like you fight. The man shaped targets give soldiers a more […]
Improve Your Shooting: Mastery Through Adaptability
It seems that people don’t understand that the only thing they need for complete adaptability to any platform is a steady trigger pull without disturbing their sight picture. Now this isn’t including the fact that you will have a different manual of arms requirement to run certain platforms. This will require some retraining in order to […]
Proficiency in combat: Getting good at the basics
You’ve seen it before time and time again — the YouTube videos of foreign Special Operations members drawing their weapons in non-traditional ways lightning fast, engaging two targets with rapid headshots from the hip, transitioning to a knife, stabbing another target in the chest. Well, you’ve probably seen some version of this — you know the types […]
Are Shooting Drills Tactical Skill-Killers?
What Is A Drill? Drills are a method of repeating something over and over until you can’t screw it up. Courses of fire are timed scenarios that are designed to test our skills and diagnose what we need to work on. If there is one thing that I have learned from my time using guns, professionally or otherwise, […]