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Top 5 Most-Read ConcealedCarry.com Articles of 2025
A year-end roundup of the five most-read ConcealedCarry.com articles of 2025, covering new firearms, gear insights, practical training drills, and essential gun safety lessons—chosen by our readers.
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S10E1: The UNCENSORED Beginner’s Guide to Training: The Drills
Riley and ‘Doc’ bring to you the fourth installment in a series of episodes about how to get started training. Today we will be talking about drills, and what and how to actually train. We think you’ll find a lot of value in today’s content, so please like, share, and subscribe so you don’t miss anything!
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Quantifying Your Defensive Shooting Skills, And Setting Standards
What level of defensive handgun skills does it take to win in a gunfight? Because no two defensive gun uses are exactly the same, and there are many variables, it’s…
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Are You Spending Your Time At The Range Totally Wrong?
If you were attacked on your way home from the office today, and all you had to go on to defend yourself was your last range session, how would you…
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Live Fire Training With Drills That Use Less Ammo
Right now, training is hard to do. We should all likely have the goal of preserving our ammunition as much as possible but we still need to make sure we’re…
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Episode 429: Protecting You & Your Property
Today, Riley Bowman and Matthew Maruster discuss the recent events in St. Louis, Missouri where a couple stood outside their home armed with pistol and rifle to apparently protect themselves and their home from a mob of people that stormed their private community in an attempt to reach and protest outside the mayor’s home. There are MANY lessons to be learned from this incident, and that is our goal today…to make each of ourselves better, smarter, and more prepared for our worst day should it come.
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Episode 427: Reloading a Pistol
Today, Riley Bowman and Matthew Maruster discuss this month’s Shooter Ready Challenge which involves reloads. They may not be very common in a civilian setting for defensive pistolcraft, but they’re still good to know and to practice. We’ll talk about tips and techniques, but don’t forget to participate in www.ShooterReadyChallenge.com for a chance to win free access to LASR X and free ammo!
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Episode 426: Performance at the Highest Level – B.J. Norris
Today, Riley Bowman interviews world champion shooter B.J. Norris (while on his lunch break) on what it takes to perform at our best…especially in stressful situations. B.J. has been competing since his youth and has numerous National and World titles to his name. He is also an avid practitioner of the defensive handgun.
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Episode 355: Big Guys Can Appendix, Too! – Spencer Keepers
Today, Riley talks with Spencer Keepers of Keepers Concealment. Spencer has become known as the “Appendix Carry Guy.” His company makes arguably the best AIWB holsters on the market (some of the models can be carried in other positions as well). But Spencer is also a really good shooter, too, having just recently earned his SECOND Turbo Pin (don’t know what that is?…we’ll talk about it)! Should be a great episode today!
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SHOP Talk: Live at the Range With Dot Torture
This episode of SHOP Talk is really special. Today, Riley was on vacation and went to the local gun range to show all of us how he warms up for…
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Episode 306: Beyond the One Percent – Karl Rehn
Today, Riley interviews Karl Rehn of KR Training and talk about training and practice, pistol red dots, and his new book “Strategies and Standards for Defensive Handgun Training.” Plus we discuss the idea of going Beyond the One Percent and how one accomplishes that. Karl is one of the brightest minds in the shooting and firearms instruction industry, and he’s a fantastic shooter to boot–a USPSA Grandmaster.
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Episode 304: Using Micro-Drills to Up Your Shooting Game
Today, Riley and Jacob talk about a little known secret to DRAMATICALLY improving your shooting performance, and it has to do with “Micro-Drills.” What are they? And how can you use them most effectively??
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SHOP Talk: Dry Fire Drills
If you’ve been following us for any extended amount of time you know that we’re huge advocates of dry firing your gun. The benefits of dry firing cannot be overstated…
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The Lyman Targ-Dot Challenge Kicked my Butt
This was going to be another article about those drills I love so much: Mini-challenges that pit you against you in a test of accuracy and/or time. There are a…
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The Argument and Methods For Tracking Your Firearm Training and Practice
WHY Should You Track Your Firearm Training and Practice? Before we discuss the best tools and methods, let me begin with some reasons why I feel it is a good…
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