3 Criteria for Effective Self-Defense Ammo

P365 With SIG 365 V-Crown Ammo

The importance of purchasing good self-defense ammunition for your everyday carry (EDC) handgun, or your home defense gun, is often overloed. But what does it mean to say you should buy “good self-defense ammunition?” Your ammunition should do three things consistently. Your self-defense ammunition should: Reliably feed in your specific gun. Consistently penetrate between 12″…

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This Is How You Can Stop The Bleed

stop the bleed

Anyone can suffer a traumatic injury at any given time. While there are many different types of injuries, addressing a massive hemorrhage or severe bleeding injury is the priority. First responders are doing their best to get to the injured person. But the actions you or I take before they get there may be critical…

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How to Buy A Used Gun

A while back I wrote a blog post about how to be successful at a gun show. To go along with that, because a lot of the guns you’d find at the gun show are going to be used (though certainly not all the time) I figured I’d give you some tips on how to…

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How Do I Hand A Gun To Another Person?

This is one of those things that almost nobody talks about because everyone assumes it must be common sense. The thing is, though, most people don’t hand a gun to another person the right way, and, technically this can be a very dangerous thing. I have personally had someone hand me a loaded revolver with…

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How To Make A Full Time Living As A Firearm Instructor

Recently a member of a private group of which I’m a member posted this question: For all the full-time firearm instructors where your only “day job” centers around firearms and self-defense how did you get there? What does it take? I had enough to say on the topic to justify typing up this article.…

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