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The Next Best Thing to Combat
Experience is king in combat. The one who’s been in the most fights generally has a considerable edge. But experience is a hard thing to get. Not only is…
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Renting While Owning Guns? Some Things to Consider…
When it comes to firearm ownership, renters, and especially those who live in an apartment, face difficulties homeowners may not need to consider. Here are some things to think about…
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Episode 333: The Secret to Winning a Gunfight – Dave Spaulding
Today, Riley talks with Dave Spaulding of Handgun Combatives. Riley recently went through Dave’s Kinetic Combat Pistol course here in Colorado where the importance of moving with purpose was drilled into the students. Dave has been instructing for nearly 40 years in law enforcement, SWAT and civilian capacities. Dave has a unique non-BS approach to teaching only what is relevant and proven to help good people win gunfights decisively.
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Mantis X Prooves Finger Placement Is Overrated
In this episode of SHOP Talk, Riley busts the trigger finger placement myth that has been running around shooting circles for a long time. The myth, of course, is that…
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Episode 330: Legal Q&A with Andrew Branca and Chad Enos at KelTec
Riley had the privilege of sitting down with and talking about legal questions and considerations together with Andrew Branca (Law of Self Defense) and Chad Enos (KelTec). Listeners and viewers submitted questions to us and were presented to Andrew for his responses. Chad added a unique perspective to the issues, and overall we had a great chat.
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Episode 329: Integrative Defense Strategies & CCW – Todd Fossey
Today, Riley interviews Todd Fossey who is charging onto the national scene as a top tier disruptive innovator and champion for the citizen defender. He is the CEO and Chief Instructor at Integrative Defense Strategies in Minneapolis, Minnesota.
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Guardian Nation Live With Todd Fossey
It’s that time again, my friends. The time when we host an industry expert to talk about whatever he or she has expertise in and allowing our members to ask…
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Episode 327: Finding Your Sights Quickly – Jerry Miculek
Today, Riley and Jacob interview Jerry Miculek, one of the most recognizable faces of competitive shooting and who is considered by many to be the greatest shooter of all time. Well recognized for his fast trigger finger, we will dive deep with Jerry into sight acquisition, sight picture, transitions, and more! Tune in and share your thoughts and questions with us as well!
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Episode 324: What is Your “Go” Signal?? – John Correia from ASP
Today, Riley plays back the interview he did with Active Self Protection’s John Correia while at SHOT Show 2019 in the Heckler & Koch booth. John shares some insights and behind the scenes moments from his popular Youtube channel and talks with us about the importance of training and putting in the time to improve on our skills. John also shares with us some incredibly powerful metrics that helps us identify what our “go” signal should be in some deadly force situations. This changed the way I look at things in a big way!!
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SHOP Talk: Stance
Is there such a thing as shooter’s stance? To some degree there may be, but in this episode of SHOP Talk, Riley shows you a better way of thinking about…
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Glock Promotes Gun Safety
A few days ago we received an email with a press release from Glock that we thought was pretty cool. I wouldn’t usually just stick the entire press release in…
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Episode 322: Doing Off Body Carry Correctly With Beth Alcazar
Today, Riley is MIA so Jacob teams up with Beth Alcazar to hash out off body carry. The objective here is to avoid shaming off body carry or thinking of it exclusively as a woman thing, and instead tackling it from the perspective of HOW to do it well. Tune in and share your thoughts and questions with us as well!
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Episode 320: The Jedi Master of Shooting – Scott Jedlinski
Today, Riley and Jacob interview Scott Jedlinski about shooting fast and running a red dot on a pistol. Scott is the founder of Modern Samurai Project, a popular Youtube channel and also hosts the Modern Samurai Project Podcast and stays busy training shooters across the country. Tune in and share your thoughts and questions with us as well!
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Episode 319: Team VTAC’s Kyle Lamb on Red Dot Optics
Today, Riley plays back an interview between him and Kyle Lamb while at the NRA 2019 Show in Indianapolis. Kyle is actually writing a new fiction book that should be really awesome! We also talk about other things he’s up to these days including building and shooting Open Division guns in competition and using red dot optics.
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Episode 318: All About the Glocks – Shane Coley & Corey Jones – SHOT 2019
Today, Riley and Matthew playback TWO interviews from SHOT Show 2019 at the Glock booth, one with Team Glock Captain Shane Coley, and the other with Assistant National Sales Director, Corey Jones. We talk training, mindset, preparation. And we also talk about the newest guns from Glock, the 43X, 45 and 48. We get into some of the behind-the-scenes details about what went into the design and development of these new platforms. Tune in and share your thoughts and questions with us as well!
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