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0300 – Safety as a Concept In Training and in Life

May 23, 2012 by PaulCarlson Leave a Comment

Sometimes it seems like we live in a world of rules. Often times these rules are in lists that are so long and complicated that they are impossible to “know” and even more difficult to follow and enforce. The barrage of rules can be so overwhelming that at times, by some, the rules are simply ignored. This obviously leads to the exact opposite effect that the rules themselves were intended to cause. Today we are going to take a look at safety in training and how we can apply those principles to life.

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0239 – Holiday Decoration Safety

December 1, 2011 by PaulCarlson Leave a Comment

The “Holidays” are the most wonderful time of the year aren’t they. The time from Thanksgiving to New Years day is full of family, fun, snow, food, memories and all kinds of wonderful things. What we don’t want it to be full of is tragedy. It is these wonderful Holiday events that could lead to tragedy if we aren’t careful. We need to be mindful of our choices to make sure that our festive mood and the decorations that enhance that mood don’t lead to trouble. Today we will take a look at Holiday decoration safety considerations.

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0238 – Using your Smart Phone to Lead a Safer Life

November 29, 2011 by PaulCarlson Leave a Comment

I recently upgraded from a Blackberry to an iPhone 4. After day 4 I commented to people that I had accomplished more work in four days on the iPhone than I had in 4 years with the Blackberry. I still don’t think its an exaggeration. The iPhone is a fabulous small computer. I don’t think it is wise to become completely dependent on an electronic device, however, lets face it, there is no reason that we should avoid taking advantage of the versatility and convienince that the current smartphones can offer us. Today we will take a look at the way smart phones can help to keep us safe.

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0208 – An Evaluation of Manual Safeties in Fighting Handguns

July 31, 2011 by PaulCarlson Leave a Comment

Violence is a horrible and dynamic thing. It is our goal to make our performance in violence as simple as possible. The violence itself demands so much from us that we need to make sure that the manner in which we choose to defend ourselves doesn’t increase that demand any more than it needs to. When we are being attacked, there is an incredibly long to do list. The more fat we can cut from that list, the more likely we are to be successful in violence. Today we take a look at the way manual safeties on fighting handguns could effect our performance in violence.

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What we need to do to dominate violent encounters

To dominate in violence we have a long to do list that we must take care of:

Please DO NOT take this as an exhaustive list of skills and options to prevail in a gunfight. That is not my purpose.

Make sure our mindset, conditioning, skills and gear are squared away and with us BEFORE the fight
Observe the threat
Orient ourselves to the threat
Decide what we are going to about that threat
Act

Each one of these points has an infinite number of sub points depending on how detailed we want to break things down and the length of the to do list can really become daunting especially when we put it into context. It’s dark, we are surprised, we may have been hit, kicked, stabbed, cut or shot for two full seconds all the way through O and O and we only have a precious few seconds to turn the tables. To Decide and to Act.

I want to cut the list as short as possible.

The abridged version of handgun Fighting: Decide, Move and Shoot

Move and Access the gun
Get a grip on the gun
Draw
Orient to the target
Rip the trigger

The problem comes into paly when we realize that each and every step of this process can be a hornets nest of problems.

This isn’t an 1911 vs. Glock Argument

Why in the world would I want to add a step? A manual safety adds a step.

This is not an argument against 1911′s

Love em
Have more money tied up in 11′s and accessories than all my other firepower combined
Carried a variant for years

Since some will turn this into Glock v. 1911, i’ll bite, but just for fun!

1911′s have manual safeties for a reason, a light trigger pull
the trigger pull on a 1911 is a thing of beauty and it enhances accuracy wonderfully
BUT this isn’t happening at 25 yards! Sexual distances to 2 arms length!
I don’t need a trigger to enhance my accuracy
I don’t need “accuracy” by the standard definition

If the safety wasn’t a trade off, I would take the trigger pull of the 1911 any day, but it is a trade off.

I See Manual Safeties Cause Problems

competitive shooting
students in courses
both situations provide stress, but nothing like the real thing baby.

We can train it, but with all that we need to train, why?

Don’t throw out your 1911.

This isn’t just about 1911′s
If you are dedicated to it no problem. Train it.
1911 solution
Understand that you are adding additional skills that you need to train.
Get it done.

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0193 – Thoughts on Home Defense Tactics

June 15, 2011 by PaulCarlson Leave a Comment

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Just like Monday’s episode today’s topic comes from a listener email. It wasn’t really posed as a question and I think the listener has a good handle on the topic, but I thought the email was an excellent motivator to address the topic of home-defense tactics. So, here we are addressing home-defense tactics.

Another similarity to Monday’s topic, When to Call the Police, there is no correct answer for what the best home-defense tactics are. So as you listen to today’s show please keep in mind that my intention is simply to give you some things to think about, not to try and change what it is that you are doing now!

There are two generally accepted tactics for defending our home from that bump in the night:

Clear the home
Safe room

Both have advantages and disadvantages. Why not combine the advantages of both?

The middle ground is the ambush!

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