You Can't Buy Skill
Every serious shooter tries to buy skill with gear. It never works. The answer is where you started: simple equipment and a willingness to practice forever.
Practical notes on work, leadership, and getting things done.
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Every serious shooter tries to buy skill with gear. It never works. The answer is where you started: simple equipment and a willingness to practice forever.
Among surprise, speed, and violence of action, the latter two are the skills that matter most. The institutional resistance to that truth is not a tactical disagreement — it is an excuse for poor training.
A Saturday phone call about world threats leads to a conversation about the Disposition Matrix—and why worrying about what you can't control is a waste of energy.
If you carry a firearm for self-defense, you have an obligation to be professional—competent, skillful, assured. That means being both fast and accurate. Here's what that requires.
A quiet reflection on the film Warfare—and why showing up, without drama or glory, is often the most honest form of leadership.
Most Americans take their rights for granted — but owning a gun without skill is not self-defense, it’s a liability. This is a call to those who carry: train, or don’t carry at all.