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06/13/2026

The bullet is already gone...

Can you still see it?

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06/10/2026

Rifle-to-pistol transitions are about more than getting to the handgun quickly.

What happens to the rifle matters too.

In this clip from one of our Tactical Pistol & Carbine 2 classes, Joe Farewell discusses how his approach to managing the rifle during a transition has evolved over time.

The goal isn't just speed. It's also efficiency and consistency without creating unnecessary problems as you access your secondary.

Small details matter especially when you're trying to perform under pressure.

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21 feet won't save you. Most people who quote the "21-foot rule" have never read the original research, and the cop who ...
06/09/2026

21 feet won't save you. Most people who quote the "21-foot rule" have never read the original research, and the cop who wrote it never called it a rule.

The scenario it describes is one most of us have imagined: someone with a knife is closing the distance. Your firearm is holstered. Can you draw and fire before they reach you? For 40 years, the answer most trainers gave was yes, at 21 feet. The research now says that's wrong.

In 1983, Sgt. Dennis Tueller of the Salt Lake City PD published "How Close Is Too Close?" in SWAT magazine. He timed volunteers sprinting at a target--21 feet in 1.5 seconds. That was about the same time it took an officer to draw and fire. Tueller called it a danger zone. He told officers to use cover and create obstacles. He never called it a rule.

In 2020, a peer-reviewed study at Texas State University / ALERRT (152 officers, published in Police Practice and Research) measured real-world draw times. The average came in at 1.80 seconds, slower than the 21-foot sprint. The researchers concluded that for 95% of officers to fire on target before an edged-weapon attacker reaches them, the distance needs to be
closer to 30 feet.

Force Science Institute has separately documented sprint-and-slash attacks completed from 30 feet in 1.67 seconds.

The fix isn't a new number to memorize. It's what Tueller actually wrote: recognize pre-attack indicators early, create distance, use cover. Action beats reaction every time--anticipation is what gets you out of the gap.

Save this. Share it with anyone who carries, and anyone who's been told they can outdraw a knife at "the magic distance."

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*Sources: Tueller, "How Close Is Too Close?" SWAT Magazine (1983). Sandel et al., Police Practice and Research, Texas State / ALERRT (2020). Force
Science Institute publications (2005–2022). The Tueller drill is a training principle, not a legal standard — use-of-force decisions are evaluated under the totality of the circumstances.*

06/08/2026

One of the most overlooked parts of the draw isn't drawing the gun.

It's how your hands meet.

In this clip from our Cheat Codes of Shooting® 1 training, Myles discusses a different way to establish a two-handed grip that addresses a problem we occasionally see under pressure.

During force-on-force scenarios, it's not uncommon for shooters to inadvertently contact the magazine release while establishing their grip. The result?

The magazine drops. Not because they lack skill, but because pressure changes behavior.

There are multiple ways to solve the problem. This is one option that may be worth exploring for you, especially if you've experienced issues getting a consistent grip under stress.

Small details matter, and sometimes the little things are the difference between a gun that works and one that doesn't.

06/05/2026

🚨 Barricade Series: Part 2

With Kyle Litzie — World Rifle Champion.

This drill is called:

Wobble Maxing.

(Really, it’s about wobble minimizing.)

When you’re shooting from a barricade at distance, the goal isn’t to eliminate movement completely—that’s impossible.

The goal is to use your body position, structure, and support points to minimize how much movement you have on the target.

Less wobble = more confidence.
Less wobble = more speed.
Less wobble = better hits.

Because when targets get farther away, small movements become big misses.

Part 2 of 3.

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🚨 NEW SENIOR INSTRUCTOR ANNOUNCEMENT 🚨Who teaches America's most elite units how to shoot?Meet Tyler.He spent 20 years i...
06/04/2026

🚨 NEW SENIOR INSTRUCTOR ANNOUNCEMENT 🚨

Who teaches America's most elite units how to shoot?

Meet Tyler.

He spent 20 years in the U.S. Army, but he didn't just serve. He taught soldiers how to shoot and made them more lethal on the battlefield.

As a Shooter and Instructor with the elite U.S. Army Marksmanship Unit (USAMU), Tyler was selected for the Instructor Training Group, the unit responsible for developing marksmanship training for Special Operations Command and the Department of War.

He's built countless training courses for U.S. and partner forces. Programs proven to increase unit lethality.

When the military's best shooters needed better training, they called his team.

And he doesn't just teach it, he competes at the highest level. Tyler holds Master classifications in three separate USPSA divisions.

Now he's bringing that world-class instruction to you.
Welcome to the team, Tyler. 🇺🇸

Keep an eye out, his first courses are dropping soon. 👀

Your wallet was never the target.Most "muggings" aren't really about money. They're punishments for something the victim...
06/02/2026

Your wallet was never the target.

Most "muggings" aren't really about money. They're punishments for something the victim may not even know they did.

In 2008, Bruce Jacobs and Richard Wright published "Moralistic Street Robbery" in Crime & Delinquency. They interviewed active criminals in St. Louis and made a simple argument: most people picture a robbery as someone taking your stuff. But a lot of street robberies aren't about the stuff at all. They're about sending a message.

The message comes in three flavors:

— Market: fights between people in the street drug trade. Someone owes money. A deal went bad. There's bad blood.

— Status: someone disrespected the offender. Challenged who he is.

— Personalistic: someone crossed a line. Took something the offender saw as his. Broke a rule he believed in.

Here's the part most people miss: trying to look tough can make things worse.

Jacobs and Wright found that these offenders pick targets who, in their head, have "earned" a beating, people who pushed back, refused to step aside, or looked the part.

A separate study by Lindegaard, Bernasco, and Jacques (2015)--using interviews with 104 active robbers about 143 real robberies--found that victims who looked tough at the start of a robbery got hit harder, not less.

In both studies, looking tough was an invitation. Not a deterrent.

Two honest notes before you share this:

— The research is small and St. Louis-based. It may not match suburbs, rural areas, or crimes that start online.

— These are the offenders' own stories. They tell us how robbers see their own robberies. They don't give us an exact percentage of all robberies that work this way. The pattern is real. But no one has measured it precisely.

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Your wallet was never the target.Most "muggings" aren't really about money. They're punishments for something the victim...
06/02/2026

Your wallet was never the target.

Most "muggings" aren't really about money. They're punishments for something the victim may not even know they did.

In 2008, Bruce Jacobs and Richard Wright published "Moralistic Street Robbery" in Crime & Delinquency. They interviewed active criminals in St. Louis and made a simple argument: most people picture a robbery as someone taking your stuff. But a lot of street robberies aren't about the stuff at all. They're about sending a message.

The message comes in three flavors:

— Market: fights between people in the street drug trade. Someone owes money. A deal went bad. There's bad blood.

— Status: someone disrespected the offender. Challenged who he is.

— Personalistic: someone crossed a line. Took something the offender saw as his. Broke a rule he believed in.

Here's the part most people miss: trying to look tough can make things worse.

Jacobs and Wright found that these offenders pick targets who, in their head, have "earned" a beating--people who pushed back, refused to step aside, or looked the part.

A separate study by Lindegaard, Bernasco, and Jacques (2015), using interviews with 104 active robbers about 143 real robberies, found that victims who looked tough at the start of a robbery got hit harder, not less.

In both studies, looking tough was an invitation. Not a deterrent.

Two honest notes before you share this:

— The research is small and St. Louis-based. It may not match suburbs, rural areas, or crimes that start online.

— These are the offenders' own stories. They tell us how robbers see their own robberies. They don't give us an exact percentage of all robberies that work this way. The pattern is real. But no one has measured it precisely.

Save this. Send it to one person.

Post 5 of 12. Every claim cited on the final slide. Follow for the rest.

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06/02/2026

Most shooters know they should control their breathing.

Fewer understand when to break the shot.

When engaging difficult targets at distance with a rifle, one of the most stable moments is during your natural respiratory pause—the brief pause that occurs after you exhale and before you inhale again.

That’s when unnecessary movement is at its lowest.

In this clip, Joe breaks down how and when to use the natural respiratory pause to increase stability and improve precision on longer shots.

This footage was taken during one of our Tactical Pistol & Carbine 2 training events.

The farther the target gets, the more the little things matter.

39. 56. 74.Three numbers from the largest survey of felons the U.S. Justice Department has ever funded, and they still g...
05/27/2026

39. 56. 74.

Three numbers from the largest survey of felons the U.S. Justice Department has ever funded, and they still get misquoted in both directions.

Between August 1982 and January 1983, James D. Wright and Peter H. Rossi sent anonymous, self-administered questionnaires to 1,874 incarcerated adult male felons in 11 state prisons across 10 states. The work was published in 1986 as Armed and Considered Dangerous. Forty years later, three of its findings keep coming back:

— 39% of the felons said they had personally decided NOT to commit a crime because they thought the intended victim might be armed. Eight percent, about 1 in 12, said it had happened many times in their careers.

— 56% agreed with the statement: "A criminal would not attack a potential victim who was known to be armed."

— 74% agreed: one reason burglars avoid houses where people are home is that they fear being shot during the crime.

A fourth, quieter finding: felons living in states with higher civilian gun ownership reported the most worry about running into an armed victim. The fear was not uniform, it tracked the gun-density map.

Honest caveats:

— This is self-report from incarcerated felons. It is evidence that fear of armed victims is part of offender decision-making. It is not a "defensive gun uses per year" figure, that estimate ranges widely, roughly 60,000 to 2.5 million depending on method.

— These percentages are from one survey in one era. The markets, the policing, and the policy have all moved. Quote the numbers with the date. The durable finding is the pattern (that offenders factor armed-victim risk into target selection) not the specific percentages.

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