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These Gun Sights Are Off!
Author, Tom Mchale

These Sights are Off

We humans don't lack confidence.

A couple of years ago, I was assistant coaching a youth Steel Challenge team. Every other week or so, we would get a new shooter or two, usually between the ages of 12 and 16. One week, I had a new young man, about 15 years of age as I recall.

To protect the innocent, but exceptionally confident, let's just call him Frank "Ponch" Poncherello.

Anyway, after taking Ponch through a pretty comprehensive safety briefing on the four rules and safety procedures at our range, it was time to get Ponch shooting. He had shot guns before, including pistols, so we went straight to the team's Springfield Armory XD 9mm. Yeah, it's a nice gun and certainly not known for accuracy problems.

After unloading at steel plates for a couple of magazines, Ponch turned to me and said.......

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My Five Self Defense Knives
Author, Tom Claycomb


PUMA Bowie 116396 KnifeLet me start by making a statement. YOU DO NOT WANT TO GET INTO A KNIFE FIGHT! In a good knife fight, no one wins. Many times you won't even know that you are cut, much less how bad.

The baddest guy that I know with a knife is the Pro-staff guy that helped design Browning's Black Label Tactical knives named Jared Wisong.  (Watch the Video in Article)
 

First let's cover a couple of basic knife fighting goals. #1 to Win at all costs. Typically to win a knife fight, were both sides are some what equally armed, you have to either stab the bad guy in a vital or slice him enough until he bleeds out from numerous smaller cuts and you need to stay alive until he passes out.

In case you aren't that familiar with knives and wonder why that I am so scared of them let me give you a scenario. A Highway Patrolman told me that if your pistol is in the scabbard and a 16 year old doped up pimple faced kid has a knife and charges you

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