If you’re going to take your point shooting skills as far as the fight needs them to be, you’ve got to have it. Suarez International Instructor CR Williams I see it over and over again, and I still do it myself (not as often as I did, but I still... Continue reading

...and why you should work on being able to take it. CR Williams, Suarez International Staff Instructor Gabe's recent article about the shooting at the Carson City IHOP was, as such things tend to be, copied to and discussed on a number of gun forums outside of Warrior Talk. On... Continue reading

Is it a mistake to be corrected, or a change from something that works to something that works better? If you're an instructor, what about your students? Is there only one right way for them as well? Thoughts on the subject of evolution and advancement. CR Williams, Suarez International Staff... Continue reading

By CR Williams Jeff Cooper intended for his Modern Technique Of The Pistol to be adaptable to any battlefield and to the needs of the day, whether the past day when it was developed, or the present day and the kind of threats we face now in the streets as... Continue reading

Want to avoid falling into it? Here's how... CR Williams, Suarez International Staff Instructor Now here's something I hadn't seen before: During a private lesson I was doing in April of this year, the range owner stopped all activity in order to make a twenty-minute commercial presentation about his range... Continue reading

Learn the pattern, practice the pattern, integrate the pattern, become the pattern, discard the pattern. If you don’t, you risk failure when Chaos comes. CR Williams The Fight. Havoc. Confusion. Distraction. The Fog of your very own, intensely personal WAR. SHTF. Pain and fear and anger. Adrenaline dumping to the... Continue reading

Is it important to focus on it? If you don’t get the gun out, you might die. Is that important to you? CR Williams I wonder sometimes if we, instructors or students, give enough attention to the drawstroke. Oh, sure, we practice it endlessly—I hope you do, anyway—but practice is... Continue reading

Ambidextrous training is like some medicine—it may be distasteful to you, but it helps you to take it anyway. CR Williams I have not always been as much an advocate of ambidextrous training with firearms—doing the same exercises and drills with both hands from both sides with rifle and pistol—as... Continue reading

Maybe not…or smooth, either, for that matter. And it’s not just the drawstroke we’re talking about. CR Williams On one forum, it was a declarative statement: “Most times, speed of draw is all you need.” On that same forum and another one, it was a question: “In reality, how critical... Continue reading

The rules are the same. The attitude is different. by CR Williams The fight is not the range; the range is not the fight. I have said it before; I will say it again, because it is true. Short of actual wounding and death being allowed and introduced into training,... Continue reading

What Do You Know? CR Williams As of the time of this writing, it has been a day or two since two people, both instructors with a lot of time on the books, posted in the same thread on a gun forum and ended their posts with the same question:... Continue reading