Backup Guns, Yay or Nay?

FAST TRANSIENTS THE TACTICAL TANGENTS BULLETIN BACKUP GUNS: YAY OR NAY? Back in the day, I carried a secondary gun at work because, well, I guess I hadn’t really thought about why—I just did. Maybe I’d get separated from my primary, or at least be in a fight over it,...

Mantis: Data-Driven Shooting

FAST TRANSIENTS THE TACTICAL TANGENTS BULLETIN MANTIS: IMPROVING YOUR SHOOTING WITH DATA We are excited to announce our new sponsor, Mantis. The MantisX is a product that I believe in—which is the only sort of product I’d endorse. In fact, I asked my wife to buy me...

The Glance is the Beep

FAST TRANSIENTS THE TACTICAL TANGENTS BULLETIN “THE GLANCE IS THE BEEP” I want to convey a great teaching point that I learned from John Correia at Active Self Protection. ASP is a massive YouTube channel that John founded to teach lessons learned from...

Use of Force in Self Defense

FAST TRANSIENTS THE TACTICAL TANGENTS BULLETIN USE OF FORCE IN SELF DEFENSE Trying out a new format for the bulletin, we need your feedback! Leave us a comment below to let us know if you like this video. We’ll still use the printed bulletins too, but we might...

Gun Handling

FAST TRANSIENTS THE TACTICAL TANGENTS BULLETIN CAREFUL WITH THAT THING! There’s a video going around that shows a group of officers clearing a house, and on their way out of the house a dog escapes from its crate. As the officers are trying to get out of dodge, one of...

The X, Defined

FAST TRANSIENTS THE TACTICAL TANGENTS BULLETIN FIGHT OFF THE X  Tactics for actions upon contact with a lethal threat in an ambush have remained relatively unchanged since I began my professional life in a world where something like that was a reality. I won’t get...