COUNTER-ROBBERY COURSE REVIEW

Back in October, I got the chance to spend the day with Darryl Bolke of Hardwired Tactical Shooting and Caleb Causey of Lone Star Medics for their joint Counter-Robbery & TacMed EDC Class.

This was my second time taking a class with Caleb and my first range time with DB.

This was a PHENOMENAL class, and BLUF is that you should take it at the earliest opportunity.

Caleb does a phenomenal job making the medical curriculum easy to understand and apply.

Darryl brings his practical and matter-of-fact approach to defensive firearm skills, and really has it dialed down to the bare essentials.

DB manages to strike a great balance between uncomplicated yet mentally taxing.

There are a lot of preconceptions that are challenged in this class.

Just so it doesn’t get mistaken: Darryl trained extensively with the instructors from LAPD Metro. When he had SEE on his gloves it was with his own team and his own agency units. He did not work at LAPD, but stole a ton of material with permission from them.

For more information, please visit LoneStarMedics.com/tac-med-edcpage.

The Suited Shootist
Alex Sansone took his first formal pistol class in 2009, and has since accumulated almost 500 total hours of open enrollment training from many of the nation's top instructors including Massad Ayoob, Craig Douglas, Tom Givens, Gabe White, Cecil Burch, Chuck Haggard, Darryl Bolke, and many others. Spending his professional life in the corporate world, Alex quickly realized incongruities between "best practices" in the defensive world, and the practical realities of his professional and social limitations. "I've never carried a gun professionally. I'm just a yuppie suburbanite that happens to live an armed lifestyle. Having worked in the corporate arena for the last decade, I've discovered that a lot of the "requirements" and norms of gun carriers at large aren't necessarily compatible with that professional environment. I also have a pretty diverse social background, having grown up in the Northeast, and there are many people in my life that are either gun-agnostic or uncomfortable with the idea of private gun ownership. This has afforded me not only insights into how we are perceived by different subcultures, but how to manage and interact with people that may not share your point of view without coming across as combative or antisocial. This is why my focus is the overlooked social aspects of the armed lifestyle."