Cruel Hand Luke

REMINDER ! This one is coming up in just over a WEEK!

REMOVE the penalty for carrying past signage ! Signs protect NO ONE. And an otherwise law abiding person should not be able to be prosecuted for committing the "crime" of refusing to be helpless.

NATIONAL......GUN .....REGISTRY....... And under NFA you won't be able to take your mag fed long guns out of state without first getting permission from ATF. Basically your semi AR will now have all the same restrictions as Machine Guns and Short Barrel Rifles and Short Barrel Shotguns. Those who give a damn about this need to call their Congressmen. For those invested in this enough to make a phone call the number for the Capital Switchboard is (202) 224- 3121. Ask to be connected to your congressman and tell the staffer that answers how you feel about this.

Amen. Make it a TRULY enhanced permit and make it so that it overrides signage , etc and they will have to hire extra people to process all the applications....

We are right at 1 month to go on this!

I HATE to reschedule this but the weather for this weekend is supposed to be awful and the footing at the venue is probably not going to be ideal for movement. So in the interest of comfort and safety we are moving this to MARCH 23rd !

You may be right... On the other hand the 1984 Olympics were held in Sarajevo Yugoslavia.... and 8 years later it was a country engulfed in civil war. No one in 1990 saw that coming either....

At some point a million armed citizens simply say "No".... I'm just not sure what that breaking point actually is.....We have seen it on this continent in the not too distant past but that was when every day life was not nearly as comfortable. But being used to the comfort thing though convinces people to accept what their ancestors probably would not accept....

This one is getting closer and closer. This class is an excellent place to start for the person who maybe has their permit and realizes that the permit class was not really training and wants to dip their toe in the "tactical training world" to be better prepared to deal with threats, but does not want a "SEAL Team 6 fantasy camp" experience. This class is geared toward dealing with the most likely realistic threats. This class covers not only HOW TO SHOOT WELL, but when to shoot, how to recognize an impending assault before it happens and how to hopefully avoid HAVING to shoot. But just because it is our "basic class" does not mean that more seasoned shooters don't get a lot out of it too. This class is a full presentation of FIGHTING with a pistol which is different from just "safely handling a pistol" . I combine real world civilian experience in interpersonal conflict, 20 years of experience in teaching people to shoot, fight and THINK combined with Master class shooting skills and a verifiable resume of continuing education and high level shooting performance. If you are looking for a class to put you on the path to mastery of the martial skills or simply to take a class that actually teaches you how to employ your pistol against the likely threats you would really face on the street this class is what you are looking for.

The question is whether it will make it easier to engage targets at distance? Absolutely. It gives you a much finer aiming point. What I consider easy shots at 25 yards with irons are easy shots at 50 with the dot and 75-100 is still doable if the target is big enough. As to the question of whether you can summon the skill to do it under fire? Absolutely NO ONE else can answer that but YOU in the moment it happens. And how you react initially has absolutely nothing to do with your equipment. Some people thrive and some crumple. It's either in you or it isn't and the sights have nothing to do with it. But consider this.....would you rather have some more effective or less effective equipment at hand in case you DO rise to the occasion (or more likely to your level of internalized training) ? The red dot gives some of us a legit 50 + yard straight up time after time effective distance. It does not make you a better shooter but it does make aiming the gun at distance simpler since the front sight is not covering up the whole guy... If you are interested.....

8? Out of 198? Whereas 240 out of 242 Dems voted FOR it? Wow... I can hardly tell the difference between the two parties.....

Harris Combative Strategies Defensive Concepts for Low Light Environments Date: Saturday June 1 Time: 6PM - 12AM Eastern Time Location: The Ridge Dayton TN. (http://www.theridgeshooting.com/) Price $150 cash or check. ($50 Deposit to hold spot / balance due at class). Instructor: Randy Harris Instructor Bio This class will cover some critical skills which include shooting with and without the help of flashlights in low or no light. We will work both proactively challenging unknown potential threats and also reacting to unexpected close range attacks in low light settings. You will see just how much light you really need to accurately shoot by and how much light you actually need to ID targets. We will also cover manipulating the pistol in the dark both with and without a light in our hands. We will load , unload and clear malfunctions with and without flashlights. A fair amount of time will also be devoted to using the flashlight as a tool to help you get deselected in the "pre fight interview" , use the light as a distraction device and impact weapon, and as a bridge from less lethal to lethal force. Range Gear and requirements : Handheld flashlight (Surefire 6P, G2, Streamlight Scorpion or similar). Extra batteries. Pistol and holster designed to be worn on the belt. Two spare mags (3 total minimum) and a mag pouch. Range Safety gear (eye and ear protection) . Clothing appropriate for weather. Snacks and drinks. You are welcome to bring something to eat for dinner. There are also several close fast food places like Taco Bell or Subway to grab something if you chose to do that during our dinner break. Ammo: Approximately 250 rounds. If you have a weapon mounted light for your pistol and want to use it for some drills then please bring it too. If your carry pistol has a light that is fine too just make sure it fits your holster. If you have a "blue gun" or airsoft gun and training knife or inert "trainer" pepper spray you want to bring feel free to do so. We will be doing some interactive exercises where students will play the role of both good guys and bad guys to get a better feel for just what each experiences when the techniques are applied in low light. If you don't see it from both sides you only know about half of what is going on.  A $50 deposit will hold a spot for you in this class. Balance due at class. You are also welcome to pay in full in advance too. We are limiting it to 16 students. To register or for more info either PM me here at TGO or email me at Cruelhandluke2000@yahoo.com.

Suarez International CRG-4: FORCE ON FORCE GUNFIGHTING June 8-9, 2019 Chattanooga, TN Instructor: Randy Harris Instructor Bio Price $400 Discount available when taken with Defensive Knife Ever wonder what you'd do if a psycho with a knife charged at you? Or how you'd really handle a multiple adversary situation? FIND OUT FOR CERTAIN IN OUR INTERACTIVE GUNFIGHTING TRAINING!! Force on Force is the future of personal combat training. This course is Pure CQB Gunfighting Skills, and will connect what you do on the range with what you must do on the street to win a fight. Typical marksmanship-based gun training leaves many questions unanswered. There is a great deal that you still don't know about street combat if all you've done is shoot paper targets on a shooting range. Even the many "shoothouse" exercises at many gun schools are still woefully inadequate in preparing you for a street confrontation. But in this class, the training is pure street reality featuring high intensity, short duration combat at close range against live human beings with modern force on force technology. It is specifically designed for the private citizen and focuses on civilian street situations. Learn to defend against a single adversary bent on cutting you with a training knife, as well as against multiple adversaries suddenly drawing guns and firing at you. Learn what it takes to overcome home invaders, takeover robbers, hostage takers and active shooters! In today's environment, everyone has a need to know. The training is open to ALL civilian students AT ANY SKILL LEVEL, and is the sort of class you can attend over and over again to maintain your edge!! Fight-focused NOT Gun-focused! CLASS AND RANGE DETAILS DURATION: 2 days TIME: 9:00AM to 5:00PM AMMUNITION: Approximately 600 (Minimum) good quality biodegradable pellets. NO STEEL PELLETS RANGE & GEAR REQUIREMENTS: You MUST have a gas-operated airsoft pistol for this class. Electric or spring-operated guns are not suitable. A paintball mask/helmet, hooded sweatshirt and gloves are necessary. NOTE: Bring an adequate supply of CO2, green gas or propane and silicon lubricant to charge up the pistols. An extra magazine is important in case there is a problem with the primary. Also Helpful Bring spare clothing appropriate for the weather, including a hat, sunscreen, and bug repellent. Plan to bring lunch, snacks, and water (min 1 gallon per person) for the entire day unless driving to lunch is a viable option from the range location. Bring allergy medication (if needed), a chair (if you prefer), note taking supplies, and a boo boo kit (band aids, gauze pads, antiseptic wipes, antibiotic ointment and tape). You may wish to bring pads such as knee pads, elbow pads, and gloves if the class lends itself to that. RANGE: Phillips/Edwards Farm 763 County Road 332 Pisgah, AL 35765 423-488-4309 Coming from Chattanooga * Take I-24 west from Chattanooga * Merge onto I-59 S via exit 167 on the left toward Birmingham * Take the GA-136 exit, exit 11, toward Trenton * Turn right onto GA-136 * Turn left to stay on GA-136 (crossing into Alabama) * GA-136 becomes AL-71 * Turn left to stay on Al-71 * Turn left onto AL-117 * Turn right onto CR-330 * Turn right onto CR-332 * End at 763 County Road 332, Pisgah, AL Range is located 40 minutes SW of Chattanooga and 20 minutes from Trenton Ga . It is located where TN, GA and AL all come together on the map. Range is located in Pisgah Alabama. Range is on CENTRAL time. For more info and to register for this class...https://suarezinternational.com/crg-4-force-on-force-gunfighting-june-8-9-2019-chattanooga-tn/?ctk=ad914282-8f05-4da2-b47c-7cc5385529ec

Suarez International Defensive Knife June 7, 2019 Chattanooga, TN Area Instructor: Randy Harris Price $200 Can also be combined with Force On Force June 8-9 for discount This course presents a compressed version of our two day Defensive Knife program. You will learn knife grips, angles of attack and defense, ballistic cutting and thrusting tactics, use of the live hand, footwork concepts, dynamic training drills and exercises to develop spontaneous and unplanned reactions. We will dispel the commonly held myths of the knife and leave you with a respect and a skill-set for this close range weapon that equals or surpasses your skill with the CCW pistol and allows you to begin integrating the knife and the gun. Bring a carry knife, and a dull trainer facsimile of it. CLASS AND RANGE DETAILS DURATION: 1 Day TIME: 9:00AM to 5:00PM CENTRAL TIME AMMUNITION: None RANGE & GEAR REQUIREMENTS: Your daily carry knife, a training knife similar to your carry knife (training knives are available at One Source Tactical), a modern CCW Pistol or Airsoft or red gun and eye protection. Also Helpful Bring spare clothing appropriate for the weather, including a hat, sunscreen, and bug repellent. Plan to bring lunch, snacks, and water (min 1 gallon per person) for the entire day unless driving to lunch is a viable option from the range location. Bring allergy medication (if needed), a chair (if you prefer), note taking supplies, and a boo boo kit (band aids, gauze pads, antiseptic wipes, antibiotic ointment and tape). You may wish to bring pads such as knee pads, elbow pads, and gloves if the class lends itself to that. RANGE: Phillips/Edwards Farm 763 County Road 332 Pisgah, AL 35765 423-488-4309 Coming from Chattanooga * Take I-24 west from Chattanooga * Merge onto I-59 S via exit 167 on the left toward Birmingham * Take the GA-136 exit, exit 11, toward Trenton * Turn right onto GA-136 * Turn left to stay on GA-136 (crossing into Alabama) * GA-136 becomes AL-71 * Turn left to stay on Al-71 * Turn left onto AL-117 * Turn right onto CR-330 * Turn right onto CR-332 * End at 763 County Road 332, Pisgah, AL Range is located 40 minutes SW of Chattanooga and 20 minutes from Trenton Ga . It is located where TN, GA and AL all come together on the map. Range is located in Pisgah Alabama. Range is on CENTRAL time. For more info and to register....https://suarezinternational.com/hits-8-defensive-knife-june-7-2019-chattanooga-tn/?ctk=80846368-37bc-4140-b907-8986c2269135

It depends... For most days going about my business as a private citizen I carry 1 spare G17 mag just forward of my non dominant side hip. For church security duty I carry 2. When talking about shootings in the criminal assault paradigm the odds are exponentially overwhelming that whatever happens will most likely be over one way or the other well before the ammo in my first mag is expended. Obviously the lower the capacity the more your mileage may vary. Since I am not tasked on an everyday basis with laying hands on and taking people into custody that don't want to be taken into custody there is very little on a daily basis that compels me to stay and fight. In the typical civilian encounters where someone approaches and produces a weapon to coerce you to give up your wallet or to go somewhere with them, you presenting a gun and shooting at them (whether you hit them or not) generally tends to create an unscheduled track meet with them running as fast as they can away from you .....and you often running the opposite direction...assuming they are not killed outright. The odds of you even having the time to reload before it is over is unlikely. If the "typical civilian street gunfight" last 3-4 seconds from guns coming out to end of shooting there just isn't much time for a reload in there. John Correia (Active Self Protection) has watched over 15,000 civilian gunfights on video from security cameras worldwide and I have been an attendee at the presentation he does at various training conferences. He says that in all the video he has watched there is almost never a reload accomplished before the bad guys either stop or have run away....especially when people are reloading from their pockets. We watched one of those videos in his presentation where the defender reloaded from a pocket. It took a timed 15 seconds to access the mag and complete the reload. The bad guy was probably 2 blocks away before the guy got the gun up and running again. John goes as far as to saying since he carries a hi cap gun he has stopped carrying a spare mag and carries pepper spray in its place. I have long preferred to carry both because while pepper spray can be very useful it cannot help me clear a malfunction that requires a new mag to make the gun work. So I generally carry a spare mag and pepper spray. The church security paradigm is a little different. We may well be facing a dedicated and prepared opponent for whom self preservation is not their overriding concern. In fact they probably EXPECT to die during the event. In that case it may well take more hits and they may possibly have to be delivered from much longer distances to stop him than would be likely in the typical street criminal mugging/assault . We may be engaging someone who is using cover and we might have to use gunfire to "pin him in place " while a maneuvering element closes with him to render him neutralized. That type of thing has virtually no commonality with the typical civilian use of force. So for church security duty I err on the side of caution and carry a second spare mag.

The guy who cares little and knows even less about actual US military weapons would not be interested in these to begin with. The average gun buyer would rather have a nice shiny new Kimber or Ruger 1911 than one of the CMP military 1911s and that is fine. To each his own. NO one who is buying these guns is expecting a museum piece. They all know they are US Property 1911A1s or 1911s upgraded to A1 spec that likely have seen service and were arsenal rebuilt at some point . They probably also know that some of the frames will be 80, 90,or even 100 years old at this point....the YOUNGEST ones will be 75 years old because 1944 was the last time the US military ordered 1911A1 pistols other than some tiny batches for the Marines. They also know that as they were rebuilt the armorers at the arsenals used parts from the parts bin with little care or inclination to try to match manufacturers so many will be "mixmasters" like a Colt frame and an Ithica slide. Having said that I have seen some that are matching frames and slides, so some buyers might get lucky in that regard. It will most likely have been refinished in the 1980s and now be a dull gray parkerized finish. It MIGHT have a matching upper and lower but it is just as likely to not. THAT is how REAL military 1911/1911A1s were after being turned back in after WWII. And THAT is what the people buying these are buying them for. To have a REAL US Govt Property 1911A1 that most likely went to Europe or the Pacific , to Korea or Vietnam and was reworked afterwards in case things ever got hot with the USSR. Is it the ideal carry gun? No. But I doubt ANYONE is ordering one to carry it. There are far more logical choices that are cheaper and easier to get at your local gun store for that purpose...but those guns are not US Property 1911s and to the people ordering these guns that is far more important.

This one gets closer every day.....

The issue is that you would then HAVE to challenge them. No one is kicking anyone's pet goldfish . I'm merely stating WHY those attorney types who do this kind of thing for a living say that it CAN (not ALWAYS WILL , but CAN) be an issue they would have to answer in a civil case. They are not saying NEVER DO IT...they are saying it is a real thing that may well be argued by opposing council and you should be aware and make your own informed decisions. To be forewarned is to be forearmed. Be aware of the likely arguments and have a counter to them. It is all about how you articulate it..... If you want to use a flamethrower you are welcome to do it .....and in a "good shoot" the use of the flamethrower might not even matter ...but even if you don't get arrested and charged for the good shooting you might still get sued civilly and have to answer why you used a flamethrower. There is immunity from civil suit in TN but if you travel out of state and shoot someone that immunity does not travel with you. You are held to the laws of the state where the shooting occurs and even a good shoot can still lead to a civil case for injury or wrongful death if the other guy is never charged with (or convicted) of a crime. And as to use of a FACTORY +p loadings I already have the answer to any nitwit opposing council who would even be stupid enough to bring that up (that is assuming that line of questioning didn't already get quashed "in limine") ..... again to be forewarned is to be forearmed.

As to carry ammo? CCI Gold Dot 124+p . It can be found in most gun stores, it is IWBA/FBI Test Protocol compliant, and works as well (or better) than anything else in the caliber in real world shootings. I also like Corbon DPX but it is far less readily available.

It is not the initial criminal case that they are warning about on the reloads so much as it is in case of a civil action wrongful death case. That is where the "he is so depraved that he felt factory ammo wasn't deadly enough" arguments normally come into play. The argument can be answered but if you use factory ammo it would never even possibly have to be answered.

This one is coming up THIS WEEKEND ! We still have spots available !

A huge THANKS to all who came out and participated ! Of the 19 students I think I knew about half of them from previous classes and I look forward to seeing the other half in class again some time too. Lee put on a very educational block on the legalities of lethal force and Sean provided some TN specific commentary. After lunch I covered how to spot and avoid potential interpersonal problems before they become confirmed interpersonal problems and ways to increase your odds before it goes combative. Then we squared away some core skills of fighting with a pistol in dry work and then did live fire drills replicating the most common street scenarios. Thanks for everyone coming out and working hard even with the potential of torrential downpour. By the time we actually went to the range the weather had mostly cleared up (prayer works) and we were able to get through the shooting without needing fins and scuba gear... A huge THANKS to Lee for coming up and lending his expertise and providing some much needed information in an area that most people think they know a lot more about than they often do. Who knows, with the resounding success this class was we might be persuaded to offer it again in the future.....

Agree emphatically.

OK Guys and gals....last call ! We still have a few spots available so if you were wrestling with whether to sign up or not.... get yourself signed up! You'll end up kicking yourself later if you don't....

My condolences.......