{"id":4143,"date":"2017-04-11T08:44:03","date_gmt":"2017-04-11T12:44:03","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/MassadAyoob\/?p=4143"},"modified":"2017-04-11T08:44:03","modified_gmt":"2017-04-11T12:44:03","slug":"no-slow-weeks","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/MassadAyoob\/no-slow-weeks\/","title":{"rendered":"NO SLOW WEEKS"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>When I was a little kid, I probably drove my mother nuts with how often I whined, \u201cI\u2019m bored!\u201d<\/p>\n<p>I don\u2019t say that much anymore.<\/p>\n<p>The last four weeks or so have included:<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/rangemaster.com\/2018-tactical-conference\/\" target=\"_blank\">Rangemaster Tactical Conference<\/a> in Little Rock.\u00a0 Not to be missed. Probably the best value you can get in training for your time and dollar if you\u2019re a \u201ccivilian,\u201d and a lot of cops attend, too. \u00a0 You can learn a lot just from the archives of the newsletters put together by Rangemaster proprietor and ace trainer Tom Givens.<\/p>\n<p>The next week, the <a href=\"https:\/\/ileeta.org\/\" target=\"_blank\">International Law Enforcement Educators and Trainers Association<\/a> annual seminar in St. Louis, MO.\u00a0 This is for trainers of police (the only ones allowed to attend, sorry) and is to cops what Rangemaster is to \u201ccivilians.\u201d\u00a0\u00a0 While there, the old guy here woke up deaf one morning: a nasty sinus infection had gone into the middle ear, with enough fluid buildup for what the emergency docs at Barnes-Jewish Hospital diagnosed as acute otitis media.\u00a0 Thanks to my old friend Chief Bert DuVernay who took over for me leading the panel of experts on firearms\/deadly force training issues, because I was too deaf to hear the questions from the audience.\u00a0 And thanks to the makers of amoxicillin, which eventually cleared it up.<\/p>\n<p>Then, on to the west coast, to visit the scene of a fatal shooting and do some interviewing for an upcoming wrongful death trial.<\/p>\n<p>Last week, two MAG-20 courses \u2013 one range, one classroom lecture, encompassing a full MAG-40 with Karl Rehn\u2019s superb KR Training in the Austin, TX area.\u00a0 Students were great. <a href=\"http:\/\/blog.krtraining.com\/massad-ayoob-group-mag-20-range-aar\/\" target=\"_blank\">Karl wrote an AAR<\/a> (after action report) on the shooting portion.\u00a0 Bookmark Karl\u2019s website and blog \u2013 there\u2019s LOTS of learning there, for free.<\/p>\n<p>Along the way, managed to work in the testing of two 9mm pistols for a couple of different gun magazines, the Wilson Combat EDC X9 and the Gen 2.0 version of the Smith &amp; Wesson Military &amp; Police. (Both very nice, by the way.)<\/p>\n<p>The older I get, the less often I have time to be bored.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>When I was a little kid, I probably drove my mother nuts with how often I whined, \u201cI\u2019m bored!\u201d I don\u2019t say that much anymore. The last four weeks or so have included: Rangemaster Tactical Conference in Little Rock.\u00a0 Not to be missed. Probably the best value you can get in training for your time [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":9,"featured_media":6428,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[14],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-4143","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-training"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/MassadAyoob\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4143","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/MassadAyoob\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/MassadAyoob\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/MassadAyoob\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/9"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/MassadAyoob\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4143"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/MassadAyoob\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4143\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/MassadAyoob\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/6428"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/MassadAyoob\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4143"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/MassadAyoob\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4143"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/MassadAyoob\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4143"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}