{"id":7739,"date":"2023-04-08T09:00:00","date_gmt":"2023-04-08T13:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/MassadAyoob\/?p=7739"},"modified":"2023-04-07T13:12:44","modified_gmt":"2023-04-07T17:12:44","slug":"tac-con","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/MassadAyoob\/tac-con\/","title":{"rendered":"TAC-CON!"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

Every year, the Evil Princess and I make a pilgrimage to the Rangemaster Tactical Conference conceived and hosted by defensive shooting guru Tom Givens. This year, once again, was a feast of top-level training. Imagine a Whitman\u2019s Sampler of two to four hours each from leaders in their field\u2026and the field isn\u2019t just combat small arms. Of late they\u2019ve been held in Texas at the excellent Dallas Pistol Club facility.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Many years ago, flying out to the first one, I found myself on the plane with Andy Stanford (who was there this year, giving an excellent lecture on the history of this sort of training.) He made a wise observation: \u201cTac-Con is to armed citizens what ILEETA is to police.\u201d  Like the International Law Enforcement Educators and Trainers Association, the Tactical Conference takes a holistic approach that encompasses adult education theory applied to the job at hand (witness John Hearne\u2019s excellent annual presentation on that), tactics (this year John Farnam\u2019s interactive range work, master instructor Ed Monk speaking on how to handle getting caught up in a riot, and LouAnn Hamblin\u2019s live-fire course on confronting active killers, among other programs), hand-to-hand fighting with Brazilian Jiu-Jitsu master Cecil Burch and the legendary Southnarc, Craig Douglas and Chuck Haggard among others, and aftermath legal management taught by Andrew Branca, Karl Rehn, and myself. And live-fire shooting with more top instructors than I have space to name here.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

John Farnam encapsulated the experience at his website, here<\/a>. You can learn more about this conference at Tom and Lynn Givens\u2019 website, www.rangemaster.com<\/a>, and also learn about Givens\u2019 own superb training.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

If you are serious about armed self-defense, Tac-Con is not to be missed. I heard no hint of disappointment of any kind from any of this year\u2019s 400 or so attendees. Keep an eye on the Rangemaster website for the announcement of next year\u2019s Tac-Con in Dallas, and sign up\u00a0quickly:\u00a0<\/em>this year the student roster filled within three days of announcement.<\/p>\n\n\n\n