{"id":9230,"date":"2026-05-05T09:00:00","date_gmt":"2026-05-05T13:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/MassadAyoob\/?p=9230"},"modified":"2026-04-22T14:55:19","modified_gmt":"2026-04-22T18:55:19","slug":"tac-con-2026","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/MassadAyoob\/tac-con-2026\/","title":{"rendered":"TAC-CON 2026"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>I\u2019ve attended <a href=\"https:\/\/taccon.info\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Tac-Con<\/a>, the <a href=\"https:\/\/rangemaster.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">RangeMaste<\/a>r Tactical Conference, almost every year since 2009. It provides a smorgasbord of more than 40 subject matter experts in areas of self-defense ranging from emergency medicine through hand to hand fighting to live-fire handgun and shotgun.\u00a0 More courses are offered than any one person can sign up for over the intensive three days. I usually attend with the Evil Princess and we each take different classes and compare notes later to maximize the training experience. This year she was recovering from knee replacement surgery and I had to go alone. I\u2019d like to share some of the bounty of information presented there. Let\u2019s start with my friend Karl Rehn, who synopsizes his own class in <a href=\"https:\/\/blog.krtraining.com\/handgun-ergonomics\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">handgun ergonomics, here<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I\u2019ve attended Tac-Con, the RangeMaster Tactical Conference, almost every year since 2009. It provides a smorgasbord of more than 40 subject matter experts in areas of self-defense ranging from emergency medicine through hand to hand fighting to live-fire handgun and shotgun.\u00a0 More courses are offered than any one person can sign up for over the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":9232,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-9230","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-uncategorized"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/MassadAyoob\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9230","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\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/MassadAyoob\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=9230"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/MassadAyoob\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9230\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9234,"href":"https:\/\/www.backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/MassadAyoob\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9230\/revisions\/9234"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/MassadAyoob\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/9232"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/MassadAyoob\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9230"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/MassadAyoob\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9230"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/MassadAyoob\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9230"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}