At this year\u2019s Rangemaster Tactical Conference one class I took and particularly enjoyed was taught by Simon Golob, who focused on the importance of \u201ccold shot training,\u201d testing ourselves as to how we can shoot without a warmup. Like in, ya know, real life. I was not disappointed.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Simon is the man who took over our mutual friend Todd Louis Green\u2019s excellent blog site,\u00a0www.pistol-training.com<\/a>\u00a0after Todd\u2019s untimely death. I can\u2019t imagine a better person to have done so. Here, from there, is Simon\u2019s own take on the cold shot:\u00a0https:\/\/pistol-training.com\/cold-shooting-ability\/<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n What\u2019s more, we have the unusual ability to see an instructor\u2019s side of being at Tac-Con, again from pistol-training.com:\u00a0https:\/\/pistol-training.com\/tac-con-2026\/<\/a>\u00a0.<\/p>\n\n\n\n I had the privilege of being Simon\u2019s first outside instructor, way back when he was a young cop on NYPD, the beginning of a career that would take him to high performance levels with a major Federal agency from which he has now retired and is available to teach you. <\/em>(Info at, you guessed it, pistol-training.com.)<\/p>\n\n\n\n He was so good in his early years that at one of Lethal Force Institute\u2019s anniversary shoots I invited him to come as a guest instructor. He was awesome with his duty gun, then the NYPD Glock 19 with the hideous twelve-pound NY-2 trigger. Today he shoots a double action HK and can tell you good reasons why.<\/p>\n\n\n\n If his last name rings a bell it\u2019s because he\u2019s the husband of champion shooter Julie Golob. Google will get you to interviews and lectures featuring both of them.<\/p>\n\n\n\n