My guest this week is Caleb Giddings.  Most people first met Caleb when he was a contestant on the first season of the History Channel’s Top Shot series.  Before he was on the show, Caleb served in the Coast Guard and was a competitor in a variety of competitive shooting

My guest this week is former Navy SEAL Shawn Ryan.  Shawn served in both Iraq and Afghanistan on SEAL Teams 2 and 8.  Once he finished his deployments he left the Navy and took a contractor position working for the CIA overseas.  Shawn has 14 years of combat experience and

My guest this week is special forces veteran and firearms instructor Aaron Barruga.  After serving in Iraq and Afghanistan Aaron branched out to form his own training company, Guerrilla Approach.  He wants students to push themselves out of their comfort zone because that’s where the real learning begins. Aaron also

Mike Hughes is a force to reckon with.  He played college football before he went on to become a patent attorney.  Along the way he got into pistol competitions and soon developed a dry fire tool called the Shot Indicating Resetting Trigger Training Pistol or SIRT pistol for short.  This

Tim Kennedy is the closest thing we have to a real Captain America.  For those of you in a cave and don’t know who he is, Tim is an active duty Green Beret sniper.  Before he was a sniper, he was a door kicker in both Operation Enduring Freedom and

Jon Dufresne is a former Army Ranger and now a firearms instructor.  He teaches for both Sage Dynamics and Frank Proctor (who was an instructor on the 2016 Shooter’s Summit.)  Jon’s focus as an instructor is not only on fundamentals but low light techniques and emergency tactical care. In todays

Ben Simonson is the owner and craftsman behind the company Boresight Solutions.  If you have a plastic framed gun, you probably already know about Boresight Solutions.  They were one of the first companies stippling (creating texture on frames) guns which forced the gun makers to develop better grips.  Boresight goes

Ben Stoeger is a five time national champion in USPSA (action pistol).  He also is a world class competitor and firearms instructor.  Ben has written several books on shooting, dry fire practice and live skill training.  In addition he had time to produce two DVDs on shooting (“Training to Win”

Normalcy Bias is a mental state for people in a crisis.  It makes people underestimate the crisis and the effects of the crisis by thinking things will always be normal.  This keeps people from preparing… Wayne Black has provided security protection details for several high powered clients including the former

Riley Bowman is the host of the Concealed Carry Podcast, a top 200 ranked podcast which talks and analyzes self defense shootings and discusses best practices when it comes to carrying a gun. Riley is also a NRA and Post Certified firearms instructor in Colorado and works full time at