Written by: Greg Ellifritz Last weekend Buckeye Firearms hosted my Extreme Close Quarters Gunfighting class at the Dillon Sportsman Center range in central Ohio. I had a full class of 20 hard working students. The Extreme Close Quarters Gunfighting course has been my most popular class offering this year. It covers techniques […]
Written by: Greg Ellifritz If you noticed the lighter posting schedule during the past couple weeks, it’s because I’ve been traveling. I went down to Peru for two weeks. I had visited Peru about 10 years ago and have already done all of the normal tourist activities like hiking the Inca trail, visiting […]
Written by: Greg Ellifritz Dann from the God, Gals, Guns, and Grub blog hosted me two weeks ago for my Tactical First Aid and System Collapse Medicine class. Dann has a great facility and he filled it up with 21 eager and insightful students. I had a great time teaching all day. […]
Written by Greg Ellifritz A quick little travel narrative for you today… Lauren and I had a few days of vacation planned last week. Our goal was to get to Cuba, but it’s difficult to arrange a flight. There aren’t any direct flights out of America for tourists, so we would have to fly […]
Written by: Greg Ellifritz A few weeks ago, I taught the “Unthinkable” class with Dr. William Aprill in Manasass, Virginia. The class was a resounding success with 25 students who all had great things to say about the curriculum. A couple of the students wrote reviews of the class on the internet. If you […]
Written by Greg Ellifritz Last weekend I was honored to present at the Lone Star Medics “Field and Tactical Medicine” conference in Dallas, Texas. The conference was organized by my friend Caleb Causey, president of Lone Star Medics. This is the second year of the conference and it was again a tremendous […]
Today I am celebrating three full years of blogging about self defense, firearms, and personal safety topics. I started this website on March 18, 2012 and have posted more than 700 total articles since then. Over the course of the last three years, the website has seen nearly six million total page views […]
Written by: Greg Ellifritz Of late, I’ve managed to find myself mentioned in several media outlets. In a shameless act of self promotion, I’ll share them here in the hopes that you will find some of the content useful. Close Range Threat – Greg Ellifritz @ Rangemaster Tactical Conference 2015 Dr. Z […]
Written by: Greg Ellifritz Last weekend I attended my third Rangemaster Tactical Conference. I was very impressed. It was a three-day conference and pistol match located at a police training facility in Memphis, Tennessee. Host Tom Givens from Rangemaster arranged a top tier event that attracted 36 high quality trainers and nearly 200 […]
Written by: Greg Ellifritz If you have been vacationing off the planet, you may not realize that the world’s largest trade show for shooting enthusiasts was held in Las Vegas last week. The Shooting, Hunting and Outdoor Trades (SHOT) show is the second largest trade show in Las Vegas every year. 60,000+ shooting industry […]
By Greg Ellifritz Ever since I started training people in the fighting arts for a living, I have kept very meticulous records. Not only is it important for potential future legal action, it’s a great marker for tracking progress and improvement. Each year at this time, I do a review of what […]
Written by: Greg Ellifritz Last week, I posted an article linking to my most popular posts in 2014. In that article, I discussed how my “most popular” articles where not the same as my “best articles.” I liked many of the most popular articles (listed by page view), but I think other articles […]
Written by Greg Ellifritz I posted this little anecdote to my facebook page on Saturday night when I got home from the shooting range, not knowing that it would touch so many people. Numerous friends asked me to post it up on my site so that it can live in perpetuity and be shared […]
Written by: Greg Ellifritz Seth Godin made a very powerful statement in a recent blog post. “My most popular blog posts this year…weren’t my best ones. As usual, the most popular music wasn’t the best recorded this year either. Same for the highest-grossing movies, restaurants and politicians doing fundraising. “Best” is rarely the […]
I’m pleased to announce that I have partnered with William Aprill from Aprill Risk Consulting to offer what I believe is one of the most unique classes ever developed for the civilian self-protection market. This class is all about “worst case scenarios.” It covers all the topics that you haven’t been able to […]
Written by: Greg Ellifritz If you all noticed some repeat articles in the last couple weeks, it’s because I’ve been traveling out of the country. I spent the last week in the Caribbean, visiting French Sint Martin, Dutch St. Maarten, and the Island of Saba. Saba was the place I was most excited about…primarily […]
Written by Greg Ellifritz Last week I posted a book review on the site. In the review, I quoted the author. The author said the words “shit” and “fuck.” That apparently spun quite a few of you up. I received several email complaints, a few negative comments, and had the largest mass exodus […]
Written by: Greg Ellifritz Several of my classes received rave reviews on various web forums and podcasts last week. If you are on the fence about taking one of my classes, check out the following short reviews: My Extreme Close Quarters Shooting Class was reviewed on The Liberal Gun Club Forum. […]
Tim from Gun Nuts Media was a student in a medical class I taught a couple weeks ago. He wrote a very thorough review and even caught some good video of me teaching some suturing basics. Check it out at the link below. Tactical First Aid and “System Collapse” Medicine with Active Response […]
Written by Greg Ellifritz Tim from Gun Nuts Media did a very comprehensive review of the material in my recent “Extreme Close Quarters Gunfighting” class held in Culpeper, Virginia. He took the class on his own dime and wrote a very complimentary AAR. You can check it out at the link below: Close […]
