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home | Advanced Concealed Carry

Welcome to the Advanced Concealed Carry portal. If you want to take your personal protection to the next level, this is the place to start. This area will challenge your perceptions and leave only the tried-and-true. This area is for those who are willing to practice, and to do whatever it takes to make it home. Not for the weak hearted!

Good luck with your research and
please STAY SAFE!

Take care,

Tim Schmidt
USCCA Founder

RECOMMENDED REVIEWS:
1. How to Prepare to Get the Most
Out of Your Training School Trip
2. Fitness for the Gunfighter
3. Force-On-Force: Gun Grab
4. Point Shooting Versus Aimed Fire?

Ballistic Basics: Don't Forget Your Jacket
Tamara Keel

Funny you should ask. For hundreds of years, bullets were generally just big old hunks of lead and this worked swell. Lead is soft and heavy and melts at a low temperature and was just a dandy thing out of which to make a projectile. . . . keep reading

Move! Fight! Tactical Response Fighting Pistol
Todd Burgreen

If there was only one piece of advice I could give readers, it is to receive professional firearms training. Going to the range and firing a box of shells is relaxing and verifies basic shooting skills, but does nothing to prepare for a life or death situation. I recently attended Tactical Response's Fighting Pistol course. . . . keep reading

Break Through! Penetrating Interior Walls
John Ervin

If you are reading this article, there is a good chance you also pay close attention to your surroundings by being on the lookout for potentially hostile people and situations. Understanding what is going on around us and the impact to our safety played by how we interact with our environment is very important. It . . . keep reading

Close Encounters of the Snubby Kind
Glenn E. Meyer, Ph.D.

The first gun I purchased was a Smith and Wesson 442, a J-frame Centennial with a shrouded hammer. Surprise, it was harder to shoot than a 9mm semi-automatic pistol. That's probably what many snubby users have found: Great to carry, easy to conceal, appealing to women shooters and tough to use . . . keep reading

Sharpen Your Skills: The "One Hole Drill"
George Harris

|tease start| |tease end| In our last segment we explored the principles and benefits of the "Wall Drill." The Wall Drill allows the shooter to dry fire in a manner that provid . . . keep reading

Finding Your Balance: What's Missing From Your Firearms Training?
Rob Pincus

If you're like most shooters at the range, the biggest piece missing from your training is the tying of the execution of your complex motor skills to a processing of information. . . . keep reading

Shoot With One Hand?
CR Williams

I first saw it with shooters on the range and I've also seen at a class: Right-handed shooters moving to the right as they engage a target, twisting and cranking and turning to the very limit of their range of motion in an unthinking attempt to keep a two-handed grip on their handguns. . . . keep reading

Ballistic Basics: Looking for the Magic Bullet
Tamara Keel

New gun buyers are told to select a quality hollowpoint bullet for self defense and then turned loose to deal with a forest of opinion, competing claims, secondhand stories, and magic bullets. Everything is "Gold" or "Golden" or "Supreme" or "Premium." There are lots of exclamation points and everything seems to be spelled . . . keep reading

Behind the Line: Find YOUR Optimum Shooting Stance
Marty Hayes

One of the great debates in modern pistolcraft is what stance should a person use. By "stance," I mean how one stands while shooting a handgun at a target. I have studied this issue for more than 30 years, entering the study with no preconceived notion of what is best, and have come up with what I believe is a reasonable . . . keep reading

Street Tactics: The Unarmed Attacker
Gabe Suarez

I have always been an advocate of becoming the complete fighter. It is not sufficient to just be a good shot, because a fight may not involve marksmanship alone, or at all. Being as fit as your age and medical condition allows is important and often ignored by the gun culture. Having some skills in hand to hand fighting and . . . keep reading

Create an Advanced Combat Glock with Red Dot Sights
Gabe Suarez

There is always a great temptation to minimize everything. This is usually followed by a rationalization of what you need. You will hear the pundits drone, "All you need is this," or "all you need is that."

. . . keep reading

Barrels and Bullets: Conventional Versus Polygonal Rifling
Dennis Cantrell

The bore of a gun barrel with conventional rifling is etched with corkscrew-like cuts. Each cut, or groove, is separated by a ridge of metal called the land. Together, these grooves and lands define the type of rifling inside the bore. The height, width, and number of lands will vary by manufacturer, though most . . . keep reading

Street Tactics: Good Samaritan Shootings
Gabe Suarez

Sometimes I read emails and posts on my internet forum about the readiness of some CCW operators to jump in with both feet to save the day in an event that does not directly involve them . . . keep reading

Point Shooting Progressions
Todd Burgreen

Suarez International training courses, newsletters, and Warrior Talk forums always strike a chord of realism and common sense with me. My participation in an Interactive Gunfighting Force-on-Force course a year ago opened my eyes to many things, illuminating many misconceptions I had . . . keep reading

Do It Yourself PSD: Being the "Head Man" for Family and Friends
C.R. Williams

In a perfect world, everyone we were to go anywhere with would be armed, and we would have near-instinctive understanding of how to work together and support each other if we were to be attacked. Come to think of it, in a perfect world, we wouldn't need to think about self-defense because it wouldn't be needed in a perfect world. . . . keep reading

Snap Caps Versus Dummy Cartridges
Dennis Cantrell

Attempting to troubleshoot a faulty handgun by cycling live rounds through it may result in a call to 9-1-1. But a couple of inexpensive snap caps or dummy cartridges will help you to safely identify the problem by dry firing the gun--cycling the action manually without live ammunition. They also have other uses. . . . keep reading

Practical Shooting Sports: Sharpen Your Self-Defense Skills
Caleb Giddings

If you're one of the many Americans who have made the choice to carry a firearm for self-defense, you've also probably realized that just buying the gun and carrying it around on your hip isn't enough. You need something more, and that something is training. One option is to go to "gun school," where top instructors will provide you with the . . . keep reading

Hands Vs. Guns
Gabe Suarez

When we work the Zero to Five Feet material, we place our students in their CCW kit, facing an adversary (later more than one adversary) who is also armed. . . . keep reading

Point Shooting Versus Aimed Fire?
Gabe Suarez

Now that one should stir some controversy right? What would you say if I told you that they are not . . . keep reading

Louis Awerbuck: The Exception to the Rule
Michael Tan

When I first met Louis Awerbuck I wondered if I had made a big mistake... We were in a deserted parking lot in front of a public . . . keep reading

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