Recommendations

Recommendations

Here is a list of people we have personally worked with and we think you should, too!
​Also check out some of our book, media and equipment recommendations.
*In no particular order and we are not affiliated with any of these trainers or companies. We have trained with them and used these products.*

Training

• First Person Safety with Lee Weems

• Rangemaster with Tom Givens

• The Bulwarks with James Eric Dean

• The Complete Combatant with Brian and Shelley Hill

• Agile Training and Consulting with Chuck Haggard

• Two Pillars Training with John Hearne

• HWM Training with Howie Marbury

• Shannon Pable

• Practical Training for the Armed Citizen (PTAC) with Steve Havey

• ​American Patriot Defense with Clint Bushong

• Nature Reliance School with Craig Caudill

• First Choice Firearms

• Personal Survival Solutions with Shane Kerwin

• Citizens Safety Academy with Tiffany Johnson and Aqil Qadir

• Memphis Beech Coaching with Memphis Beech

• TDR Training with Tim Reedy

• SafeMind Defense with David Bremson

• Tactical Advantage with Chris Bean

• Practical Defense Training with Jimmy Turner

• LouKa Tactical with Lou Ann Hamblin

Trainers/Coaches We WANT to Train With

• Gunsite Academy

• ​Massad Ayoob Group

• Force Science

• Defenders USA with Adam Winch

• Tim Herron Shooting with Tim Herron

• Palisades Training Group with Steve Moses, Allan McBee, and Guy Schnitzler

• Riley Bowman

• Active Response Training with Greg Ellefritz

• Citizens Defense Research

• Gabe White Training

• Modern Samurai Project

• Advanced Performance Shooting with Jim Shanahan

• KR Training

• Last Resort Firearms Training with Ed Monk

• ShivWorks

• John Valentine with Combatives Summit

• Synergy Training Group with Tyler Tharpe

• Spencer Keepers​​

Equipment

• SIRT Training Pistols 

• Grunt Goat Tactical 

• LockedIn Grip 

• Holosun Pistol Optics

• PHLster

• Dark Star Gear

• Image Based Decisional Drills

• Smart Choices Image Cards 

• POM Pepper Spray

• First Choice Firearms

• Swordslinger Custom Holsters

• Leatherhead Custom Holsters (referral only - message us for contact details)

• ​Keepers Concealment

Media

• Articles by Shelley Hill

• Claude Werner aka The Tactical Professor

• PHLster YOUTUBE

• The Complete Combatant YOUTUBE

• The Weekend Knowledge Dump by Greg Ellefritz​

Books

• Never Split The Difference By Chris Voss

• Thinking Fast and Slow by Daniel Kahneman

• ConCom by Rory Miller

• Meditations on Violence by Rory Miller

• Gun Curious by David Yamane

• ​Concealed Carry Class: The ABCs of Self-Defense Tools and Tactics by Tom Givens

• The CSAT Way by Paul Howe

• Green Eyes and Black Rifles by Kyle Lamb

• The Art of the Rifle by Jeff Cooper

• Handgun Combatives by Dave Spaulding

• Real World Gunfight Training by Mike Ochsner

• Straight Talk on Armed Defense by Massad Ayoob

• The Law of Self Defense by Andrew Branca

• Cheap Shots, Ambushes, and Other Lessons by Marc MacYoung

• Beslan by Timothy Phillips

• Creepology: Self-defense for your social life by Anna Valdiserri

• The Gift of Fear by Gavin de Becker

• Violence of Mind by Varg Freeborn

• What Every BODY is Saying by Joe Navarro

• Left of Bang by Van Horne, et al

• Gates of Fire by Steven Pressfield

• Resilience by Eric Greitens

• With the Old Breed by E. B. Sledge

• Outliers by Malcolm Gladwell

• Essential Wilderness Navigation by Craig Caudill

• Extreme Wilderness Survival by Craig Caudill

• Your World Is Not a Gun Free Zone by Tim Kelly

• In Defense of the 2nd Amendment by Larry Correia