Category Archives: Firearm Instructor
Ron Avery
Sept 22, 1956 – Feb 23, 2019
Taught his doctrine of Reactive Shooting
- 1980s Moffat County Sheriff’s Dept
- Researcher
- martial artist
- firearms instructor
- co-founder of the Tactical Performance Center in St. George, UT
- wrote a column in PoliceOne.com
- 2002 bronze at IPSC Handgun World Shoot
- 2013 Standard division title IPSC US Handgun Championship
- 2014 bronze Senior category at IPSC Handgun World Shoot
Dr. George Thompson
- April 1982 Article in Police magazine
- 1983 Created Verbal Judo
Dennis Tueller
Salt Lake City Police Department
- March 1983 SWAT magazine article “How Close Is Too Close?”
- Tueller Drill is a self-defense training exercise
- 21 Foot Rule – an attacker with a knife could cover 21 feet before you can draw
- Armed Citizens’ Legal Defense Network, Inc.
https://armedcitizensnetwork.org/the-tueller-drill-revisited
- Glock Armorer Instructor
Craig Douglas
- – a/k/a “SouthNarc”
- 21 years of service with the bulk of his career spent in narcotics and SWAT
- coursework on entangled shooting skills
- 2003 founded of ShivWorks
- www.shivworks.com
Bill Rodgers
- FBI agent
- 1972 devised the first Kydex holster
- patented the process to laminate leather to the inside of a sheet material
- 1973 Rogers Holster Company
- devised the first paddle holster
- devised the first “ retention ” holsters
- 1982 devised the electronic shot timer
https://www.competitionelectronics.com/ - 1985 Rodgers holster company purchased by Safariland
- 1985 member of Team Safariland
- 1975 Rogers Shooting School
- 2010 Author of “Be Fast, Be Accurate, Be the Best”
John Farnam
- Cornell College, BA in Biology
- US Marine Corps Second Lieutenant, Vietnam
- infantry platoon leader
- three Purple Hearts
- Trained Marines
- Active in the Reserves until 1987, rank of major
- 1971 Police Officer
- 1972 – Began Instruction
- DTI Defense Training International
http://defense-training.com/ - Inspired by Jeff Cooper
“Each of our students is an instructor” - 1996 selected by his peers to receive “Tactical Advocate of the Year”
- 2009 inducted into Black Belt Magazine’s “Living Legends”
Books:
- 1998 – “The Farnam Method of Defensive Shotgun and Rifle Shooting”
- 1998 – “The Street Smart Gun Book”
- 2000– “The Farnam Method of Defensive Handgunning”
- 2006 – Guns & Warriors: DTI Quips, Vol. 1
Armed Citizens’ Legal Defense Network, Inc.
Ed Head
Clint Smith
- – ITC Inter Training Consultants
– 1st Compant - – 1970-1980 Police Officer in Indiana
- – 1973-1980 in charge of training
- – 1978 Attended GunSite
I cant tell you that you WILL be in a LFI next week, but you can’t tell me you WON’T be.
So, how will you train for the next three days? - – 1979 Taught at Gunsite
– adjunct instructor
– 1980-1983 with full time instructor with Jeff Cooper - 1983 started International Training Consultants
– 1983-1993 Traveled Training (DEA,etc) - 1984 Started Urban Rifle Course
- 1986 Started Training for H&K
- 1993 – 2004 Thunder Ranch, Curvul TX
– After failed attempt to buy GunSite - 2004 moved to Oregon
“Repitition is the mother of Skill”
http://mfceoyeager.libsyn.com/website/39-clint-smith-of-thunder-ranch
Massad Ayoob
July 20, 1948
- 3rd Generation Armed Citizen
- 1971 – Began Police Work
- 1972 – Began Instruction
- 1980 – In the Gravest Extreme published
- 1981 – Founded Lethal Force Institute
- 1982 – 2009 – Lethal Force Institute
- 1982 – Hit the white part published
- 1983 – The Truth About Self Protection published
- 1984 – Stressfire published
- 1986 – Gun-Proof Your Children / Massad Ayoob’s Handgun Primer published
- 1986 – Fundamentals of Modern Police Impact Weapons published
- 1987 – The semiautomatic pistol in police service and self-defense published
- 1992 – Stressfire II published
- 1998 Outstanding American Handgunner of the Year Award
- 2004 – Ayoob Files published
- 2004 – The gun digest book of Sig-Sauer published
- 2007 – The Gun Digest Book of Combat Handgunnery published
- 2008 – The gun digest book of concealed carry published
- 2008 The Armed Citizens Legal Defense Network
- 2009 – Massad Ayoob Group
- 2010 – Greatest handguns of the world published
- 2011 – COMBAT SHOOTING with Massad Ayoob published
- 2014 – Deadly Force – Understanding Your Right to Self Defense published
Massad Ayoob‘s school
https://MassadAyoobGroup.com
Massad Ayoob on Guns – Backwoods Home Magazine
https://www.backwoodshome.com/blogs/MassadAyoob/
Massad Ayoob, Author at Gun Digest
https://gundigest.com/author/massad-ayoob