The Off Duty On Duty Podcast

Who are your mentor’s? Are you a mentor….well if you are a member of the greater gun toting community I will answer that for you, YES you are. I recap some of the guest of the podcast and their particular impact on me. Today we celebrate the 1 year anniversary of the Podcast thank YOU for your support. Sponsors of Today’s Episode: TITLE SPONSOR: XS Sights – XS Sights manufa...

DB is back again. Weaver, Iso stance whats better? Well the short answer is neither and both! Learn to adapt is the best answer. DB and I take a pretty deep dive into WHY its good to have all the tools at your disposal. Sponsors of Today’s Episode: TITLE SPONSOR: XS Sights – XS Sights manufactures the fastest sights in any light. From concept and design to creation, XS utilizes tritium...

What does it take to win the fight? Well what fight are you preparing to win? Hany joins us to talk about how to win the fight and the first step to take to win. Hint it all comes back to Colonel Coopers Combat Triad and primarily centers around MINDSET. As usual this episode is full of Hany-ism’s and other assorted nuggets of knowledge rooted in experience. Sponsors of Today’s Episode...

Back from a 2 week hiatus of letting my vocal cords recover from the ever present Oklahoma allergens! This week Les Kismartoni aka Les Pepperoni aka Les Pep aka the GM with the affinity for the pasta pistol. Les is quite the accomplished shooter but today we talk about just being “average Joe” Concealed Carrier and that it doesn’t take a GM card or career as a cop to be safe and...

Today the show tackles a topic that is near and dear to my heart….how do we reach out to the “non-tactical” community. Joining me is Aimee Langdon of Langdon Tactical . We cover a wide piece of ground from introducing female shooters to safety in raising children around firearms. Sponsors of Today’s Episode: TITLE SPONSOR: XS Sights – XS Sights manufactures the fastes...

Colonel Jeff Cooper was arguably the most influential figure in modern defensive handgun training. The Combat Triad I personally feel is the barometer by which I evaluate my journey in the Defensive world. Erick Gelhaus a Staff Instructor from Gunsite joins me this week to analyze and emphasize why YOU should understand the Triad and how to apply it. Sponsors of Today’s Episode: TITLE SPONSO...

The stars have aligned and one of my Texas Hero Wayne Dobbs is joining me for an episode. We discuss what he calls the 4-P’s of operational shooting. By the end of this episode you should have a pretty good idea of what “operational shooting” shooting is and be able to evaluate your training by the 4-P’s. If you ever get the chance to train with 5th generation native Texan...

DB is back from a sabbatical and mentoring journey through the history of some modern day southern California gun fighters. Today we talk the difference in Knowledge and Learning. There seems to be a trend of ignoring knowledge from the past about the realities of armed defense. DB is a not only a historian but also possess a great deal of knowledge on the subject and from time to time needs to se...

Last week Lee Weems and I broke the internet a bit about the sub second draw….. This week we won’t discuss that too much anyway. You can check that out on Lee’s new podcast “That Weems Guy” on YouTube and Apple Podcast. This week we do our best to tackle the “COPs cant shoot” belief by some of the defensive carrier community. I can’t say it is a pate...

Joining me this week is Tim Chandler from Justified Defensive Concepts . Tim and I dive deep on the Scattergun, Boomstick, Shotty, Street Howitzer or whatever you call the Shotgun. Find out why it has fallen from prominence as the LEO shoulder gun of choice and how it is as valid now as it has ever been and maybe more so for both the armed citizen and the LEO. Sponsors of Today’s Episode: TI...

I started in to the realm of LE work when the 40 S&W was the ruler of the roost for the modern officer. This episode Hany and I talk a little history on our old preferred duty pistols, common calibers and the reason behind them, and our fondness for other obscure semi-auto calibers. This is a little trip down memory lane for two old cops with a lot of history on the semi-auto. So what’s...

Jacob Paulsen joins me this week to talk about a recent and very tragic incident from Arvada Colorado. As an armed citizen we discuss some considerations you can take to avoid being engaged by responding police. I tell you about an incident I experienced with a plain clothes off duty officer and what steps he and his spouse took to avoid a “Blue on Blue” Incident. Tune in and take some...

Hany returns to tie up the #1 guest hosting spot with DB. Today we discuss something that no matter if your a cop or a concealed carrier is a common thing with our beloved Glocks. We tell you how we address the issue and give you some insight on why you shot “A Lil to the Left” Sponsors of Today’s Episode: TITLE SPONSOR: XS Sights – XS Sights manufactures the fastest sights...

Darryl Bolke is back again for a follow on to the S Dave episode. As an LEO we are often in the “Prisoner Taking” role or the “People Management” role in our daily duties. DB and I unpack several differences between “Gunfighting” and “Fighting when a gun is involved”. As a defensive carrier it is important to make the distinction between managing peo...

Rob Beckman is back! So, what happens to my pistol if I’m in a car wreck? What if I’m conscious in the back of an ambulance? What if a cop confiscate’s my gun? All valid questions for sure. Today you get my two cents on how to prepare for these situations and a lot more. Spoiler Alert: Write down your carry guns serial number…..like right now! Sponsors of Today’s Epis...

This podcast topic quite possibly takes the Darwin Training Award for this century. An agency has decided that training shooting to “wound” is now somewhere on the scale of reasonably necessary…..I do believe I have seen and heard it all at this point. For those armed citizens out there, just don’t. Darryl Bolke joins me again and after the steam stopped coming out of our e...

Super Dave Harrington of Combat Speed joins me again this week. As S Dave puts it we split the proverbial atom about being an effective gunfighter. Things like “where do I start” and “what does it mean”. Dave is rolling out his latest training program later this year in North Carolina with our past guest Michael Burgess of M&S Range Therapy so enjoy this teaser of what...

I.A. as it is known in “Cop” lingo is an integral piece of a law enforcement agency’s pillar of public trust. Rob Garrett joins me once again to shed light on exactly what it is that Internal Affairs unit’s actually do. As an armed citizen I hope this episode gives you some insight into this uniquely LE related function. Sponsors of Today’s Episode: TITLE SPONSOR: XS...

How do you determine your proficiency with your defensive EDC gear? Justin Dyal and I have ran in the same circles of shooters for many years and finally met for a chat, albeit via zoom but still ideas and knowledge were shared. Justin is a retired USMC Lt. Colonel and program manager/developer for many of the top shooting schools in the Marine Corps. Justin and I talk about how an LEO and a Civil...

Hany is back! Revolvers are a passion of mine as well as Hany’s. In this episode I borrowed a page from the Concealed Carry podcast and hit Hany with a rapid fire Q&A. No super lengthy answers just the meat! If you are an armed citizen is a revolver for you? Two cops that have carried them for over 40 years combined time will give you some valuable insight and tools of the tradecraft of...

Cecil Burch or as I affectionately call him the “Jits Hippy” joins the podcast this week to talk about his lifelong study of Martial Arts. Cecil is a nationally known instructor and owner of Immediate Action Combatives . We talk about Jiu Jitsu for cops and armed citizens and some go to Combative Sports that will benefit you as an armed citizen. Sponsors of Today’s Episode: TITLE...

Today marks the 26th anniversary of the OKC Bombing of the Murrah Federal Building. My guest today is Gary Eastridge of CCWSafe and FTA . While he was a police officer he was assigned to the Murrah building for the duration. This episode digs on the emotions pretty deep. I won’t give anymore away for now. Listen to the lessons learned from someone who was there. 4-19-95 Never Forget. Sponsor...

Spencer Keepers is back, shooting Glocks, and running a DOT???? So in this weeks episode a Cop and a Concealed Carrier, both instructors, dive in to the dot. We talk pro’s and con’s for cops and defensive shooters and to give you some training considerations on both sides. And yes they both still love their DA guns and irons so no need for panic. Sponsors of Today’s Episode: EDC...

Rob Garrett is a prolific gun-writer in the defensive handgun world. Rob is also what can only be described as a modern historian in all things handgun and training. Rob wrote an article in Combat Handguns in June of 1984 on how to not get in a confrontation with responding officer’s to your incident. So grab a glass of Georgia Sweet Tea, tune in, don’t fuss with the cops, don’t...

Michael from M&S Range Therapy is back and we discuss Police/Concealed Carrier interactions. Spoiler Alert we talk about what you can expect from us at the Guardian Conference in September17/18/19th in OKC. Sponsors of Today’s Episode: Mountain Man Medical : Trauma Kits with the best name-brand components at the lowest prices anywhere EDC Belt Company www.edcbeltco.com “The Foundat...