Tactical Atlas Firearm Blog

I’m fortunate to live in a corner of the world where “run and gun” competitions are cropping up in increasing numbers.  Although I can only do a couple per year, these five-to-seven mile, rifle/pistol biathlons have become a major motivator for me to stay fit and to stay on top of my carbine game. These […]

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Last summer, on a muggy June weekend, I made the five-hour trip to Junction, Texas to compete in Rio Run n’ Gun, a biathlon consisting of running and shooting a centerfire rifle and pistol, plus one stage requiring ten hits on steel from an HK MP5 (which was supplied). The course is six miles of […]

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As I sat at my table cleaning the gunk off, it occurred to me to share the best tool ever for this job. Enter the Combat Application Tool (CAT).

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If situational awareness is the skill to identify a threat, then tactical readiness deals with the advantages you’ll need to capitalize on in order to defeat an imminent attack: Things like speed, approach, tactics, and control.

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