Back In the Desert: Gunsite’s “Defense Against Street Crimes”

By Bob Owens

For a gun guy, it’s a bit surreal to wake up in Col. Jeff Cooper’s former home on the grounds of Gunsite Academy.

The desert is a chilly 30 degrees outside of Paulden as I sit at the kitchen table in what is now the instructor housing quarters typing this up before Defense Against Street Crimes begins. NO, I’m no instructor, but they put up writers from time to time, when they have the space. I’m drinking my last cup of coffee before heading over to the classroom, realizing that so much of what is now taught at Gunsite over the past 40 years was thought up where I’m sitting now.

Surreal.

Along with most of the students I’ll be meeting in less than an hour (including at least two Bearing Arms readers), I have the required 250 Pistol course under my belt, and 350 Intermediate Pistol as well.

I hope I’m prepared, because our coursework promises to be intense.

The most common issue a Gunsite graduate may encounter in which they will apply the skills learned at the ranch is a crime against their person or the person of another for whom they accept …Read the Rest

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