Low light, red sights, and Tom Givens’ Glock 35 – CIVILIAN DEFENDER
If you’re a regular reader of my musings here, you already know that I am a Tom Givens believer. There is a simple reason for this…Tom’s materia…| CIVILIAN DEFENDER
If you’re a regular reader of my musings here, you already know that I am a Tom Givens believer. There is a simple reason for this…Tom’s materia…| CIVILIAN DEFENDER
3 posts published by Sherman A. House DDS during October 2025| CIVILIAN DEFENDER
In my recent piece on Steve Fisher’s Lowlight class, I spoke about the use cases for the regular civilian needing a weapon light. The cases were when you may only have one hand to operate your home defense weapon, because you have a small child or someone who will require one of your arms to…| CIVILIAN DEFENDER
Ask anyone who, back in the days of Yore, carried a revolver in some professional capacity, and they will tell you that the cognoscenti of the era often preferred the 3” revolver over the longer 4” or 6” barreled guns that were used in a patrol capacity, or the 1 7/8” or 2” guns that…| CIVILIAN DEFENDER
Yeah…I’ll probably get laughed outta the room but my HD shotgun doesn’t have a light on it. This is how my room looks if the door got kicked open by someone, and I have my lights on, with my shotgu…| CIVILIAN DEFENDER
2 posts published by Sherman A. House DDS during September 2025| CIVILIAN DEFENDER
First off, recall that I live in a, “BAN STATE,” meaning that if you are buying magazines in the store or online, you won’t find any that exceed ten rounds in capacity here. And of course, it is illegal to bring them in from a free state. So you’re stuck with ten rounds. Not the…| CIVILIAN DEFENDER
Townsend Whelen once said, “Only accurate rifles are interesting.” I would agree, but I would add that in my view, ONLY accurate firearms are interesting. I’ve had some well renowned guns that were…| CIVILIAN DEFENDER
1 post published by Sherman A. House DDS during August 2025| CIVILIAN DEFENDER
“16. Do not collect weapons or practice with weapons beyond what is useful.” I tend to go in hard on things…sometimes quasi-obsessively. For example, in the past two decades, I spent probably…| CIVILIAN DEFENDER
I’ve talked a bit in past pieces (here), and my recent podcast appearance (here) about Jeff Cooper’s idea of, “Preoccupation with inconsequential increments.” In Colonel Cooper’s own words, he defined PII as: This peculiarity lies in attributing importance to measurable deviations so small as to be meaningless. You see it in the people who shoot…| CIVILIAN DEFENDER
I had the pleasure of being a guest on the FRUGAL FIREARMS PODCAST recently. Craig and Ken do a great job of thinking about subtleties and nuances in the defensive firearms space, and I hope you’ll listen to them and follow their show! https://rss.com/podcasts/frugalfirearmspodcast/1707270/| CIVILIAN DEFENDER
I often see on the gun blogs, the gun tuber videos and various articles around, people claiming, “out of the box performance.” But then they will describe how they disassemble, lubricate, unmount/remount the red dot/torque it to spec, center the iron sights with a set of calipers, and then laser bore sight the red dot…all…| CIVILIAN DEFENDER
Clip grips aren’t new…this idea goes back probably fifty years at this point, and always had the same idea in mind. Carry as little gun as possible, as minimally as possible, with the least bulk. T…| CIVILIAN DEFENDER
