Claude Werner, Author at Personal Defense Network

Personal-Protection Products and the Big Picture

April 15, 2015 By Claude Werner & filed under All Articles, Equipment and Accessories.

The process of personal protection usually involves several steps. Sometimes products, while clever at solving one part of the equation, don’t fit into the Big Picture very well.

What Do FBI Statistics Really Say About “Gunfights”?

December 2, 2013 By Claude Werner & filed under All Articles, Defensive Issues.

Not as much as many people would lead us to believe. We frequently hear claims like: “Check out the stats, man, it’s always at 20 feet or less, and nearly always at 10 feet or less.” Or “that zero to three feet distance that most gunfights take place at in the real world.” Various figures…

POCKET AUTOLOADING PISTOLS: for Personal Defense

April 19, 2012 By Claude Werner & filed under All Articles, Handguns, Self Defense Firearms.

Small autoloading pistols, whether referred to as pocket pistols, hideout guns, backup guns, or mouse guns, get no respect. Frequently maligned by firearms trainers as too small, inaccurate, and not powerful enough, they are the red-headed stepchildren of the firearms community. Nonetheless, these little guns represent a major segment of the firearms sales market. The…

Family Safety: Protecting Your Family Training for Mutual Defense

March 6, 2012 By Claude Werner & filed under All Articles, Defensive Issues, Family Self Defense.

To most people our family’s safety is a top priority. What do you do to ensure your family is safe during a threat? Defensive training and practice typically involve one person alone against single or multiple assailants. But most of our lives, we are with other people. The difference between training/practicing alone and working with…

Practicing in the Resource-Constrained Environment

November 30, 2010 By Claude Werner & filed under All Articles, Defensive Training Concepts.

Physical skills cannot be learned well by reading a book or watching a video; they need to be physically practiced. We firearms instructors would like you to do three practice sessions of 200 rounds each week working on various marksmanship, movement, and tactical drills. However, that’s not a realistic expectation. Most people, myself included, live…

How Should You Practice After Training?

August 31, 2010 By Claude Werner & filed under All Articles, Defensive Training Concepts.

Once we finish a personal defense training class, a question that should remain in our minds is, “Where do I go from here?” We trainers almost universally say that you have to practice after a class to ingrain the skills you learned in order to achieve the unconscious competence necessary to prevail in a critical…

Finding Snub Stocks That Fit Your Hand

June 21, 2010 By Claude Werner & filed under All Articles, Equipment and Accessories, Personal Defense Equipment.

One thing that distinguishes snubs and revolvers from autoloaders is that a variety of stocks differing widely in size, shape, and material can be fit to them. This can be either an advantage or a disadvantage. If they fit you well, they can really enhance your shooting. If they fit you poorly, you aren’t going…

Improving Your Snub’s Sights

March 24, 2010 By Claude Werner & filed under All Articles, Equipment and Accessories, Personal Defense Equipment.

Hard-to-see sights on a snub-nose revolver are a common complaint. One of the main reasons people don’t use the sights is because they can’t see them. The sighting system has two components, front sight and rear sight. Both can be improved on, in many cases with just a few minutes’ work and very little cost.…