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ATP Podcast E045: Bourbon – America’s Native Spirit!

Welcome back to the Across The Peak Podcast, the show Where Rich and Justin discuss preparedness, the birds and the bees, guns, history, tattoos, and… well, basically all the stuff your old man shoulda taught you! After a four-year silence we are re-releasing the ATP archive, including this brand new episode: Across The Peak Episode 045: Bourbon – America’s Native Spirit!

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ATP Podcast E044: An Across The Peak Retrospective

Welcome back to the Across The Peak Podcast, the show Where Rich and Justin discuss preparedness, the birds and the bees, guns, history, tattoos, and… well, basically all the stuff your old man shoulda taught you! After a four-year silence we are re-releasing the ATP archive, including this brand episode: Across The Peak Episode 044: An Across The Peak Retrospective w/ Rich & Justin.

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ATP Podcast E043: AAR – Rich & Lisa’s Roman Holiday

Welcome back to the Across The Peak Podcast, the show Where Rich and Justin discuss preparedness, the birds and the bees, guns, history, tattoos, and… well, basically all the stuff your old man shoulda taught you! After a four-year silence we are re-releasing the ATP archive, including this never-before-aired episode: Across The Peak Episode 043: A Roman Holiday with Rich & Lisa. This show was supposed to air on 04/10/2019, but it was never edited and never listened to (even by us), so you’re hearing it for the first time!

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ATP Podcast E042 – Leadership

Welcome back to the Across The Peak Podcast, the show Where Rich and Justin discuss preparedness, the birds and the bees, guns, history, tattoos, and… well, basically all the stuff your old man shoulda taught you! After a four-year silence we are re-releasing the ATP archive, including this never-before-aired episode: Across The Peak Episode 042: Leadership. This show was supposed to air on 04/10/2019, but it was never edited and never listened to (even by us), so you’re hearing it for the first time!

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ATP Podcast 041 – How to Teach a Class

Welcome back to the Across The Peak Podcast, the show Where Rich and Justin discuss preparedness, the birds and the bees, guns, history, tattoos, and… well, basically all the stuff your old man shoulda taught you! After a four-year silence we are re-releasing the ATP archive, including this never-before-aired episode: Across The Peak Episode 041: How to Teach a Class. This show was supposed to air on 04/03/2019, but it was never edited and never listened to (even by us), so you’re hearing it for the first time!

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AAR: Gelhaus, Hearne, & Weems’ Cognitive Conclave

It has been quite some time since I have attended a pistol class. I’m not a GM or anything, but I have a decent level of skill with a pistol, and handgun classes just haven’t been a training priority for me over the past few years. This year I ran across the Cognitive Conclave, a pistol class offering something different and I had to do it. This is a detailed, after-action review of that class.

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ATP Podcast E040: How to Grow an Operator Beard

Welcome back to the Across The Peak Podcast, the show Where Rich and Justin discuss preparedness, the birds and the bees, guns, history, tattoos, and… well, basically all the stuff your old man shoulda taught you! After a four-year silence we are re-releasing the ATP archive. Here it is, folks, Across The Peak Episode 040: Grow an Operator Beard w/ Rich & Justin. This show was originally released on 03/27/2019.

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Shooting Clothed Targets

I have thought a lot about the visual cues we create for ourselves in training. We shoot at targets with clearly defined “A” Zones, bullseyes, down-0 areas, and other clearly marked hits. Are we likely to have these visual cues in a life-or-death confrontation, though? Probably not, and thus the idea of shooting clothed targets. 

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ATP Podcast E039: Read the Room with Situational Awareness

Welcome back to the Across The Peak Podcast, the show Where Rich and Justin discuss preparedness, the birds and the bees, guns, history, tattoos, and… well, basically all the stuff your old man shoulda taught you! After a four-year silence we are re-releasing the ATP archive. Here it is, folks, Across The Peak Episode 039: Read the Room with Situational Awareness. This show was originally released on 02/27/2019.

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