What Does a Former 75th Ranger Carry Everyday?

John level we're going to do an EDC pocket dump so we're getting ready to do an interview we're going to get your life story which I have not heard and uh a lot of people want it but I always like to do these as a quick warmup and the audience loves this so what is your everyday carry pocket dump got it so people want the Blaster they start with Blaster right so I carry appendix uh if I'm going like out and about like downtown Atlanta or something like that I'll carry a more like full-size gun but this is the shadow system cr920 the war poet Edition uh so pretty cool pretty snazzy nice uh little holster so I mean Sub Compact guns I'm liking them more and more what do you think of that red dot I love the Red Dot you do yeah I do how long did it take you to get used to that thing um it it there was definitely a learning curve uh folks who really haven't trained the their draw and presentation to be really meticulous and repeatable struggle to pick up the Red Dot and a lot of times people are fudging their number two where they're either bowling up or they're fishing down into a presentation rather than a straight up and so if your presentation is perfect you'll see a red dot every time and so I never ever ever draw no matter how fast and fail to pick up that red dot and so it's a win for me uh but some folks never really uh did that type of training and so or they've got something goofy going on that they're not aware of and so it can definitely be a liability a lot of times people will get a red dot and they'll think oh that's going to be great and then they come up and don't see anything I have to adjust adjust where is it where is it and then they're and they'll get frustrated so they're really excited when they get it and then they're real excited to ditch it yeah I didn't uh it took me a while to get used to it yeah just being honest it took me a while to get used do it so uh I love it allows me to threat focus and that's a really really big deal there's all kinds of cons to having a red dot on it but uh for it's the future of professional pistol application for sure if you're not like really into shooting I highly recommend you not getting a red dot if you're going to go down that path you know somebody out there then it can be a really big win but do you shoot pistol on night vision uh I mean yeah sure you sometimes to yeah that's you know and dot is y amazing for that that's the one thing that really kind of switched my mindset to it I was like all right I talked to somebody else about that and they brought up a story about using it on nods in a real situation and I was like okay I get it now I get it but it's possible to shoot your tritium dots which sounds incredible it's like no way you can but it it sucks it's not very intuitive takes some training and when you got a whole bunch of ambient lighting around you uh it it can be extremely challenging Red Dot by far way to go so right on right on uh on with a pocket dump let's keep going uh knife it is dirty because it is used so this is our Fox folder um so you designed that right uh no uhuh we uh branded it and stuff and we changed some stuff but this is an old design by Fox Italy and oh okay so uh anyway yeah there's been variation uh o over the years but this is our adaptation so this is kind of like the the final thing but allows you to uh even if you don't know like esrea salot Kali knife fighting stuff you grab something like this which functions a little bit more like a punch dagger uh you're able to just keep someone at distance and box and man the the angle you could punch to a car door with this so really really nasty uh for fighting and it's it's just a good box opener it's a good work knife so uh I like this guy uh normally I have a like Tactical Pin on me as well I fly a lot uh that's not on because I gave it away at the airport uh recently so um and then a stiletto flashlight uh I always carry medical as well but uh I have my EDC pack and that's got all my stuff if I didn't have that with me I'd have like an ankle medical kit on okay what's in your ankle medical kit uh tourniquet uh I've got a couple chest seals uh gauze uh I I jettison uh you know kind of like a wrap to complete the pressure dressing just because it was too bulky uh you know you don't want to flare it out cankle you know so um I ditched a good bit of stuff then I have like a passport card some cash a Lockpick Set uh that's kind of in there so how much cash do you carry on you just curious for emergency situations 300 bucks 300 bucks yeah and that that's not like a hard fat I didn't think about that much just I always have at least 300ish bucks on me yeah till my wife cleans me out does that take long nope nope but she's got those eyelashes she bats at me I don't have much of a chance against it you know so no well I told I have a friend over at Sig his name's Jason and he was ecstatic that you're coming on here and he wanted me to present you with something oh sweet so that is that's the latest and greatest Sig p365 17 rounds plus one in the pipe so 18 it's got the ported barrel helps with muzzle flip they got that optic which actually I think they came out with a new optic recently yeah man uh that's an a major Improvement and um yeah he wanted me to show you that there's a business card in there and if you call the number on that card I think that they might send you something very similar maybe even exactly like that so that's awesome all right man well I'll do it it's a great gun cool man but um John you're a family man you have kids beautiful wife do your does your wife carry she does she does everywhere she goes uh if I'm with her she'll slack sometimes uh but typically even when I'm with her but especially when I'm not she's carrying you how long did it take you to get her to carry everywhere quite a while something clicked for her she guns were something that I did you know she's interested in that and slowly over time I kind of laid out a plan to get her interested in this I did it because I love her and I want her safe and I'm just frankly not around a lot but something clicked once we had kids you know my oldest is 11 years old so you know it this clicked quite a while ago for her but she realized all right if I'm not around and something happens she's the first line of defense and so she started carrying not because she loved guns or had any affinity for them at all it's because she really loved her kids and knew ultimately she was going to have to be the one that defended and so uh I I Bab stepped her over a couple years into carrying every day so um and that was a process but yeah yep we we went through that process as well and I it was the it was the exact same thing we had a kid and um and uh who's a toddler now and it was I was pretty lenient on it mhm especially considering where we live it's a very safe Community but once we had the kid it was where's your gun yeah you're the only person that's going to defend our kid that's right when I'm not there make sure you have your gun on you yeah you know and it was a lot of those uncomfortable suggestions you know to the wife that uh but we're good to go now what you've been in this space for a long time you're one of the OG guys teaching and um getting citizens prepared and and uh what is one of the biggest mistakes that you see people make with their everyday carry or or we we'll even go home security everyday carry a new concerned citizen that's investing heavily in their training and their prepping and what what do you think the biggest mistake that people make is or the most common to give a real good answer I'd have to really kind of zero in on what what that person was starting at and going but I'd say hey adherence to the universal firearm safety rules of like man you really got know how we treat guns is according to systems and protocols so that no accident can befall us e even right here you know knowing my target what's beyond to the left and the right not you know there's a whole safety protocol that goes along with handling firearms and so I was in a gun shop a few days ago I was with my son I was picking up a transfer and some dude is looking at a gun and as I'm coming around the counter and I look for it in gun shops gun shops make me very uncomfortable because everybody thinks they know guns in a gun shop and nobody knows guns everyone's pointing it everywhere and as I come closer he takes a turn and looks at it and I I kind of make a lunge and move that gun over not like some not like a tool or anything I'm like hey coming through bro uh and then my son walks you know past but he was literally pointing that gun straight at me and was about to be pointing at my son uh and you know afterwards he like man you got to protect the kids and I'm like yeah man you're right and we kind of he was cool he was chill but he realized man he was pointing that gun and he said what I knew he was going to say he's like it's not loaded and I'm like man trade all firearms as if they're loaded and that's all I I I said and I'm like you know and so I'm trying not to be a prick about it but and and he was cool but uh that was not cool well he pointed a gun at me man yeah uh and everyone that's accidentally shot by a gun it's always oh it's unloaded no there's no such thing man you treat them all like they're loaded even if you know they're not yeah so that's one sometimes guys get too enamored with the EDC thing and they're carrying around like a Batman tactical utility belt of guns and sticky blades and backups and all kinds of stuff and uh you feel like a hero But ultimately it just gets too clunky too uncomfortable and uh and it's not realistic and people stop carrying and so I'd rather you have like downsize into something manageable and something realistic uh so that you'll carry more often yeah so um um that's something that's I'm glad you brought up the safety no I ask I ask that question a lot and nobody ever brings up the safety including myself and I mean you're absolutely right I see all the time I see n noobs go to the gun store and they're they're super worried about what gun they're going to get and what it looks like and what furniture they plan on putting on it and they totally disregard safety and training yeah you know and um I'm glad you said that that needed to be said another thing is is people are out to go try to buy their way into proficiency and it just doesn't work of like man you can't it's the Indian and not the arrow and people think that they get this hottest latest greatest like Sean Ryan Navy SEAL carries this gun and if I get that gun I'm like Shawn Ryan you know everyone wants to be a hero everyone wants to be bro but guess what you got to put in the time you got to work you got to learn you got to practice and so man getting some good training and practicing according to what you have learned so training you know get trained and then practice that training of like man that's going to save you years of wasting ammo and chasing all these little upgrades that you thought was going to move the needle and it really didn't and it really shows in our tactical training classes of just like in a few minutes we can get folks over pumps that they've been wrestling with for years yeah and so man good training everyone everyone uh realiz it's too late that they should have just made that investment right off the bat um but what are you still training a lot not a lot but I'm still training and now Warrior poet soci is training a lot I'm training some okay what is the what do you think the biggest hurdle is for people coming through your training as newbies not advanced what is the what is the biggest mistake they made as far as is skills so if it's an introductory course like for instance the pistol one course it's shot anticipation that's why everyone's missing you're anticipating the shot you know the guns about to go pop and so you just clinch up right there and you're throwing shots down and they don't realize it and probably consciously you could say hey you're doing this and they don't even believe you but they are uh so it's that Flinch it's that sub conscious uh uh response when you know that gun's about to go pop uh anticipating the shot overwhelmingly uh and then as you get into more advanced courses it the commonality of what everyone does wrong just falls off of people are doing all kinds of mistakes that they are not really cognizant of and you got to Greed to each and everyone but in a pistol one class that's what everyone's screwing up right on that's what I saw a lot back in in uh my training days as well but for anybody want to up their skill game or learn about Firearms how to protect themselves check out John at warp poet society.com hey thanks for that plug that was a good plug you're welcome solid let's get to the interview let's do it hey everybody I'm Shawn Ryan click here to subscribe to the Sha Ryan Show 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Length: 14min 32sec (872 seconds)

Published: Sat Oct 28 2023