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Sometimes in our initial interview people ask me what level class is appropriate for them. This is always a difficult question and while I try to answer it as best I can, without seeing them shooting, it does naturally lead to the deeper questions of, “What skills should a competent self-defense shooter have?” The first skill is safety. Safety on an instinctual level. You should have the four cardinal rules of safety memorized and routinized. Routinized means you know how to

Hello, All! It's been a minute since my last post but I have lots of exciting news to share, so let me get right down to it. First, Let me welcome Lon Banks to our instructor cadre. Lon is a good friend, a former Army MP and a career San Francisco Sherriff, recently retired. I'll give him a blog post all his own because he deserves it, so look out for that in my next post. Today, I'd like to talk a bit about red dot sights. Red dot sights really came onto the shooting scene i

Apologies for the long delay in my updates. Field and Hearth has really been exploding with new students of all interests. It's been keeping us busy. Fun busy, we like it! That said, we have some new training options for our students I think you're going to love, so thanks for staying tuned! Let's talk about our newest offering, "The Dojo." The Dojo is a weekly opportunity we're offering exclusvely at the Livermore Pleasanton Rod and Gun Club that allows for students with a b

Hello, All! Edward Lange here. I'm the CEO and Lead Instructor of Field and Hearth. I want to take a second and explain what I've seen in...