Cajun Arms Blog

Lead With Your Eyes (not your muzzle). The speed in which you look and scan should always far outdistance the speed that you move your gun. When a threat is identified, your gun will drive out to the target...... read more

Do you really wear all that cool guy gear every day? We encourage our intermediate and advanced students to come class with their real life carry gun and wear street clothes. Drawing from concealment and wearing jeans is much more realistic than sporting a drop leg, tight fitting shirt, and “shoot-me-first” pants.... read more

KNIFE VS GUN - Will you really be faster? Time is the most critical factor. You do not want to stand frozen in place toe-to-toe with the assailant. You must control time and space.... read more

Just when you think you’ve seen it all… you haven’t! One of the items that bugs the heck out of us is home built AR carbines and pistols, whether built by the owner, a buddy, or some one-off “shop” assembler...... read more

Get your reps in to help program your reaction time... As cliche as it may sound, smooth is fast. Smooth is how you change mags. Smooth is what can save your life...... read more

Will you keep fighting if injured? When you are hit, your resolve must grow stronger, not weaker. Your focus must shift to launching a counter attack so fierce that your opponent will be looking for a way out.... read more

Beware of the YouTube Ninjas! The armed citizen has an obligation to prevent bad guys from victimizing them. Yes, there is a strong chance that a life or death encounter may occur at night. However, there is rarely an encounter that will happen in total pitch-black darkness.... read more

Get athletic with Cajun Arms. Think Linebacker. A solid stance promotes more accurate hits at a faster speed. It allows you to move if needed and minimizes felt recoil from your gun.... read more

Fight, assess, scan, top-off.... If you’ve taken our classes, even if just a level one class, we start to have you scan after running a drill. If your focus is just on the guy that’s coming with a knife, you will not see his buddy waiting in the shadows ready to launch.... read more

Learn how to use your sights with Cajun Arms. We know through training that our front sight needs to be in view for accurate shots. What tends to be forgotten is the rear sight must also appear, even if ever so briefly.... read more

Defensive Shotgun Accessory Do’s and Don’ts... Ideally you are using the shotgun defensively with both eyes open and using a form of instinctual shooting.... read more

Keep Your Finger Off the Trigger… Lately, we encountered a few more beginning students than usual that just cannot seem to get that rule down and actually practice it EVERY time.... read more

…and Re-holster. There is no reason to hurry your gun back in the holster. This goes for training and in real life.... read more

Secure your firearms? The quick answer is: don’t raise ignorant spoiled brats. When your child is old enough to understand that matches burn and cars can run you over, they are old enough to learn that they are not to handle or touch guns without adult supervision.... read more

Do you play the "what if game"? Target identification and discrimination is not just about identifying a threat, it is about identifying what vitals are available to you and ensuring items such as body armor are not in you way.... read more

Don't be lazy. When you pack up to go to the range do you have a plan? Or do you just go and punch holes in paper?... read more

Do you have blinders on? We can no longer ignore an abandoned backpack or briefcase in a public place. We can longer presume that the character acting strangely does not have a knife and would never use it.... read more

Appendix Carry, are you qualified? The drawbacks have vehement detractors. The big one is that when holstered, your gun is pointing at Jimmy or your hoo ha... read more

Learn to see the light... your flash light can give you big advantages. OK. Great. You have a light. Owning it and deploying it are very different things.... read more

use caution regarding your gun feelings... The First Amendment is supposed to protect our right to free speech. Non-government businesses are being controlled by gun-control advocates and THEY are mandating policy as what is acceptable use of the internet.... read more

Avoiding a confrontation requires thought. If a stranger approaches you with his hand in his pocket and says, “Your money or your life” - a reasonable person would hand over the money.... read more

Point Shooting effectively - not as easy as you think! Human nature is such that it is likely your focus will be on the threat. Be that as it may, if both your eyes are not open you may not see innocents in the vicinity.... read more

About your self-defense carry ammo... do you sweat? Would you really cheap out and risk all that is precious with nasty, sweaty-ass ammo that may malfunction?... read more

See the Whole Picture... Know how to reload reflexively. If you are distracted by techniques such as topping off your pistol or a fighting reload, you may miss the details that could potentially end your life! Keep both eyes open... read more