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04/03/2025

Another first rate holster from Rob Leahy and crew at Simply Rugged Holsters.
This is a Cuda for a S&W 3.6” M&P2.0 with a Holosun SCS.
~ I call this a “Cattlephant” or a “Texafrica.” Elephant over leather. With the Gunsite graduate Raven of course.
Now “Ashe” can lose his kydex.

13/02/2025

14/01/2025

Gloccatto!

FLORENCE, Texas, January 14th, 2025 - Staccato, the creators of the Staccato 2011® pistol, Staccato Ammo, and Staccato Ranch, is excited to announce the int ...

10/01/2025

With recent attacks involving knives, vehicles, and shootings my thoughts for those trained and dedicated to personal defense:
I inevitably shoot a full size handgun (G19, M&P 4” or larger) better than a sub compact (G43x, Shield) under most conditions.
An RDO (generic term) does a lot to equalize things on my smaller guns, but under most scenarios and especially less than optimal conditions, big gun=better results.
So with more practice and an RDO, I can approach full sized ability in a sub compact.
But I plan/train for horrible conditions and a peer adversary. Or multiple adversaries.
~ So whenever possible, carry a full size gun
~ Understand the risk/ limits of carrying sub compacts and train hard to reach acceptable ability under the poorest conditions you can replicate.

24/12/2024

My dad used to say “Son, be careful!” as I went out on patrol. I’d say back, “Dad, it’s almost beside the point.”
I knew what he meant, I was gigging him a little.
So to you and all the first responders working the next couple of holidays, be ye nurses, paramedics, military, LE, or… ok firefighters… I say:
Do your work, but *manage* the risk. Know when to hang it all out there for us, but balance that against what you have waiting for you at home.
Street Cops: Your family will smile when that cruiser rolls back into the driveway and you get to hang up your gear for a while.
Be as careful as you can, be professional always, and if you must go where others don’t dare….
~ Be formidable.

16/12/2024

Next years TAG PMO course target.

09/12/2024

Every cop has that one case that haunts them.
Especially when it’s a murder.
Whether they never figured out what really happened, or never knew who did it, old cops always hate thinking…. Maybe I just wasn’t good enough. Maybe I wasn’t smart enough.
Rarely does anyone get another chance at it. Especially years later.
But once in a while, fate throws another chance, an opportunity, to an old retired cop.
And he knows, he has to get it right.
“Cold, Dark, and Silent” is about how one old cop got a second chance.
~ And it almost killed him.

www.amazon.com/author/david-c-reed

23/11/2024

One of the most insidious ways for someone to get away with murder, is to convince people closest to the victim it didn’t happen.
*** “She’s only missing.”
Then convince local LE she went missing somewhere else.
*** “Sheriff, not your jurisdiction.”
And then start your own rumor to deflect suspicion.
*** “Her alienated husband, a career criminal, probably did it.”
And if someone starts asking the wrong questions to try and counter your established narrative- put the blame on him. Accuse him.
*** “He’s a poor detective, just trying to cover up his own incompetence.”
If none of that works….
….Kill him too.
This is the start of Cold, Dark, and Silent.
Available on Amazon.com and Barnes & Noble

19/11/2024

Pool at our condo.
It makes me want to thumb cock…

17/11/2024

Real horror doesn't come from monsters or ghosts, or even politicians.

The most acute horror comes from denial, in the last seconds of an unnatural death.

A small group of people wanted to know what happened to Georgia Murphy. What they uncovered was real horror.

Cold, Dark, and Silent is available now on Amazon and Barnes and Noble in print, and also available on Kindle.

07/11/2024

My prayer this week has consistently been:
May those chosen to now lead us seek wise guidance and reach out to their opponents with firm, fair, but consoling words and hands. To administer us all with the design that one hand must have the other to construct our joint destiny.
May those defeated not plot anger and violence, but know that they can dedicate themselves as an integral part, a hand, that is much needed to build the new future for us all.
May both sides lead with a mind towards how to make the whole country united.
To be better than two halves apart.
One Nation, indivisible.

18/10/2024

I have been working on a writing project since the January/February timeframe.
Today, I can announce my new detective mystery novel called,
“Cold, Dark, and Silent”
is available for pre-order on Kindle at a discount. The book comes out in hardback, paperback, and Kindle Oct 28th.
Very loosely based on a couple of true cases, this is the story of how power, money, and love-gone-wrong all conspire to keep Cold the case of a woman’s total and seemingly instant disappearance.
For over two years, this small town remained in the Dark.
It’s also about how a small team of dedicated people, led by “Chig” Ashe, a local son and retired city detective returned home, refused to let her story, and her voice, remain forever Silent.
~ I hope you enjoy it.

14/09/2024

11/09/2024

I was at Ft. Leonard Wood working for the Army MP School as an SRT training Team Leader.
We had a class of 30 in session of Soldier and Marine students from all over the country and one team from Okinawa.
They were about to be sent home.
There was no cable TV in the office back then but someone had a small portable set in his office. We missed the North Tower being struck but the news was showing it on fire and damaged.
Everyone still was thinking it was maybe an accident.
We were standing there watching the tower burn and thinking about the class downstairs when I watched the second plane fly straight into the South Tower.
There was, at that point, no doubt. Someone behind me quietly but resolutely said, “Game on.”
Of course so much more happened that day. So many more died.
We became consumed with the logistics and operations as best we could with only partial and rapidly changing information.
Within days, I and others were off on milair planes headed out to assist in securing Army installations.
And one or two standing near me that day, are now gone.