Lifestyle: Situational Awareness

Anyone who carries a firearm needs to maintain a high level of awareness. Take a look at these practical tips you can use to maintain your situational awareness at all times.

Just like shooting, situational awareness is a skill you can develop with practice. Here are three things you can do to improve your situational awareness.

There’s a lot of talk these days about situational awareness.  Law enforcement talks about it, self-defense experts talk about it, shooters talk about it.  It seems like it’s the new buzzword.  But what is it, exactly?

According to Lt Col. Jeff Cooper, recognized as the father of the modern technique of handgun shooting, the most important means of surviving a lethal confrontation is not the weapon or the martial skills. The primary tool is the combat mindset.

This is a selective attention test. How good is your situational awareness?

The Tueller study is credited with first establishing the importance of maintaining a “reactionary gap”. This article by Dennis Tueller first appeared in the March 1983 issue of SWAT magazine.