Avoiding Infection: Treating Minor Wounds in the Field
Spend any amount of time in the great outdoors and you’re bound to get a few scrapes and knicks and cuts while you cover ground. It’s important to take safety […]
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Top 5 Items: Hunter IFAK
Last week we talked about the 3 types of injuries you might face while hunting. Being far away from medical help is the biggest reason why an emergency in a […]
3 Most Common Hunting Injuries
Hunting in the back country of the Colorado Rockies is tough, even for the most experienced hunters and people come from all over the world just to test themselves here. […]
A Successful GN Conference
Success! The first annual Guardian Nation Conference was a big win. For me personally, it was the chance to shake off the rust and do some teaching. This conference was […]
Emergency Trauma: Where Do You Even Start?
One of the hardest things about trauma medicine is knowing where to begin. If you aren’t somebody who uses these skills on the regular, like an EMT or Paramedic, then […]
Medical Trauma: What is Shock?
Shock is a term that can be very broad in its description but can also be broken down into more precise definitions. Many people mistake the term “shock” to mean […]
Combat Gauze Vs. QuikClot
One of the things I say with regularity is how important it is to learn wound packing. But if you haven’t heard, here’s why: Wound packing is an essential skill […]
Teaching Emergency Trauma at the Active Self Protection Conference!
Ok, I get it. Firearm training is a lot sexier than medical training. But to be a good defender, prepared for emergencies both natural and man-made, means having an acceptable […]
Time To Talk: Tactical Tampons
It seems to me that most rumors, if left uninvestigated for too long after being conceived, tend to die long slow, and painful deaths. One of my favorite topics […]
Come Train Live with Mountain Man Medical!
Live Training with Mountain Man Medical at the ConcealedCarry.com Guardian Conference, Presented by CCW Safe After a year of lost training due to Covid shutdowns, it’s time to get back […]