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Student of the Gun Radio

Sight Focus vs Target Focus & Why No Medical? feat. Louis Caras | SOTG 1316

Student of the Gun Radio

Jarrad Markel

Politics, Sports, Wilderness, News

5.0 • 2 Ratings

🗓️ 7 November 2025

⏱️ 73 minutes

🔗️ Recording | iTunes | RSS

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Summary

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Today we have a special guest; Louis Caras, a Tactical Response Small Arms & Tactics instructor who will join us to discuss a troubling situation. Why is it in the year of Our Lord, Two-thousand and Twenty-Five, that there are still so-called experts in the world of firearms who ignore the importance of traumatic medical training and gear?

We have a question from an audience member that plays right into our Tech Talk segment from EOTech Inc. What is the difference between target focus and sight focus? Also, can an optic on a handgun be beneficial while moving and shooting or is it a drawback?

Student of the Gun has a new partner: Blackout Coffee and you can support the show by using the link found in the show notes. Additionally, Professor Paul has a reminder that Christmas is coming up and now is the time to order an SOTG branded coffee mug for the one that you love.

During our Leadership Lesson, Paul has some suggested reading which can now be consumed via audiobook.  Have you read the Morning Mindset book yet?

As usual, we have our Fighting Fitness segment. Paul gives an update regarding what we will call the Nick Orr Challenge. Do not neglect your leg strength. And, is eating protein a bad thing? Paul and Jarrad consider an OpEd that seriously questions the consumption of protein.

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Transcript

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0:00.0

All right, all you cats and kittens out there in the Student of the Gun listening audience.

0:03.1

It's time for 13, 16.

0:06.0

We're into the wonderful month of November, 2025.

0:10.9

It really, I said it before.

0:12.4

I'm going to say it again.

0:13.1

It bums me out that 2025 is almost over.

0:16.2

It just bums me out.

0:18.0

I like the 25.

0:20.5

I'm not down with the 26 so much but but there is one

0:24.8

thing that the 26 is going to do it's going to make it 40 years since i took my first formal

0:31.3

firearms training course it'll be officially 40 i've been saying for around 40 you know so

0:40.0

uh i guess i can say 40 now.

0:44.1

But what are we going to talk about today? We're going to talk about site focus versus target focus. We had a question that worked in perfectly what I was already planning on talking

0:51.8

about. So congratulations to you, Gary, for being smarter than the average bear.

0:57.5

We've got an interview with our homie, Louis Caris.

1:01.8

And recently, I came across an article, a blog post on a online magazine that was in hashtag EDC, stuff you should be carrying. And I was like,

1:14.4

oh, this might be interesting. And it was interesting, but not maybe not for the reason you think.

1:20.0

It gave us, it gave us pause to discuss. And I think you guys are going to get something out of it.

1:24.7

That's why we do these things. What else we have?

1:28.6

We have a, I have a brand new book.

1:33.4

Got a brand new book.

1:34.2

Well, it's not a new book, but it's a brand new audio book that I thought you guys might enjoy.

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