The Carry Journey from Ernest and Aimee

[@charlesx1957]

At 64 healthy 2 years ago decided to purchase like everyone else a small Sig Sauer p365 then traded for p365xl now with all the upgrades. Friend let me shoot a Beretta 92g LTT and my obsession with Beretta started. Thank you for my 92g LTT Elite w/ optics cut for Trijicon SRO, NP3 , ordered US Duty holster. Yes get training, very humbling experience, yes watch Langdon Tactical videos and others to get confident and safe. 2 years and some really nice firearms and I'm still intimated of what I don't know. Be patient and thoughtful of those around you! Give yourself realistic goals to achieve levels of firearms training. I am blessed to have a trainer that is retired ROTC high-school and Marine sharpshooter and friend. I feel when you own firearms it's a life long learning experience! Ernest is still learning all the time! Lol Admire everything you 2 have accomplished!

[@AlphaTangoSierra]

It's a great motivational video. Being served in LEA's as an officer for more than three decades and after that, delivering as an instructor in tactical field for last 7/8 years, I wish my lady also have such kind of interest in the same field. I will definitely show this video to her for the motivation purposes. ❤️

[@LangdonTactical]

Yay! Please do.

[@CEDARMULCH642]

Great talking points. Even greater points to know that everyone won't and can't be a tactical genius. You two have formed a wonderful union. Bless you both.

[@LangdonTactical]

Thank you!

[@surfacegr1nder705]

Just checked out the videos on the site. This is great! My daughter and I were just talking about getting her started to learn to shoot and carry so she can feel comfort and become confident about firearms. This is great info for her to get started. She’s got smaller hands like Aimee so my Elite is just too large for her to reach so we’ve got some investigating to do. Thanks guys!

[@RCGB31]

Thank you to both of you. Friendly regards from Switzerland ! ;-) G.

[@djmarkla]

This is excellent ! I am a large guy with some martial arts experience and other hobbies that involve risk. (motorcycle riding) . I was in my late Forties when I decided to buy a firearm for the first time. I knew nothing about the operation of them, nothing about range etiquette. I was nervous and uncomfortable. Luckily I happened to mention learning to shoot to a friend that helped me get started. There is so much to learn but it is also a lot of fun and most of the folks you meet are great. I am very happy and interested to see the content you have developed

[@82lowe36id]

Great idea for sure. I think we as longtime gun owners and people that are trained and have have years of experience, we take for granted the basics. I know when I first started carrying when I got out of the Army, I had to learn what worked and what didn't the hard way.

[@LangdonTactical]

yes! learning curves for everyone.

[@nchintalapani]

@@LangdonTactical Literally, learning curves, of your own body to find the perfect concealment spot.

[@gmro-ronosinski5102]

Great things are going to come of this for many people. Great idea, and good luck!!! 🔫🎯👍🏼👊🏼💯

[@LangdonTactical]

Hope so!

[@80sDweeb]

Outstanding! I remember looking at a certain training class, and the requirement for the class was to bring a full-size handgun in an OWB holster with 5 extra magazines. All this so I could carry a Taurus TCP .380? What if I didn't have a full-size firearm? What if magazines for my Astra A100 are unobtanium? It was assuming so much about me (which I wasn't ready for at the time.) Beginning pistol class. So I wasn't even a beginner, even though I had loved guns my entire life (but lived in New York, where handguns require many extra steps to even own.)

[@620ronin]

Thank you for sharing your insight. I struggle with teaching newbies too!

[@LangdonTactical]

you're welcome!

[@skipboyer1889]

Appreciate the honesty. Takes big folks to admit all that and thank God for a woman that He can use to file off some sharp edges to an old Jarhead! Lol Not everyone responds well to being smacked in the head to understand stuff! Haha 66 years old married for 44 years. Taught my wife to shoot AFTER her Dad taught her wrong. If the wife is a bit "spunky", telling her her dad taught her wrong can be….challenging, to say the least. I like what Aimee said: She realized she didn’t need to be you. She is right. She needs to be her but incorporate all the safe gun handling skills you or, her instructors impart. What came through loud and clear was the honesty and sincerity. Semper Fi, Staff! Thanks for your service to our country! OORAH! Skip Boyer Corporal USMC 1973-1976

[@LangdonTactical]

Thank you too, sir!

[@misssassycompany9950]

Very informative! Thank you guys.

[@joecamel8182]

Well how lucky are you to be trained by one of the best. Peace and goodness to you both.

[@tion_suppressors]

Thanks for sharing! 🙂 There's a lot of good information just in this video to share around!

[@LangdonTactical]

Thanks for watching!

[@Smootus]

Absolutely needed, and will make a sensible education for everyone, new gun owner, teacher, family, etc…. Glad you are addressing the need.

[@HalfCrazy520]

My wife came to me last June and said she wanted to become proficient with a handgun, get her own pistol that she could manipulate and run by herself, and get a concealed carry permit. I KNOW I am absolutely THE WRONG PERSON to teach her, so we took classes together (even though I've been shooting all my life). Of course, me being me, I researched it to death and bought her a S&W Shield 9 EZ pistol. This pissed her off to no end because she wanted to pick out her own gun... So before the gun even arrived, I told her I would keep it and she could pick something else. She rented and shot a wide range of pistols from a wide range of manufacturers and decided that what she wanted was a S&W Shield 9 EZ... which is exactly what I had picked for her (yay!). Now, she is quite proficient and handles and runs a pistol like a pro, but supporting her shooting habit is more expensive than a drug habit. When I buy ammo it's not how many rounds, but how many THOUSAND rounds do I want... because when she wakes up here in a few minutes she will say, "How much 9mm ball ya got?" because she will want to shoot this morning, meaning 400+ rounds.

[@JoeO.]

The next evolution of Langdon Tactical Technology: LTT Couple’s Therapy.

[@LangdonTactical]

HAHAHA!!!

[@AGC828]

From the first time I saw one of their videos....my first thoughts were....how interesting it was that 2 people seemingly so different could unite. Marry and work together. Oddly, there are other KZbinrs in a similar relationship e.g. ex-military guy + non-military mate....possibly with zero firearms background. Not even as a recreational shooter. But as with Amy and Earnest the wife in that relationship was open to exporing to some degree the firearms wrold. Also became someone who "carried". I suppose it never would have worwked had she been totally opposed to firearms e.g. "no firearms in the house". Some people simply aren't "gun people" no matter their backgrounds. How life is. Having someone not from a miltiary or LE bakground in the business DOES help....especially if Ernest isn't only teaching military/LE. Which.....kind of gets me jwondering....how a military man is going to teach civilians. With little or no firearms bakground at all.

[@LangdonTactical]

A lot of thoughts here... Aimee will never be Ernest and Ernest will never be Aimee. Experiences and teaching in life make us who we are. It's the blend of finding what is comfortable (for firearms) and understanding your own weaknesses and strengths are what help build a relationship and a business. Aimee and Ernest have a team of people that make LTT work and their dynamic is fairly entertaining to watch and witness - they are raw, real and experienced in different ways.

[@thinman8621]

Teaching can be harder than doing.

[@danielrodriguez5463]

I was there a few months ago. I have a girlfriend of mine who recently divorced buy a S&W Shield EZ and as easy as this gun is to operate, the first time at the range was disappointing to say the least. She was all over the target and didn’t want to keep magazines loaded in the house 🤦🏻‍♂️(until she “needed” them ) I was so frustrated, I could punch a holes thru bullseye with her gun all day. It took time, patience and lots of explanations that made ME learn all over again

[@HalfCrazy520]

That is exactly why I didn't teach my wife... We took classes together. I just shut my mouth and let them handle it. When she asked a question, I would point to the instructor and say, "ASK STEVE" because I know better than to drop a quarter into that particular juke box. It's a trap!

[@everythingisaworkinprogres5729]

Glad I discovered your channel. I especially appreciate the fact that you guys bring both ends of the spectrum perspectives to the table.

[@jonathanl2748]

I always teach safety to a newb as a new girl/guy to shooting will generally tend to muzzle people and put their finger on the trigger before it’s needed. Once they have an appreciation for safety, then we get to shooting.

[@jameseason9949]

Awesome video! On to Discover!

[@brothermaynard3759]

Bought my first handgun a little over a year ago. I was spurred on by the destruction and lack of a response to that destruction in a neighborhood I know well; Lake St at Hiawatha in Minneapolis. Did a lot of research prior to my purchase and fired a good number of guns. Ran across this guy on YT named Ernest Langdon who was championing the Beretta 92. Rented one at a local range. Bought one a week later. Best decision I could have made. Thanks Ernest. For a new gun owner, confidence in your firearm goes along way. It's easy to gain that confidence with a Beretta 92 because for me Beretta places safety first. The safety\de-cocker coupled with the double action\single action trigger, along with the four basic tenets of safe firearm handling go along way in a developing handgun journey. You guys have hitched your wagon to what I think are the finest handguns available especially to a newbie like me.

[@Shorty_Lickens]

6 years ago a man tried to kill me. I shot once and missed, luckily he went away cuz my crummy little LCP had a failure to eject. I learned a lot that night. Later I got a better gun and took many many classes. I feel better now but things could have gone quite differently if I'd been less lucky.

[@jonathanl2748]

Good on you that you had a gun when you needed it. Using your gun did save your life, despite the FTE.

[@Shorty_Lickens]

Yeah, sometimes showing the gun is not enough, too many fools and madmen think you won't actually use it. But shooting and missing means you were prepared to defend yourself.

[@jamesslatham8164]

Nicely done indeed.

[@LangdonTactical]

Thank you kindly!

[@LifeisGood762]

It's harder than it sounds! My sister got frustrated asking questions at a gun shop because lack of knowledge would bring chuckles. It's hard to learn a new skill as an adult. Pride and fear get in the way. It doesn't help that there are many shooters who, like Ernest, forgot learning the first bits of technical jargon that they now take for granted. It's easy to tell but hard to convince someone that naivete is ok and they're not lesser because they don't know everything. A teacher's smile in the wrong spot and the student turtles up and doesn't want to attempt to learn anymore because they feel vulnerable. How do you tell a 36 year old man that the long skinny pedal on the right makes a car go forward by adding gas, but not unless this lever is in "drive" when his ego tells him not to let anyone see he doesn't know what he's doing? Meanwhile some of what you said has gone in one ear and out the other because he's thinking "What's a pedal?" "What's gas and how is it different from oil?" "What does this wheel do?" The other problem is people who are like "I know how to make the car go forward, so that means I know how to drive. No more learning is necessary."

[@KnowYourRights-USA]

Thanks for what you do!

[@ernestlangdon3075]

Thank you.

[@kristinhickey2680]

I absolutely love this video. Thanks for all the honesty Empower people in their journey…amen!!

[@charlesmorris6952]

Like too see Beretta X performance Carry Compensated in 10mm

[@barbeonline351]

KZbin provided me the resources a few years ago to complete a journey to responsible and competent ownership. It had been an impossible task previously. Family, friends, classes, etc. were all woefully incomplete. Dangerously incomplete. I have a background in education and could see the blinders worn by all these "sources". Even YT has its limits and I had to cobble together Paul Harrell, Active Self Protection, Yankee Marshal, Wilson Combat, Ernest Langdon, etc. and accept that only about 1 in 3 videos added value. But I am happy and have reached about 70% of my goal. My point is to spur you on. I think I hear what you have come to understand about empathy for the learning process and the individual. I would argue that not only does a novice need this concept you are developing but most long time owners need it too. Best wishes for success in this transformative venture.

[@Whitpusmc]

This is great, thanks for doing this!