Master Instructor

Jeffrey Mannix has been teaching handgun defense training for more than twenty-five years, with an excess of 3,000 graduates from his Santa Rita Ranch in Durango, Colorado, and uncounted more in private and corporate locations. 

Mr. Mannix retired as an asset protection specialist in 1989, after a career of providing personal protection for high-risk businessmen, heads of state, and irreplaceable assets on exhibit or in transit.  He is the author of three behavior modification/self-improvement books, including Armed & Female with research and safety-measures partner Paxton Quigley, published by G.P. Putnam’s Sons and St. Martin’s Press, New York, NY.

Training:

• Executive Security International (ESI), Aspen, Colorado
• G. Gordon Liddy Academy of Corporate Security and Private Investigation, Miami, Florida
• Lethal Force Institute, Concord, New Hampshire
• The American Pistol Institute, Paulden, Arizona 
• International Shootists Inc., Mission Hills, California
• Defense Training, Inc., Niwot, Colorado
• Chapman Academy of Practical Shooting, Columbia, Missouri 
• Israeli Mossad Special Operations, Camp Pendleton,California;
• Countermeasures Training: Jack McGeorge, Washington, D.C.; Bob Castone, Phoenix, AZ; Stan Rosenstock, Miami, FL; Linton Jordahl, Brunswick, GA; Al Smith, Washington, D.C.; Rock Meyers, Washington, D.C.; Stephen Goldrat, Sunrise, FL; Joel A. Kirch, Canton, N.Y.; John Strauss, Washington, D.C.; Wally Dallenbach, Rifle, CO; Bob Duggan, Aspen, CO