Darryl Bolke is a retired police officer from Southern California. He is a well established nationally recognized firearms instructor and use of force expert. During his law enforcement career he was assigned as a firearms instructor and Armorer for the SWAT team for 17 years and later was a Primary Firearms Instructor for his entire agency. As part of his duties he was utilized as a firearms and ballistics expert for Officer Involved Shooting investigations where he did over 75. He also was utilized as a firearms expert by the District Attorney’s office in the largest county in the United States.
Darryl currently does extensive high level security work as well as firearms training. He is also a high level firearms collector focusing on police type revolvers of the last 100 years. He is a voracious student of history since childhood. He presents at firearms training conferences all over the country and has authored numerous internationally published articles related to firearms and edged weapons.
He has a page on Facebook called DB’s Shooting Adventures that has lots of unique forearms content. He is also Co-Owner of Hardwired Tactical Shooting, also on Facebook. He is married to Melanie Bolke who works at Shoot Like A Girl, and Hunt Like a Girl and has a daughter in College.
