“Make good scouts of yourselves. Become good rifle shots so that, when it becomes necessary that you defend your families and your country, you can actually do it!”- Baden-Powell, founder of Boy Scouts
“The Rifle is a weapon. Let there be no mistake about that. It is a tool of power and thus dependent completely on the moral stature of it’s user. It is equally useful in securing meat for the table, destroying group enemies on the battlefield and resisting tyranny. In fact it is the only means of resisting tyranny since a citizenry armed with rifles simply cannot be tyrannized.” -Jeff Cooper
“Men trained in arms from their infancy, and animated by the love of liberty, will afford neither a cheap or easy conquest.” – Declaration of the Continental Congress, July 1775.
“The Russian invasion of Finland in 1939 (“The Winter War”) gruesomely demonstrates the way a small force of righteous and determined men, armed only with rifles, can embarrassingly frustrate a much larger, even mechanized, force. Precise rifle fire from well-trained Operators, using guanine battle rifles, is still the deadliest force in warfare, even today!” – John Farnam
I have found in my life that when things start going sideways it is always best to refer back to the FUNDAMENTALS to get back on track, since it is often the fundamentals that get forgotten first under severe stress.
We are living in trying and dangerous times. It’s time to get back to the BASICS.
The DUTY of the responsible armed civilian since this country’s inception was to be a RIFLEMAN first above all else.
If you ask me we have become a nation way too obsessed with handguns.
Let’s get back to our partisan roots and put the priority back to becoming RIFLEMAN first and a Handgunner second.
Understanding both are a highly perishable art form, so we need to do three things consistently: PRACTICE! PRACTICE! PRACTICE!
Seek out qualified BTDT instruction from guys like Brushbeater and Paul Howe over at CSAT.
Secondly, Support organizations that are ensuring this Rifleman legacy continues on to the next generation.
Encourage parents and youngsters to invest in America’s Rifle Legacy and it’s Survival:
