Retrieving the Rifle – an Overlooked Skill If you haven’t taken my Perimeter Defense Rifle class (or read Protecting Your Homestead), you may not know that one of the things I teach is the idea that the rifle is the gun we are most unlikely to have on our person when we need it. It’s the firearm…
Category: Armed Citizen Corner
Handgun Corner: Jeff Cooper’s First Article from 1946
Jeff Cooper’s First Article Here is a scanned copy of Jeff Cooper’s first published article, from the Marine Corps Gazette, in Sept 1946. Titled “What Good Is A Pistol?”, it discusses pistol training and caliber selection. Highlights: Cooper comments that the semiauto pistol be redesigned to have more slant and a slight curve — essentially…
Training Stressors
From the Archives, 2018 (Hermit Note: In keeping with my recent announcement of re-centering priorities of “Just Shut-Up and Train!” I will be posting articles from the archives that I feel are of vital import to the Armed Citizen. Let’s all make a point to get out there and train in whatever capacity we are…
Practical AK Mods
Short list of minimalist modifications needed to make the AK run like a champ 1. TRIGGER..TRIGGER…TRIGGER I will never forget what a very dear friend and gunsmith guru said to me many moons ago: “If you want any gun to be 100% of it’s capability, install a better trigger and you are 75%…
The Shooting People in the Face Drill, Revisited*
From the Archives, 2018 While training the other day I put in 20 rounds on the tried and true Mozambique or “Failure to Stop” Drill. After I ran through the drill I realized something: I had been training myself to PAUSE between the transition from the two shots to Center of Mass to the…
Gun Safety 101
It’s Better to Shut Off the Computer
It’s Better to Shut Off the Computer I’ll let you in on a little secret. A knife has never been my go to choice for self-protection. I train with them. I instruct in the use of them. Hell, I’ve designed them. It was my dislike of the knife that drew me to better understand it….
Texas News: Dallas Police Officer Executed While In Patrol Car
Dallas police officer ‘executed,’ 2 others injured in targeted shooting So what you have here is a planned execution and subsequent ambush on the Law Enforcement QRF (Quick Reaction Force or back-up). These types of guerilla warfare tactics were used by insurgents in Northern Ireland and Iraq and Afghanistan time and time again with…
AK Corner: 5 Uncommon AK-47 Issues
5 Uncommon AK-47 Issues When I pitched this article idea, I had planned on calling it “5 Common AK Issues,” but the more I thought about what I was experiencing, the less sure I was that these issues were in any way common. The AK platform can have its hiccups. Yet, much like the…