The Legend Of Charley Askins by Skeeter Skelton Shooting Times Magazine In The West Wing of a secluded, tile-roofed Spanish home in San Antonio, Texas is a room that is one of my favorite retreats. It’s a large room, carpeted with the rich hides of Polar and Kodiak bears and tigers. A long…
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Time to Get Your Ruck On
Blast at a Tennessee Explosives Plant leaves 18 missing and feared dead
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Armed Citizen Corner: Shooting at Moving Vehicles
Shooting at moving vehicles To shoot or not to shoot is the decades-old question when confronted with the decision to shoot the driver of a vehicle you perceive as intending to run you over. Some departments strictly forbid their officers from shooting at moving vehicles. As with any use of force, there are many…
The Armed Citizen Corner: Criminal Mindset – Make Yourself Harder to Kill
Criminal Mindset – Make Yourself Harder to Kill It might be cheesy to open an article up with a quote from Sun Tzu’s Art of War, but it applies so well; if you know the enemy and know yourself, you need not fear the result of a hundred battles. Today we are going to talk about…
Lessons Learned from the Battlefield: “Live” Training Pays Off
Lessons Learned from the Battlefield: “Live” Training Pays Off Memorizing TTPs won’t save you; fighting under resistance will. Baghdad Checkpoint The gunner let loose a long burst of machine-gun fire through the windshield of a speeding car. Days earlier, two Rangers had been killed nearby when a “pregnant” woman detonated a suicide vest at…
Resource Library: Seven Pillars of Small War Power
Seven_Pillars_of_Small_War_Power THE WORLD SEEMED to breathe a collective sigh of relief at the end of the long Cold War. That momentous event, however, did not mark the end of global armed conflict. While the number of armed conflicts worldwide has been declining since peaking in the early 1990s, and a conventional war between two…
Young Men, Political Violence is Your Obligation
Young Men, Political Violence is Your Obligation Young Men, We Need a Factory Reset For our entire lives we’ve heard schoolmarms, the media, liberal Christians and other subversives lecturing young men that “violence doesn’t solve problems.” Every time we have a public killing, we are told “political violence isn’t the answer.” Now, anyone who…
Shoot & Scoot
Lessons: Windows and Doors “Frame” you as a target, AVOID standing in them. If you must shoot out of a window or door, lower your profile. OODA Loop 101: Never Stay in one place too long in a gunfight; ‘Shoot and Scoot’ or ‘Get off the X’ and force your enemy to re-calibrate. Success…