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: Arms and Ammo
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…
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…
AK Corner: Zero Recoil AK Goodness
H/T: Gab
Close-Quarters Shotgun Technique
Close Quarters Shotgun Technique Shotguns can be excellent tools for home defense, but their long overall length presents some challenges for maneuvering in tight spaces. Today, we’re looking at a technique called “short stocking” that was developed to meet those challenges. Short stocking has long been used by law enforcement and other entry teams,…
Rifle Tips for Fighting Around a Car
Rifle Tips for Fighting Around a Car IMHO, The armed civilian can find about a dozen more important things to drill on than fighting in and around vehicles, but this article is different in that it applies some very practical (versus couch Rambo) advice if you do find yourself in this Ass-Puckering Level 1…
Guerilla Gunsmith: Guerilla Arms Factory in Colombia
Illicit SMG Factory Raided in Colombia Via: Radios Regionales “Parliamentarians from the Los Ríos region described the clandestine weapons factory found in the commune of Panguipulli as serious. The senator of Renovación Nacional, María José Gatica, assured that this discovery represents the capacity of criminal organizations to establish complex and technically advanced operations…
Magazine Fatigue?
Magazine Fatigue? A question that routinely comes up when a new user gets an auto pistol – whether a police trainee or armed citizen – is “how long can the magazine stay loaded without compromising reliability?” – or words to that effect. It’s a fair question. I’m no metallurgist, but I’ve been handling guns…
W.O.F.T. Training
What is W.O.F.T. Training? There is a misconception that simply having a firearm can solve any problem, but this is flatly wrong. If someone approaches you in a dimly lit parking lot yelling out at you, your natural response shouldn’t be to draw your concealed firearm and deposit some hollow points into them. W.O.F.T. is…
Urban Guerilla Sniping v3.0
“History is nothing else than a long succession of useless cruelties.” (Voltaire) When you look at the situation in Syria, you see the logic in Voltaire’s prose. I suppose it is the hopeless romantic in me that wishes for a world that is not filled with asshole tyrants and despots that take advantage of…