Classic Combat Pistol Drill: Cooper’s El Presidente When my father first started teaching me to shoot a handgun around nine or ten years old, he used Cooper’s Modern Technique to cement the fundamentals and then a few years later the El Presidente to combine all of these skills together. One of the things I distinctly…
Category: Arms and Ammo
Homemade Firearms Twofer
Homemade MAC-10 Cartel grenade launcher factory raided
Gun Rights Revisited
Gun Rights Revisited “A well regulated Militia, being necessary to the security of a free State, the right of the people to keep and bear Arms, shall not be infringed.” It goes without saying that any visitor to this website is familiar with the text of the Second Amendment; I would also expect that…
Milsurp Corner: 9mm Makarov Cartridge
The 9mm Makarov Cartridge This article brought back some very fond memories of my Curio and Relic Days when the Big Brown UPS truck of joy would deliver fully functional long rifles and handguns right to my door! But alas those days are long gone so all I have are memories and archived blog post…
Obscure Rifles: Mondragón Rifle – The First Semi-Auto Combat Rifle
Mondragón rifle – The First Semi-Auto Combat Rifle The M1 Garand gets credit for being the first successful semi-auto combat rifle. That’s only partially true. Sure, the M1 Garand was widely successful, but General Manuel Mondragón, a Mexican General and Arms designer, beat Garand by about 30 years. Mexico adopted the Mondragón Model 1908 in 1904,…
The Thermonator
Ohio Company Launches Robot Dog With Flamethrower Attached
Vehicle Cover & Concealment
Vehicle Cover & Concealment THE BASICS OF AUTOMOTIVE BALLISTICS Vehicle Close Quarter Battle (VCQB) was first developed by Will Petty of Centrifuge Training. The coursework in a VCQB class covers ballistics and gunfights in, out, and around vehicles and is targeted to law enforcement. While there was a time the concept was considered controversial, in the…
One-Handed Survival Shooting Techniques – Necessary or Fluff?
One-Handed Survival Shooting Techniques – Necessary or Fluff? Training with one hand is often referred to as “wounded shooter training”. Is this always the case? Read more to find out more. Last week’s Facebook LIVE discussion covered one-handed survival manipulation; a subject I took a liking to long ago. When I was instructing with the Federal…
Combat Shooting 101: The Zipper
From the Archives, 2013 The armed civilian, like the LEO, needs to evaluate his Course of Fire and Firearm Drills frequently to make sure they stay current with the times. The best example of this is the increased use of Body Armor by thugs. Looking at history, one could expect your “higher class”…
More on the Haitian Gangs
So in 2021 the Gubmint paid out $1.4 Million for 34 Toyota Land Cruisers to a Company called Bering Global Solutions, LLC for the purpose of equipping the Haitian National Police. Fast forward to 2024 and Haiti is a Failed State with cannibalistic armed gangs “requisitioning” all Law Enforcement equipment and arms, ala’ that…