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Bullets Follow Walls – Explained

Posted on 8 March 2025 by The Tactical Hermit

  I remember when I started MOUT training, I heard the phrase “bullets follow walls, so stay away from walls.” I heard it and did it, but I had to eventually ask what it meant. Why do bullets follow walls? At 18, I had no idea what bullets did. I was told to shut up…

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Shotty Corner: What’s The Effective Range of Buckshot?

Posted on 6 February 20256 February 2025 by The Tactical Hermit

What’s The Effective Range of Buckshot?   If you asked someone to list the downsides of shotguns, you’d very quickly get to the limited range issue. Shotguns have limited range, especially when firing shot. Slugs can extend the range but still can’t reach the same range as 5.56. Shotguns lack range, but how far can…

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Tactical Saturday: The Shooting People in the Face Drill, Revisited*

Posted on 25 January 202517 March 2025 by The Tactical Hermit

  While training the other day I put in my customary 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 shot to…

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Motorbike Warfare

Posted on 12 December 2024 by The Tactical Hermit

Via: Matthew Bracken Substack   Circa 1997, I was in Panama, on the Caribbean side, getting my boat ready to transit the canal to the Pacific.     I was walking from Colon’s old so-called yacht club (now long gone) through an industrial port area to get to Colon City. When I was passing about…

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The Use of Magic Bullets in Staged Deception Shooting Events

Posted on 11 December 2024 by The Tactical Hermit

The Use of Magic Bullets in Staged Deception Shooting Events   Although almost all video evidence from the 2017 Las Vegas shooting has been purged from YouTube, we have discovered a revealing collection of material on a Bitchute video. There’s also some new footage we have never seen before. If you’re interested in the subject,…

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Shot Placement: Simple But Realistic Targeting

Posted on 11 October 2024 by The Tactical Hermit

Shot Placement: Simple But Realistic Targeting   I have been studying armed conflict for over four decades. I went places, talked to people, viewed autopsies, read reports, made contacts, collected data. Today, all it takes is watching videos. If I could have done it easily, I would have, but I certainly don’t regret the journey….

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Training Stressors

Posted on 4 September 20245 September 2024 by The Tactical Hermit

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…

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Got Range Cards?

Posted on 22 July 202422 July 2024 by The Tactical Hermit

Newly Unburdened, or is That “UnBidened?” and A Range Card Instructional (IMPORTANT!)   Highly recommend you save this to a flash drive for later reference. Don’t get distracted by the circus. Use this time to Prepare and Prep your AO! In Addition pickup a Range-R Card and some Mini-Field Reference Manuals over at Brushbeater’s Store….

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W.O.F.T. Training

Posted on 20 July 2024 by The Tactical Hermit

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…

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Urban Guerilla Sniping v3.0

Posted on 18 July 2024 by The Tactical Hermit

“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…

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