I was sorting through some of my old Training Ledger Notes in preparation for some drills this week and came across some things I thought might be of value to some of you. Fundamentals to Consider: Train How You Live (Clothes, Gear and Gun) Wear Darker Colors. Lighter Colors silhouette your profile….
Category: Tradecraft
Now is the Time to Prioritize, not Panic
H/T WRSA DTG’s 2021 Updated 10 Week (If You’re Lucky) Plan to Prepare for the Worst-Case Scenario This is an excellent Get Your Shit Together article! To reiterate the most important point: TIME is of the essence and everything mentioned is going to be harder to obtain and more expensive as time goes by,…
The Surveillance State: Leave Your Phone at Home
Red Alert for Android Users: Google Gives Police Your Identification If Police Say You Were Near a Crime Back in the day, cops had to put physical “bugs” (recording devices) in criminals’ houses and cars. Now, they just use your phone, especially if you’re on Android. No worries, even if you’re using Apple, you…
Every Man a Rifleman
“Make good scouts of yourselves. Become good rifle shots so that, when it becomes necessary that you defend your families and your country, you can actually do it!”- Baden-Powell, founder of Boy Scouts “The Rifle is a weapon. Let there be no mistake about that. It is a tool of power and thus dependent completely…
Ammo Files: Don’t Use FMJ Ammo for Self-Defense
Don’t Use FMJ Ammo for Self-Defense Occasionally I’ll see someone using cheap, ball ammo for self defense. Sometimes this is borne out of simple frugality. More frequently it is the result of misunderstanding how modern, expanding, hollowpoint ammunition behaves. In this article I hope to convince you otherwise. Bottom line up front: don’t use…
Crime Awareness: Thieves Going High Tech
Via: Area Ocho Thieves Going High Tech There is a new variation of an old crime that all of us need to be aware of: Fake traffic stops. It goes like this. A car with blue strobes slips in behind yours and attempts to pull you over. It isn’t a new crime. Fake…
“What the Young Man Should Know”
“What the Young Man Should Know” From Harper’s Magazine 1933 By Robert Littell, 1933 Glancing out of the window, I can see the subject–and eventual victim–of this inquiry, dangerously perched in the crotch of an old chestnut tree, about fifteen feet above the ground. Should I rush out and tell him to get…
OPSEC 101: Prepper’s Beware
Pay Attention Last week, my friend Mike Shelby of Forward Observer/GrayZone Activity put out a thread detailing the indictment of 61 far left activists for their activity at the Cop City protests. While many cheered on what seemed to be a far-overdue indictment against ANTIFA, what the indictment reveals are significant risks to those…
Armed Citizen’s Corner: Review of Jim Cirillo’s “Guns, Bullets and Gunfights”
Cirillo’s “Guns, Bullets and Gunfights” Jim Cirillo was probably the last real gunfighter in America. Without a doubt the combat arms fellas in our military are gunfighters, but they ply their trade overseas. Jim did it at home, in the grim streets of New York city. He was a member of the city’s Stake…
Old School Pistolcraft: Mastering Jim Cirillo’s Technique For Coarse-Aim Shooting
Mastering Jim Cirillo’s Technique For Coarse-Aim Shooting (From the Tactical Hermit: This is one of the early uses of the “Metal on Meat” technique. Field Proven!!) Lethal-force events can happen in a split second, you need the capability to respond in kind. Here’s how law-enforcement legend Jim Cirillo got the drop on the…