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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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WWMCD?

Posted on 7 October 2024 by The Tactical Hermit

     

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Prepatude

Posted on 6 October 2024 by The Tactical Hermit

Prepatude    “It was a different world back then and Gen X kids, who were pretty free-range.”   Prepping is a subject that has been near and dear to my heart since I was a kid. The Wilder family would frequently go on long hikes and snowmobile trips into the backcountry.  Likewise, we’d go hunting…

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How Helene Affected The People Of Appalachia

Posted on 1 October 20241 October 2024 by The Tactical Hermit

How Helene Affected The People Of Appalachia   This is why we need to Always be Training, Caching, Stockpiling and Preparing for the WORST.    

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Reflections on “Operation Grim Beeper” (what a name!)

Posted on 20 September 2024 by The Tactical Hermit

Reflections on “Operation Grim Beeper” (what a name!)   A Twitter thread offers some interesting perspectives on the exploding pagers and walkie-talkies in Lebanon. A few thoughts on Operation Grim Beeper: 1) This is one of the most astonishing intelligence operations in history. It is a reworking of the story of the Trojan Horse for the digital…

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Mossad Pager Bombs

Posted on 17 September 202418 September 2024 by The Tactical Hermit

Lebanon: Pagers Apparently Exploding and Blowing Pieces Off of People   At least eight people were killed and about 2,750 were wounded by exploding handheld pagers across Lebanon. We appear to have entered into a whole new era of bizarre warfare, where consumer electronics can be triggered to explode and kill you or seriously injure/deform…

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Rhodesian Twofer

Posted on 11 September 20249 March 2025 by The Tactical Hermit

Archives, 2022   The Rhodesian Vest, Fireforce Style (a YBH tale)   Fire Force: A Trooper’s War In The Rhodesian Light Infantry    

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False-Flag Season is Here – This is Your Wake-Up Call

Posted on 8 September 2024 by The Tactical Hermit

       

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Rifle Corner: Retrieving the Rifle – an Overlooked Skill

Posted on 5 September 2024 by The Tactical Hermit

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…

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Handgun Corner: Jeff Cooper’s First Article from 1946

Posted on 5 September 2024 by The Tactical Hermit

Jeff Cooper’s First Article   Here is a scanned copy of Jeff Cooper’s first published article, from the Marine Corps Gazette, in Sept 1946. Titled “What Good Is A Pistol?”, it discusses pistol training and caliber selection. Highlights: Cooper comments that the semiauto pistol be redesigned to have more slant and a slight curve — essentially…

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