How Helene Affected The People Of Appalachia This is why we need to Always be Training, Caching, Stockpiling and Preparing for the WORST.
Category: Tradecraft
Reflections on “Operation Grim Beeper” (what a name!)
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…
Mossad Pager Bombs
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…
Rhodesian Twofer
Archives, 2022 The Rhodesian Vest, Fireforce Style (a YBH tale) Fire Force: A Trooper’s War In The Rhodesian Light Infantry
False-Flag Season is Here – This is Your Wake-Up Call
Rifle Corner: Retrieving the Rifle – an Overlooked Skill
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…
Handgun Corner: Jeff Cooper’s First Article from 1946
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…
Practical AK Mods
Short list of minimalist modifications needed to make the AK run like a champ 1. TRIGGER..TRIGGER…TRIGGER I will never forget what a very dear friend and gunsmith guru said to me many moons ago: “If you want any gun to be 100% of it’s capability, install a better trigger and you are 75%…
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…
It’s Better to Shut Off the Computer
It’s Better to Shut Off the Computer I’ll let you in on a little secret. A knife has never been my go to choice for self-protection. I train with them. I instruct in the use of them. Hell, I’ve designed them. It was my dislike of the knife that drew me to better understand it….