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Ammo Files: Don’t Use FMJ Ammo for Self-Defense

Posted on 30 September 202330 September 2023 by The Tactical Hermit

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…

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Know Your Firearms History: The ‘Tiffany Guns’ of the Spanish-American War

Posted on 15 September 202315 September 2023 by The Tactical Hermit

The ‘Tiffany Guns’ of the Spanish-American War   President Joe Biden has repeatedly suggested when it was first drafted there were restrictions to the Second Amendment. He pressed the point by stating that “you couldn’t own a cannon,” while more recently he’s made the argument that the Second Amendment isn’t absolute in that Americans today…

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You Supply the Pictures, I’ll Supply the War

Posted on 3 September 20233 September 2023 by The Tactical Hermit

You supply the pictures. I’ll supply the War   When you combine the recent article of Govt. Agencies employing AI to both censor and deceive the general public with the past shenanigans of one William Randolph Hearst, you have a 100% bonafide WARNING! Remember: There is nothing new under the Sun and Government’s don’t change…

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Know Your WW2 History: Kursk – The Battle that Changed Everything

Posted on 1 September 20231 September 2023 by The Tactical Hermit

Kursk: The Battle that Changed Everything   It is 75 years since the Battle of Kursk, the largest tank battle in history. More than 3,000,000 men and 8,000 tanks met, 400 miles south of Moscow. Yet today, once again, German tanks are facing Russian tanks, just a few hundred miles from the site of that…

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Fairbairn and Sykes: Shooting to Live

Posted on 16 August 2023 by The Tactical Hermit

Fairbairn and Sykes: Shooting to Live   Travis Pike provides a practical review of the classic book “Shooting to Live” by Fairbairn and Sykes. Considered by many to be a forerunner to modern defensive firearms training, the book focused on the use of handguns in self-defense scenarios. The authors, with their extensive experience in law…

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Myanmar Guerillas Using Homemade Weaponry

Posted on 7 August 20237 August 2023 by The Tactical Hermit

H/T Impro Guns       Another video of PDF fighters taking shots at Junta forces from an entrenched position. Pictures and videos have previously surfaced of bolt action .223 rifles which appear to be the same featured. At least one appears to be a bolt action 12 gauge shotgun. Guerilla forces have also been known to…

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Comm Corner: Encrypted Radio Comms Compromised

Posted on 29 July 2023 by The Tactical Hermit

H/T WRSA   An Intentional Backdoor discovered in Encrypted Radio Comms used Globally for over 25 years.   Via Source Article from WIRED.   This backdoor could allow someone to snoop on communications and potentially send harmful commands. The researchers also found a second vulnerability that could let someone decrypt encrypted voice and data communications…

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Mines and Such Whatnot

Posted on 9 July 2023 by The Tactical Hermit

Mines and Such Whatnot   A nice little review from Big Country of some very nasty “Anti-Personnel” devices you might see in the upcoming FUSA shit show. Study up and Prepare Accordingly.

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Know Your Weapons: The M72 LAW (Light Anti-Tank Weapon)

Posted on 7 July 2023 by The Tactical Hermit

M72 LAW: American Light Anti-Tank Weapons in Vietnam and Beyond   The M72 consists of a disposable launcher that fires an unguided 66mm solid-fuel rocket. The basic concept is essentially an arithmetic mean between the American bazooka and the German WWII-vintage Panzerfaust. The light anti-armor weapon saw a great deal of use in the Vietnam War…

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Know Your Weapons: The M18A1 Claymore Mine

Posted on 2 July 2023 by The Tactical Hermit

  The M18A1 Claymore Mine: From Vietnam to Today   Aimed in the right direction, the U.S. M18A1 Claymore mine is one of the most lethal and devastating anti-infiltration weapons of modern warfare. There’s a reason for the qualifier on that kudo, and more about that in a moment. From its initial employment with U.S….

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