OLD WEST ADVICE…LESSONS LEARNED FROM WYATT EARP 1. “No wise man ever took a handgun to a gunfight.” Earp obviously knew the advantage of weapon superiority. If you know your opponent is armed with a handgun, bring a shotgun, or rifle. Give yourself every advantage possible. You don’t want to fight fair. You fight…
Category: When Men Were Men
Hardin’s Deadly Tools
Hardin’s Deadly Tools As a proud Texan I have always had a fascination with John Wesley Hardin. This article is spot-on accurate when it comes to the details of Hardin’s last “gunfight” in the Acme saloon. This was surprsingly not an uncommon tactic by men wearing a tin star in the Old West when…
When Men Were Men: Wisdom from a By-Gone Era
This is a collection of short videos of interviews with various Combat Veterans from past wars and conflicts. Take some time and listen to them, you’ll be Amazed at How Much the World and the Military has Changed for the WORSE. Below the First video click on “Read the Full Conversation on Twitter” to watch…
No Masculine Pivot
No Masculine Pivot There will be no pivot under the current regime. To allow it would be to call into question the egalitarian lie and nudge people towards other sacred egalitarian cows. It is ideology over competency. An indicator for this is that approach to sanctions causing massive disruptions in the energy sector. The…
A Few Good Men
H/T WRSA A Few Good Men “The truckers lost. Because they still believe in the System. They still believe that if they play fair then they will get a fair hearing. They still believe that there is something left to save. There hasn’t been anything worth saving for two hundred and fifty years….
When Men Were Men: Tom Crean
Tom Crean Tom Crean was a gigantic Irish farmboy that was built like a concrete machine gun bunker, and whose primary talents generally involved his ability to drink, fight, and carry insanely heavy objects over ridiculously long distances without complaining too much about it. He enlisted in the Royal Navy at the age of…
Studying the Historic Gunfighters
Studying the Historic Gunfighters Really decent Reading List of Books Dealing with 20th Century Gunfighters of the Old West.
Bad Ass Files: Chesty Puller, USMC Gunslinger
CONSUMMATE MARINE CHESTY PULLER, .45 IN HAND! Really well done mini-bio of one of my personal heroes. Semper Fi Chesty!
Observations of a Proud Southern White Man #1
Being a writer, I watch quite a few True Crime docs here and there and series and as I was watching this series the other day on Black Market scams I noticed something. The “host” was a black actor and at the end of each episode (because all of the perpetrators and criminals being interviewed…
Great Western Scenes: Shane
For my money, Shane is one of the best Western’s ever made. I must have watched it three dozen times with my Dad. Two of my favorite lines is “One (gun) is all you need if you can use it” and “A Gun is as good or bad as the man using it.”