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…
Tag: Armed Citizen Corner
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…
Training Stressors
From the Archives, 2018 (Hermit Note: In keeping with my recent announcement of re-centering priorities of “Just Shut-Up and Train!” I will be posting articles from the archives that I feel are of vital import to the Armed Citizen. Let’s all make a point to get out there and train in whatever capacity we are…
FUSA Bulletin: Hells Angels Allegedly Headed to Colorado to Fix Venezuelan Gang Problem
Hells Angels Allegedly Headed to Colorado to Fix Venezuelan Gang Problem As Anarcho-Tyranny spreads across the land like a plague and the pockets of decent people realize that so-called “law enforcement” are either in on it or stretched too thin to make a difference (because of de-funding or lack of manpower) the inevitable response…
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…
Gun Safety 101
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….
AK Corner: 5 Uncommon AK-47 Issues
5 Uncommon AK-47 Issues When I pitched this article idea, I had planned on calling it “5 Common AK Issues,” but the more I thought about what I was experiencing, the less sure I was that these issues were in any way common. The AK platform can have its hiccups. Yet, much like the…
Trigger Press 101
When The Music Stops – How America’s Cities Will Explode In Violence (Parts 1 and 2)
{Hermit Note: This is one of the most important articles you will read this year. Read and Heed! Highest Dissemination Possible.} When The Music Stops – How America’s Cities Will Explode In Violence (I wrote this back in 2012. It was originally published at the old Western Rifle Shooters Association website, and…