I’m in the middle of trying to find a good location to get some photos of our rifles. It’s not only time to update the website but to get some uniformity with the pictures.
There’s only one problem…I’m really picky. I know the look I want. I know the emotion I want to invoke. Finding a location that fits that is the problem.
Any suggestions on who to contact or of locations you think would look great, please let me know.
Filed under Gear
Dry fire is an essential part of any practice routine. Now I say that with a disclaimer. Dry fire must be used in the correct context. This is not a training technique for adding accuracy, although accuracy will follow. Using this for anything other than what it’s meant for will result in not getting everything possible out of it.
Dry Fire is a confidence builder. Every time you dry fire you get a controlled test field where you can see how you handle the basics without the distraction of recoil. Sight picture, trigger control, grip, and even stance can all be practiced anywhere. Doing so will build confidence in the form of realizing that you had all the basics under control and therefore would have hit your target.
You will also notice what went wrong. You will see even a small jerk. You will notice if your finger is pushing or pulling on the trigger so you can know what position to keep your finger at. You will see everything you need to correct.
As an example, I used dry fire at this past years MAG-40. The range staff always runs through the shooting qualification before the students. I wanted to make sure I could perform adequately. Gaining the confidence I needed I actually improved my score from the year before.
(SAFETY NOTE) Dry fire practice must happen in a controlled environment. For proper safety always keep your ammunition in a separate room. Snap caps are always useful. As important as dry fire practice is…doing so safely is even more important. Safety first.
Filed under Training
*Disclaimer* There are some thoughts that I have to get down. I apologize that they aren’t firearm related. This post is more therapy for me than of anything else.
Some of you know that my dad isn’t doing too well. Actually it’s worse than that. He has kidney cancer with spots on other organs. He has a few months left, but that’s it. My family spent last weekend with my parents. At 86 years old he still had a lesson to teach.
Death can not be escaped but our attitude toward it can change. It will always be hard, it will always be painful. We can make it a time to teach our children more about the person by giving them heroes. We’ve all heard stories about our grandparents. We need to hear more. Let our children hear the great accomplishments of their forefathers. Make their death a time for glorifying their life and cheering their ability to reunite with their loved ones. Instead of only being a time of weeping and waling it can be a bitter sweet time of celebrating a great life.
Filed under Gear
We all know that we, as a country, have been heading slowly down the wrong path for decades. I have to default to my own personal realm. For thousands of years of human development there has been one thing, one set of skills, that has been the definition of a man. That one thing being the type of weapon he carried and his skill with it. If he was caught out among others without it he was thought less of a man. From a caveman’s club to a Celt’s sword, to an American Minuteman’s Pennsylvania Long Rifle everything about him has been focused on the symbol of his power. This symbol told everyone around him the most important parts of his soul. The strength, the focus, and the honor to protect.
Today we demonize our children and make weapons a matter of terror. We catch them with toys and make them so afraid of ever coming in contact with the real thing that gun control will a useless point in the decades to come. If they can’t legislate it away they will simply make our children too fearful of handling, much less owning, them in their life time. If no one wants to own a weapon then the market will fall out from underneath them and only enough will be made for the police and military. Without fear of an uprising the government will be free to inflict anything they want on the populous.
This story sickens me. Why are we arresting children, #1? And if we even need to go further than that then why are we arresting them for a BB Gun? Last time I checked they made them FOR children. Sure they are tools to, responsibly, teach young children to shoot and that’s not a bad thing. The whole article is making a monster of the boy.
“A seven-year-old brought a pellet gun to school, oh my God!”
Seriously….? A full grown adult had that quote to say? IT WAS A PELLET GUN. Do people even know the difference between this and a real gun? The difference in lethality? Oh, wait. That doesn’t matter because we now arrest kids for having an “L” shaped Poptart that could look like a pistol.
“I’m surprised in someways but not in other ways. I was just kind of hoping that 7-year-olds would be a little more innocent than that, or maybe he was just being innocent and thinking that this is cool,” said Cameron.
Cameron…I’m only going to say this once so pay attention, Scooter. When I was a kid a pellet/BB gun wasn’t cool…it was AWESOME. That hasn’t changed. That hasn’t changed.
I will always be proud to be an American. I will always be proud of this country’s history. But I am DISGUSTED with the people of this nation today.
Filed under Gear
The question has been floating around over the weekend of, “what could we have done to keep ourselves safe from something like a bomb in public?”
Truth is, not much on our end. Could someone have been situationally aware enough to notice someone dropping a backpack and walking away? Sure. Could you have done anything before they set the bomb off? You could have saved a few.
To do anything substantial we need to do something on a national scale. The way it stands our highest levels of government apparently has no interest in doing what it takes to keep us safe. This just would take a change of the executive office. A change to someone that took border security seriously. Someone that knows enough not to give individuals on the Terror Watch List student visa’s.
The key to being safe from bomb attacks is to not allow these type of people in the country in the first place. The whole point of a terror attack is to make it a surprise in a public place. It’s too difficult to see these surprise attacks coming so being proactive and having it start with immagration is the only place we can really start.
Have a sudden sense of relief? Yeah, me either.
Filed under Preparedness
I read a great article shared by Rob Pincus today. I’ve been thinking a lot about the same things written about and thought I’d expand on them a little.
Events like the Boston Bombing forces us all to reflect on what we’re doing with regards to our own safety. It just so happens that I was in the middle of updating our training program when all of this started. So I had safety issues already rolling around my mind.
The first time I was introduced to Situational Awareness was from one of my Gunnies at boot camp. He didn’t label it a such but I know now what he meant. His lesson simple. He had the platoon sit around him in the barracs. He told us about how he conducted himself at the local bars. He related that the first thing he does upon entering the establishment is locate all the exits. This would give him options if things got out of hand. Better to get out of the crowded room when drunken idiots start a brawl.
Next thing he would do is order a beer. This got some muffled cheers from the other recruits. The Gunny quickly added that he didn’t drink. I know now that since he was in California he wouldn’t be carrying a concealed firearm. He told us that the beer was basically a weapon in disguise.
Once those two things were taken care of he would always sit where he could see both the exits and a wide range of the room. This gave him the ability to see a problem before it started.
There’s a series of valuable self defense lesson to be learned from this story.
1. Realize a couple of things. Humans are failable beings. The other is evil exists. If you disregard either one you will set your self up for a surprise attack.
2. Always have a plan. Whether it’s the movies or the grosery store always enter with an idea of what you would do if something goes wrong. Since the situation will very, so should the plan.
3. Should plan “A” fail always have a backup plan. Whether it’s looking like you are there to drink, when you don’t touch the stuff, just to have an improvised weapon or something else…have that decision made ahead of time.
4. Make the decision to remain aware of what’s going on around you. Whether that means you sit with your back to the wall (taking away everyone’s ability to come around behind you), or making sure you have a wide field of view from where you stop in a store is your decision. The main point to make here is to simply be aware of your suroundings. You will never see every situation coming but you can minimalize the shock of it by being aware of what’s going on around you.
Before the Boston Bombing we had what should have been a happy occasion. People were crossing the finish line. It was a chance to celebrate. Not even the most situationally aware could have foreseen a bomb going off, muchless two. I promise you that there were individuals in the crowd that “had their ears to the ground”. The first to rush to the aid of the injured had to have had these lessons in mind, been aware, and was therefore mentally prepared to rush in if the need should arise.
Take the lessons of the heros of the Boston Bombing and that of the Gunny and be better prepared for the worst. My hopes, however, go with you that you will be prepared and find nothing but peace.
Filed under Preparedness, Protection
We live in a world where the American media think they have a monopoly on morality and information. They are completely comfortable with telling us that it’s the community that owns our children and not the parents. They are equally cozy in not reporting important things or in cheering for the Boston bombers to be white Tea Party members.
Everyone knows those crazy people with their wives and kids, flying American flags, and singing the National Anthem are the real terrorists…not the poor persecuted Muslim boys just trying to get an education…right? If we say anything contrary to that then we’re racist. Really….is that the best you’ve got? If we don’t agree with you then you’re going to call names? What are you a bunch of 5yr olds? You going to throw a school yard temper tantrum too?
This is the kind of crap we put up with. If we have any kind of national pride then you’re a right wing extremeist. How about screw you MSNBC. Take your garbage and cram it.
As it turns out having an idea of who to look for would have been helpful.
All it takes is a couple questions. Who hates us the most? Muslim Extremeists. Who has threatened to blow up sporting events? Muslim Extremeists. Who do we know that uses roadside bombs as a normal tactic? Muslim Extremeists. So how is it racist to take a look at what we know, match up a group of people that fit that profile, and see it as a starting point to find the ones that did any crime? I don’t care if the crime profile fits white males or asian females or a specific religion it gives you a starting point to find the bad guy. So once again the liberal media can suck it.
Look at it this way. It doesn’t matter what the situation is. News outlets like CNN or MSNBC is looking for a way to blame it on those that don’t agree with them politically. It has absolutely nothing to do with what is factual. They did nothing but lie to the public on the gun debate. They simply demonized anyone that would dare to disagree with them on firearms. They’ve gone from seeking out the truth and reporting it to having an agenda and spreading propaganda to achieve their desired outcome.
The entire thing disgusts me.
Filed under In The News, Politics
