At a moment when the country has never seemed angrier, two political commentators from opposite sides of the divide concurred last week on one point, nearly unthinkable until recently: The country is on the verge of “civil war.”
3. Food – whatever you think you need, at least double it, add caches and start growing it.
4. Secure shelters
5. Water/Sanitary sewage
6. Communications – radios and protocols
7. Recreation – libraries and board games
8. Clothing for several years including boots.
9. Hand tools and sharpening files/stones.
10. Intelligence – information sources, maps, analysis
Don’t be that guy. The guy who procrastinates or does not see the impending consequences of transferring faith to the state. Consider your family and friends. Consider what they will suffer if you do not act.
While both political entities agree (for different reasons) that “walking away” was the correct action, what difference does it make?
We still are financially bankrupt.
China and Russia have taken the lead for hypersonic missiles over the United States.
The border is not secure. Although positive steps have been taken, the Deep State has and will continue to obstruct any security for the country.
Congress has been bought and paid by the drug cartels.
We are one flashpoint away from World War III.
We are 2 or 3 flashpoints away from civil war.
Healthcare is not affordable.
The Deep State controls the media, the media controls the narrative and the narrative controls the Socialist sheep.
The power wielded by the Deep State is still in place. We will know when the counterattack begins when Obama’s role in marginalizing President Trump is exposed.
The majority of the people have no idea how close we are to a financial collapse of the economy. Until their IRAs and 401Ks are gone.
DJT, if he remains in office, will be hamstrung by people from both “sides” who fight him at every turn. Is he corrupt? Absolutely. He’s a NY businessman who knows how to get shix done, you don’t do ANYTHING in NY without greasing wheels. I have thoroughly enjoyed his unabashed bashing of the deep state and the media (but I repeat myself) and I voted for him and would again….but he was AT BEST a stopgap.
They. Won’t. Stop.
They mean to have a socialist state where you can’t take a piss without permission from some office. We have GOT TO get our minds right because none of us but those who were in combat know what ugly truly looks like.
I don’t know how it’ll begin, you don’t either. It’ll start slowly and then quickly expand. You’ll hear of some disturbances and then perhaps a bank holiday and then the stores will empty… and if you are not already in place you will be in for a hard hard time.
Kinetic. It’s going there eventually. And unlike TV it’ll be among friends and family right in your own neighborhoods. There won’t be uniforms, there won’t be lines. Only confusion and stress.
From the comments on another site:
You are going to have to shoot and kill Communists. Some of those people you will know.
If you can’t discipline yourself to cut carbs and go ruck a couple of times per week, how are you going to shoot Aunt Sally, who leads the Feral Migrant Importation Cabal in your community?
Harden your hearts.
Toughen your bodies.
But first, get your mind right.
I have learned recently that I am not as mentally strong as I thought, but each step, each tragedy brings you closer to being able to switch it on and off. My mother was diagnosed with lung cancer February 2018. She was already stage 4 and chose not to treat it. This past year mentally stressed me like nothing I have previously lived through. She passed In January and while I am better every day, I am not over it by any stretch. It was awful. I cherish every moment, even the bad ones, but my mind was tested and my steel was forged and refined …. and it is a painful process.
During all of this I had plenty of food, great shelter and no one was trying to kill me. Yet I was seeing the stress become physically devastating. Thought provoking now that I think of it. My sleep was disrupted, my body ached and I was beset by cold after cold plus strep, pneumonia and flu, even after getting a flu and pneumonia shot. Stress kills. Stress pushes those who love you to their limits. Stress causes you to close yourself in and shut your family and tribe out. Stress is what will bring down more people than bullets.
And while it WAS stressful compared to my normal life, it is NOTHING like the stress Selco experienced or any soldier from the war of Northern Aggression was subjected to. We think we’re all badasses….while some may be genuine door kickin’ bad mofos most of us are simply …. not. We all have it in us to rise to the circumstances we face I believe, but the learning curve or transition is going to be a lot tougher than we suppose.
What can you do to mitigate this? I’m not Dr. Phil, but one thing is to train our lizard brain to do the things it can to leave our primate brain to contemplate higher tasks. Train, learn and repetitively do the things to pound weapon manipulation into your “no need to think” area. Learn to change mags, dot on target squeeze and move, use cover and react to contact without needing to “think” about it. Train your brain.
Learn to run your tractor, move through the woods, operate your radio, start a fire and read faces (and hands) with your lizard brain, make it automatic. Then your stress will be more manageable and your higher brain will have more time to process more complicated thought processes.
I recently got some friends to commit their money and time to a monthly group training. This is not my tribe, just a loose group of trusted people. We rented an outdoor range and have a standing appointment monthly. We will be refreshing everything from basics to IDPA style matches, 2 gun to long range training. We will have pros come and refresh combat casualty care and team movement. We are training our lizard brains and keeping them tuned. In between is self training, dry fire from draw, IDPA, plinking rubber bounce targets, shooting eggs at 200 with my rimfire and on and on it goes.
Don’t pull that “I took a class with xxx back in 2014” BS, if you are not doing this stuff regularly you are wrong. Period.
Physical fitness … if your body is weak, you are weak. Mosby pounds this like a drum but if you are not in condition you are wrong. Read the book by Jack Donovan, The Way Of Men and understand that he who does more is worth more and that there is a difference between being a good man and being good at being a man.
While this will help with stress, it will not prevent it. Prepare yourself, try to get your mind right. Practice self control. While many may not agree, pray. Pray for help and for wisdom and strength. Like praying for patience however … it comes through trials.
2 Timothy 1:7 For God has not given us a spirit of timidity, but of power and love and discipline.
Romans 8:6 For the mind set on the flesh is death, but the mind set on the Spirit is life and peace
Psalm 18:39 For You have girded me with strength for battle; You have subdued under me those who rose up against me.
Psalm 144:1 Blessed be the LORD my strength, which teacheth my hands to war, and my fingers to fight
We are about to experience the biggest paradigm shift in human history. It is going to require more than we ever thought possible and will be unlike anything that has come to this land since 1861. There will be a Remnant.
What replaces the former USA? I don’t know. But it is dead and is not coming back. I know it’s cliche, but a bad wind this way blows.
Nothing causes fits of frothing at the nostrils in older folks than the discussions that challenge long held ideas which are surpassed by better things. One such challenge involves which angle of measure you choose to employ in your long range shooting. I am not discussing “I held on ‘is back and I got ‘im….but had to track ‘im a few hunert yards” style of Kentucky windage shooting here. I am also not discussing inches or simple crosshair reticle scopes.
I am pretty adamant that most engagements will be close during an event, probably most will be under 50 feet! Yep, your carbine or pistol (or AR pistol) will be the tool that you depend on most and carbines can be used out to 700 yards or so with the correct ammunition but….Because we like to be prepared, the ability to shoot longer ranges accurately and with enough power to disable mechanical things and organic things means we need a tool with more capability at our disposal than our AR or AK.
The .308W has been around a long time as has it’s daddy the 30-06. Heck about anything from 7mm-08 to 338LM is in the zone we’re discussing but the new kid on the block is the 6.5 Creedmoor and for good reason. Very high BC (aerodynamic properties) means it stays supersonic long past where the .308 is sucking wind. It fits easily into SR25/AR10 platforms (remember, semi-auto is a force multiplier). Half the recoil of .308 and much much better wind bucking make it a standout. If you have hundreds of rounds of match .308 ammo already, stick with what you have but if you’re buying new gear and ammo, the ammo costs for match quality and hunting ammo are similar and actually favor the Creedmoor. If you’re in the market for a great cartridge for the use we’re talking about here, give the CM a hard look.
Both MOA (minutes of angle) and Milliradians are units of ANGLE, not linear in any form or fashion but slices of a circle. Folks who think MOA is an inch at a hunnert’ are close, but are not fully understanding the subject.
It is true that at certain distances both of these units of measure correlate to a linear distance from point of aim to point of impact but this is not the way to think of or understand how to use the systems. While BDC style reticles are popular and if they line up with your cartridge of choice, they are fine for shorter distances and minute of man, for those who want to put a 147g ELD into a hat at 800 yards, read on.
Mils. Sounds all military doesn’t it? It is actually a unit of angle, which is simply 1/1000th of the radius. Being based on 10 it is very easy and quick to use, once you understand what it is, and what it does. To communicate with the majority of long distance shooters these days, speaking “mil” makes sense. With a mil hash reticle what we have in practical shooting is a ruler in front of your eyes. We will get to ranging in a moment, but basically you fire and if using correct technique you spot your impact, quickly measure in your reticle your correction on the vertical and horizontal axis, correct, fire and hit.
A mil is a mil at 10 yards or a mile, what you see in your reticle is the same whatever the distance. See it in the ruler in front of your eyes and correct that amount to make a hit. Now some scopes are second focal plane and the reticle is accurate only at full power for ranging, which is why I prefer first focal plane scopes. A FFP scope is one where the reticle grows and shrinks as power changes so the reticle is true regardless of power setting. While more and more obscure, there are MOA reticles and the same things are true about them, a MOA is a unit of angle and if you were using a MOA hash reticle you still use it the same way. Ranging is where that unit falls short.
To range with a reticle is really a skill that is increasingly being replaced with electronics but it is a legacy skill that needs to be understood. It is easy with a mil based scope. The formula is simply *Known Dimension (in yards, inches, feet, centimeters x 1000) / mils read= Yards/inches/feet/centimeters to Target*. A mil is simply an angle where the wide end on the “pie” is equal to 1/1000th of the radius. So a mil is a yard at 1000 yards, a meter at 1000 meters, a foot at 1000 feet…it isn’t metric as some propose, it works with anything from mm to yards to miles. It is based on 10 which makes the math easy.
If I still have your attention and you didn’t go back to watching fails of the week videos…here is a great article for those who are still not quite getting it and are worried that switching now is going to be too hard. It’s not harder, it’s easier. If you want to shoot and get proficient at long range ACCURATE shooting and interact with the folks who can help you, be it range rats to professional trainers you need to speak “mil”.
Here is Frank from Sniper’s Hide, a well known and accomplished long range shooter on the subject.
Below is a tool no serious long range shooter using a mil based reticle should be without. It is a slide rule for all things mil, and allows fast ranging and correction with zero math, even though the math is easy.
Another thing to download and buy for under $15 is a ballistic program. Some are free, but as we all know if something is free then you are the product being sold. I prefer and use StrelokPro and it has proven to be very precise. It allows multiple rifles from your 22 to your cannon and different cartridges under each one. It has a cartridge database with hundreds of known factory ammo info, so choosing the right load for your data is easy. Even 22LR is well represented with tons of loads from most manufacturers. I have it on my phone and tablet and a full discussion will be coming but trust me, you need this to get into this discipline.
I know some guy out there is gonna say “I been shootin’ 25 years using MOA based scopes and all my dope is in MOA so how do I figure out what to use for 200 to 1000 yards”, which is a good question. If you have numbers for your rifle and your previous scope was adjusted in MOA we have a conversion you can use to keep your same dope only converted to Mils.
To convert your current MOA values to Mils divide the MOA by 3.438 and that will give you the Mils to use. For example if you use 8 MOA at 400 yards you would use 2.3 Mils at the same distance. Do this before you hit the range then simply read your range card in the same fashion as before, only now instead of needing to remember your dope from 0 to roughly 38MOA you can now do it only needing to count to 12 Mils. Most scopes are adjusted in 1/10th of a mil.
Look, we’re not talking 5.56 carbines with RDS or 1-4x scopes here for 250 yard shots.
Out to 250, put on chest and squeeze if you have a 50/200 zero. We’re talking about shots at much farther on much smaller targets. Ranging as well…looking at a man at 700 yards vs. 800 yards with the naked eye won’t be different enough to be able to range correctly by guessing. Making that mistake with a 308 would be a difference of possibly 5 feet! The mil reticle can range it though.
Man looks about 6’ tall (2 yards) he measures about 1.5 mils in my reticle, formula is known dimension x 1000 / mils read in reticle so….. 2×1000=2000/1.5=1333 yards….better not try it with my .22LR LOL
So I whip out my new 6.5 Creedmoor SR25 (which I will do a post on soon) and dial 13.5 mils and pop a hole all the way through his chest….now it isn’t quite that simple, wind is a huge factor and we’ll discuss it soon. But the vertical part is JUST THAT SIMPLE.
A 5mph crosswind can push your projectile off course at 1000 yards by 30” with a 6.5C (147 ELD) and 46” with a .308 (168 ELD)
Or I miss by a mil to my left due to a breeze, see the bullet impact behind him and immediately correct in the reticle and send him a lovely little pill.
Tree reticles make these corrections easy.
I know I’ve given you a lot of information. If you are used to thinking in an inch at 100 yards it probably seems to be intimidating…..it is EASY. If you can change a light bulb, you can use this system.
For those who want to delve deeper and understand, I offer some additional reading.
I want to add, morality aside, shooting a person at over danger distance, especially if they are unaware of your presence is not self defense. I am not naive enough to suggest such actions may not be necessary at some point for known reasons but we need to understand that after things calm back down, you have to live with yourself and may have to answer to some authority about your actions. Figure out now what you are willing to do, and perhaps more importantly not do.
As you get ready to file those tax forms before the annual April deadline, it might interest you to know that the Internal Revenue Service (IRS) currently has 15 submachine guns and around five million rounds of ammunition at its disposal.
No Congresswoman, protecting our great nation from MS-13 thugs, drug lords, and human traffickers is NOT the same as exterminating people based off their religion.
Remember the Black Hebrew Israelite group that yelled racist slurs at the Covington Catholic boys? I encountered them in LA and they unashamedly called for the genocide of white people. pic.twitter.com/xotWH8dm6h
There are more slaves today than in other point in history. The case that justified slavery in the colonies was won by Anthony Johnson, a black slave owner. The slaves brought to the colonies from Africa were captured by other black Africans and Muslims. So who is responsible?
One thing that I think is often overlooked in planning is cooking, or more precisely how we plan to cook. Those propane bottles are only going to last so long. One option is a small rocket stove. Rocket stoves work by very efficiently using heat from a small fire by directing it exactly where it will do the most good…under your pan or pot.
I know like me, many may have a wood stove in the house, in the summer the last thing you are going to want in your house is a fire in an indoor wood stove.
So go ahead and buy or build yourself a rocket stove, practice with it some and add one one check mark to your preparedness list.
