My latest is up on Breach-Bang-Clear, concerning weapons being, in the words of Sam in Ronin, “A toolbox.” Knowing your tools means that firearms aren’t like the latest iPhone. (Of course, the Facebook comments on B-B-C’s page have already gone off the rails…never read the FB comments!) The NRA recently decided to disallow revolvers and 1911s from their “Carry Guard” classes. They have since reversed that decision, probably after millions of gun owners took to the internet to tell them it was stupid). This decision seems to have once again highlighted the differing opinions in the firearms community about what is and is not an “obsolete” firearm. I almost said, “reignited the debate,” but who are we kidding? It’s never stopped. Read the rest on Breach-Bang-Clear. Also, a fellow denizen of the “Men’s Adventure Paperbacks of the ’70s and ’80s” Group on Facebook, Greg Hatcher, has read and reviewed Lex Talionis. It is an excellent review. “I’m not much of a joiner, usually, but I do belong to an online community that is devoted to reading and collecting the men’s adventure paperbacks that dominated drugstore spinner racks in the sixties and seventies. It happens that many of us write the
Train As You Fight
I had something a little different in mind for this post, but there seems to have been some confusion about an element of the BZO post below. Some individuals seem to have thought that I was creating, in one FB commenter’s words, “a trumped-up version of ‘I don’t want to wear my kit.’” Nothing could be further from the truth. You have to train in your kit. You should get to the point where you can perform any task you may have to in the field in kit, as though it wasn’t even there. The point I was making in the BZO post is that zeroing a rifle is not training. It is maintenance. Zeroing in kit is simply counterproductive. Once the rifle is zeroed, then you should do all your shooting in your kit. There’s a little more to it, and I’ve seen examples of this. Somebody sets SOP for gear, even knowing the requirements in the AO, and you train for several months with that SOP. However, the SOP isn’t the same as the requirements in the AO. In the last month, you start training with all the stuff you are required to have in the AO, and