Here are a few links to articles and videos I found interesting this week. Some are intellectual. Some are informative. Some are just fun. If you have some free time, check them out this weekend.
Fit Enough to Fight
A good fitness program for you combat athletes…
What’s Wrong With This Picture?
“If it goes ‘pop’, stop.”
Bowie Knife Fighter: John J. Styers
Fun old newspaper article about John Styers who was a famous military knife instructor in the WWII era. I still teach Styers’ favorite snap cuts in my classes today. His book Cold Steel is a good reference for anyone who wants to learn how knife fighting was taught in a previous era.
Living in America will drive you insane — literally
Some frightening statistics on mental illness in America…
“…there is a fundamental bias in mental health professionals for interpreting inattention and noncompliance as a mental disorder. Those with extended schooling have lived for many years in a world where all pay attention to much that is unstimulating. In this world, one routinely complies with the demands of authorities. Thus for many M.D.s and Ph.D.s, people who rebel against this attentional and behavioral compliance appear to be from another world—a diagnosable one.
The reality is that with enough helplessness, hopelessness, passivity, boredom, fear, isolation, and dehumanization, we rebel and refuse to comply. Some of us rebel by becoming inattentive. Others become aggressive. In large numbers we eat, drink and gamble too much. Still others become addicted to drugs, illicit and prescription. Millions work slavishly at dissatisfying jobs, become depressed and passive aggressive, while no small number of us can’t cut it and become homeless and appear crazy. Feeling misunderstood and uncared about, millions of us ultimately rebel against societal demands, however, given our wherewithal, our rebellions are often passive and disorganized, and routinely futile and self-destructive.
When we have hope, energy and friends, we can choose to rebel against societal oppression with, for example, a wildcat strike or a back-to-the-land commune. But when we lack hope, energy and friends, we routinely rebel without consciousness of rebellion and in a manner in which we today commonly call mental illness.”
The 50 Most Dangerous Cities In The World
Vortex VMX-3T 3x Magnifier
Flip-up magnifiers for red dot sights have been modestly popular for a few years now. Their biggest downside (besides adding weight to the rifle) has been cost. Most of the good magnifiers are in the $500 range. This might be an option for someone who wants to try a magnified red dot optic at a little cheaper price.
Underground Tradecraft: Tactical Applications of the Defensive Sidearm, Part 1.5
An article about pistol selection, appendix carry, and point shooting. This man knows of what he speaks. You all would do well to pay attention…
“I genuinely don’t give two shits what you run, as long as you run it well, and it runs reliably. Yes, Glocks break. Just like Kalashnikovs, they’re just machines, and machines break. If you think you shoot a SIG or XD or fucking Colt Paterson better, then by all means, carry that. Hell, I know a lot of “cowboy action shooters” who I’d just as soon continued carrying their Ruger Vaqueros over a Glock, because they’re super-fast and accurate with them.
The point wasn’t that you need to carry a fucking Glock 19 (although you do….), or even the A-IWB. The point was, if you’ve never had training from a qualified instructor (and only you can decide what that constitutes in your mind), there’s a 99.99% chance that you don’t have a fucking clue what you’re doing. I’d even offer that the fact that so many comments ended up in the pistol selection argument instead of discussing the modern isosceles or punch-out presentation, or anything else of substance in the argument is demonstrative of this. Of course, I’m an asshole like that, too….”
Rifle Barrel Cleaning Method For Precision
Some information for those of you who are new to the world of precision (or sniper) rifles.
A rare interview with Marcus Wynne. If you are interested in the mental aspects of performance enhancement in a combative context, this will be worth your time.
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