Title: Basic M4 Carbine Course- Lesson 5 Type: Dry Practice (No live ammunition) Time: 2 hours Venue: Weapon Training Classroom Students: 12 Student Equipment: 12 X M4 Carbines 12 X USGI 30 round M4 magazines 6 X dummy 5.56mm rounds per student (72) Instructor Equipment: 1 X M4 Carbine 2 X USGI M4 30 round magazines 6 X dummy 5.56mm rounds Assistan...

The previous two articles should have provided plenty of context for what follows. There are many things that should come before any conversations about owning the night. But if you follow our advice and work hard on ticking all of the preceding boxes there might eventually come a time where you want to seriously consider it. Bad things happen at n...

"We are all faced with a series of great opportunities - brilliantly disguised as insoluble problems" - John W. Gardner Dehydration Dehydration is a potential issue in survival situations. Dehydration occurs when water intake does not replace water lost due to normal physiologic processes, or other causes, including diarrhea, and vomiting. Dehydrat...

Title: Basic M4 Carbine Course- Lesson 4 Type: Dry Practice (No live ammunition) Time: 2 hours Venue: Weapon Training Classroom Students: 12 Student Equipment:12 X M4 Carbines 12 X USGI 30 round M4 magazines 6 X dummy 5.56mm rounds per student (72) Instructor Equipment:1 X M4 Carbine 2 X USGI M4 30 round magazines 6 X dummy 5.56mm rounds Assistant ...

Picking up where we left off on rounding out your armory, you might also usefully add in some body armor (whether soft, concealable or standalone hard plates in an overt carrier). Armor can get expensive and having any is better than having none but, like many things, it is a "cry once, buy once" kind of thing. The trade off between heavy, thick, c...

Our second TDG scenario presented the following problem: Your home in a rural subdivision is the second target of a home invasion in as many weeks. In the middle of the night, you awaken to a crash and an alarm from your phone when the downstairs back door is forced open. You and your wife are in the master bedroom; your adolescent daughter is in h...

You, your wife, and your pre-teen daughter live in a two-story home on a five-acre lot in a rural subdivision eight miles outside of town, accessed by a frontage road that parallels the interstate highway. Other than highway noise and occasional singing coyotes, it had always been a quiet neighborhood. But conditions in town have been worsening ove...

"Amateurs obsess about guns and gear. They practice until they get it right. Professionals obsess about tactics and training. They practice until they cannot get it wrong. But logistics trump strategy in the long war." On the spectrum of prepping, what follows (particularly in Part Two) tends towards the more extreme end - scenarios in which crimin...

Title: Basic M4 Carbine Course- Lesson 3 Type: Dry Practice (No live ammunition) Time: 2 hours Venue: Weapon Training Classroom Students: 12 Student Equipment: 12 X M4 Carbines 12 X USGI 30 round M4 magazines 6 X dummy 5.56mm rounds per student (72) Instructor Equipment:1 X M4 Carbine 2 X USGI M4 30 round magazines 6 X dummy 5.56mm rounds Assistant...

Our first TDG scenario, stripped of scene-setting color and context, presented the following problem: You are driving north from Laramie WY with your wife into a worsening spring snowstorm. On a snow packed and icy two-lane highway, an hour or more from the nearest town, with no other traffic in sight, you lose control, spin, and roll off the edge ...