Type: Practice (live ammunition) Time: 1 hour Venue: Title: Basic Pistol Course- Lesson 6 Range Students: 12 Student Equipment: 12 X Pistols 36 X Pistol magazines 400 X pistol rounds per student Instructor Equipment:1 X Pistol 3 X Pistol magazine 100 X pistol rounds Assistant Instructors (AI'S): 2 (Names) PRELIMINARY ACTIVITIES: Prior to arrival of...

Type: Practice (live ammunition) Time: 1 hour Venue: Title: Basic Pistol Course- Lesson 5 Range Students: 12 Student Equipment: 12 X Pistols 36 X Pistol magazines 50 X pistol rounds per student Instructor Equipment:1 X Pistol 3 X Pistol magazine 10 X pistol rounds Assistant Instructors (AI'S): 2 (Names) PRELIMINARY ACTIVITIES: Prior to arrival of s...

A short word on how to establish a desired privacy baseline which reflects your privacy needs and balances those with practicality. In an ideal world everyone could choose to conduct everything online anonymously – but we live in a very imperfect world and the effort required to get close to privacy nirvana can be overwhelming, cumbersome, and some...

The first article in this series focused upon the social and legal constraints we face in "normal" times, preparing to defend our communities against potential violent threats under future, "off-normal" conditions. Here we'll present representative examples of a variety of threats - some historical, and some hypothetical - that would provide a rati...

Type: Practice (live ammunition) Time: 1 hour Venue: Title: Basic Pistol Course- Lesson 4 Range Students: 12 Student Equipment: 12 X Pistols 36 X Pistol magazines 100 X pistol rounds per student Instructor Equipment: 1 X Pistol 3 X Pistol magazine 50 X pistol rounds Assistant Instructors (AI'S): 2 (Names) PRELIMINARY ACTIVITIES: Prior to arrival of...

As we evolved into the blissfully ignorant and physically incapable, human predators found the pickings got even easier. This was never truer than in this high-tech day and age where smart phones and air pods remove any awareness of what is going on around us and the first inclination is to hit video record, not save ourselves. Although more and mo...

Understanding and adopting encrypted email is a vital step in hardening your digital life. End-to-end, zero knowledge, open source, encrypted email is not overly complicated to use. But you need to understand the positive, negatives, and essential tightening steps. Later articles will go more in-depth on how to lock down ProtonMail and Tutanota. PR...

Type: Dry Practice (No live ammunition) Time: 1 hour Venue: Title: Basic Pistol Course- Lesson 3 Weapon Training Classroom Students: 12 Student Equipment: 12 X Pistols 36 X Pistol magazines 10 X dummy pistol rounds per student Instructor Equipment:1 X Pistol 3 X Pistol magazine 10 X dummy pistol rounds Assistant Instructors (AI'S): 2 (Names) PRELIM...

"The fire is the main comfort of the camp, whether in summer or winter and is about as ample at one season as at another. It is as well for cheerfulness as for warmth and dryness." — Henry David Thoreau In part 1 we looked at the rule of 3's and how it helped determine our priorities in a survival situation. Although during the warmer months we may...

Type: Dry Practice (No live ammunition) Time: 1 hour Venue: Title: Basic Pistol Course- Lesson 2 Weapon Training Classroom Students: 12 Student Equipment: 12 X Pistols 36 X Pistol magazines 10 X dummy pistol rounds per student Instructor Equipment:1 X Pistol 3 X Pistol magazine 10 X dummy pistol rounds Assistant Instructors (AI'S): 2 (Names) PRELIM...