https://www.patreon.com/posts/campf...paign=postshare_creator&utm_content=join_link One of the things I’ve been pretty bad about, over the course of this blog’s history, is beginning a series of articles on a particular topic that requires multiple, long-form, in-depth parts, to cover with any degree of completeness. Then, after awhile, getting distracted, and moving on to another subject, before completion. Over the course of the last month, I’ve spent quite a bit of time considering the direction I wanted this blog to go in the future. What I’ve decided is two-fold. (1) In order to quit appearing to have the attention span of a Chihuahua smoking crack, I’m going to get back to focusing on the basic essentials of preparedness, as I see them. On the first hand, we have general preparedness: building a more resilient, or “anti-fragile” lifestyle that is not as subject to the vagaries and whims off the modern industrial civilization’s tenuous and fragile logistics chains. This is the “Collapse Now, and Avoid the Rush” framework. So, the first hand will be a series of article series based on adapting “off-grid” living to basic lifestyle maintenance. Not just how WE do it, but how what we do can be adapted to contemporary suburbia and rural America, in a more efficient manner. Second, a direct line from that is a series of article series focusing on fieldcraft skills, such as today’s “Primitive Navigation” series, offering specific, practicable, actionable knowledge about how to apply fieldcraft skills in the real world, versus the academic approach of say, FM 21-76, that focuses on what are sometimes pure absurdities. Much like contemporary “bushcraft” in this country, it is focused on things that either don’t work in the real world, or only work under very specific, very limited, protected environmental conditions (“Bushcraft” videos referring to “cold weather” when it’s not even 0F, are an example….while FM 21-76’s multiple pages dedicated to the silliness that is the “solar still” would be another. If you don’t know what I’m referring to in that last sentence, go read the water procurement chapter of If It Was Comfortable, They’d Call It Camping, and discover the stupidity of the solar still!) Third, as I’ve pointed out over the years, while self-defense and combat shooting, and even small-unit tactics are sexy and cool, the reality is, they’re the least important of survival skills…until they’re not. While you may never be in a fistfight in your life, let alone a gunfight, but you have to eat and sleep every single day, the fact is, if you end up in a violent, physical altercation, you best know how to prosecute the fight effectively and efficiently to maintain your health and safety. So, we’ll focus a series of article series, in parallel to the others, on practical self-defense and shooting skills still. (2) I genuinely believe these three areas of study are the foundation of realistic preparedness. It doesn’t matter if you’re prepping for extreme weather events in your area, societal upheavals in a 1929 Redux upheaval, or TEOTWAWKI, because of global nuclear conflagration, realistic, functional skill in these three areas will provide you the ability to not just subsist and survive, but to thrive. The reality is, in a post-grid world, or even in just a collapsing social structure, robust skills and applications in those three areas will allow you to live comfortably and well, regardless of what is happening around you. For this reason, for the time being, I’m going to strive to post three articles per week, in addition to the weekly video for the Team Guy tier. One of these article series will be visible to everyone, even free subscribers, while the others will be shared at the different tier levels. The weekly free article will also be posted on the old WordPress Mountain Guerrilla Site, in the interest of driving interest, and bringing some of them to this site. Weekly videos, as they have done in the past, will continue to be a mix of tutorial videos, and discussions of current events, but I will also be doing some of the silent demonstration videos like the recent flint-and-steel fire starting video from a few weeks back. Stick around guys, it’s going to get epic up in here. ———————————————————– Also, a reminder, with just a couple weeks til Christmas, not only is the new fieldcraft and survival equipment book available, all the previous Mosby books are on sale for the holidays: If It Was Comfortable, They’d Call It Camping https://www.lulu.com/shop/john-mosb...able,+theyd+call+it+camping&page=1&pageSize=4 The Reluctant Partisan, Volume One: The Guerrilla https://www.lulu.com/shop/john-mosb...6.html?q=Reluctant+partisan&page=1&pageSize=4 The Reluctant Partisan, Volume Two: The Underground https://www.lulu.com/shop/john-mosb...9.html?q=Reluctant+partisan&page=1&pageSize=4 Forging the Hero: Who Does More Is Worth More https://www.lulu.com/shop/john-mosb...kqg.html?q=forging+the+hero&page=1&pageSize=4 The Guerrilla Gunfighter, Volume One: Clandestine Carry Pistol https://www.lulu.com/shop/john-mosb...html?q=Guerrilla+Gunfighter&page=1&pageSize=4 The Guerrilla Gunfighter, Volume Two: Preparedness Rifle and Carbine https://www.lulu.com/shop/john-mosb...html?q=Guerrilla+Gunfighter&page=1&pageSize=4 The Guerrilla Gunfighter, Volume Three: Training Drills for Building Skills https://www.lulu.com/shop/john-mosb...html?q=Guerrilla+Gunfighter&page=1&pageSize=4 ———————————————————— Per the optics… I have to ask. What is the use case? An honest answer of this will almost always answer gear questions. In particular, what is the eotech/magnifier not doing for you that you need an actual scope for? Unless you are stepping up to something like a 1 or 2-10 type optic, the average 1-4x or 1-6x, etc isn’t going to do much for you over what you have. Unless you need an actual reticle. Holds out to 400 aren’t terribly difficult without a mil reticle. Holds out to 400 aren’t terribly difficult without a mil reticle, but something with a BDC reticle, or mils with recorded holds make those holds exponentially faster on movers and multiples at different distances, especially when doing it under the pressure of return fire. A good metric is 1.5-2 power per 100 yards. I.e. https://www.patreon.com/posts/campf...paign=postshare_creator&utm_content=join_link Continue reading...
