And of course, there are these: $1000+/- for a good one. Big Ass Chopping Knife with a real saw blade that can be field sharpened with a chain saw file if one had to. In mine, the field duty stone and file are on the sheath. The “survival knife” I used to use was a Randall 18 but this Martin one is 1000% a better saw. Whoops, can’t enter an IMG. Anyway, a 10-12” “Survival” Bowie with an unbreakable hollow handle with a compass, etc. And a real saw blade with big offset teeth that cuts a 4” log in 2-3 minutes. No pics yet? I can’t see paying $1000 for a knife, even with a good functioning saw on the back. For that price, I can buy a LOT of Old Hickory butcher knives and bow saw blades….And they’ll probably still work better. ————————————————– While re-reading The Guerrilla Gunfighter, you referenced the area study several times. How do you organize the info so it is useful, and not just another huge binder on the shelf. Essentially, the Area Study IS a huge binder on the shelf. It’s just that, as you go into specific mission planning, you know exactly where to go to find specific information…that huge binder on the shelf. As an example, you’ve got to figure out who the pastor is at Mt Zion Baptist Church, to find out about routing some aid through his church, but being from another region—or nation—you have no idea, off the top of your head. Now, right now, you could just look it up on Google, or even make a couple of phone calls, and find out. But…sitting in a team room on a deployment, planning a mission, you won’t (or wouldn’t have…) typically had either of those options readily available, so you dig out your Area Study notebook, and look it up under the appropriate heading. Ultimately, unless things are actively kinetic in your neighborhood, and you’re running UW operations as a regular thing, I think the emphasis on writing area studies for your own immediate area is way overblown. On the other hand, I live in a county larger than Rhode Island, with less than 8000 residents…there’s not a Hell of a lot of people of merit that I don’t know, at least in passing… If I lived in a large urban megalopolis, I might—probably…almost certainly….would—take an entirely different perspective on it. ————————————————- Mr. Mosby, have you considered procuring a couple of round ball molds of the appropriate caliber and “pouring your own.” Oddly enough, Amazon carries Lee Precision models in a variety of calibers. I have been looking, but both girls are shooting “odd-ball” caliber balls. The oldest is shooting a .50 Hawken half-stock, but is shooting .480 balls, to make thumb starts feasible. The younger is shooting a .58 Springfield, and needs .560 balls. I haven’t had much luck finding either, although I’ve got some leads on some custom mold builders to follow up on. ————————————————- We had a guy during SUT or Selection, get hyonatremia from drinking approximately 14-16 quarts in about 6 hours after he was going into heat stroke….needless to say he went down hard. IIRC he went into an induced coma for about a week…then got out of the coma and immediately got hit by a car on Normandy after leaving Womach. He got medically retired, LOL. Check out the rest of the discussion: https://www.patreon.com/posts/campf...paign=postshare_creator&utm_content=join_link Continue reading...
