Preparedness: Dont take AIR for Granted!!

This is a youtube video I made yesterday, reflecting on the importance of air and remembering events in recent years when fresh air was in some way compromised. While this will chance depending on your own personal circumstances and location, none the less I think its a good exercise.



FerFAL

Pistol Caliber lever action Rifles

This weekened I had the chance to experiment a bit more with a lever action pistol caliber carbine. A couple weeks ago I tried some “cowboy” shooting. The drill started by shooting two single action 45 LC revolvers, 5 rounds each, then 4 shotgun shots and 6 lever action carbine shots. I found the little Rossi 357 magnum to be well made and accurate in spite of the open sights not being that nice.

Rossi 357 mangum lever action carbine

This weekend I tried a Marlin, also in 357 magnum, and man it’s a nice little carbine. The sights were a pleasure to use, hitting a cardboard plate 50 meters away from standing position was easily done. This was rather fast and informal shooting and the rifle is clearly capable of more accuracy at that range. But this 4-round group exemplifies the difference between shooting the same round from a rifle or a revolver.

Marlin 357 magnum lever action carbine

4-shot group at 50 meters, standing position.

Right after shooting the lever action carbine I shot a Ruger 357 magnum with a three inch barrel and its obvious what happens when shooting without a stock and great distance between sights. Same ammo, yet a world of a difference. You could even hear the rounds slapping the dirt behind the target with more authority, thanks to the extra couple hundred feet per second made possible by the longer barrel (powder burned inside the barrel=more power, burned outside=more flash and noise).
While a semi auto would no doubt be my number one choice, when that’s not possible a little lever action works as well today as it did a hundred years ago. Handy and also pretty fast when you get the hang of it, its an ideal partner for a 357 magnum revolver.
FerFAL

Argentina: Murderers that Support the K Regime just walk out of Prison

You cant make this stuff up

http://www.clarin.com/politica/Diputados-opositores-explicaciones-autorizo-Vasquez_0_748725363.html
http://www.lanacion.com.ar/1495919-la-estrecha-relacion-de-vatayon-militante-con-la-campora

Oh yes, that’s exactly what´s going on. Eduardo Vásquez murdered his wife by burning her alive, Rubén “Oveja” Pintos is a well-known assassin involved in Argentina’s hooligan underworld (Barra Brava), convicted of murdering and enemy within his own barra brava organization.

Eduardo Vaquez, a free man. He was found guilty of murder by burning his wife alive in 2011.

What do both of them have in common? Besides being recent 2011 convicted murders, they can just walk out of prison as if nothing as long as they support the K regime, show up in their rallies, parties and militate in the K organization by joining the “Vatayon Militante” organization.
“Vatayon Militante” (VM) translates to a misspelled “Military battalion”, purposefully misspelled using V instead of B and Y instead of LL so as to appeal to the lower cultural segments of society through the grammatical error.  VM was created by the Kirchner Youth, called “La Campora”, in an attempt to recruit muscle and crash force within the prison system to be used against everyone and anyone that opposes the K ruling.

Extremely dangerous convicted felons, murderers, assassins, thieves and rapists, are recruited in prison by the K leaders through VM, all they have to do is beat a drum, try singing, talking, play soccer or anything that could be considered a “cultural” activity, and then as long as they promise to support “the national and popular project “ of Cristina Kirchner they are free to go. The Chief of Federal Prisons along with many of the wives of these criminals run the VM project, and K judges swiftly approve these exits, making everything nice and legal. We are supposed to believe that after enjoying a long day of freedom these brutal murderers just go back to their cells, but who’s controlling and why bother when the Chief of the penitentiary system and the president herself has your back covered.

Cristina Kirchner even had the nerve to publicly defend these events on national television, saying and I quote “its done so as to reinsert them in society”… not a year went by and the guy who burned his wife alive is free? Why would you need to “reinsert” a hooligan mafia assassin that got sentenced for life?
Be a good “K soldier” as they call themselves and you can literally get away with recurrent murder.

So did SHTF or not, and when is it over?

This would be a perfect example of what I often try to describe, how misguided it is to think of WROL and ROL terms when in reality history keeps teaching us that most often theres this gray zone where terrible things are either ignored or plainly made legal in spite of how immoral they are. You have to be ready TODAY, you have to become a modern survivor TODAY because if you keep waiting for the official WROL, balloon going up and the infamous “… when SHTF”, you’ll one day find yourself splattered with poo without understanding what exactly happened. When did SHTF happened exactly will be discussed by academics the next decade. Today, you have to implement all these things that we discuss here to your daily life. If its not practical enough to be done now, it will hardly be practical enough later. If it cant be done now, don’t count on things becoming more convenient for you  when its becoming harder for everyone else. This goes for everything, from the “no, a Glock 17 is too heavy for everyday carry but “…when SHTF” I’ll carry my AR and LBV all day long, day and night”,  to the “ my blood sugar is through the roof and I roll much faster than I can walk.. but “when SHTF” I’ll hunt wild game and work my garden for a living and be in my best shape ever!” & “I cant make a living today because of the government/the illegals/ the Chinese … “but when SHTF” I’ll live like a king by bartering my TP supply…”, no! you have to find a way to make things work now.
FerFAL
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Workplace Shooter Defense Video‏

Salut FerFAL-

Thought you and your readers would be interested in a video produced by the Houston Office of Public Safety on immediate action responses to a workplace shooter-

http://www.chron.com/news/houston-texas/article/Video-To-survive-an-attacker-either-run-hide-3741001.php

keep up the good work-

D

 

 

Thanks D for the link. Of course people, this video doesnt contain the part about being prepared correctly for the "fight" alternative. That means having a weapon in the first place, firearm, knife or some other weapon given your situation and whats legal to you, carrying it all the time and being proficient with it.

FerFAL

Survival Watch: Casio Protrek Triple Sensor Tough Solar PRG250T / PRW2500T

I had my eye on one of these for some time but back in Argentina due to the crime a low key watch was better. Now that I live in Ireland that isn’t nearly as much of a problem and besides that I actually had a use for most of the watch functions. Given the almost constant cloudy sky I find myself missing the sun and starts as a reference point so I liked the idea of a compass. I’m close to the sea so the tide graphics was a good addition and I’m surprised how often I find myself looking at the barometric chart so as to see if the weather is going to be getting better or worse. The moon phase data I haven’t used that much, maybe more during winter when it gets dark sooner.


Casio Men’s PRW2500T-7CR Pathfinder Triple Sensor Tough Solar Digital Multi-Function Titanium Pathfinder Watch


Watch my review:
In a nutshell:

*Very good construction. Not as bomb proof as the GShock but still pretty rugged. The titanium bracelet is as solid as it gets, still comfortable due to the light weight and plastic inserts next to the back plate.

*Being “Though Solar” it uses light to charge an internal battery, so you don’t havy to worry about changing those. That to me is a big plus.

*The compass is accurate and easy to read thanks to the LCD display. The barometer and thermometer are accurate too but the altimeter not so much. You can adjust it on your own to known altitudes (I recommend taking an accurate reading of your home so as to use as reference) but eventually it loses precision again and needs to be set again.

*The barometric chart is constantly displayed on the home screen showing the barometric tendency in the last 10 hours. This gives you a good idea about the weather getting worse (pressure going down) or getting better (pressure going up) and how fast that is happening. A steep fall of pressure is an indication of a storm coming your way.

*The watch includes all the typical Casio functions such as world time, stopwatch alarms, etc. It also records different altitudes and has other trekking functions that can come in handy.

*The model PRW2500T is Atomic, that means that it includes atomic timekeeping through radio signals every night in most of the northern hemisphere and some places in the south too, making it an extremely accurate watch that doesn’t need manual adjustment to be precise.

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