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In this episode of the No Lowballers Podcast, hosts Logan Metesh of High Caliber History and Allen Forkner of GunBroker take a humorous yet introspective look at the top-selling guns in America, as listed on GunGenius.com. Allen passionately laments how America's love for individuality seems to have been lost in the “cookie-cutter” world of black polymer handguns and standard-issue rifles. Together, they explore alternatives that bring back personality and flair, offering nostalgic nods to history and unique suggestions for modern firearm enthusiasts. Links: Logan discusses the FrankenColt: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QjrlfpoFtXg See the whole list at Gun Genius: https://genius.gunbroker.com/top-selling/ America's Boring Bestsellers: The dominance of black polymer handguns like the SIG P365, Glock 19, and SIG P320. Rifles such as the Ruger 10/22 and the Marlin 1895 taking top spots. Breaking the Mold: Allen and Logan's suggestions for standout alternatives: Colt Pocket Hammerless, Smith & Wesson Model 29, pre-64 Winchester Model 70, and more. Lever-action shotguns and unique classics like the Stevens Visible Loader for a touch of flair. The Case for Personality in Guns: Why historical pieces like the Winchester 1895 in .405 Winchester or a Browning Auto-5 tell a richer story. The importance of choosing firearms that reflect individuality and not just practicality. The “Milkshake” Philosophy: Guns as more than tools—embracing the fun, beauty, and uniqueness of firearms that stand out in a sea of sameness. Making a Statement: Why a Taurus Judge or a classic 1887 lever-action shotgun is the ultimate way to turn heads at the range. The allure of owning firearms with historical significance or quirky design elements. Check out the full list of top-selling firearms on GunGenius.com and let us know in the comments what you think of America's choices. Did you contribute to the “boring” list, or do you have a unique alternative in your collection? Share this episode with friends, leave us a review, and join us next time for more laughs and insights! The No Lowballers Podcast explores the history and heritage of firearms. We hope to expose you to the vintage guns of the golden age along with newer, modern guns, specialty items, and a few other odd balls along the way. Jump in and come along! Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
In this episode of the No Lowballers Podcast, hosts Logan Metesh of High Caliber History and Allen Forkner of GunBroker take a humorous yet introspective look at the top-selling guns in America, as listed on GunGenius.com. Allen passionately laments how America's love for individuality seems to have been lost in the “cookie-cutter” world of black polymer handguns and standard-issue rifles. Together, they explore alternatives that bring back personality and flair, offering nostalgic nods to history and unique suggestions for modern firearm enthusiasts.Links: Logan discusses the FrankenColt: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QjrlfpoFtXgSee the whole list at Gun Genius: https://genius.gunbroker.com/top-selling/America's Boring Bestsellers:The dominance of black polymer handguns like the SIG P365, Glock 19, and SIG P320.Rifles such as the Ruger 10/22 and the Marlin 1895 taking top spots.Breaking the Mold:Allen and Logan's suggestions for standout alternatives: Colt Pocket Hammerless, Smith & Wesson Model 29, pre-64 Winchester Model 70, and more.Lever-action shotguns and unique classics like the Stevens Visible Loader for a touch of flair.The Case for Personality in Guns:Why historical pieces like the Winchester 1895 in .405 Winchester or a Browning Auto-5 tell a richer story.The importance of choosing firearms that reflect individuality and not just practicality.The “Milkshake” Philosophy:Guns as more than tools—embracing the fun, beauty, and uniqueness of firearms that stand out in a sea of sameness.Making a Statement:Why a Taurus Judge or a classic 1887 lever-action shotgun is the ultimate way to turn heads at the range.The allure of owning firearms with historical significance or quirky design elements.Check out the full list of top-selling firearms on GunGenius.com and let us know in the comments what you think of America's choices. Did you contribute to the “boring” list, or do you have a unique alternative in your collection? Share this episode with friends, leave us a review, and join us next time for more laughs and insights!The No Lowballers Podcast explores the history and heritage of firearms. We hope to expose you to the vintage guns of the golden age along with newer, modern guns, specialty items, and a few other odd balls along the way. Jump in and come along!
Wes Hightower is a currently operational Special Forces soldier, 18F or Intel specialist, and also has a training company Rally PointST. He is a wealth of knowledge and is everything you think of in an SF guy, smart, cool under, pressure, highly knowledgable, and highly capable. In this converation we get in to the training he offers through his training company, as well as his personal EDC and recommendations, tips on digital and personal security, and his thoughts on possible upcoming terrorist attacks on US soil. You can find all things Wes here https://rallypointst.com You can find the show sponsor, Absolute Security and Lock here http://www.absolutesecurityandlock.com You can find the Sig P365 lower Wes mentioned here https://www.icarusprecision.com You can find the lite Wes referenced here https://flashlight.nitecore.com/product/edc23 as well as Amazon. You can find the snakestaffsystems tourniquet and holder here https://www.snakestaffsystems.com You can find the Radio Contra podcast here https://podcasts.apple.com/au/podcast/radio-contra/id1568575640 No financial affiliations in these links and recommendations.
Riding Shotgun With Charlie #217 Desi Bergman Not Me SD I met Desi Bergman at GunProm held by San Diego County Gun Owners back in June of 2022. I met a lot of people that weekend. I may have been “over self-served.” But at Gun Rights Policy Conference in 2024, we got to meet again. And I'll remember it this time. (Gulp!) I always plan on filming shows while I'm on a trip, and GPRC 2024 was no different. But I had to make changes to my plans. Desi and I caught up on the Friday evening social. I asked if she was interested in doing the show and she agreed to it. We headed to Coronado Island and got a selfie at Dog Beach. As a young child, guns were always around for her and her family. Her grandparents owned a farm in central California. While her dad was out checking the property, she was the girl who was shooting at rabbits from the truck with a BB gun. Her father was a sheriff reserve and taught the kids to respect firearms, how to be safe, and how to shoot. One of her prized possessions is her father's Colt Python. When her mother inquires about it, she keeps telling her it's in for repair. Having been in San Diego for 13 years, she discovered San Diego County Gun Owners about five years ago. I had Michael Schwartz from SDCGO on episode #153. Desi & Michael met at a BBQ for SDCGO. He was telling her about Not Me SD and how he was trying to get it up and going. She loved the idea and got involved in volunteering to learn more about it. When the virus that shall not be named hit,they needed someone to be more involved. She stepped up and took on the part-time role. There were some instructing certifications she needed and earned. Having them gives her more credentials for converting women to gun ownership. Not Me SD is a program for women who are survivors of domestic violence and sexual assault. The program takes the women all through the process to get a CCW in California. They have scholarships for those in need. They teach the women all aspects of self defense, from situational awareness, pepper spray, and firearms. Since 2020, females are the largest growing demographic of firearms owners and those who are seeking out training. Not Me is a huge resource for women who want help. They have regular and monthly get-togethers for training and shooting socials, as they call them. This pairs women up with instructors. We do talk about the process to get a permit in The Golden State. There's a quick and easy 30 question test to get the firearm safety card, which is step one. We did talk about what makes a good first gun for a woman. Of course there is no “correct” answer, but it was fun to talk about. Desi used a term about GLOCK that I hadn't heard before. She called it the “Honda of the gun world.” Ya know, she's not wrong. We also talked about the SIG P365 getting added to the CA roster and using red dots. One of the amazing success stories from Not Me SD is of a woman who was shot in the neck twice by her ex-husband. Not only did she survive the incident but she got into firearms and self protection, she enjoyed learning and turned into a survivor. A big step for DV survivors is actually hearing the gun being fired. Her program has reached over 1,300 women. Everytime she is on a local TV show, she has more and more people reaching out to get training and education. California has a roster, much like Massachusetts. Both states have lots of restrictions and unconstitutional laws about firearms. We also have so-called assault weapon bans and magazine restrictions. Desi and I talked more about Not Me SD while we drove to Coronado Island. We grabbed a selfie at Dog Beach. San Diego is a beautiful place. The weather is amazing. It could be a perfect place, but the gun laws in Cali… Not so much. Favorite quotes: “I was holding a gun since I was two years old and I could hold one.” “I like to have all the qualifications because it help me articulate better when I'm teaching these classes.” “GLOCKS are the Honda of the gun world.” “We always end the day with a mag dump on the .22.” “I believe that women should have as many tools as they can to protect themselves.” Not Me SD https://sandiegocountygunowners.com/notmesd/ Not Me CA https://www.notmeca.org/ Not Me CA Facebook https://www.facebook.com/NotMeCA/ Gun Owners Radio Instagram https://www.instagram.com/sdgunowners Second Amendment Foundation https://secure.anedot.com/saf/donate?sc=RidingShotgun Citizens Committee for the Right to Keep and Bear Arms https://www.ccrkba.org/ Please support the Riding Shotgun With Charlie sponsors and supporters. Dennis McCurdy Author, Speaker, Firewalker http://www.find-away.com/ Self Defense Radio Network http://sdrn.us/ Buy a Powertac Flashlight, use RSWC as the discount code and save 15% www.powertac.com/RSWC SABRE Red Pepper Spray https://lddy.no/1iq1n Or listen on: iTunes/Apple podcasts https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/riding-shotgun-with-charlie/id1275691565
It couldn’t happen but it did. Now, we have to survive.By ronde, in 3 parts. Listen to the ► podcast at Connected.I thought I was ready when the time to be ready arrived. I wasn’t. I was more ready than most people, but still not ready for what happened.To this day, I don’t know why it happened and apparently there’s nobody left to explain it. It doesn’t matter anymore anyway. What was is probably gone for a long, long time, and people like us have to pick up the pieces and get on with trying to live. I’m writing all this down in hopes that if and when things do get back to normal a lot of people will read it and do what all people should have done before.I started getting ready as more of a hobby than actually preparing for when the “shit hits the fan", or “SHTF” as the survivalists called it. There were many scenarios that would cause SHTF, none of which I thought would ever happen. The leading scenarios were about the world, or at least the U S, going from normal to crisis to lawlessness in a matter of weeks or even days in some cases. You had your:1. "the world economy is going to collapse" people, your2. "there will be another civil war" people, and your3. "another country will bomb and then invade the U S" people.I tended to discount these for what, to me at least, were logical reasons.While the economy had gone belly up at least a couple times, the world didn’t descend into chaos. Even though in at least some cases it took years to do so, governments managed to work through the depression and come out healthy.Another American civil war would just be stupid. Civil wars have never worked out well. The group with the most resources always wins, and they usually aren’t very nice to the losers. After most modern civil wars, the leaders on the losing side end up being executed for treason or some other offense. Why would any sane person even think about starting a civil war unless they were absolutely confident they could win?While I supposed it was possible that some other country could launch nukes at the U S, the result would be their own destruction as well. It was also possible some country could load up a million or so soldiers and ship them across the Pacific or the Atlantic with the intention of attacking the big cities on the East or West coast, but it’s very probable they wouldn’t make it. That many ships or planes would be spotted long before they posed any real danger and the U S Air Force and Navy would end the threat before it got started.Right behind these were “artificial intelligence will take over and eliminate the human race” and a global pandemic that kills most of the human population of the world.While these made some decent novels and movies, they weren’t all that realistic. I mean, artificial intelligence isn’t really all that smart. AI can rapidly review data from a multitude of sources, develop conclusions from that data based upon its programmed algorithms, and then take or recommend actions based upon those conclusions and again, its programmed algorithms. It can further examine those actions and determine if they were correct and modify its logical process as needed.At the time it happened, I was a civilian electro-mechanical engineer working on B 1 B flight simulators at Ellsworth AFB and my job required a thorough and current knowledge of that sort of thing because I was writing it into my machine control programs. Everything I'd read told me even the best artificial intelligence is really good at adapting its programming to different conditions and reporting any conclusions in appropriate language, but in reality is maybe actually as smart as a five-year old. Though the data set used can be enormous, any autonomous decisions are made just as a five-year old would make them – by trial and error.A self-driving car can learn where it is and where it needs to go, but it you want to transfer its “brain” to an aircraft or a robot, that requires a software change and a human has to do that. Artificial Intelligence can read most current languages spoken in the world and can be taught the phonetics to speak them correctly. It can also be taught to generate art, prose and poetry when given appropriate parameters. It can’t just one day decide to become a best selling author or poet and start writing, or begin painting scenes that it visualizes on its own. It needs a human to ask it to do something or to tell it what to do. Yes, there can be some unforeseen consequences, but when all else fails, a human can always “pull the plug” and stop the computer.A global pandemic was possible, but even in the worst pandemics like the plague and Spanish Flu, enough people survived to keep society going. Yes, the disease slowed civilization down, but civilization didn’t die.There were several other causes like natural disasters such as tornadoes, earthquakes, hurricanes, blizzards and forest fires that could likely happen and cause significant stress on society. The more I thought about those causes, the more sense it made to do some preparation. It wouldn’t hurt and if something did happen, I’d be prepared.It was also a way to get back to quasi-reality from my job. Back then, I spent all my work days immersed in tuning the interactions between computer code and hydraulic servo valves and the response time of hydraulic systems, and I needed something a lot less complex to decompress on the weekends.Location?I started reading about what I would need and decided my best bet was to have a month’s supply of food in my apartment and a shotgun for self-defense. The extra food was easily affordable since I wasn’t married, lived in a two-room apartment, and worked too many hours to actually spend much of my income on anything else. I still had the single-shot shotgun I got as a kid so I could hunt rabbits, squirrels and pheasants on my dad’s farm. I still did that when I had the time.I stored a month’s supply of canned and dried food in my bedroom and bought three boxes of buckshot to go with the box of bird shot I already had. I was all set; until I read some more and watched some videos.One article I read asked the question, “What will you do if you’re away from home when the shit hits the fan?” The answer was something called a “get-home bag” and was a small backpack filled with enough to get me from my office to home if there was trouble in the city or on the road.I bought a small backpack and stuffed it with protein bars, six bottles of water, and a first-aid kit. Also in that backpack was a coffee can with a candle and a disposable lighter, but I’d always had those in my car. If you’re stuck alongside the road in a heavy snow like we sometimes get during the South Dakota winters, it’s nice to have a heat source so you don’t freeze to death before the wrecker gets there. I was all set, until I read some more and watched more videos.The opinion of all the experts on the internet was you should prepare to weather a crisis at home. That’s where your food supply would be and you’d be familiar with the area, but the next question was, “What if you can’t get to your home or if your home isn’t there or if it isn’t safe to go to your home?” The answer, actually three answers, were a “bug-out bag”, a place to “bug-out” to, and to never let my gas tank get lower than three-quarters of a tank so I’d have the gas to “bug-out”. I think that was when my hobby became sort of an obsession. Looking back now, I wish it had become an obsession a lot sooner.Keeping my gas tank filled was something I already did during the winter. It’s not unusual in my area of South Dakota to have a heavy snow that will cause traffic to back up for hours. Having a candle in a coffee can will keep you from freezing to death, but a full tank of gas and a car heater will keep you comfortable.The bug-out bag was easy. It was just a scaled up version of my get-home bag. It was a bigger backpack filled with food for three days and water for a week. Since I might need to make a fire to cook and keep warm, I included a hunting knife, a hatchet, two disposable lighters, and a ferrocerium rod and striker in a metal box full of charred cotton cloth in case the lighters died. If I got wet or just needed some more layers, I had an extra set of clothing, and in case something happened to the clothing, a sewing kit.According to everything I red, it might be that I’d have to fight my way out of something, and to do that, I bought a bigger first-aid kit in case I got hurt and had to fix myself up. Stuck in a pocket in the flap was an unloaded Sig P365 nine-millimeter semi-automatic pistol with a hundred rounds of ammo to keep me from getting hurt. Carrying the pistol required me to get a state carry permit, but that was easy. After three visits to a gun range to practice, I spent one Saturday taking a class and then took my application and check for the fee to the local sheriff’s office. A month later, I had my South Dakota carry permit in my wallet.The place to bug-out to was harder. The articles I read said the place should be pretty isolated because looters would be roaming the countryside looking to take what they didn’t have from people like me who did. Since I lived in an apartment, I’d probably at least have my neighbors begging from me. Montana seemed to be the favored location, but Montana was a five-hour drive from Box Elder, South Dakota where I had my apartment. Besides, I didn’t have enough money to buy even a small place in Montana.Dad’s farm was closer. The six hundred acres where he’d run some cattle and raised hay wasn’t exactly out in the middle of nowhere, but it was a little over twenty miles from the nearest city, that being Rapid City. I figured I’d just build a hideaway cabin to use for hunting and fishing the small river that ran through it. I did both there every year anyway, and with a small cabin, I could stay over a weekend instead of driving back and forth. If I needed it to bug-out, it would be there.I still call the place Dad’s farm, but it’s essentially mine. He willed it to my mother when he passed and her will states that it will go to me when she passes. I wasn’t sure what I was going to do with it when that happened because the inheritance taxes would be huge, but I liked hunting and fishing there, so I was playing “wait and see”. The land would never drop in value.I was paying the taxes on the place because Mom couldn’t afford to. I didn’t want to continue to pay property taxes on the old house and outbuildings, so I had them torn down. Then I rented the place to a local cattle breeder. His cattle and the small herd of horses he ran there kept the old pastures and fields cropped down and the rent paid the remaining property taxes every year with a little left over to go toward the taxes I’d eventually pay.Provisions.Once I’d decided to build a bug-out place, I started reading and watching videos about what I needed to build. I found people who recommended just a small log cabin, people who built what would have been called a “fall-out shelter” in the 1950’s, people who built basically a full sized and equipped house, and everything in between.I wasn’t all that thrilled about a log cabin after I read more about the ones you can buy. They would be hard to heat in our frigid South Dakota winters and were pretty expensive since they were intended to be full-time residences. I thought about cutting some of the pine trees on the place and building a cabin myself, but that seemed like a ton of work that would take me a year of weekends to finish. I decided a log cabin was a bad idea.I saw some ads about pre-manufactured shelters that could be installed in a week or so by the manufacturer. I thought that would work out pretty well. I could buy just the steel box and then fit it out however I wanted. They were all underground, so I’d have the benefit of some natural insulation when it was time to heat it. There was only one hitch. I could have bought a three bedroom house in Box Elder for what one would have cost me to buy and install. I decided that was a bad idea too.As I kept reading and watching videos, I discovered there were some ideas about building a bug-out place that seemed to conflict. The main one had to do with the need to keep your bug-out place a secret. If you didn’t and some emergency happened, everybody who hadn’t prepped would come knocking on your door for food, shelter and safety.For this reason, I figured running electricity to whatever I built, like a lot of people did, was stupid. I could live without electricity, and overhead power lines running out through the middle of a farm field would be like a road sign saying, “This way for free food.” The other problem with electricity is electricity has a tendency to stop if there are high winds or sleet. It wouldn’t do any good to have the wiring if there was nothing in the wires.Another thing I thought was pretty short-sighted were the people who said they were prepared to live off the land. I’d hunted and fished for most of my life, and my experience had taught me two things. If you depend upon hunting, fishing, and foraging for food, you’ll probably starve to death. I’d spent a lot of long days in the woods without ever seeing so much as a rabbit let alone a deer. It’s the same with fishing. Some days, you catch several fish. Other days, all you get is a sunburn and some mosquito bites.Foraging for plants is interesting and fun and I’d done it as a Boy Scout, but if that’s your only food source, it won’t take long to pick all the edible plants in your immediate area. Then you’ll have to move to find more and that means giving up the security you spent all that money to build.I figured I needed a place big enough to store a lot of non-perishable food and enough other stuff so I could fend for myself for at least a year. That didn’t mean I wouldn’t hunt and fish. It just meant I wouldn’t go hungry when the deer, rabbits, or fish didn’t cooperate.I liked the idea of an underground bunker for several reasons. If it was underground, I’d get the benefit of the natural insulation of the soil, and at least from a distance, nobody could tell there was a bunker there. Concrete seemed a better alternative than steel. All the ammo bunkers on the base were poured concrete and they’d been there since World War 2.I thought I knew what I wanted, but I didn’t know how to get it built. I figured the cost wouldn’t be a problem because it would be just a concrete box with a concrete lid. The problem was who could I trust to build it and not tell anybody else where it was?That Christmas, I went to the assisted living home in Rapid City where my mother was living to take her a Christmas gift. I told her I was going to build some sort of cabin on the farm so I’d have a place to stay when I went hunting or fishing. Bless her heart, she gave me the answer I’d been looking for.“Remember Jeff Hayes from high school? His mother lives here and we talk all the time. He owns a construction company now, and she said he did the same thing except he built his under the ground. I don’t think I’d like living underground, but she saw it and said it’s really nice, considering. You ought to go talk to him and find out how he did it.”I did remember Jeff. He and I had hunted and fished together a lot when we were in high school. We sort of drifted apart when I went to college and he enlisted in the Army. When he got out of the Army, he went to a trade school. We were just different that way. He was very practical and I tended more toward the theoretical.Army Buddy.Jeff grinned when I walked into the building where his office was located.“Well I’ll be damned. Ted Jackson. Figured you’d forgotten all about Lakeview High and everybody you went to school with.”I smiled.“No, I’ve just been really busy. I was visiting my mother and she said I should come talk to you about a project I have in mind.”I told Jeff what I’d been thinking about and asked what he would recommend and why that would be better than what I’d already read and seen in videos. He smiled.“When I was in Iraq, I talked to a guy from Montana whose dad had been getting ready for the big one for years. He didn’t know what the big one was gonna be, so he tried to cover all the bases. I learned a lot from listening to what his dad built."When I came back, I took a look at how politics and the economy were going and decided maybe he was right. Like you, I read a lot of books and watched a lot of videos, but I had my military training and combat experience too. A lot of those books and videos didn’t make any sense."I thought about it for a year before I built what I built. I ain’t saying it’s perfect, but it’s good enough. I’m not sure I want to be around if something happens that it isn’t good enough for anyway.”My question was what did Jeff build and how did he build it without a bunch of people knowing. He just smiled again.“I own a construction company, so I have the equipment and skills to build about anything. I also have two guys on my crew who think like I do, and the local ready-mix plant owner and a couple of his crew do too. We got together and each of us built basically the same thing on weekends. The six of us are the only ones who know where and what we have, and we aren’t going to tell anybody else. Since we go way back, I’ll make an exception in your case. You got any idea about what you want?”When I said other than what I’d already told him I wasn’t sure, Jeff opened a drawer in his desk and took out a set of plans. The first page said “Plans for a 1,200 square foot Ranch With Partial Basement”. Jeff flipped past the first two pages and then pushed the plans toward me.“The rest of this is just so anybody finding our plans will think they’re just for a house I built. The basement plan will show you what I built. Since I know you pretty good, if you’ll swear to keep your mouth shut, I’ll talk to the other guys about helping you build one. It would be good to know there’s another of us in the area in case we somehow have to leave our own place.Noah's Ark.We couldn’t start construction until May because the nighttime temperatures were still dropping below freezing and the ground hadn’t yet thawed out. Once we started, it surprised me how quickly things went and how little it cost. In a month and a half of weekend work, I had my bunker. It was out in the middle of a pasture about a mile from the road and was invisible unless you got close enough to see the hatch sitting in the ground. I traded my car for a four-wheel drive pickup so I could get to it in about any kind of weather.It’s an underground bunker twelve feet wide and thirty feet long. It’s all concrete with leak stoppers between the floor and walls and between the walls and ceiling, the s
It couldn’t happen but it did. Now, we have to survive.By ronde, in 3 parts. Listen to the ► podcast at Connected.I thought I was ready when the time to be ready arrived. I wasn’t. I was more ready than most people, but still not ready for what happened.To this day, I don’t know why it happened and apparently there’s nobody left to explain it. It doesn’t matter anymore anyway. What was is probably gone for a long, long time, and people like us have to pick up the pieces and get on with trying to live. I’m writing all this down in hopes that if and when things do get back to normal a lot of people will read it and do what all people should have done before.I started getting ready as more of a hobby than actually preparing for when the “shit hits the fan", or “SHTF” as the survivalists called it. There were many scenarios that would cause SHTF, none of which I thought would ever happen. The leading scenarios were about the world, or at least the U S, going from normal to crisis to lawlessness in a matter of weeks or even days in some cases. You had your:1. "the world economy is going to collapse" people, your2. "there will be another civil war" people, and your3. "another country will bomb and then invade the U S" people.I tended to discount these for what, to me at least, were logical reasons.While the economy had gone belly up at least a couple times, the world didn’t descend into chaos. Even though in at least some cases it took years to do so, governments managed to work through the depression and come out healthy.Another American civil war would just be stupid. Civil wars have never worked out well. The group with the most resources always wins, and they usually aren’t very nice to the losers. After most modern civil wars, the leaders on the losing side end up being executed for treason or some other offense. Why would any sane person even think about starting a civil war unless they were absolutely confident they could win?While I supposed it was possible that some other country could launch nukes at the U S, the result would be their own destruction as well. It was also possible some country could load up a million or so soldiers and ship them across the Pacific or the Atlantic with the intention of attacking the big cities on the East or West coast, but it’s very probable they wouldn’t make it. That many ships or planes would be spotted long before they posed any real danger and the U S Air Force and Navy would end the threat before it got started.Right behind these were “artificial intelligence will take over and eliminate the human race” and a global pandemic that kills most of the human population of the world.While these made some decent novels and movies, they weren’t all that realistic. I mean, artificial intelligence isn’t really all that smart. AI can rapidly review data from a multitude of sources, develop conclusions from that data based upon its programmed algorithms, and then take or recommend actions based upon those conclusions and again, its programmed algorithms. It can further examine those actions and determine if they were correct and modify its logical process as needed.At the time it happened, I was a civilian electro-mechanical engineer working on B 1 B flight simulators at Ellsworth AFB and my job required a thorough and current knowledge of that sort of thing because I was writing it into my machine control programs. Everything I'd read told me even the best artificial intelligence is really good at adapting its programming to different conditions and reporting any conclusions in appropriate language, but in reality is maybe actually as smart as a five-year old. Though the data set used can be enormous, any autonomous decisions are made just as a five-year old would make them – by trial and error.A self-driving car can learn where it is and where it needs to go, but it you want to transfer its “brain” to an aircraft or a robot, that requires a software change and a human has to do that. Artificial Intelligence can read most current languages spoken in the world and can be taught the phonetics to speak them correctly. It can also be taught to generate art, prose and poetry when given appropriate parameters. It can’t just one day decide to become a best selling author or poet and start writing, or begin painting scenes that it visualizes on its own. It needs a human to ask it to do something or to tell it what to do. Yes, there can be some unforeseen consequences, but when all else fails, a human can always “pull the plug” and stop the computer.A global pandemic was possible, but even in the worst pandemics like the plague and Spanish Flu, enough people survived to keep society going. Yes, the disease slowed civilization down, but civilization didn’t die.There were several other causes like natural disasters such as tornadoes, earthquakes, hurricanes, blizzards and forest fires that could likely happen and cause significant stress on society. The more I thought about those causes, the more sense it made to do some preparation. It wouldn’t hurt and if something did happen, I’d be prepared.It was also a way to get back to quasi-reality from my job. Back then, I spent all my work days immersed in tuning the interactions between computer code and hydraulic servo valves and the response time of hydraulic systems, and I needed something a lot less complex to decompress on the weekends.Location?I started reading about what I would need and decided my best bet was to have a month’s supply of food in my apartment and a shotgun for self-defense. The extra food was easily affordable since I wasn’t married, lived in a two-room apartment, and worked too many hours to actually spend much of my income on anything else. I still had the single-shot shotgun I got as a kid so I could hunt rabbits, squirrels and pheasants on my dad’s farm. I still did that when I had the time.I stored a month’s supply of canned and dried food in my bedroom and bought three boxes of buckshot to go with the box of bird shot I already had. I was all set; until I read some more and watched some videos.One article I read asked the question, “What will you do if you’re away from home when the shit hits the fan?” The answer was something called a “get-home bag” and was a small backpack filled with enough to get me from my office to home if there was trouble in the city or on the road.I bought a small backpack and stuffed it with protein bars, six bottles of water, and a first-aid kit. Also in that backpack was a coffee can with a candle and a disposable lighter, but I’d always had those in my car. If you’re stuck alongside the road in a heavy snow like we sometimes get during the South Dakota winters, it’s nice to have a heat source so you don’t freeze to death before the wrecker gets there. I was all set, until I read some more and watched more videos.The opinion of all the experts on the internet was you should prepare to weather a crisis at home. That’s where your food supply would be and you’d be familiar with the area, but the next question was, “What if you can’t get to your home or if your home isn’t there or if it isn’t safe to go to your home?” The answer, actually three answers, were a “bug-out bag”, a place to “bug-out” to, and to never let my gas tank get lower than three-quarters of a tank so I’d have the gas to “bug-out”. I think that was when my hobby became sort of an obsession. Looking back now, I wish it had become an obsession a lot sooner.Keeping my gas tank filled was something I already did during the winter. It’s not unusual in my area of South Dakota to have a heavy snow that will cause traffic to back up for hours. Having a candle in a coffee can will keep you from freezing to death, but a full tank of gas and a car heater will keep you comfortable.The bug-out bag was easy. It was just a scaled up version of my get-home bag. It was a bigger backpack filled with food for three days and water for a week. Since I might need to make a fire to cook and keep warm, I included a hunting knife, a hatchet, two disposable lighters, and a ferrocerium rod and striker in a metal box full of charred cotton cloth in case the lighters died. If I got wet or just needed some more layers, I had an extra set of clothing, and in case something happened to the clothing, a sewing kit.According to everything I red, it might be that I’d have to fight my way out of something, and to do that, I bought a bigger first-aid kit in case I got hurt and had to fix myself up. Stuck in a pocket in the flap was an unloaded Sig P365 nine-millimeter semi-automatic pistol with a hundred rounds of ammo to keep me from getting hurt. Carrying the pistol required me to get a state carry permit, but that was easy. After three visits to a gun range to practice, I spent one Saturday taking a class and then took my application and check for the fee to the local sheriff’s office. A month later, I had my South Dakota carry permit in my wallet.The place to bug-out to was harder. The articles I read said the place should be pretty isolated because looters would be roaming the countryside looking to take what they didn’t have from people like me who did. Since I lived in an apartment, I’d probably at least have my neighbors begging from me. Montana seemed to be the favored location, but Montana was a five-hour drive from Box Elder, South Dakota where I had my apartment. Besides, I didn’t have enough money to buy even a small place in Montana.Dad’s farm was closer. The six hundred acres where he’d run some cattle and raised hay wasn’t exactly out in the middle of nowhere, but it was a little over twenty miles from the nearest city, that being Rapid City. I figured I’d just build a hideaway cabin to use for hunting and fishing the small river that ran through it. I did both there every year anyway, and with a small cabin, I could stay over a weekend instead of driving back and forth. If I needed it to bug-out, it would be there.I still call the place Dad’s farm, but it’s essentially mine. He willed it to my mother when he passed and her will states that it will go to me when she passes. I wasn’t sure what I was going to do with it when that happened because the inheritance taxes would be huge, but I liked hunting and fishing there, so I was playing “wait and see”. The land would never drop in value.I was paying the taxes on the place because Mom couldn’t afford to. I didn’t want to continue to pay property taxes on the old house and outbuildings, so I had them torn down. Then I rented the place to a local cattle breeder. His cattle and the small herd of horses he ran there kept the old pastures and fields cropped down and the rent paid the remaining property taxes every year with a little left over to go toward the taxes I’d eventually pay.Provisions.Once I’d decided to build a bug-out place, I started reading and watching videos about what I needed to build. I found people who recommended just a small log cabin, people who built what would have been called a “fall-out shelter” in the 1950’s, people who built basically a full sized and equipped house, and everything in between.I wasn’t all that thrilled about a log cabin after I read more about the ones you can buy. They would be hard to heat in our frigid South Dakota winters and were pretty expensive since they were intended to be full-time residences. I thought about cutting some of the pine trees on the place and building a cabin myself, but that seemed like a ton of work that would take me a year of weekends to finish. I decided a log cabin was a bad idea.I saw some ads about pre-manufactured shelters that could be installed in a week or so by the manufacturer. I thought that would work out pretty well. I could buy just the steel box and then fit it out however I wanted. They were all underground, so I’d have the benefit of some natural insulation when it was time to heat it. There was only one hitch. I could have bought a three bedroom house in Box Elder for what one would have cost me to buy and install. I decided that was a bad idea too.As I kept reading and watching videos, I discovered there were some ideas about building a bug-out place that seemed to conflict. The main one had to do with the need to keep your bug-out place a secret. If you didn’t and some emergency happened, everybody who hadn’t prepped would come knocking on your door for food, shelter and safety.For this reason, I figured running electricity to whatever I built, like a lot of people did, was stupid. I could live without electricity, and overhead power lines running out through the middle of a farm field would be like a road sign saying, “This way for free food.” The other problem with electricity is electricity has a tendency to stop if there are high winds or sleet. It wouldn’t do any good to have the wiring if there was nothing in the wires.Another thing I thought was pretty short-sighted were the people who said they were prepared to live off the land. I’d hunted and fished for most of my life, and my experience had taught me two things. If you depend upon hunting, fishing, and foraging for food, you’ll probably starve to death. I’d spent a lot of long days in the woods without ever seeing so much as a rabbit let alone a deer. It’s the same with fishing. Some days, you catch several fish. Other days, all you get is a sunburn and some mosquito bites.Foraging for plants is interesting and fun and I’d done it as a Boy Scout, but if that’s your only food source, it won’t take long to pick all the edible plants in your immediate area. Then you’ll have to move to find more and that means giving up the security you spent all that money to build.I figured I needed a place big enough to store a lot of non-perishable food and enough other stuff so I could fend for myself for at least a year. That didn’t mean I wouldn’t hunt and fish. It just meant I wouldn’t go hungry when the deer, rabbits, or fish didn’t cooperate.I liked the idea of an underground bunker for several reasons. If it was underground, I’d get the benefit of the natural insulation of the soil, and at least from a distance, nobody could tell there was a bunker there. Concrete seemed a better alternative than steel. All the ammo bunkers on the base were poured concrete and they’d been there since World War 2.I thought I knew what I wanted, but I didn’t know how to get it built. I figured the cost wouldn’t be a problem because it would be just a concrete box with a concrete lid. The problem was who could I trust to build it and not tell anybody else where it was?That Christmas, I went to the assisted living home in Rapid City where my mother was living to take her a Christmas gift. I told her I was going to build some sort of cabin on the farm so I’d have a place to stay when I went hunting or fishing. Bless her heart, she gave me the answer I’d been looking for.“Remember Jeff Hayes from high school? His mother lives here and we talk all the time. He owns a construction company now, and she said he did the same thing except he built his under the ground. I don’t think I’d like living underground, but she saw it and said it’s really nice, considering. You ought to go talk to him and find out how he did it.”I did remember Jeff. He and I had hunted and fished together a lot when we were in high school. We sort of drifted apart when I went to college and he enlisted in the Army. When he got out of the Army, he went to a trade school. We were just different that way. He was very practical and I tended more toward the theoretical.Army Buddy.Jeff grinned when I walked into the building where his office was located.“Well I’ll be damned. Ted Jackson. Figured you’d forgotten all about Lakeview High and everybody you went to school with.”I smiled.“No, I’ve just been really busy. I was visiting my mother and she said I should come talk to you about a project I have in mind.”I told Jeff what I’d been thinking about and asked what he would recommend and why that would be better than what I’d already read and seen in videos. He smiled.“When I was in Iraq, I talked to a guy from Montana whose dad had been getting ready for the big one for years. He didn’t know what the big one was gonna be, so he tried to cover all the bases. I learned a lot from listening to what his dad built."When I came back, I took a look at how politics and the economy were going and decided maybe he was right. Like you, I read a lot of books and watched a lot of videos, but I had my military training and combat experience too. A lot of those books and videos didn’t make any sense."I thought about it for a year before I built what I built. I ain’t saying it’s perfect, but it’s good enough. I’m not sure I want to be around if something happens that it isn’t good enough for anyway.”My question was what did Jeff build and how did he build it without a bunch of people knowing. He just smiled again.“I own a construction company, so I have the equipment and skills to build about anything. I also have two guys on my crew who think like I do, and the local ready-mix plant owner and a couple of his crew do too. We got together and each of us built basically the same thing on weekends. The six of us are the only ones who know where and what we have, and we aren’t going to tell anybody else. Since we go way back, I’ll make an exception in your case. You got any idea about what you want?”When I said other than what I’d already told him I wasn’t sure, Jeff opened a drawer in his desk and took out a set of plans. The first page said “Plans for a 1,200 square foot Ranch With Partial Basement”. Jeff flipped past the first two pages and then pushed the plans toward me.“The rest of this is just so anybody finding our plans will think they’re just for a house I built. The basement plan will show you what I built. Since I know you pretty good, if you’ll swear to keep your mouth shut, I’ll talk to the other guys about helping you build one. It would be good to know there’s another of us in the area in case we somehow have to leave our own place.Noah's Ark.We couldn’t start construction until May because the nighttime temperatures were still dropping below freezing and the ground hadn’t yet thawed out. Once we started, it surprised me how quickly things went and how little it cost. In a month and a half of weekend work, I had my bunker. It was out in the middle of a pasture about a mile from the road and was invisible unless you got close enough to see the hatch sitting in the ground. I traded my car for a four-wheel drive pickup so I could get to it in about any kind of weather.It’s an underground bunker twelve feet wide and thirty feet long. It’s all concrete with leak stoppers between the floor and walls and between the walls and ceiling, the s
It couldn’t happen but it did. Now, we have to survive.By ronde, in 3 parts. Listen to the ► podcast at Connected.I thought I was ready when the time to be ready arrived. I wasn’t. I was more ready than most people, but still not ready for what happened.To this day, I don’t know why it happened and apparently there’s nobody left to explain it. It doesn’t matter anymore anyway. What was is probably gone for a long, long time, and people like us have to pick up the pieces and get on with trying to live. I’m writing all this down in hopes that if and when things do get back to normal a lot of people will read it and do what all people should have done before.I started getting ready as more of a hobby than actually preparing for when the “shit hits the fan", or “SHTF” as the survivalists called it. There were many scenarios that would cause SHTF, none of which I thought would ever happen. The leading scenarios were about the world, or at least the U S, going from normal to crisis to lawlessness in a matter of weeks or even days in some cases. You had your:1. "the world economy is going to collapse" people, your2. "there will be another civil war" people, and your3. "another country will bomb and then invade the U S" people.I tended to discount these for what, to me at least, were logical reasons.While the economy had gone belly up at least a couple times, the world didn’t descend into chaos. Even though in at least some cases it took years to do so, governments managed to work through the depression and come out healthy.Another American civil war would just be stupid. Civil wars have never worked out well. The group with the most resources always wins, and they usually aren’t very nice to the losers. After most modern civil wars, the leaders on the losing side end up being executed for treason or some other offense. Why would any sane person even think about starting a civil war unless they were absolutely confident they could win?While I supposed it was possible that some other country could launch nukes at the U S, the result would be their own destruction as well. It was also possible some country could load up a million or so soldiers and ship them across the Pacific or the Atlantic with the intention of attacking the big cities on the East or West coast, but it’s very probable they wouldn’t make it. That many ships or planes would be spotted long before they posed any real danger and the U S Air Force and Navy would end the threat before it got started.Right behind these were “artificial intelligence will take over and eliminate the human race” and a global pandemic that kills most of the human population of the world.While these made some decent novels and movies, they weren’t all that realistic. I mean, artificial intelligence isn’t really all that smart. AI can rapidly review data from a multitude of sources, develop conclusions from that data based upon its programmed algorithms, and then take or recommend actions based upon those conclusions and again, its programmed algorithms. It can further examine those actions and determine if they were correct and modify its logical process as needed.At the time it happened, I was a civilian electro-mechanical engineer working on B 1 B flight simulators at Ellsworth AFB and my job required a thorough and current knowledge of that sort of thing because I was writing it into my machine control programs. Everything I'd read told me even the best artificial intelligence is really good at adapting its programming to different conditions and reporting any conclusions in appropriate language, but in reality is maybe actually as smart as a five-year old. Though the data set used can be enormous, any autonomous decisions are made just as a five-year old would make them – by trial and error.A self-driving car can learn where it is and where it needs to go, but it you want to transfer its “brain” to an aircraft or a robot, that requires a software change and a human has to do that. Artificial Intelligence can read most current languages spoken in the world and can be taught the phonetics to speak them correctly. It can also be taught to generate art, prose and poetry when given appropriate parameters. It can’t just one day decide to become a best selling author or poet and start writing, or begin painting scenes that it visualizes on its own. It needs a human to ask it to do something or to tell it what to do. Yes, there can be some unforeseen consequences, but when all else fails, a human can always “pull the plug” and stop the computer.A global pandemic was possible, but even in the worst pandemics like the plague and Spanish Flu, enough people survived to keep society going. Yes, the disease slowed civilization down, but civilization didn’t die.There were several other causes like natural disasters such as tornadoes, earthquakes, hurricanes, blizzards and forest fires that could likely happen and cause significant stress on society. The more I thought about those causes, the more sense it made to do some preparation. It wouldn’t hurt and if something did happen, I’d be prepared.It was also a way to get back to quasi-reality from my job. Back then, I spent all my work days immersed in tuning the interactions between computer code and hydraulic servo valves and the response time of hydraulic systems, and I needed something a lot less complex to decompress on the weekends.Location?I started reading about what I would need and decided my best bet was to have a month’s supply of food in my apartment and a shotgun for self-defense. The extra food was easily affordable since I wasn’t married, lived in a two-room apartment, and worked too many hours to actually spend much of my income on anything else. I still had the single-shot shotgun I got as a kid so I could hunt rabbits, squirrels and pheasants on my dad’s farm. I still did that when I had the time.I stored a month’s supply of canned and dried food in my bedroom and bought three boxes of buckshot to go with the box of bird shot I already had. I was all set; until I read some more and watched some videos.One article I read asked the question, “What will you do if you’re away from home when the shit hits the fan?” The answer was something called a “get-home bag” and was a small backpack filled with enough to get me from my office to home if there was trouble in the city or on the road.I bought a small backpack and stuffed it with protein bars, six bottles of water, and a first-aid kit. Also in that backpack was a coffee can with a candle and a disposable lighter, but I’d always had those in my car. If you’re stuck alongside the road in a heavy snow like we sometimes get during the South Dakota winters, it’s nice to have a heat source so you don’t freeze to death before the wrecker gets there. I was all set, until I read some more and watched more videos.The opinion of all the experts on the internet was you should prepare to weather a crisis at home. That’s where your food supply would be and you’d be familiar with the area, but the next question was, “What if you can’t get to your home or if your home isn’t there or if it isn’t safe to go to your home?” The answer, actually three answers, were a “bug-out bag”, a place to “bug-out” to, and to never let my gas tank get lower than three-quarters of a tank so I’d have the gas to “bug-out”. I think that was when my hobby became sort of an obsession. Looking back now, I wish it had become an obsession a lot sooner.Keeping my gas tank filled was something I already did during the winter. It’s not unusual in my area of South Dakota to have a heavy snow that will cause traffic to back up for hours. Having a candle in a coffee can will keep you from freezing to death, but a full tank of gas and a car heater will keep you comfortable.The bug-out bag was easy. It was just a scaled up version of my get-home bag. It was a bigger backpack filled with food for three days and water for a week. Since I might need to make a fire to cook and keep warm, I included a hunting knife, a hatchet, two disposable lighters, and a ferrocerium rod and striker in a metal box full of charred cotton cloth in case the lighters died. If I got wet or just needed some more layers, I had an extra set of clothing, and in case something happened to the clothing, a sewing kit.According to everything I red, it might be that I’d have to fight my way out of something, and to do that, I bought a bigger first-aid kit in case I got hurt and had to fix myself up. Stuck in a pocket in the flap was an unloaded Sig P365 nine-millimeter semi-automatic pistol with a hundred rounds of ammo to keep me from getting hurt. Carrying the pistol required me to get a state carry permit, but that was easy. After three visits to a gun range to practice, I spent one Saturday taking a class and then took my application and check for the fee to the local sheriff’s office. A month later, I had my South Dakota carry permit in my wallet.The place to bug-out to was harder. The articles I read said the place should be pretty isolated because looters would be roaming the countryside looking to take what they didn’t have from people like me who did. Since I lived in an apartment, I’d probably at least have my neighbors begging from me. Montana seemed to be the favored location, but Montana was a five-hour drive from Box Elder, South Dakota where I had my apartment. Besides, I didn’t have enough money to buy even a small place in Montana.Dad’s farm was closer. The six hundred acres where he’d run some cattle and raised hay wasn’t exactly out in the middle of nowhere, but it was a little over twenty miles from the nearest city, that being Rapid City. I figured I’d just build a hideaway cabin to use for hunting and fishing the small river that ran through it. I did both there every year anyway, and with a small cabin, I could stay over a weekend instead of driving back and forth. If I needed it to bug-out, it would be there.I still call the place Dad’s farm, but it’s essentially mine. He willed it to my mother when he passed and her will states that it will go to me when she passes. I wasn’t sure what I was going to do with it when that happened because the inheritance taxes would be huge, but I liked hunting and fishing there, so I was playing “wait and see”. The land would never drop in value.I was paying the taxes on the place because Mom couldn’t afford to. I didn’t want to continue to pay property taxes on the old house and outbuildings, so I had them torn down. Then I rented the place to a local cattle breeder. His cattle and the small herd of horses he ran there kept the old pastures and fields cropped down and the rent paid the remaining property taxes every year with a little left over to go toward the taxes I’d eventually pay.Provisions.Once I’d decided to build a bug-out place, I started reading and watching videos about what I needed to build. I found people who recommended just a small log cabin, people who built what would have been called a “fall-out shelter” in the 1950’s, people who built basically a full sized and equipped house, and everything in between.I wasn’t all that thrilled about a log cabin after I read more about the ones you can buy. They would be hard to heat in our frigid South Dakota winters and were pretty expensive since they were intended to be full-time residences. I thought about cutting some of the pine trees on the place and building a cabin myself, but that seemed like a ton of work that would take me a year of weekends to finish. I decided a log cabin was a bad idea.I saw some ads about pre-manufactured shelters that could be installed in a week or so by the manufacturer. I thought that would work out pretty well. I could buy just the steel box and then fit it out however I wanted. They were all underground, so I’d have the benefit of some natural insulation when it was time to heat it. There was only one hitch. I could have bought a three bedroom house in Box Elder for what one would have cost me to buy and install. I decided that was a bad idea too.As I kept reading and watching videos, I discovered there were some ideas about building a bug-out place that seemed to conflict. The main one had to do with the need to keep your bug-out place a secret. If you didn’t and some emergency happened, everybody who hadn’t prepped would come knocking on your door for food, shelter and safety.For this reason, I figured running electricity to whatever I built, like a lot of people did, was stupid. I could live without electricity, and overhead power lines running out through the middle of a farm field would be like a road sign saying, “This way for free food.” The other problem with electricity is electricity has a tendency to stop if there are high winds or sleet. It wouldn’t do any good to have the wiring if there was nothing in the wires.Another thing I thought was pretty short-sighted were the people who said they were prepared to live off the land. I’d hunted and fished for most of my life, and my experience had taught me two things. If you depend upon hunting, fishing, and foraging for food, you’ll probably starve to death. I’d spent a lot of long days in the woods without ever seeing so much as a rabbit let alone a deer. It’s the same with fishing. Some days, you catch several fish. Other days, all you get is a sunburn and some mosquito bites.Foraging for plants is interesting and fun and I’d done it as a Boy Scout, but if that’s your only food source, it won’t take long to pick all the edible plants in your immediate area. Then you’ll have to move to find more and that means giving up the security you spent all that money to build.I figured I needed a place big enough to store a lot of non-perishable food and enough other stuff so I could fend for myself for at least a year. That didn’t mean I wouldn’t hunt and fish. It just meant I wouldn’t go hungry when the deer, rabbits, or fish didn’t cooperate.I liked the idea of an underground bunker for several reasons. If it was underground, I’d get the benefit of the natural insulation of the soil, and at least from a distance, nobody could tell there was a bunker there. Concrete seemed a better alternative than steel. All the ammo bunkers on the base were poured concrete and they’d been there since World War 2.I thought I knew what I wanted, but I didn’t know how to get it built. I figured the cost wouldn’t be a problem because it would be just a concrete box with a concrete lid. The problem was who could I trust to build it and not tell anybody else where it was?That Christmas, I went to the assisted living home in Rapid City where my mother was living to take her a Christmas gift. I told her I was going to build some sort of cabin on the farm so I’d have a place to stay when I went hunting or fishing. Bless her heart, she gave me the answer I’d been looking for.“Remember Jeff Hayes from high school? His mother lives here and we talk all the time. He owns a construction company now, and she said he did the same thing except he built his under the ground. I don’t think I’d like living underground, but she saw it and said it’s really nice, considering. You ought to go talk to him and find out how he did it.”I did remember Jeff. He and I had hunted and fished together a lot when we were in high school. We sort of drifted apart when I went to college and he enlisted in the Army. When he got out of the Army, he went to a trade school. We were just different that way. He was very practical and I tended more toward the theoretical.Army Buddy.Jeff grinned when I walked into the building where his office was located.“Well I’ll be damned. Ted Jackson. Figured you’d forgotten all about Lakeview High and everybody you went to school with.”I smiled.“No, I’ve just been really busy. I was visiting my mother and she said I should come talk to you about a project I have in mind.”I told Jeff what I’d been thinking about and asked what he would recommend and why that would be better than what I’d already read and seen in videos. He smiled.“When I was in Iraq, I talked to a guy from Montana whose dad had been getting ready for the big one for years. He didn’t know what the big one was gonna be, so he tried to cover all the bases. I learned a lot from listening to what his dad built."When I came back, I took a look at how politics and the economy were going and decided maybe he was right. Like you, I read a lot of books and watched a lot of videos, but I had my military training and combat experience too. A lot of those books and videos didn’t make any sense."I thought about it for a year before I built what I built. I ain’t saying it’s perfect, but it’s good enough. I’m not sure I want to be around if something happens that it isn’t good enough for anyway.”My question was what did Jeff build and how did he build it without a bunch of people knowing. He just smiled again.“I own a construction company, so I have the equipment and skills to build about anything. I also have two guys on my crew who think like I do, and the local ready-mix plant owner and a couple of his crew do too. We got together and each of us built basically the same thing on weekends. The six of us are the only ones who know where and what we have, and we aren’t going to tell anybody else. Since we go way back, I’ll make an exception in your case. You got any idea about what you want?”When I said other than what I’d already told him I wasn’t sure, Jeff opened a drawer in his desk and took out a set of plans. The first page said “Plans for a 1,200 square foot Ranch With Partial Basement”. Jeff flipped past the first two pages and then pushed the plans toward me.“The rest of this is just so anybody finding our plans will think they’re just for a house I built. The basement plan will show you what I built. Since I know you pretty good, if you’ll swear to keep your mouth shut, I’ll talk to the other guys about helping you build one. It would be good to know there’s another of us in the area in case we somehow have to leave our own place.Noah's Ark.We couldn’t start construction until May because the nighttime temperatures were still dropping below freezing and the ground hadn’t yet thawed out. Once we started, it surprised me how quickly things went and how little it cost. In a month and a half of weekend work, I had my bunker. It was out in the middle of a pasture about a mile from the road and was invisible unless you got close enough to see the hatch sitting in the ground. I traded my car for a four-wheel drive pickup so I could get to it in about any kind of weather.It’s an underground bunker twelve feet wide and thirty feet long. It’s all concrete with leak stoppers between the floor and walls and between the walls and ceiling, the s
This episode we have Sarah Hauptman from PHLSTER holsters. Sarah and her husband John have created some of the most innovative concealment gear in the industry. PHILSTER is most well-known for their market disrupter – the Enigma deep concealment system. But they offer many more brilliantly designed holsters and accessories. Further, they teach courses in Concealment Mechanics in person and they offer videos and resources on their website with a breadth of knowledge to help ANYONE conceal their pistol better and more comfortably. See all they have to offer at: https://www.phlsterholsters.com Intro and Outro Music by: The Tactical Twins, Jason Bieler and The Baron Von Bielski Orchestra and Tim Alexander/Fata Morgana Please subscribe and share our podcast with friends and family. Visit our website for bios, future events and info at www.evosec.org Like, follow and share us on Facebook and Instagram @evosecusa WE ARE PUMPED TO HAVE A NEW AFFILIATE LINK FOR ORIGIN AND JOCKO FUEL!!! Help support this show by purchasing any of your JiuJitsu gear, Jocko Supplements, books clothing and more... link below. Origin/Jocko Fuel – Bringing back American manufacturing, producing the best Jiu-Jitsu Gis on the market, Jeans, rash guards, and world class supplements to help you on the path. Use EvoSec10 at checkout for 10% off, this helps us greatly. EVOSEC Originusa.com AFFILIATE LINK Tenicor – www.tenicor.com they are educators, and innovators in the holster market. They are firearms instructors themselves, pressure testing their gear in multiple force on force events every year. We support those who do the work. Please visit our new sponsor Training Ground at https://thetrainingground.life Training Ground offers top notch trianing in Jiu Jitsu, Judo, Tang Soo Do and Firearms. An environment where learning is paramount for both students and instructors. Again, patronizing our sponsors helps us greatly.
Lt Col Jeff Cooper is credited as the creator of the modern technique of defensive handgun shooting. Did you know he created his revolutionary technique in Big Bear Lake, California? Yes, California! Learn more about this influential figure in defensive handgun technique as the Gunsite Academy CEO, Ken Campbell, joins the show. https://gunsite.com Orange County Gun Owners is having a Town Hall at the Dana Point Community Center to discuss fighting crime in Orange County. RSVP for the event here: https://reformcalifornia.org/events/town-hall-fighting-crime-and-protecting-yourself-in-orange-county-11-09-23 Mike & the crew dissect the mental gymnastics from the 7th Circuit in Illinois in upholding their state's weapons ban. More proof that “common sense” gun control is a lie. Are the People of California Citizens or Subjects? – Those who rule California seem to care little about the rights of citizens, what's next, Prima Nocta? Read Joe's recent blog article at https://sandiegocountygunowners.com/are-the-people-of-california-citizens-or-subjects-those-who-rule-california-seem-to-care-little-about-the-rights-of-citizens-whats-next-prima-nocta/ STUMP MY NEPHEW: What are two key innovations of the SIG P365, that's just been added to the CA gun roster? — Like, subscribe, and share to help restore the Second Amendment in California! Make sure Big Tech can't censor your access to our content and subscribe to our email list: https://gunownersradio.com/subscribe #2a #guns #gunowners #2ndAmendment #2ACA #ca42a #gunownersradio #gunrights #gunownersrights #rkba #shallnotbeinfringed #pewpew — The right to self-defense is a basic human right. Gun ownership is an integral part of that right. If you want to keep your Second Amendment rights, defend them by joining San Diego County Gun Owners (SDCGO), Orange County Gun Owners (OCGO), or Inland Empire Gun Owners (IEGO). Support the cause by listening to Gun Owners Radio live on Sunday afternoon or on any podcast app at your leisure. Together we will win. https://www.sandiegocountygunowners.com https://orangecountygunowners.com http://inlandempiregunowners.com https://www.firearmspolicy.org https://www.gunownersca.com https://gunowners.org Show your support for Gun Owners Radio sponsors! Get expert legal advice on any firearm-related issues: https://dillonlawgp.com Smarter web development and digital marketing help: https://www.sagetree.com Learn to FLY at SDFTI! San Diego Flight Training International: https://sdfti.com Protect your retirement with precious metals! Call GoldCo Today! 855-612-6354
Lauren asked for a handgun this Christmas. Initially, we eyed the Kimber Micro 9, and the Sig P365, and both made a favorable impression on us, when we looked at the selection Scheels had while out celebrating our 16th anniversary. When it came time to buy, however, in the week before Christmas, I ended up getting her the Springfield Hellcat instead. At 11+1 capacity, the Hellcat holds plenty of rounds in its double-stacked magazine, compared with what is more typical for a CCW semi-auto. I also like the two-stage trigger, in the respect that accidental discharge should not be an issue quite like it could be without. I also like that this Hellcat in particular is already ready to have an optic installed; and on that front, if we keep it, I will be eyeing a little red-dot sight for faster target acquisition. That said, reports from other owners online concern me. For instance, the trigger sometimes locks up when sideways pressure is applied to it, rendering the firearm inoperable. Another bothersome thing about the Hellcat is how stiff the slide release is - that is, it is extraordinarily stiff. Other owners online report that it loosens up with firing, and that there is also an after-market option of a larger slide release we could opt for. For that matter, the trigger issue can also be fixed with an after-market replacement. But then you really shouldn't need to replace parts in a brand new gun to make it operable, and it's a mark against the design here that we even need to have this conversation. Horizon: Forbidden West In other news, for the older boys' Christmas gift, I wanted to get some new games for our PS5, since we don't have many just yet. I looked into what the highest rated games were, and noticed that Horizon: Forbidden West always placed near the top. Considering it did not have some of the unfortunate detracting elements of other games, and that the screenshots, videos, and reviews all agreed that this is a big and beautiful game, with phenomenal texturing, lighting, and physics; the use of color and angles is masterful from a visual standpoint, I picked it up. The thematic components come together in a way that is fun and fascinating. Caveman-like primitives, in a post-apocalyptic future jungle, fight one another and the robot versions of dinosaurs and extinct mega-fauna mammals, using a combination of high-tech weapons and more traditional stone-age implements. What's not to love? Then there is the lead character you play, Aloy, who is a girl. According to feedback from my eldest sons so far, Aloy is the manliest character in the game thus far. All the men are either fools, cowards, feckless, corrupt, or needing drink to drum up enough chutzpah. Aloy, though? She is wise, courageous, strong, and upstanding. And in that respect, she seems to be of a piece with Rey from Disney's Star Wars, or Galadriel from Amazon's Rings of Power. Strong Female Characters Believe it or not, all of this brings to mind Proverbs 31. Is it wrong for me to buy my wife a handgun for Christmas, or for a movie, TV show, or video game to feature a strong female character? Was it a mistake for one of my sons to get his sister a pink Xbox One controller? Some would expect me to say 'Yes' on account of having a conservative view of men and women, and what I believe the Bible says about the different roles we should play in the family, church, and society based on our sex. But that would be presumptuous. Consider how often the word 'strength' shows up from the tenth verse to the end when "the excellent wife" who fears Yahweh is described. Later in the New Testament, she may be described as "the weaker vessel," but that doesn't mean that the ideal is for her to be weak or defenseless, nor that such should become our aspirational model. --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/garrett-ashley-mullet/message Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/garrett-ashley-mullet/support
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Welcome to Season 1 Episode 4 of Gears n Beers, the live segment of the LSLF Podcast, where we talk about gear we love, gear we hate, industry news and whatever else makes our Freedom flags stand at attention! On this episode, we cover the new Sig Sauer P365 X-Macro, the Smith and Wesson M&P M2.0 Metal, the Radian Ramjet Afterburner, and a few pieces of interesting news! Make sure to tune in live for the next episode on 9-14-22, Facebook page, and Youtube, join in on the conversation, and have cold brew or two with us!
Bret Fox and Joe Arnold review the new Sig P365 X Macro!---Website:www.shootcentertarget.comContact us:-Phone: (606) 260-8822-Address: 607 Dons Dr, London, KY 40741-Email: sales@shootcentertarget.comFollow and subscribe to us on:-Facebook: Center Target Firearms & Indoor Range-Instagram: @centertarget-YouTube: Center Target FirearmsLeave a comment down below for feedback, questions, or suggested topics you'd like for us to cover!Don't forget to Like & Subscribe!ALWAYS SHOOT CENTER TARGET!!!
Episode 96: On this episode we talk about a bunch of new products like the APXA1, SIG P365-380 12rd mags and Romeo0 Pro optics. USPSA Classic Nationals results. Jaki shot a few matches Tony shot a match with a Hellcat! Thank you guys so much for all of your support! Please help us out by rating and reviewing the podcast! Thank you! Got questions? Email us at pewtimepodcast@gmail.com If you want to book Tony for a class email him at performancegun@gmail.com Looking for some new range wear? Head over to https://www.laughnload.com to check out some of the shirts, hats, hoodies and more that are currently available. What to check out some more from us you can search Laugh n Load on IG, FB and YouTube. FB: https://www.facebook.com/252407111792056/ IG: https://instagram.com/laughnload?igshid=tm0tboj9syru YT: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCvK8P5NQ_sCpz1Hwasmd62Q
Welcome back! It is time for another Episode of Swing Cast Shoot: An Expensive Hobbies Podcast! This week, I am opening the gun safe back up and will be reviewing my handguns, like my Sig P365, HK45c and more. Golf, fishing and shooting. This is Swing Cast Shoot!
In this hour: - Attorney Don Kilmer discusses the upcoming SCOTUS decision in the New York State Rifle & Pistol Association, Inc. v. Bruen case, and a case out of Hawaii - Suppressors, subsonic rimfire, and ground squirrels - Range Report on the Sig P365 Spectre Comp pistol Tom Gresham's Gun Talk 05.22.22 Hour 1
The CT guys give their take on the NEW Sig Sauer P365 chambered in .380auto!Check out our website for new available products:www.shootcentertarget.comFollow and Subscribe to us on:Facebook: Center Target Firearms & Indoor RangeInstagram: @centertargetYouTube: Center Target FirearmsALWAYS SHOOT CENTER TARGET!!!
Welcome to Gun Funny, Episode 234. Today I'm going to chat with RapidFire Rachel, discuss California lawmaker's new assault on gun rights, highlight a new P365 from Sig, and talk about a woman facing criminal charges for a recent pregnancy. I'm your host, Ava Flanell.
This week I discuss why I think the SIG P365 and the SIG P365 are the best 2 concealed carry handguns, that go together, extremely well. Keepers Concealment and CCW Safe, KC10off discount code Concealment Solutions, handgunworld discount code Handgun World on YouTube Handgun World Patreon Shooters Club
Learn all the secrets of the P365, as Sig Sauer's Phil Strader joins Gun Talk's Ryan Gresham to talk about this popular pistol, plus competitive shooting, training, what Phil really wanted to be when he grew up, a cheap and easy way to train, what makes the SIG P365XL Spectre Comp special, a new .380, and more. Gun Talk Nation is brought to you by Savage Arms and Smith & Wesson. Gun Talk Nation 02.09.22
This week, Jake about the Sig P365 EDC Match! Visit www.firearmsradio.tv for complete show notes!
This week, Jake about the Sig P365 EDC Match! Visit www.firearmsradio.tv for complete show notes!
This week, Jake about the Sig P365 EDC Match! Visit www.firearmsradio.tv for complete show notes!
This week, Jake about the Sig P365 EDC Match! Visit www.firearmsradio.tv for complete show notes!
This time out we start out discussing Jake's new Sig P365 and how he came about needing a second P365 in his life. He also purchased a 9mm S&W Sheild that he is never going to shoot. After he gets all that off his chest we roll into talk about Bwana's new Henry and how we never thought a single shot .410 could be that much fun. Join us!
Last week I shot competition with a Sig P365XL and Romeo 0 Dot. I shoot this competition about every other week right now and love it. What I've learned about the Sig P365 serious of guns: The Good: They are a great sized gun Love the family of sizes 12 rounds in the XL makes a full grip even for my giant hands Reloads go easy with the correct flare on the bottom the pistol 15 round mags that work with both grip sizes Accuracy is amazing for such a little gun Reliability on a clean gun has been 100% out of all the ones that have been through classes and the ones I've shot The trigger is good Aftermarket support is everywhere The Cons: When training with them they get really hot, right where you put your thumbs on a thumbs forward grip The trigger is a long way from the frame and the shot breaks a long way from the frame (something it took my realizing before I could shoot the pistol well) I would have liked a little longer barrel in the XL, 3.9-4" I think is the best there is, the Sig XL has a 3.7" which is just a hair short on the sight radius It recoils up a little more than I would like it to. But that is mostly because of it's small size and weight The Sig Romeo 0 Dot The Good: It sits as a dot sight should. Far enough down where they put a notch in the back that replaces the rear sight and you can still use the front sight. It puts the gun on the same plain when you draw it and helps with the learning curve and switching guns. They seem to be holding up with everything I've seen. I haven't seen a broken one yet on the range or in a class The Bad: Seeing a reflection of the dot where it isn't sucks! I don't know if every dot does this, but I don't like it at all The auto-brightness setting can screw you when shooting from a dark place to a bright place. A manual up/down would be great. I'd rather have a huge starburst from being too bright in low light than not being able to see it at all in the bright light. It looks like it will break. I haven't seen one break yet, but it looks weak. If you want one of these set ups, you should get one. It's a great gun and Dot. I'm always looking for perfect and still haven't found it. But I think this set up will be my next carry gun. Or I'm also looking at a Sig M17 with a Romeo 1 Pro on it. Hopefully I can shoot one of those too. Stay Safe, Ben Thanks for Listening, don't forget to check out Shooter's Club and Lucky Gunner for ammo. Stay Safe, Ben See the rest of the notes at ModernSelfProtection.com
This week I discuss my very good SIG P365 XL concealed carry gun. Links: Concealment Solutions Holster Beyond Concealed Carry Class Utah, taught by Bob Mayne 1 day class June 12, 2021 SIG P365 XL Handgun World Youtube P365 XL Review
In this hour: - Caller follows up - Discovers his "gun problem" was really bad ammo - New gun buyer is surprised at how much he likes the Sig P365 SAS - Caller loves his S&W Shield EZ 380, and Tom just bought the M&P Shield EZ in 9mm. Tom Gresham's Gun Talk 08.30.20 Hour 3
Just posting a quick update! With recent events, I haven't been out to the Range much, but recently have been out and about on my motorcycle! http://www.EnglishmanInTheUSA.net Enjoy!
This episode includes a range trip to test the P365XL and compare to the regular P365, a voice mail about using pepper spray and a competition gun build I’m working on. Links: Concealment Solutions (10 % discount using coupon code handgunworld) Shooters Club Doctors for Responsible Gun Ownership, Dr. John Edeen Episode 43 – Can […]
Bob and Ben compare the Sig P365 vs P365XL. Ben loves the XL and Bob are falling for the P365. Find out why this might become their carry guns. The post MHG 26 Sig P365 vs P365XL Review appeared first on Modern Handgunners.
On this week's variety show Mia reviews one of her carry guns: the Sig P365, Sgt. Bill talks about the "M & Ms" of competitive shooting: Misses and Mistakes, and Lloyd comments on the parallels between the Coronavirus and the "War to End All Wars." Segments [0:00] - Blooper [0:35] - Opening and welcome [2:20] - Thanks to our Patrons [4:18] - Commentary on the Coronavirus [22:27] - Mia's Motivations with Mia Anstine [28:28] - Ballistic Minute with Sgt. Bill [32:19] - Close Meet the Cast Lloyd Bailey - http://www.armedlutheran.us/about/ Mia Anstine - http://www.armedlutheran.us/mia/ Sergeant Bill Silvia - http://www.armedlutheran.us/bill/ Pastor John Bennett - http://www.armedlutheran.us/pastor Prayer of the Week O heavenly Father, as You gladden our hearts again to celebrate the birth of Your only-begotten Son, Jesus Christ, mercifully bestow on us the joy to receive Him as our Redeemer and so welcome Him when He comes again to be our judge; through the same Jesus Christ, our Lord, who lives and reigns with You and the Holy Spirit, one God, now and forever. Amen. Use these Links to Support Armed Lutheran Radio Armed Lutheran Radio is a listener-supported podcast. If you value the information and entertainment we provide, consider supporting the show by joining our membership site, or shopping at your favorite online stores using the links below. Join the Reformation Gun Club! - http://gunclub.armedlutheran.us Pre-Order the new Armed Lutheran Book - http://www.armedlutheran.us/product/gun-rights-apologetics-book-working-title/ Check out the other Great Armed Lutheran Books - http://www.ArmedLutheran.us/Books Shop at Amazon* - http://www.armedlutheran.us/amazon Shop at GunMagWarehouse* - http://www.armedlutheran.us/mags Get Regular Refills Coffee Subscriptions at Dunkin' Donuts* - www.ArmedLutheran.us/Coffee Armed Citizens Legal Defense Network - https://www.armedcitizensnetwork.org Get in Touch Visit our Feedback Page - http://www.armedlutheran.us/feedback Please tell your friends about us, leave an iTunes review, and like us on Facebook Join our Facebook group - http://www.armedlutheran.us/facebook Subscribe to us and follow us on Youtube - http://www.armedlutheran.us/youtube Follow us on Twitter - http://www.armedlutheran.us/twitter And search for us on Instagram - http://www.armedlutheran.us/instagram Check Out More at our Website- http://www.armedlutheran.us Disclaimer The links above which are indicated with an asterisk (*) are affiliate links, which means that if you choose to make a purchase, I will earn a commission. This commission comes at no additional cost to you. Please understand that I have experience with all of these items, and I recommend them because they are helpful and useful, not because of the small commissions I make if you decide to buy something. Please do not spend any money on these products unless you feel you need them or that they will help you. Keep Shooting, Keep Praying, We'll Talk to you Next time!
I recently had the opportunity to train and consult with a local church security team. In this episode I share my experience and also discuss the past few months of carrying and shooting my P365! Links and Show Notes: Shooters Club Members Concealment Solutions use coupon code handgunworld for 10% discount
UPS finally killed Tommy. It was sad. But we still got our packages. Matt Hemple I am going to try to make GM this year. But my carry optics CZs keep breaking optics. Should I go back to production or just start golfing. Steve Jaworski Question 1: Do CZs destroy red dots faster than they destroy slide stops? Brian Prusse Have you ever got a 223 case stuck in your sizing die? Did you buy a case remover kit or DIY your own kit? A.J. Ellis If it's not too off topic, what do ya'll think about the Virginia events? By the way, I picked up a Sig P365 and it's fantastic. Exceptionally small profile for its barrel length and capacity. Fits my had perfectly. Calvin Leatherwood Shooting wishlist, a top 3 things you'd ask for no matter the price. Subscribestar GallantBullets PEWPRO10 for 10% off your first order Patreon Dominate Defense PARA10 for 10% off
Dr. John Edeen joins me to discuss the recent trajedy at the NAS Air Station in Pensacola, FL, our SIG P365’s and very troubling Massachusetts Gun Laws. Links and Show Notes: DRGO.us 2ADoc.com Concealment Solutions (10% discount, use coupon code handgunworld) Shooters Club
Note* this was delayed in publishing due to Tech issues! Firearms Chat Podcast 11/21/19 The Pre-Turkey Edition! Reads-Promote TV show! RIP warrior: My friend and former 75th Ranger and Delta Sniper Sgt.Major(ret.) James “JP” McMahon passed this week from and undisclosed health issue. He was 64. and was involved in Operation Gothic Serpent in Somalia in 1993 Also RIP Detroit PD 16 year Vet Rasheen McClain Killed in The Line of duty yesterday. Teen confronts thieves who stole his car, stabs one with a screwdriver in self defense! When the exec Dir of the NRA gets an 18% raise for creating Carry Guard, and took home $920K in salary and compensation, that right there is the issue! According to the Blaze, Utah county (Salt Lake area) has an 18 weeK wait for FASTER classes(course is 6 week) In Bearing arms, Cam Edwards Writes about the city of Baltimore wanting to sue Gun Makers over Gang Violence Mo.Judge who is former Dem State rep Upholds ban on firearms on Campus of U of Mo. Ohio man shoots intruder while on phone with 911 Dem Il. rep says CONUS and Scotus mean nothing, will vote to confiscate firearms Deputy Constable Fired within 2 hours for harrassment customers leaving Nordstrom rack in Indy 6 Va Counties Vote to become 2A sanctuaries Seattle man legally armed holds suspect at gunpoint for killing His GF with Knife(stabbed 6 times) at Seattle Armory near space needle. Claude Werner has an new edition(updated) on practice/training at indoor ranges Thanks to the folks at Marlin for the 20” stainless Lever gun (threaded stainless wide loop) for the T&E Gun (it just came!) SIG introduces American Made P210 & P225 pistols! Everyone in the Gun Mag Biz is writing up the Hellcat. I like the SIG P365 better, here’s why! Testing the Ruger Security 9 Compact. Testing the KIMBER Micro 9 TESTING THE COLT King Cobra Target Are throwing Knives a viable weapon? Best Combat Knives Ever? the Gerber MK I & Mk II Trivia Redux! Emails from Daniel, Gene, Harlan, Roflio, Bonnie, and Tim..
Range Day 10/11, match 10/12 ... listen for alumni discount on Oct 18/19 class... Syrian withdrawal... Adam-Schiff-Head ... scope malfunctions... rifle hardware malfunctions... the SIG P365 (awesome)... and the perfect Colt Woodsman. :)
Tom, Jim, and Michelle discuss when a concealed carry holder should or shouldn't get involved, a range report on a rimfire challenge competition, the new Sig Sauer P365 SAS, and continue the discussion around major retailers virtue signaling. Tom Gresham's Gun Talk 9.8.19 After Show
Recently I attended a CZ USA Day at a local shooting range and shot a few of their guns. Also got to handle a SIG P365 XL. Also, I spend some time talking about the recent mass shootings. Links and Show Notes: Concealment Solutions (10% discount using coupon code handgunworld) Shooters Club Membership CZ P […]
Having done some trading, I picked up the Sig P365 NRA Edition - basically, that means it comes in a Coyote colour with 3 magazines instead of two! This video really is a 'First Impressions' as I've only put 250 rounds through this firearm! Additionally, I've carried it only for 1 day in a Tulster IWB - linked below (reviews to come)! Hope you enjoy!
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Complete show notes here! Welcome to the We Like Shooting show, Episode 291 – tonight we'll talk about Sig P365, Blade Tactics, GA Med Class, Keltec's RDB's, Magpul Bipods and more! Our Guest is Ryan Cleckner from Gun University. The super awesome guy who Aaron wishes he was and hopes to be friends with, (this was … Continue reading "We Like Shooting 291 – Do you smell popcorn"
Complete show notes here! Welcome to the We Like Shooting show, Episode 291 – tonight we’ll talk about Sig P365, Blade Tactics, GA Med Class, Keltec’s RDB’s, Magpul Bipods and more! Our Guest is Ryan Cleckner from Gun University. The super awesome guy who Aaron wishes he was and hopes to be friends with, (this was … Continue reading "We Like Shooting 291 – Do you smell popcorn"
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This episode is a 2019 Concealed Carry analysis and re-evaluation. Topics include analyzing methods of carrying, 2nd Amendment advocacy, destructive concealed carry discussions and comments, the SIG P365 pistol and more. Sponsors: Ammo.com/handgunworld (20% discount on orders of $200 or more) Concealment Solutions (coupon code “handgunworld” for a 10% discount) Shooters Club Bob’s Bullet Points […]
Today Riley changes things up just a bit and reads his recently published review on the SIG SAUER P365. This little gun has garnered a lot of attention this past year, and Riley spent a lot of time evaluating, testing and firing thousands of rounds through it to get a definitive result on whether the gun is any good or not. We'll be back to our normal recording schedule next week! Thanks for sticking with us!
The Rockcastle Gun Show | Nick and Nate are joined by Phil Strader, the Pistol Products Manager at Sig Sauer, to talk about the 2018 Industry Choice Awards Handgun of the Year, the Sig P365, and by John Snodgrass with Leupold Optics to talk about the 2018 Industry Choice Awards Optic of the Year, the Leupold Mark V HD Riflescope. Learn about the winners of all of the categories of the 2018 Industry Choice Awards. Join your hosts Nick and Nate Noble live 6-7pm CST on ESPN 102.7 Bowling Green, stream live from anywhere on ESPNKY.com and subscribe and download it on iTunes.
On this episode of the John1911 Podcast: Issues with the SIG P365. FBI Agent Backflip Drop Test. Dick Skins in video games. Youtube kills Brownell's Channel. US Army M4/M16 Selector Issue. Slimy Gunbroker Sellers. Jay Leno finally gets a Ferritt. Bill Maher is a selfish bastard. Marky & Freeze www.John1911.com "Shooting Guns & Having Fun"
Welcome to the We Like Shooting show, Episode 249 - tonight we’ll talk about Winchester ammo, Olight Javelot, Sig P365, doublestar corp and more!
This episode includes a first impression review of the SIG P365. Practicing real life self defense scenarios, the Law of Self Defense and some personal development ideas about modern survival. Beyond Concealed Carry Enhanced San Antonio, June 23, 24th, 2018 Concealment Solutions Dave Ramsey Solutions Law of Self Defense
On this week’s episode, we discuss the Brothers and Arms True Blue Gun oil and SIG P365 reviews, Spikes Tactical KRUS Rifle, and the Brownell’s Extended G19 slide For all the show notes and back episodes, head over to firearmsradio.tv/gun-and-gear-review-podcast
On this week's episode, we discuss the Brothers and Arms True Blue Gun oil and SIG P365 reviews, Spikes Tactical KRUS Rifle, and the Brownell’s Extended G19 slide For all the show notes and back episodes, head over to firearmsradio.tv/gun-and-gear-review-podcast
GGG 182 Under Assault - This week Matt and Heinrich discuss the Sig P365 testing and fallout form the Valentines Day Massacre. FASTER Faster Colorado LFD Research Patreon Instagram (Matt) Instagram (Heinrich) LFD Research Facebook Apple Podcasts Stitcher Google Play Contact the show directly at geeksgadgetsandguns@gmail.com
GGG 181 Sig Sorcerers - This week Matt and Heinrch sit down to talk the new Sig P365, Lightweight Bolt Carrier Groups, and the usual random geeking. LFD Research Patreon Instagram (Matt) Instagram (Heinrich) LFD Research Facebook Apple Podcasts Stitcher Google Play Contact the show directly at geeksgadgetsandguns@gmail.com
Hear it directly from the source. The industry is ablaze with the release of the new Sig Sauer P365. In this episode, Riley interviews Phil Strader, the pistol product manager at SIG Sauer. He explains the process, the thinking, and the background of the design and release of what may be the next go-to-gun for concealed carry.
On this week's episode, we discuss the XTech Pistol Training Gloves review, The Springfield 911, Glock 19x, & SIG P365 For all the show notes and back episodes, head over to firearmsradio.tv/gun-and-gear-review-podcast
On this week’s episode, we discuss the XTech Pistol Training Gloves review, The Springfield 911, Glock 19x, & SIG P365 For all the show notes and back episodes, head over to firearmsradio.tv/gun-and-gear-review-podcast
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