Sling Bow

Anyone have any experience with Sling Bows?

A man determined to start a bit of havoc could really stir the pot with such a rig.

The entire rig is relatively concealable, the arrows posing the biggest piece.  And they could be easily concealed.  They are quiet.

As with the picture above, some of these rigs have tactical lights attached. Some have fishing reels so you don't lose your arrow.  And the field effectiveness seems to be well established.  See below.

Interesting.



Citadel High School:Mandatory Class

I've not posted much recently regarding the Citadel.  The primary reason is because there is so much happening beneath the radar that isn't ready for public consumption.  But make no mistake, the project is screaming forward.  You can get a glimpse by looking at the current polls at right.  Entrepreneurs, pilots, medical professionals and more are headed for Benewah County.  That's jobs and revenue and infrastructure.  Holly and I are headed that way very soon, we'll be there working on the Studio before Christmas, but we haven't been putting too many specifics online.

Kenny recently allowed people an insight to the curriculum at Citadel High School: You can see it here.

Hell yeah!  Testosterone is coming back to America.  Count on it!

Kerodin
III

Practical Tactical: Crispy Critters

 

Many folks have let me know they miss my outside-the-box tactical MacGyver stuff.  So, here's one that you can apply in many situations.  It is easily concealed, extraordinarily simple to install, rugged and absolutely guaranteed to make any Bad Person who is giving you static reconsider his immediate course of action.

 

Disclaimer, to paraphrase Jim Miller: For entertainment purposes only.  Objects in mirror are closer than they appear.  No animals were hurt in this production.  Your mileage may vary.  If your penis remains erect for more than 4 hours, seek medical attention, or your wife...

This is a standard 12 volt automotive fuel pump:

 

Small Fuel Tank:



 



This is standard Fuel Line:

This is a standard 12vdc double-action switch:

This is a standard 12vdc Igniter (Hot Surface, which means when you apply power to the igniter, if gets hot - 1300 degrees Celsius):

This is a standard fuel nozzle that turns a column of fuel into a mist - you can buy many spray patterns and GPH (gallons per hour) nozzles.  For this exercise the nozzle is optional, and may even be a detriment - your fuel pump can only push through X resistance and a nozzle may limit range to an undesirable factor.  Personally, I'd run without the nozzle and shoot a stream of fuel from my fuel line)  But, of course, I am a humanitarian and think all Human life is sacred, thus I would never even dream of building such a horrible, mean contraption.

So, application:  Fill your fuel tank with fresh gasoline.  Mount your pump securely in an inconspicuous place.  Run your fuel delivery lines to the locations you'd like to deposit fuel.  If you use the nozzles, install them at the end of the fuel line run. (Be sure you test the system to ensure your pump can deliver enough forces to drive the fuel properly through the nozzles.  Fuel injectors can serve the same purpose with less resistance).  Now for wiring - you need a standard 12 VDC battery. Mount your switch where you will be able to reach it in a SHTF moment.  You can also replace the manual switch with an IR switch from an alarm system, or a sonic switch, or a laser switch - just be careful you consider the potential for an innocent who may trip the switch.

Now install your igniters at the end of each fuel line run so that as fuel spews forth, the igniter is close enough to set the fuel afire.  Wire everything together, and you have one mean anti-personnel deterrent.  Wire it so that when you flip the switch you power the pump, which gets the fuel spewing, and it cycles the igniter which will take a few seconds to heat to ignition temperature - allowing your target to get soaked and the air to get thick with fuel.

Where do you install?  Wherever you want to deny Bad People.  If you want protection from a Stack, fixing lines around your front door and porch is a good place.  You can camouflage the devices easily.  You can also bury the lines and let the fuel nozzles spray upward and over your sidewalk like a sprinkler system, so that by the time the Stack reaches the front porch, they are already soaked in fuel.  Only an idiot (don't discount the possibility) on a LEO Stack is going to trigger an AR or sidearm when the air and his clothing, face and hands are soaked with gasoline.  Yes, muzzle blast will ignite the fuel.

Another place to consider installing such a system is on your Bug Out Vehicle.  Secure a nozzle to points where you expect a Bad Person to stand as he scolds you for your driving habits and orders you out of your vehicle for a TSA "Safety Sweep" - say on your mirrors, pointed in the right direction.  Perhaps under your rocker panels aimed outward to soak feet and shins.  Flip the switch and drive away.

You could also aim a few nozzles that shoot heavy streams rearward from your car, to where a Bad Person's car may be parked behind you.  Flip the switch and watch his rig burn.

Following the buried lines/sprinkler concept, bury lines in such a manner as to create an E&E path for you and the family to use that covers your exfil route while they worry about more important matters, such as burning to death.

Chokepoints in your home make great locations for such mantraps.

Yes, you'll lose your home.  But be real - if you've reached a point that a Stack is coming, you've got to move anyway.

Happy Hunting.

Kerodin
III

Sparks31: Radio Basics

I never earned the SF pin pictured above.  I include it out of respect to those in our patriot community who have earned it, and who are using those skills to help us navigate our way through topics that are their expertise.  I wonder how many of those guys ever dreamed they might one day have to ply their craft with Americans, versus oppressed Tribes elsewhere on the globe.

Sparks31 offers a radio blog that is outstanding.  He's kind enough to slow down for newbies and doesn't talk over our heads.  I've seen the same patience from Mosby and other SF professionals.  My thanks to them all.

Here is an excellent resource for radio 101 just posted by Sparks. 

I commend it to you, here.

Kerodin
III

Bloggers

I'd really appreciate it if you added III CQB to your blogroll for me.  No foul if you think it doesn't fit your site.  The CQB course (blog included) is a personal revenue source for me and Holly, but it is also a Citadel resource.

Thanks in advance to anyone who adds it for me.

http://iiicqb.blogspot.com

Kerodin
III

III CQB Refresher - UPDATE

**UPDATE**  I have added a few more vids to the CQB site.  We have 10 online at the moment.  Remember that I call my Fight to your Weapon course my "Oh Shit!" course.  If you get to the point that you must use the techniques taught in my class, you have already violated every rule you have been taught by Max, Bracken, Mosby, JC Dodge, and every serious weapons/tactics trainer out there.  You have dropped your guard and let an enemy too close.  Your situational awareness was garbage.  Jeff Cooper is spinning in his grave.  The only exception is when your position is over-run in combat.  Work hard to make sure you never have an Oh Shit! encounter, folks.  And if you find yourself in such dire circumstances, there are no rules.  Life or not life will be the outcome.  Nothing else.

I encourage you to sign up for the online refresher.  Even if you haven't taken the course yet you and your Tribe can watch the techniques and train together.  Nothing beats having an experienced teacher on-site helping, but until I can get together with you and your Team, anything is better than nothing.

Here's the link.

~~

Here is a sample video from the refresher course offered at the CQB site.  I decided to use a BlogSpot site so we could talk about techniques.  I'm going to post a few more very shortly (tonight).  The web service costs me $80 per month, which is why I am charging a small monthly fee for the videos.  I don't want them populating the web, so the service has a lockdown feature that I like.  (**NOTE**  The full-screen image quality here at blogger is much lower than at the CQB site.  I think Blogger deliberately lowers the quality of the video to save bandwidth.  So the video quality at the CQB site is much, much better, because it isn't blogger that is feeding the videos - they are being fed from a 3rd party site.)

Train, folks.  Remember that CQB is a tool to buy yourself a second or three so you can deploy a weapon or run like hell.  If you engage enemies, eventually you will find yourself within touching range.  They may over-run your position.  Your team may over-run their position.  You could stumble into them quite by accident, and they could stumble into you.  Or your guard could be down and you suddenly have someone putting hands on you or putting a muzzle in your face or ribs.  That pistol on your hip is NOT a magical device.

Training will bring your Tribe/Team closer together.  It will make you stronger and safer.  It will make you more physically fit and it will make you more realistic regarding combat - it is an ugly, dangerous business, never to be taken lightly.  If possible, get yourself into a serious studio as several III Patriots have done.  You aren't trying to become Bruce Lee, you are simply adding to your skillset.  Please don't take the position that CQB simply isn't in your paradigm because you'll simply shoot the bastards.  You are denying reality if you think shooting the bastards will always be an option.

Don't do what I did.  Many of you see that I am scrambling to get a grip on comms - something I never bothered to dive into because it did not fit my anticipated paradigm.  I was wrong, and being up to speed at least at a rudimentary level of long-range comms is something I must accomplish before SHTF.  It was stupid on my part.  Fortunately, we have a community of VERY skilled people, from comms to small unit tactics to spy tradecraft to medical, who are willing to help one another - so if you are weak in ANY area, please try to get a working knowledge on the topic.

Here's the link to the CQB Fight to your Weapon site.

Kerodin
III

III Arms Minuteman-15

We have decided to limit the number of raffle ticket sales to 125 to keep the odds good for everyone who enters to win the final original Founder's Edition Minuteman-15 AR built by III Arms.

Also: Jim Miller has a small quantity of III Arms rifles built and ready-to-ship, right now!  He's got a very special Christmas price on these rifles of only $1,250!!!  All you need to do is touch base with Jim, pay him and give him your FFL's information, and he'll ship the rifle out to you.  I think he is even willing to add a paint job of your choice if you want it, but you can plan on a bit of extra time before it ships.  Right now they are all in classic black.  There is only one place on this entire planet to buy a genuine III rifle, folks.  And you know these are not safe queens - Jim has built every single rifle as a serious Fighting Rifle.

Here's the link for raffle tickets for the Founder's Minuteman-15.

Here's the link to contact Jim and order your III Arms rifle.  There is probably enough time to get it before Christmas if you act fast.  Ask Jim to be certain.

Every single one of you III Patriots who helped build III Arms should be very proud of yourself and your allies.  This is self-sufficiency.  This is what Americans do.

Kerodin
III

Polls at right & Comms

Sorry I mis-spelled "helicopter" - that's what I get for working past my bedtime.  I can't fix it, either - once a poll has been answered by the first person, Blogger won't allow any adjustments.

But it is good to know we have the beginnings of a real air capability.  ;)

By the way, I am very proud to see those numbers on the 3 polls at the top.  Entrepreneurs bring jobs with them.  Adding planes and helicopters to the small St. Maries airport brings revenue to the local economy - from mechanics to fuel, et cetera.  Medical professionals bring seriously important skills and infrastructure.  And while you'll simply have to take my word for it, I know those current numbers are low.  ;)

My thanks to everyone who has sent email on the Comms questions I posed the other evening.  Of course I don't want any of your secret-squirrel information.  (My sincerest thanks to those who are/were willing to loop me in).  But I'd rather not have it - anything I don't know, I can't reveal. 

I am going to ask a Comms pro privately about a protocol for myself that will allow me to make contact with groups/individuals who are keeping their heads down in future conflicts.  Once I have it worked out I'll post it.  Obviously this is a piece of the OpSec spectrum that is genuinely filled with potential hazards for FreeFor - OpFor owns this battlespace from what I am learning.  But I know I can develop a protocol that will keep you folks safe, even if it raises my profile to enemy awareness.

More when I have more.

K

Dropped Optics

From a serious III Patriot.

He sent me the link to the Fox News story.

You'd think in a normal American political paradigm they might want to downplay their ability to capture every single piece of digital data on the planet.

Guess we are not in a "normal American political paradigm", huh?

But a few of us already know that...

Here's the Fox link.  Thanks to our Patriot for the link.

Kerodin
III

III CQB Video Refresher Online

HK about to snap my knee

The III CQB: Fight to your Weapon refresher site is live!

Our allies in North Carolina who took video and stills during the class we held at Brock's PatCon have sent us some outstanding content.  If you have been through the class and are looking for a refresher, here it is!  So far I have uploaded five techniques.  The videos are short, and show the techniques well. 

We have another 10 videos in the queue that I'll get uploaded over the next week.  Then we'll add more as they come in from Carolina.

FYI: The picture above is what happens if you try a bearhug on my wife from behind and she isn't in the mood - you'll end up on your back, with your knee bending the wrong way.  It happens fast.  Yes, there were groans and "Oh DAMN!" whispers around the class as they watched.  Then they got to do it themselves.  Putting your hands on one of the Patriots who went through my class would be a bad life-decision.

Holly and I are leaving for Idaho in the next week or so, and as soon as we get the studio open we'll shoot more techniques and add to our online library a couple new techniques each month.

The cost for access to the videos is $8/month.  When you sign up (there is a PayPal button at the site) you'll get a password on your PayPal receipt that will unlock the videos.  We'll change that password at least monthly, and send routine updates to everyone. 

http://IIICQB.blogspot.com is the site.

A very special Thank You to our wonderful III allies who took the time to shoot the class for us and edit the day into suitable clips.  Also, thanks to everyone at class that day who participated and gave the nod to keep their faces in the videos.

Kerodin
III

A dead f'n Commie = a Good Day

Any Communist who dies of natural causes at 95 years of age is an insult to every scrap of goodness in the world.

Fugg'him, with a chainsaw, sideways.

Every single Commie fuck that dies a painful death with oozing filth seeping from his walking corpse is a reason for a party and a smile on my face.

Any chemist who can develop a toxin to kill Commie trash should earn eternal gratitude on Earth, and special treatment in Heaven.

Fuck a Commie.

Filth. Genetic filth.  May rats feast on their rotting guts for weeks before they die.  Alone.  Unloved.  In pain.

You think my position is harsh?

You'd better understand what a Communist will accept and tolerate for your death.  My solution for commies is downright merciful, compared to how they would see you die.  And they have proven it for more than a hundred years.

If you get squeamish at the death of a commie, you should step aside and let Men handle this problem.

I would cry at a single whimper of a good person who stubs a toenail.

I would snicker in glee at the most horrible, painful, lingering death of a Communist piece of genetic filth.  I won't torture the fuck - but I won't end his suffering, either.  I'll consider Karma at work.

Call me what you will.

Fugg'em.

Kerodin
III

Comms Email

Last night I sent an email to a small test audience of Patriots regarding contact protocols during SHTF/WRoL.  I have learned that many of you have particular frequencies that you intend to monitor for generic traffic - and if you hear someone that you want to contact in reply, you have means to go to more private frequencies/methods.

Thanks for the insights.  I am still very early in this aspect of my comms learning curve.

Kerodin
III

Still think foreign intervention is not possible during the North American Liberty Games?

Mysterious China-themed 'city' proposed in New York’s Catskills - headline on Drudge, linked below.

Chinese buying large numbers of California homes - linked below.

If you have considered it unlikely that we could find Chinese or other foreign boots on the ground during the imminent North American Liberty Games, and you have previously dismissed my reasoning that a secessionist state will almost immediately be faced with "Blue" states that invite powerful Marxist allies to set up shop within their borders (thus threatening the new "Red" states), perhaps you should note that both California and New York are already providing staging areas for Chinese Enemies of Liberty.  Stories have been running for several years that the Chinese are seeking (some stories say it has been approved, in secret) a 50 square-mile "Economic Zone" in Idaho - a city five times the size of Washington DC.

How many spies and smugglers and combat-ready special forces will be in these homes?  How much support do you think these people will get from American Enemies of Liberty in these states?  Hell, the politicians and bureaucrats in New York are already considering an entire city for incoming Chinese.  What do you think New York, California, and other Marxist states will do in a Balkanized CONUS?  They will invite foreign warships and ground bases and troops by the millions to settle here and colonize the continent.  Yes, your wives and daughters and other females will be reduced to breeders and entertainers and slave labor.

No way?  Can't happen here?

OK.

New York story.

California story.

Kerodin
III

Turn, get off the line of attack, swell both of his eyes shut...

Miss Dixie ordered to Surrender!
Miss Dixie is NOT the surrendering type!
Too Fast!  Too Smart!  Smile Too Cute!
Surrender?  I don't think so!

Brock has a story that CQB classes can appreciate.

Guy hears a shotgun rack, then feels the muzzle against his back.  He handles the immediate threat in a way many will recognize.

I don't approve of his failure to properly end the fight, but he hasn't been through my class.  ;)

Once you get off the line of attack, remember the bad guy still has a f'n shotgun.  You can't stop at that point - you can't run faster than 00 Buck. 

Once you get off the line of attack and turn the tables, throat punch that SOB, follow him to the ground to control the muzzle, then punt his head into the next neighborhood, after curb-stomping his face.  Twice. 

Getting the muzzle out of your back is OUTSTANDING! 

But leaving a bad guy with a shotgun able to shoot you 2 seconds later is a fail.





Miss Dixie gets off the line of attack,
controls the muzzle,
and prepares to school our
charming young thug
from Pennsylvania in some
III CQB!  Will she choke him? 
Or just beat him with his own rifle?



The images of Dixie and her young Ruffian with the Assault Rifle trained well together at Brock's PatCon this fall. Dixie wasn't afraid to pair off with big, strong men, and she proved wily and adept - quite able to handle mischief should it be so foolish to come her way.  With a strong man holding each wrist, the young lady managed to get her hands free to keep the fight alive, time and again.  With Holly she trained even harder, willing to flip and be flipped with a woman.  A Warrior if she were to ever choose that path.  A Lady by the Grace of God.

And it should be mentioned again, Miss Dixie has many, many III Big Brothers if she ever needs one.

Serious men with serious weapons and serious vehicles would begin heading to North Carolina if she needed to ask.  The Patriots would arrive without any sense of humor,  To a man, they would help their little sister.

Here's the story at Brock's place.

Kerodin
III

Sheepdogs

 

 

The sheepdog analogy always irked me, and I never was able to articulate why, even to myself.

The other day a commenter at WRSA put it to words.  I wish I had marked it so I could link, but I didn't.  So, if it was you, thank you. 

The next time someone uses the sheepdog line, remind that person that the true role of the sheepdog is to keep the inventory viable, and lead them to the shears and slaughterhouse in one piece.

F'n brilliant.

Kerodin
III

Payroll Patriots

I picked up that phrase at WeaponsMan today.

Here's the post.

I'm going to have to consider that phrase a bit.  How many "Patriots" do you know who are accepting a .gov check?  Whether payroll or "disability" or otherwise...

Regarding the actual WeaponsMan post and TSA: They are the Farm Team.  Soon enough they will be issued weapons by their Masters.

K

III Arms Awesomesauce!

Jim Miller found a few minutes between rifles to offer an awesome III Arms accessory, for Patriots to show their support for the only genuine III Patriot firearms company in the world.

Here's the link.

Stand and be counted, folks.

And remember you can enter for the Christmas raffle to win the only remaining Founders Edition Minuteman-15 from III Arms, here.

Kerodin
III

LEO: Is there a "lawful" order you would refuse?

This American lass is inspirational.

She gives me hope that we have raised at least a few true-blooded young Americans for the coming Liberty Games.

As usual, new talent is introduced to us by CA at WRSA, here.

She's on my Blog List.

Kerodin
III

Drudge: Felony Shrub-Trimming: San Diego Man Criminally Charged for Pruning Plants

Criminal charges.  For trimming hedges.

Remember, folks - it is NOT "The Government" - it is insignificant, small individual petty functionaries who issue the paperwork for such things.  It is equally petty people who pursue such things.  Make no mistake - equally useless individuals with badges and guns would have arrested this person and dragged him to jail if so ordered.  It is your neighbor who works at Parks & Rec or at City Hall.

Aim small, miss small.

Here's the story.

Kerodin
III

Tribe

Tribe is not merely the man to your left and the man to your right.

It is about the little men you make, and the men who made you.

It is 4 dimensional.

Tribe includes those who came before you, and those who will come once you are gone.

If you say you work for Liberty in part for your posterity, why do you find it so hard to understand you are not the first to do so?  Men in our past were just as capable of being sincere as are you.  It's your turn at the torch.  Your son is next.  If you are lucky and your Tribe survives, perhaps 10 generations from now your posterity will remember that you played a part in their current freedom and Liberty.

Let's hope future generations don't look back at us and blame us for their imprisonment.

Tribe is bigger than you.

Kerodin
III