Sipsey Street Irregulars: Praxis: Why Marksmanship Matters. One man's 'panic' is another man's prudence.

Thursday, October 11, 2012

Praxis: Why Marksmanship Matters. One man's 'panic' is another man's prudence.

At the beginning of a 4th Generation civil war, everybody starts with a finite amount of ammunition. The ones who never run out are those who make every round count and thus are able to forage out the ammo pouches of the dead men who didn't. That's why marksmanship training matters." -- Mike Vanderboegh, 2010.

A discussion of "panic buying" versus training.

3 comments:

Anonymous said...: OH GOD NOT ANOTHER "fire arms trainer " With a sure fire, 400$ a day "school". Thanx Dude BUT; I' Been shootin' for over 40 years and still out -shoot police/USMC/ARMY snipers,AND YES I am that good. I don't want to learn "tactical walking"/ "why 9 inch AR-15s are cool" or how to look like a "super secret ninja death commando". Shoot schools part people from there money . You want to be a better shot? SHOOT!!---- For all you NUBIs. Go spend 900$ on a realy good rifle WITH IRON SIGHTS. Buy a case of ammo. Go find a USMC NCO (Ret.) ask him to teach you.(Nicely) You will learn FAR more the first day than 20 "shoot schools" can or will teach.; October 12, 2012 at 3:42 AM
Gunny G said...: Anon,

As a former Primary Marksmanship Instr and competitive shooter in the Corps, you're dead on the money.

Taught many civvies to shoot and many can pick up a rifle and be on target with a BZO with 3 rounds.; October 13, 2012 at 4:20 PM
bloodyspartan said...: AND I still say a MAN should have a GOOD SWORD for the DAY the primers Run Dry or the Zombies/Libs start walking.
Might even be a little fun to cut the Head off and see if it still yells It's my Right to take yours.; October 16, 2012 at 6:22 PM

"Progress made under the shadow of the policeman's club is false progress."

I believe that liberty is the only genuinely valuable thing that men have invented, at least in the field of government, in a thousand years. I believe that it is better to be free than to be not free, even when the former is dangerous and the latter safe. I believe that the finest qualities of man can flourish only in free air – that progress made under the shadow of the policeman's club is false progress, and of no permanent value. I believe that any man who takes the liberty of another into his keeping is bound to become a tyrant, and that any man who yields up his liberty, in however slight the measure, is bound to become a slave. -- H.L. Mencken

"The Fate of Unborn Millions. . ."

"The time is now near at hand which must probably determine, whether Americans are to be, Freemen, or Slaves; whether they are to have any property they can call their own; whether their Houses, and Farms, are to be pillaged and destroyed, and they consigned to a State of Wretchedness from which no human efforts will probably deliver them. The fate of unborn Millions will now depend, under God, on the Courage and Conduct of this army-Our cruel and unrelenting Enemy leaves us no choice but a brave resistance, or the most abject submission; that is all we can expect-We have therefore to resolve to conquer or die." -- George Washington to his troops before the Battle of Long Island.

"We will not go gently . . ."

This is no small thing, to restore a republic after it has fallen into corruption. I have studied history for years and I cannot recall it ever happening. It may be that our task is impossible. Yet, if we do not try then how will we know it can't be done? And if we do not try, it most certainly won't be done. The Founders' Republic, and the larger war for western civilization, will be lost.

But I tell you this: We will not go gently into that bloody collectivist good night. Indeed, we will make with our defiance such a sound as ALL history from that day forward will be forced to note, even if they despise us in the writing of it.

And when we are gone, the scattered, free survivors hiding in the ruins of our once-great republic will sing of our deeds in forbidden songs, tending the flickering flame of individual liberty until it bursts forth again, as it must, generations later. We will live forever, like the Spartans at Thermopylae, in sacred memory.

-- Mike Vanderboegh, The Lessons of Mumbai:Death Cults, the "Socialism of Imbeciles" and Refusing to Submit, 1 December 2008

"A common language of resistance . . ."

"Colonial rebellions throughout the modern world have been acts of shared political imagination. Unless unhappy people develop the capacity to trust other unhappy people, protest remains a local affair easily silenced by traditional authority. Usually, however, a moment arrives when large numbers of men and women realize for the first time that they enjoy the support of strangers, ordinary people much like themselves who happen to live in distant places and whom under normal circumstances they would never meet. It is an intoxicating discovery. A common language of resistance suddenly opens to those who are most vulnerable to painful retribution the possibility of creating a new community. As the conviction of solidarity grows, parochial issues and aspirations merge imperceptibly with a compelling national agenda which only a short time before may have been the dream of only a few. For many Americans colonists this moment occurred late in the spring of 1774." -- T.H. Breen, The Marketplace of Revolution: How Consumer Politics Shaped American Independence, Oxford University Press, 2004, p.1.

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Praxis: Why Marksmanship Matters. One man's 'panic' is another man's prudence.

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