Bergmeister

I have looked into gas masks a little bit on line and comparing units. One kind did mention nuclear particles. I thought this was a great idea as someone could set off a nuke upwind of you and force you to breath through a mask for some time. Is this mask nuclear rated? My local military surplus store has a whole section of military gas masks. I guess I will have to write down each name and type and try to check them out on line.

If Iran really put an 80million dollar bounty on Trump's head---officially by the government, we ought to nuke them back into the Stone Age. The Old Stone Age.

I am 72 but in my youth I was a physical fitness champ, did martial arts, boxing, bodybuilding, and toyed with Olympic lifting, so I don't know your body but I do know mine. Last few years of exercise have been splitting wood or just working out with a heavy maul. But then, on a whim, I picked up one kettlebell at Walmart. I can't believe this. I spend 20 minutes every third day and I am getting total body results. I do a flow, no sets, no reps, just do the exercise and move to the next one in the circuit. I have never done the same workout twice. There are hundreds and hundr

A night vision rifle scope is the only scope which interests me. If every citizen had a rifle and night vision the government, any government, would have a kitten. I keep going around and around on these scopes. First, wearing goggles does not help me aim a rifle, so I need a rifle scope. Second, the video at the top points out the limitations of thermal but "night vision" uses a IR flashlight or it is almost useless. IR means infrared. That is heat, so anyone with better night vision than yours and everyone with thermal knows exactly where you are. Passive thermal is the answer for gua

I live in the woods in summer. The predominant color is dark green--like fir foliage. I am not sold on camo. If I wear dark green shirt, knit cap and very dark green pants, and simply stand behind a branch, I am almost invisible. When I move in that setting, all you see is a shadow. But in camo and moving, your eye is attracted to any multicolor and so you are more visible. How wrong am I?

No not un-jam the rifle, un-jam the drum. I have had zero experience with drums.

So far this is impressive. The whole package looks like what $500+ ? But if you own a helmet which will stop AR and AK rounds, then carrying full body plates makes more sense.

People here seem to think that for the AK, drums are fine. Tell me about drum reliability. What happens if my second round in the drum jams? Am I stuck with losing everything behind it? How hard is it to un-jam? What about AR drum reliability with the same follow up questions?

Here is Reid Henrichs today on red dots vs. iron sights https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GKlS6O_AgWw

Well, that is it RevRifleman. I have spent some time researching exactly what combat distances are. Couple that with home defense distances and it seems the most likely setting is very close and the odds of it happening decrease with distance. The Arabs all fight each other at eyeball distances. The Americans and Russians have optics and want stand-off distances, not to shoot the enemy, but to safely call in heavy weaponry. Militia people would be in the former category as we could not call in air strikes or artillery or heavy hand held rockets. We would be fighting close up and personal

This guy got out to 500 yards with an AK74 using irons rather easily. He says nothing but good things about it.

No, I don't have an AK, I have an AR 15 but follow me here. After four years of shooting I take the AR, Keymod rail, high end sling mount, PA 2.5x ACCS reticle, out for a little practice. Now, the prism optic necessitates a riser on the stock to get a cheek weld which is throwing my aim off a bit. I go prone, The optic is now too close for eye relief and I am hardly getting any sight picture. Then I get optic bitten. I stand up but unsupported the sight picture is even harder to control with the "chin weld". But then the tacticool handguard overheats and I have to keep moving

Is this the same stuff as Dragon Skin? People used to talk about it a few years back.

Excellent article. I learned a couple things.

Thanks folks for the welcome!

I spent some time fishing way up in the mountains with my father. He was from upstate NY so this is evidently wide spread. There is a plant which grows in meadows and wet areas which we call skunk cabbage. It has large, soft--very soft, leaves. You can pick a few of these before doing #2 and be in complete comfort.

Swiss Army knife? Very hard stainless steel blades, screwdriver heads, saws, punches, etc. This is one of my favorite tools and is especially valuable when none of your first-line tools are available.

Being from California, earthquakes are just part of life. The Hawaiians have Tsunamis all figured out--just build you house 200 ft. about sea level. Nevertheless, tsunamis scare the hell out of me. But what scares me more are tornadoes. I have relatives from OK. and they don't get worked up but it would scare me to death. My mother and her family in OK would just go in the cellar. Now I hear not everyone in a tornado area has a cellar. Returning to earthquakes, something I know, my strongest advice is GET OUT OF THE BUILDING--IMMEDIATELY--AT ALL COST. You can follow all that advice

Hi folks, I can never think up a name so I just fall back on German words---nothing more. "Bergmeister" is master of the mountains. I live in the mountains in California, two residences, summer (high), winter (low). I am 70 but physically active. I am not attached to any militia but militia tactics, training and weapons would suit me and my environment best in a truly stressful situation. We here on the east side of California, the red side, wonder day by day what will happen here. Things are not so settled as they are in most of the USA. We have natural as well as political proble