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Road to Hell, good intentions, etc.
Get Off Your Butt and Train Guns Self Defense

Road to Hell, good intentions, etc.

I’ll spare you the details. It’s just been half crazy around here, but in a good way. Everyone is fine, everything is fine, but busy.…

March 31, 2025
Aggression at the ready
Get Off Your Butt and Train

Aggression at the ready

(Via Greg Ellifritz) If you’ve done any formal self defense training, you’ve probably gotten some variation on the advice that you have to use force,…

November 24, 2024
Not a one off
Get Off Your Butt and Train Situational Awareness Uncomfortable Thoughts

Not a one off

It seems Bernie Sanders is attracting the true believers. Here’s another of his “field organizers” advocating for violent revolution and this time, with guillotines. Judging…

January 21, 2020February 15, 2021
Get Off Your Butt and Train Guns Prepping Self Defense You Are Your Own First Responder

A wake up call if I ever saw one

(Via Open Source Defense) Obviously this isn’t news. We’ve all heard about the church shooting in White Settlement, TX by now. Knowing my audience, I’m…

January 2, 2020February 15, 2021
Get Off Your Butt and Train Guns You Are Your Own First Responder

Central Nervous System stop

(Via Gab) Could you deliver a head shot, cold, under maximum stress, on demand? A Texas husband could and did. There is a reasonable chance…

July 24, 2018February 15, 2021
Get Off Your Butt and Train Modern Life Skills Self Defense Situational Awareness

Home invasions get worse

I’m sure some of you are thinking “Someone or a group of people has just busted through the door–how is this going to get worse?”…

June 26, 2018February 15, 2021
Get Off Your Butt and Train Modern Life Skills Self Defense

Home invasions

I don’t want to belabor this subject too much; I know we’ve gone over it before. However, this one happened in a nearby small city,…

June 20, 2018February 15, 2021
Get Off Your Butt and Train Prepping

“Their safety equipment took the search out of search and rescue.”

We preppers sometimes let ourselves go down the garden path thinking that prepping is about big emergencies like hurricanes or economic collapse. But stories like…

June 1, 2018February 15, 2021
Upping your game
Get Off Your Butt and Train Guns Modern Life Skills Things That Make You Go Hm-m-m Uncomfortable Thoughts

Upping your game

I want your to look closely at the frame capture included with this article on an armed robbery that took place here in the AO. Seeing…

December 17, 2017February 15, 2021
Are you OK? Are you alright? Help Medic! Get Off Your Butt and Train Prepping

Stop bleeding all over my floor!

(Via Michael Bane on Facebook) One of the training points that has come up in the last few years is that “If you carry a…

October 14, 2017February 15, 2021
Let’s get some excercise
Get Off Your Butt and Train Things That Put A Smile On Your Face

Let’s get some excercise

Since my semi-enforced retirement, I have been attempting, with mixed results, to do something about my physical shape. While round is a shape, it isn’t…

July 30, 2017February 15, 2021
Get Off Your Butt and Train Guns Modern Life Skills Self Defense Things That Make You Go Hm-m-m Uncomfortable Thoughts

Complacency kills

Most people figure that if they follow John Farnam’s “3 Rules of Risk Management”: Don’t go to stupid places; don’t associate with stupid people; don’t…

April 24, 2017February 15, 2021
Get Off Your Butt and Train Modern Life Skills Self Defense

The long hot summer

(Links via the Drudge Report) Is the long hot summer starting? Watch this, then watch some of the other videos that will show up on…

February 23, 2017February 15, 2021
Get Off Your Butt and Train Guns

Here’s one that’s just for fun

Or maybe not. Yeah, they’ve got some years and some miles on them, and they’re packing some extra poundage. They definitely aren’t high speed, low…

February 22, 2017February 15, 2021

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