When a tourniquet is not the thing to stop bleeding
Some years ago, coagulating agents came on the scene. The first I’m aware of was Celox, which did the job but had some downsides, the…
Range Theatrics
Not sure if that’s what I would have named this, but I can’t argue with the message in the video. Train like you fight was…
Could the ATF support changes to the NFA?
(As seen in several Intertubz venues.) While it’s early, Hell may have actually frozen over. More likely, if this is proven true, the boys from…
Cleaning and protecting your guns
I found this Firing Line forum thread while traveling about the Intertubz. It dates from 2014, but it’s the closest thing to a scientific test…
Distance vision
There are times that you’ll need to see at a distance. While you could use a telescope, telescopes are generally something less than portable. Of…
Why would you need to carry a gun to work?
Oh, I don’t know…maybe because sum dood could show up and threaten to bash your brains out with an axe. The threat level out there…
Quick note on labels
I’m starting to use labels, which allow me and you to organize and search posts by categories. You can use the label widget over on…
Toward a useful first aid kit
Everyone has seen and some of us have purchased a pre-packaged “first aid kit”. You know, one of the little plastic boxes with the pretty…
Can it be fixed?
No, I’m not talking about my malfunctioning Glock 30, now on its way to Georgia. I’m talking about things in general. Can that piece of…
This could go all kinds of wrong
As gunnies and concealed carriers, we all know that a meeting with the police has some amount of hazard to it. Anyone with a brain…
One more C-A-T video
Here’s the last one I’m going to post, DIY, for an arm.
A new gun malfunction
This past weekend I went to the Greensboro Gun Show and acquired a Glock 30 Gen 4. I’d decided that I needed to up my…
C-A-T Tourniquet Lower Exteremity Application Video Tutorial
In keeping with yesterday’s video on applying the C-A-T tourniquet to an arm, here it is, DIY, for a leg.
Don’t let your guard down
A lot of people think that since “our side” won, that we can ease up and take a break from prepping and training–maybe even spend…
C-A-T Tourniquet Upper Extremity Application Video Tutorial
Tourniquets used to be something that were all but banned from first aid and first responders. Wartime experience has shown that properly employed, they are…
When fencing counts
(Found on Facebook) So Something Really Bad has happened, and your hobby garden now needs to be ramped up, because it’s going to be one…
Life Lesson–It’s your mental toughness that counts
(From The Open Circle newsletter) More years ago than I care to remember, I was undergoing remedial PT at Ft. Knox, KY. I had flunked…
Waste
Yesterday evening…wasn’t good. I spent it at a funeral home for the family visitation and memorial service for an old co-worker’s son, who died at…
Wrestling pigs
(Via Michael Bane on Facebook) At Ace of Spades HQ, there is a piece that should be read, “How Losing My Political Values Helped Me…
Gabe Suarez on lights in a gunfight
(Found on Facebook) Gabe Suarez opines on the usefulness of lights in a gunfight. There are going to be some butthurt people out there after…
A 1 minute fix for point for aim vs. point of impact
It’s embarrassing to admit, but I’ve had a problem with my pistol shooting pretty much since I picked one up–I’m consistently 1-2″ down and left.…
Happy Birthday to you, Happy Birthday to you,
Happy Birthday dear John Moses Browning, Happy Birthday to you!
Teaching a lesson
(Found on Gab) While this article may be several years old, I’d like to bring it up because we now have the ability to actually…
Doing something about heart failure
No, I’m not branching out into medical blogging, but when you’ve reached my age, you’ve seen a lot of people in your life who have…
I hate traffic cameras
Despite all the smoke blown up our whatevers about how traffic cameras “save lives” (show me the double blind studies, please), actual evidence (such as…
The winning keeps on coming
A three judge panel of the US Seventh Circuit Court of Appeals has ruled Chicago’s ban on gun ranges unconstitutional. There has been no word…
An unexpected lesson from Mike Rowe
Mike Rowe is at this year’s SHOT Show, doing his normal thing. A “fan” found out and went Full Butthurt on social media, attempting to…
For all the PMAG haters
While I’ve never understood it, there are people out there who want to hate on Magpul’s PMAGs. I don’t get it, I have a metric…
Pain
As a migraine sufferer, pain is a subject near if not dear to my heart. (Sidebar–migraine attacks are far from the most painful headaches. Cluster…