Sipsey Street Irregulars: Tacticool Tuesday- Just go do what MDT tells you to

Tuesday, May 31, 2016

Tacticool Tuesday- Just go do what MDT tells you to

I have been quite busy of late and have been completely remiss on my weekly Tacticool Tuesday posts. Not trying to show the community what a lazy guy I really am, but when I spent a few moments to make my rounds with the "go-to" blogs, I realized that there are several posts over at Mason Dixon Tactical that were absolute gold and needed to get pushed out over here.

I know there is a lot of cross-over between the two blogs so forgive me if this is old news to you. If it is, then go read it again until it sinks in.

Choosing Your Survivalist Weapons Battery

Questions To Ask When Upgrading Your Gear

And the equipment posts he referenced from Bushbeater:

Identifying Equipment Requirements

Shows you how much I pay attention to other blogs, but I must confess my ignorance to the Bushbeater blog. It certainly looks like there is a ton of good info and well worth your time.

3 comments:

Chiu ChunLing said...: A concealable pistol is an important consideration, but in a TEOTWAWKI situation, it would be logical to discard any notions of fashion that make a full-sized pistol difficult to conceal (or access). Still, since you do probably want a concealable pistol up until TEOTWAWKI, I'm not saying you shouldn't have one.

I'll reiterate this point for all the other equipment mentioned. In a TEOTWAWKI scenario, your outerwear should create a great deal of uncertainty as to the value and capabilities it might hide (and possibly serve as most of the necessary material for an expedient shelter). This also has a certain tactical value against aimed shots from a distance. And of course being able to fit a dozen layers of clothing inside of your outerwear has proven survival value independent of hiding your gear.

Not saying you can't wear fashionable clothes and well-organized gear under your outer layer, of course. Just that your former CCW and some of your extra load might be feasibly carried by someone who has less of a direct combat role than you've prepared yourself to fill.; May 31, 2016 at 2:24 PM
Phelps said...: Chiu -- I think the point with a concealable pistol is that it has other common attributes beyond concealment -- it's both lighter and easier to find a place for -- You can drop it in a pocket holster, put it on an ankle (something practically impossible for a full size pistol), or just save a few precious MOLLE rows on the holster.

Let's face it -- you want it on your person all the time before and after the SHTF. The same weight and convenience issues are going to apply to both situations. If it is heavy, bulky, and worst of all, pokes you in the side the entire time you are digging out a fighting position, the temptation is going to be real to shed your excess gear and put it "right there" while you are doing that work. If the pistol is convenient enough, you'll keep it on you even then, and it might be the difference between you getting to your gear right there, or not.

It's easier to remove temptation with careful gear selection than to rely on yourself to gut through it when you are in the middle of the highest stress in your life. We do dumb things when we are exhausted and sleep deprived. Make the right choice now when you aren't.; May 31, 2016 at 3:31 PM
Sean said...: If the stuff you got works, DON'T FIX IT.; June 1, 2016 at 8:49 AM

"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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