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The Rifleman Series « on: June 04, 2007, 11:23:04 PM » The Rifleman Series -- Part One: Starting Out --- Courtesy of Fred's M14 Stocks (www.fredsm14stocks.com), we begin today our series on becoming a Rifleman: Every new year, it’s time to take stock, and time to make resolutions. To resolve to do important things you need to do. But how do you know what you need to be doing? You need an anchor -- a framework, a perspective -- to judge what is happening about you, what you want to accomplish, and the effectiveness of your actions. If you get back to basics, to what this country is all about - freedom, individual liberty - and look about you today, you'll soon terrify yourself with what you see. It could be the beginning of your wake-up. Like the guy in "The Matrix", waking up in that artificial womb, controlled by the machines - or like that frog in that rapidly-heating pan of water – you’ll be facing a new world, a world where you realize the wake-up by itself is not enough. You need to get busy if you are going to protect freedom, especially if you’re going to make sure it’s passed on to your kids. Now is when you can set a goal, something to aim for, to work towards and achieve. Sort of a personal AQT - what the AQT targets and Guide do for your shooting, your firm grounding in the American tradition of liberty can do for your life. That goal is to strengthen Liberty. You’ll soon realize that there is a ‘soft’ war raging in America today. You’ll see how the mainstream media lies and distorts – whether it’s the exploding pickup trucks that needed a little "help" from the news crew, the "semi-automatic" rifle fired on full auto to please the anti-gun cable news producers, or the phony memo used by a certain "respected anchorman" last year to try and throw a Presidential election. If you stand for liberty and the American tradition, you’ll see how everything you stand for is under attack by the liberals, using the mainstream media, the entertainment industry, the "public school" educational system, and arrogant lifetime-tenured judges, along with local, state, and Federal government - when they control it. Despite their recent electoral setback, the liberals are still in the cultural and political driver’s seat. They have successfully convinced most Americans that the environment is more important than freedom, that it's a fair trade to surrender personal freedoms and rights for a little more security, and that while we are all equal before the law, some people are more equal than others. Now, in the New Year, with the year barely started, there’s an opportunity for you to add your shoulder to the wheel, to do your part in strengthening American freedom and the American tradition of marksmanship. Now is the time to think about serious things - about being a citizen, and what it means. It's actually long past time to become a citizen, rather than a parasite. It's time to stop being someone who sits back and lives off the efforts of the founders while liberals busily undermine this country and its greatness. It means becoming a man, not that gelding laughed about so much around the dinner table by George III and his boys, as well as their modern statist descendants. It means that you value freedom over promises of "safety", as Ben Franklin warned you to do. It means that you recognize the Bill of Rights not as some historical out-of-date tommyrot written by dead white slaveholders, but the firm and unalterable present-day shield of personal liberty against the state. As JPFO says, "What is needed today is a ‘Bill of Rights Culture’" – see www.jpfo.org. It means that you understand your role in protecting all of the American traditions of personal liberty and responsibility. You know that you, your family, and your friends are the ‘ultimate check-and-balance’ in a system built on checks and balances. It means that you will provide the sword to defend the shield created by the Bill of Rights. It means that you recognize that the time to fight is now, in the ‘soft’ war, through the existing political system– and that only fools would choose to wait until the war against tyranny turns ‘hard’. It means that you understand that the fight is a team fight, that you do not fight alone, that you fight with fellow Americans by your side. You realize that divided amongst ourselves, we will fall, but united, we are unbeatable. It means that you are willing to work – and work hard – to bring back the days where "a man’s home is his castle", where you are a citizen, not a tax-paying serf. But as you shake off your slumber, look where we stand in the battle for freedom in this country. Even the concept - the notion - of a battle for freedom is alien to the dumbed-down, barely conscious American public. Don’t forget -- that ‘public’ is your friends, your family, your co-workers. You’ll need persistence and courage to take the message of Liberty to the "sleepers" – count on it. But the "sleepers" can become part of the solution, if you persist. Their resistance makes all the more important the duty laid on you, in your chosen role of freedom fighter. How do you start protecting freedom? Step one is to learn to shoot well, to qualify as a Rifleman, so as to become proficient in the means of protection for yourself, your family, and your country. Even more importantly, the skills that you develop in becoming a Rifleman – perseverance, discipline, and patience – will serve you well, both in helping others to become Riflemen and in fighting the ‘soft’ political war. Next step is to awaken fellow Americans to the dangers posed by the liberals and their plan of creeping socialism. In the ‘soft war’, you’ll need more than just your one vote to make a difference. You’ll need a team of educated voters who know the American traditions of liberty and are willing to work to restore those ideals. After that, you and your team continue by waking up your politicians and educating them...and if they won't be educated, then work together to replace them. Liberty. It’s a tradition. You keep it alive only if you pass it along. You need to be thinking about how you do it, not only for yourself, but to make up for all those others who are asleep at the switch. It’s your duty to cover for those who will not help to pass Liberty along to the next generation. You begin at the personal level. You educate others - your family, friends, co-workers - to wake them up, to get them out of the cooking pan, and into protecting and saving freedom. It’ll be discouraging -- most of them will just look at you and accuse you of being paranoid. Others will scoff and ask you for your tinfoil hat - but that's why you have to wake them up. Just remember how many good men have died to give you what you have today. Don't give up! And never last, and never least, you get someone down to the range, shooting. You’ll bring someone just like you, some who is hoping for the best, but planning for the worst. Both of you will want get to the range, soon, and finally learn how to shoot. Learn how to shoot – true and fast -- like an American rifleman. You can do it. Next time: Fred tells us what a Rifleman is, and what rifles can be best used in becoming a Rifleman. Logged "It calls for real men, not girly-men. Hard-nosed, hard-assed, born-again hard, glittering steel-eyed hombres who can put the trigger on their mother over a five dollar gold piece. Yes, friends, this job calls for a Zombie Hunter."

Grin Reaper Global Moderator Hero Member Offline Posts: 802 Just doin' what I can, with what I got. Re: The Rifleman Series « Reply #1 on: June 04, 2007, 11:24:38 PM » The Rifleman Series -- Part Two: What Rifle For a Rifleman? Assume you were just born. What would be really important to learn, once you reached a certain level of maturity? That 401(k) accounts might be useful to retirement? The various competing prescription programs in Congress? Arguments about school class sizes? What a great and progressive president Bill Clinton was? What? Well, some of us think it is simple. You should learn freedom -- about what it is, and most importantly, how we got it. Just as important, you should learn how we keep it, help it to grow, protect it, and - in too many instances - how we get it back again. Stripped to the bone, it's really a simple story: We have freedom because somebody fought for it. We keep it because we are willing to fight for it. We lose it because we are not willing to fight for it. We are fortunate that the people who fought and won it for us starting back in 1775 also gave us a written guarantee (that is, the Bill of Rights) that we would have the tools to protect that freedom. But, of course, they couldn't guarantee that we would have the sense or the will to do the hard work of defending Liberty. It doesn't hurt to recognize how far we have slipped in the battle to maintain freedom here in 21st century America. It's even more important to understand how far the war on terrorism is going to further erode our freedoms. We have to have the sense to know the fight is HERE, and NOW. Once we know that, then we must be convinced of the rightness of our cause, and have the firm determination to use all of the tools available to us in reversing 70 years of creeping socialism. If we can win the 'soft' fight in the political arena, we'll also win the 'hard' one by avoiding it entirely. Believe me -- you DON'T want to have to fight the 'hard' war. There's no joy in running for your life from people that want to kill you. Win the 'soft' fight by winning the political game, and there'll be no lying in the mud bleeding, no separation from home and family, no interrogation of your children by government agents, no lifetime prison sentences, no public demonization of "those domestic gun-nut terrorists". The first step in fighting and winning the 'soft' war is mental: knowledge, determination, even anger - at what they have done to our country, to our freedoms. You should be angry -- really angry -- at being required to live in a world of both 'tolerance' and 'zero tolerance'. A world where at the same instant, 'tolerance' means "love every socialist, UN flunky, drug addict foreigner" - and 'zero tolerance' means that patriotism, achievement, love of freedom, and mistrust of government are scorned, punished, and finally, eliminated, mostly in psychiatric facilities. Yep, the Center for Disease Control is already into guns, inevitably leading to treating your political views and your exercise of Second Amendment rights as a 'medical/psychological' problem. But anger alone won't solve any problem. You need to use that anger to motivate you into taking concrete action. Let's assume you've already started to fight the 'soft' battles. Sure, you start to educate others - in your family, at work, wherever - to wake them up, get them out of the boiling pan, and into protecting and saving freedom. Some will scoff - but you have to wake them up to save America, so don't give up! And you vote, and get others to vote. And you write letters - 'to the editor', to your politicians. You also get people down to the range, rifle shooting with you, as you finally learn how to shoot yourself. You do it gladly, because once you recognize that you may someday have to defend freedom, you have a duty to get ready. Look at it this way: You have life insurance, fire insurance, and health insurance. Now, as you learn to shoot well, you've got freedom insurance. Of course, you hope you never have to call on any of them. But at least the paying the freedom insurance premium -- by learning to shoot yourself and teaching others -- is fun! And the money put into premiums can be gotten back out as dividends, later, if needed to defend our country against foreign enemies and their quisling allies. But if you ever have to do it, you want to do it with minimum risk and maximum impact, and that means working at distances from 300 to 500 yards, where you are outside their effective range, but inside yours. If you never have to do use those skills in defense of Liberty, if it turns out to be insurance only, which you never have to use, at least you keep the tradition alive, and pass it on, a role secondary to none in importance. So, with the stage set and you looking for an accurate, hard-hitting rifle to use in the 2A context, where do we go? It's a favorite pastime amongst shooters, debating the 'best rifle' issue. Most times, the debate is over good and bad points of each firearm. But actually, the debate should be first over the projected role of the firearm. Like golf, with different clubs for long and short ball movement, the best tool you can select will be designed for the specific task you envision. It¹s the crowbar or wrench question. Which is better? Well, it depends on the task, naturally. If you have to open the lid of a wood box, the crowbar fits the bill. If you have to loosen a nut off a bolt, the crowbar is number 10, and the wrench is the choice. Now, if the hammer ever falls, are you gonna face long-range shooting, beyond 600 yards? Or short-range, urban-style shooting, at 300 yards or less? Or will you be able to work mainly in the 300-500 yard distance, if you so choose? Short range stuff can conceivably be handled with an SKS, AK, AR-15 or other reduced caliber rifle, although the .308 gives a superior punch when obstacles are involved. In addition, the .308 offers better tracer performance for signaling or incendiary effect. According to reports from Somalia, Afghanistan, and Iraq, you also get a knock-down performance with the .308 that the lesser calibers, especially the .223, lack. As one guy says in "Blackhawk Down" regarding intense urban close-quarters shooting, "when I shoot them, I want them to go down. I don't want to have to shoot them over and over." As a budding Rifleman, you can appreciate the desire expressed in that comment - to do the job once, not again and again. Long range (that is, farther than 500 yards) is clearly .308 territory, with accurized rifle and ammo. But 'rack-grade' rifles can still be effective out there. That being said, it's in the 300-500 yard area where your standard .308 and surplus ball ammo really shine. Over 300 yards, so you are beyond effective range of their popguns, and out to 500, where you are still laying almost a thousand pounds of energy on the target. If you can set it up so you catch your opponent in this area, you'll dominate him, assuming you acquire Rifleman skills - the ability to hit a torso-sized target rapidly with every shot, at ranges from 25 meters to 500 yards. If you have ever seen one of those WWII weapons training films, where the narrator talks of a machine gun replacing 6 riflemen in fire effect, you might question this approach. Here's where the narrator gets it wrong. First, those 'riflemen' in the film are not real Riflemen - probably no more than 5% of military-trained shooters are 4 MOA to 500 yard genuine Riflemen. So you are really replacing 6 'area-fire' weapons [the not-so-accurate infantrymen] with one 'area-fire' weapon [the machine gun]. And a machine gun is, by definition, an area-fire weapon, meaning you spray bullets in an area, like casting a fishing net, and hit whatever is unlucky enough to be in the area and to catch a bullet. An actual Rifleman is superior to an MG at Rifleman distances, because 90%+ of his shots will be a hit, whereas the MG will be lucky to get 3% hits. For a real-world example, see John George's WWII memoir "Shots Fired in Anger", where an unlucky Japanese Nambu gunner loses when he meets a rifleman. Six no-kidding Riflemen can equal the firepower - the number of rounds per minute - of an MG, but that six-man team will quickly run out of targets. For the MG, the limit is the number of rounds you have; with riflemen, it is the number of targets. Look at it another way: a bullet from an MG is like a dumb iron bomb. A well-aimed bullet from a Rifleman is like Precision Guided Munitions - addressed to the target, speeding straight and true, with the target its destination. As an illustration, someone recently shot the granddaddy of all assault rifles, the StG 44, at the RWVA range. In semi-auto mode, every time he pulled the trigger, a popup target at 200 yards went down. When he switched to 2- and 3-rd bursts, he went thru a mag without hitting a single target. But wait, you say. You don't use full auto at 200 yards, you use it up close. Right? So, my friend, the enemy is 'in the wire', even past the wire, and on top of you, in numbers. That's when you are going to start wasting ammo with full-auto fire? That's when you are going to wind up with an empty mag only a few seconds after firing your first shot? What sense does that make? One shot, one kill, at 25 yards, right? As a Rifleman, you're not likely to let them get that close. 300 yards is more than close enough. My point is just that full-auto fire is pretty useless in the 2A context. There is real meaning behind the term 'toys for big boys'. But what kind of rifle should a Rifleman use? Well, the good news is that most of you guys already have a rifle suitable for training to be a Rifleman. Starting with a very limited budget, the choice is clear. There is no faster bolt action rifle in the world than the No. 4 Enfield with its long-radius peep sight and ten-round magazine. The older No. 1 Mark III model is no slouch, but the No. 4 has a heavier barrel, and peep sights much superior to the open-sighted Mk III. They're cheap -- around $125, but try to get the No 4 Mk 2 or Mk 1/3 with the late trigger modification. Ammo runs about .15/round, and while most remaining surplus .303 ammo is corrosive, these rifles are simple to strip and clean, which you'll need to do that day to keep rust from forming in your barrel. In a pinch, any firearm will have to do, but if you have the time (and smarts) to pick and choose beforehand, and are on a tight budget, this classic is the one to get. Second up the ladder is a semiauto, the SKS. If you practice with the Enfield until you can get 20 or more hits on a 4 moa target in a minute, you should be able to do 30 or more with an SKS. An SKS will run you up to $50 more than the Enfield, but the ammo is half the price. It is reliable, accurate, lightweight and very effective out to 300 yards, dropping off considerable past that (but still, in a pinch, usable). However, if you're serious about shooting at Rifleman ranges on a tight budget, just note the British .303 is still going strong at 500 yards or more. On the other hand, one of the RWVA regulars uses his stock Yugo SKS and commercial Russian ammo ($90/1000 rounds) to get consistent hits on the popups at 400 yards. Next up: a big price jump to $400-500 for a CMP M1 Garand or an FN-FAL, both powerful and effective past 500 yards. Garand ammo and clips are getting a little tight, but you still find ammo in the .16-.22/rd range, whereas .308 is in the .12-.15 range. The M1 has the better sights - longer sight radius, better sight adjustment - and has the forward assist bolt handle, but the FN has a 20-rd mag, and extra FN mags are cheap. Add the bolt handle from the heavy barrel version so you have a positive forward assist, and you've cured biggest fault of the standard FAL. Some people will stop there, with the FAL, as FAL prices range up to over $1200. Kinda raises a question about what you are getting with the cheap ones. But let's go one step farther, for you guys who have the bread and want the best. In my view, that's the M1A. You can still find them at gun shows for about $1100 new in the box. Used American-made ones might go for a hundred or two less than that, most of them are not used much at all. There is no better rifle in the defense of liberty than the M1A, under the standards anticipated above: maximizing your impact while minimizing your risk, keeping the other side in your 300-500 yard 'kill zone', while keeping out of their 200 or 300-yard kill zone. Where to begin? Why not set a goal? Get a British Enfield or SKS now, if that is all you can afford. Learn to shoot it like a Rifleman. Save up for an M1, or, better yet, an M1A. Make it a goal - a resolution - that you are going to get one. And don't assume you can take years to do it. They may not be around forever, and time is not on your side. Buying an M1A requires choosing between rack-grade and match grade. You make this choice based on, first, your projected accuracy needs in the defense of the Second Amendment, and, second, selecting the most reliable and long-lasting rifle. Four MOA is good enough to hit a man at 500 yards, and a rack-grade out-of-the-box using surplus ammo should give you 3-4 MOA. Maybe, if you are lucky, and go to the trouble to 'match' various types of ammo to your rifle, you'll find one it really likes and maybe get 2-3 MOA. Compare those results to the 1 MOA of a thoroughly accurized M1A. On the other hand, the match-grade rifle is much more expensive, requires handloading to optimize performance, and you'll likely give up some reliability - bad in life-and-death situations. In addition, that gilt-edge accuracy can have a short life-span of only a few thousand rounds, at best. On balance, you're better off with the rack-grade, putting the money saved into more ammo and shooting. Repetition is the mother of skill, and you'll want to put your new rifle through its paces -- again and again -- until you and your rifle are a well-practiced team in defense of Liberty. Note: Everyone interested in becoming a Rifleman would be well advised to pick up a copy of Boston T. Party's Boston's Gun Bible (see www.fredsm14stocks.com/catalog/books.asp). Along with inspirational and hard-hitting chapters on Second Amendment issues, Boston has compiled an exhaustive comparison of all battle rifles and .223 carbines. His intensive evaluation says the M1A beats out the FAL by a small margin, but the lack of positive forward assist chambering on the FAL - potentially life-threatening -should be given far greater weight. You need to be able to correct a ammo feed problem quickly and with certainty if it occurs; a failure to feed/chamber is not a rare occurrence. However, add the forward assist modification from the heavy barrel version, and the FAL is back in the game. Next time: Fred tells us the basics of learning how to shoot like a Rifleman. Logged "It calls for real men, not girly-men. Hard-nosed, hard-assed, born-again hard, glittering steel-eyed hombres who can put the trigger on their mother over a five dollar gold piece. Yes, friends, this job calls for a Zombie Hunter."

Grin Reaper Global Moderator Hero Member Offline Posts: 802 Just doin' what I can, with what I got. Re: The Rifleman Series « Reply #2 on: June 04, 2007, 11:26:26 PM » The Rifleman Series -- Part Three: Learning to Shoot Okay, you know what the important issues are - freedom, and its protection against growing encroachment from the Left in this country. You know that your task is to wake up those sleeping frogs around you, as they slowly poach in the water that gets hotter each year. You understand that you have to get them to the range to learn rifle shooting, and you also have to motivate them to become politically active. Clean up your corner of the country, so to speak. And you know we need to get back to that concept of a ‘Nation of Riflemen’. You know the importance of the ‘soft’ war, the war being fought out now. You realize that the ‘soft’ war has to be won or, someday, it'll be the ‘hard’ war. And you know that any rifle is useful in the protection of freedom, as long as you can shoot it and hit the target, but some are decidedly better than others. The choices, in order of cost: the British Enfields; any SKS; the M1 Garand; the FN-FAL; and at the top of Fred’s heap, the M1A (although a properly modified FAL can give it a run for the money). In a way, it doesn’t matter what tool you use. Get skilled with any rifle by enough practice and you should be able to reliably hit 10 targets a minute at any range out to 500 yards, maybe 600. Don’t doubt it: a well-trained rifleman with a 100-yr-old Lee-Enfield is still a potent threat on any present or future battlefield. Ask any General with brains what the value of troops like that would be to his command. His guys will fire hundreds of rounds per hit - partly due to the doctrine of ‘suppressive fire’, but mainly due to poor shooting skills. As Riflemen, you and your team will be firing 10-20 rounds per minute, with hit rates – bullets in the black on target – greater than 90%. Now, which rifle you choose matters to you, because it is your life that will be on the line, and while 10 hits/minute is impressive to the General, it’s no big deal to you. Why? Because you picked a rifle that'll allow you 20 – or more - hits a minute. Given that a battle is literally life-and-death, you want any edge you can get. General Brasshat would be ecstatic to have his guys get ten hits in a minute, but you want the rifle that’ll do 20 or more. When you choose an M1, an FAL, or an M1A, you are reaching for that upper level of performance. The faster those targets go down, the less they'll be shooting - at you! Now, let's talk about learning to shoot the buggers. After all, what good is a tool – even the best tool in the world – if you don’t know how to use the darned thing? If the Day comes on your watch, you want to show up ready to go. You’ll be eager to be effective in defending Lady Liberty, which means being effective on those targets downrange, which most likely will be UN blue. You know -- don’t you? -- that there are millions of committed liberals in this country who would answer the call of President Hillary and UN Secretary General Bubba, wave a little blue UN flag, and gladly unlock the gates to let the foreign villains in. Talk about crazy... And if the Day doesn't come on your watch, you’ll want to learn to shoot that battle rifle well to preserve the tradition of marksmanship, so you can pass it on to new shooters and the next generation. That way, when the Day comes - and, in the long term, it WILL come - there will be dedicated Riflemen to greet the foreign oppressors and their quisling allies, and show them a proper welcome. When it comes to learning to shoot, there’s a couple of ways to go about it. The easy way is by ordering our 25-meter AQT targets with the Guide to Becoming a Rifleman [http://www.fredsm14stocks.com/catalog/acc.asp]. And you might as well get yourself a copy, because sooner or later, you're going to need the info in the Guide. But just in case you want to start tomorrow, here's what you do: 1. Using a black marker, make up some one-inch black squares on sheets of white typing paper. Staple them up wherever you can find 82 ft [25m] with a safe backstop. 2. Fire 3 shots at the target, from any position, with your selected battle rifle. Prone might be best. To aspire to Rifleman status, all you have to do is keep the three shots in a 1-inch circle. Can you do it? If not, you need practice. Sure, you can practice without any instruction, and maybe eventually you will get it right. Just like if you are lost, where if you wander long enough and far enough, you might come out at your destination - possibly. But on the other hand, a map would sure make things easier, quicker - and surer. That's where the Guide comes in. There are three general areas of shooting instruction which you must master: position, holding, and firing the shot. Position uses the strongest part of your body -- your bones -- to support the rifle to minimize strain and tremor. Position also lines you up properly so the rifle naturally points at the target. Holding focuses on reducing strain and achieving consistency. You'll want to know how to get your Natural Point of Aim and use a sling to support the rifle, so you can relax all muscles except those in your trigger finger. Firing the shot zeroes in on a set routine to follow for each shot, again, to achieve consistency - and to let the rifle go off without disturbing the aim. Done correctly, you’ll also get instant feedback on the shot result. If you start off right, applying the distilled wisdom of generations of rifle shooters who went before you, it's much easier to learn to shoot. If you start off getting in the right positions, holding correctly, and firing each shot ‘by the numbers’, you'll be better off than if you blunder around, rediscovering and reinventing the wheel. There are also tricks to speed up your learning: ‘ball and dummy’ (the most valuable), the ‘one-round’, ‘two-round’, and ‘four-round’ drills. The Guide also has a list of the ‘Common Firing Line Errors’ so you can work backward – making sure you avoid the errors everyone else makes. Get the Guide, and you’ll also learn about ‘Shot Group Analysis’, so you can look at your group and identify errors from how your shots are located on the target. However, there is one essential ingredient that’s not in the Guide. Without it, you’ll almost certainly drop out by the side of the road. On the other hand, if you bring this ingredient to the game, you almost certainly will succeed. None of the information in the Guide will be of the slightest help in becoming a Rifleman unless you persist. If you want to join that elite group known as Riflemen, you’ll persist, even though the positions are initially uncomfortable. You’ll persist, until you control your body well enough to hold your rifle consistently. You’ll persist, until the numbered steps in ‘firing the shot’ are so familiar you can recite them forward or backward, in your sleep! You’ll persist, until your skills develop to the point where you become a Rifleman and join the top 5% of shooters in this country. You won’t get there overnight, so you’ll persist. And here’s a tip: it’ll help a lot if you get someone else into your personal ‘becoming a rifleman’ program, learning to shoot with you. That way, you can buck each other up when the going gets tough, and you can share in each other’s triumphs as you each reap the benefits of your hard work. Sometimes people will become interested in what you are doing on the firing line, because you show up with a definite program of activities. They know that they are aimlessly plinking, without a goal, and that they have no idea about learning to shoot better. They are ripe prospects. Recruit them for your benefit and for their benefit. Shooting with other learners will boost your progress immensely. Even more importantly, when you are done, those fellow students may be the foundation of the Rifleman team you'll want to have ready. Now, it’s up to you. See you next time. Next time, Fred will share what he means by "firing the shot by the numbers". Logged "It calls for real men, not girly-men. Hard-nosed, hard-assed, born-again hard, glittering steel-eyed hombres who can put the trigger on their mother over a five dollar gold piece. Yes, friends, this job calls for a Zombie Hunter."

Grin Reaper Global Moderator Hero Member Offline Posts: 802 Just doin' what I can, with what I got. Re: The Rifleman Series « Reply #3 on: June 04, 2007, 11:27:23 PM » The Rifleman Series -- Part Four: Firing the Shot Congratulations. If you’re still with us, you’ve taken an important first step – a baby step, but a vital step nonetheless -- towards becoming a Rifleman. Persistence, even from behind that computer monitor, is one of the very few absolutely indispensable abilities that one must have in order to shoot well. You’ll still have to get out to that 25m range in your backyard (What? You haven’t built one yet? Sheesh….) and actually shoot that rifle, but the fact that you are here reading this post means that you are sufficiently humble and educable so as to try something other than “your way or the highway.” Believe ol’ Fred when he tells you – your humility and teachability makes you very much one of the chosen few. Good work at controlling your ego and being willing to learn. Now, to work. Today’s topic is the much neglected process of actually sighting and firing the rifle. Seems pretty easy, right? Load the darned thing, point it, take the safety off, aim it, and pull the trigger. Don’t get me wrong. You can do it that way and, at least some of the time, make the bullet go where you want it to go. Some of the time. At pretty short distances. But the difference between a Rifleman and an ordinary shooter is that the Rifleman can put his shots where he wants them to go from any position at any range from 25 meters to 500 yards. To do that consistently, you have to be a bit more rigorous in how you fire the shot. One other comment -- experience has shown that where a shooter memorizes the steps below, and then repeats the steps quietly as he actually aims and shoots his rifle, these steps become second nature. As they become second nature, improvements in your shooting will “magically” appear. “Magically”, that is, if you think hard work, perseverance, and practice constitute “magic”. Come to think of it, to most so-called Americans in these decadent times, maybe those virtues are “magic”, after all. So what are the steps? 1. SIGHT ALIGNMENT -- Line up the front and rear sights: Simply center the front sight in the rear sight. If you are shooting a rifle with a “peep sight” (more correctly, an “rear aperture sight”), you’ll make sure that you are holding the rifle such that the top of the front sight post is in the center of the opening in the rear aperture sight. If you are shooting a rifle with traditional open sights, you’ll want the front sight post to be located in the center of the rear sight notch, with the top of the front sight post no higher or lower than the top of the rear sight. Those of you with a scope (which is cheating at this point of the game, by the way) have your sights aligned for you by the scope. Take off that glass now and learn to shoot well without it. Once you know how to do that, you can use that scope, but not be dependent on it. It’s one thing to have a broken scope ruin a hunting trip. It’s another thing to be fighting for Liberty and suddenly lose your effectiveness ‘cuz your scope’s front lens got crushed as you dove for cover. Think Boris from that UN convoy will give you a “do-over”? In the words of Clint Smith, owner of Thunder Ranch [one of the country’s premier practical shooting schools; see http://www.thunderranchinc.com/], “Two weeks after the balloon goes up, iron sights will rule the world.” ‘Nuff said. 2. SIGHT PICTURE -- Keeping the sights lined up, bring them onto the target: You have two basic choices in accomplishing this step. First way is to use your muscles and fight your body’s natural alignment so as to bring the sights onto the target. That’ll work – maybe – as long as you can a) use the same amount of muscle power to force your body into the exact same position for each shot (remembering, of course, that even the “Quick and Dirty” single-sheet Army Qualification Test will require 40 shots), and b) keep your muscles from growing tired and starting to tremble as you fight your body in keeping your sights on target. Being a bit stubborn himself, Fred knows that there are lots of you guys that’ll try it your way, fight your body’s natural position, and get frustrated at the difficulties in shooting a good score. The smart ones out of that crowd will admit defeat early and join the really smart guys who were ready to learn the right way in the first place. Your second choice – the right way – is to enlist your body’s help in holding the sights steady on target. It’s called the “natural point of aim” (NPOA) technique and it’s the secret to rapid and consistent improvement in shooting. We’ll talk more about it next time, but for now, just understand that by moving your body position so that your rifle points naturally at the target, you will eliminate muscle fatigue and improve accuracy dramatically. Those of you that want to read ahead can read the section in the Rifleman’s Guide on NPOA. You do have a copy of the Guide (http://www.fredsm14stocks.com/catalog/acc.asp), right? 3. RESPIRATORY PAUSE – Deep breath, exhale, hold breath as front sight touches bottom of target: Take a deep breath, let it out slowly, and watch how the front sight dips, then rises as you exhale. Let the front sight rise as you exhale until it barely touches the bottom of the bull’s eye. Now, hold your breath. You have just used a natural act - breathing - to establish your correct elevation. 4A. FOCUS YOUR EYE -- Focus your eye on the front sight: It may be a little hard to do at first, as you naturally want to look at the target. But overcome the temptation and keep your eyes focused on the front sight, even if it means that the target gets blurry. - 4B. FOCUS YOUR MIND – Keep front sight on target: Your concentration should be on “keeping that front sight on the target”. It may help for you to consciously repeat, “front sight on target, front sight on target.” This is the big one! 5. TRIGGER SQUEEZE – Squeeze straight back while front sight stays on target: Here is the tricky part. While you are doing both parts of step 4, you’ll take up the slack and squeeze the trigger straight back. At the same time, you MUST keep your concentration on the front sight! Don’t let the front sight off the target; if it does move off target, gently bring it back on target, while continuing to squeeze the trigger. Of course, just to keep it interesting, you are still holding your breath from step 3’s Respiratory Pause. You are trying to do three tasks at once. It’s not gonna be natural for most people. However, if you want to be a Rifleman, you have to burn through what seems unnatural until it becomes routine. Of the three steps, the most important piece is to keep the front sight on the target! This is the part where practice really pays off, and practice is the only way that all three steps [respiratory pause, front sight focus, and trigger squeeze] come together to produce a Rifleman. Remember: there simply is no substitute for either actual shooting “by the numbers” at the range, “dry firing” [more next time], or a combination thereof. 6. FOLLOW THROUGH -- Sighting eye open, take mental picture of where sights were when rifle discharged, and follow through with trigger: When your rifle fires, you MUST keep your sighting eye open. Without that step, you cannot “call the shot”, or predict, via that mental picture, where the bullet will actually strike the target. If you can’t call the shot, you won’t ever be able to tell whether the shot was bad because you did something wrong, or whether the shot did not go to the aiming point because your sights need adjustment. The final part of this step – “follow through” – is important, too. If you are concentrating on keeping your front sight on the target, and you continue to concentrate on following through with your trigger squeeze after the rifle discharges, you will greatly reduce the chance that you will move the rifle and duff the shot before the bullet leaves the muzzle. Believe it or not, it happens! A few more suggestions here at the end: Make a copy of this post and keep it where you do your reading. Read it slowly, once a night. Think about the concepts, and the reasons behind the concepts. Write each step down on a 3” x 5” index card. Carry the card with you in your shirt pocket. Read it whenever you get the chance, thinking about the step and the reasons behind it. Memorize the steps until you can recite them without assistance. A Rifleman has these steps memorized not because he likes to memorize things, but because he knows that the six steps to firing the shot are the key to consistent accuracy. Finally, grab your rifle and some ammo, and get out to the range. Very slowly at first, put each step into action as you fire each shot at those 1” black squares at 25m/82 feet. Talk to yourself. Be encouraging. Remember why you are doing all of this work. Be confident in your role as a student learning to defend yourself, your family, and your country from those who would oppress them. Have faith in your ability, through methodical hard work and practice, to become a Rifleman. Most importantly, relax and enjoy the shooting. You CAN do it! Next time, Fred will talk about natural point of aim (NPOA) and common shooting errors. Logged "It calls for real men, not girly-men. Hard-nosed, hard-assed, born-again hard, glittering steel-eyed hombres who can put the trigger on their mother over a five dollar gold piece. Yes, friends, this job calls for a Zombie Hunter."

Grin Reaper Global Moderator Hero Member Offline Posts: 802 Just doin' what I can, with what I got. Re: The Rifleman Series « Reply #4 on: June 04, 2007, 11:28:19 PM » The Rifleman Series -- Part Five: Natural Point of Aim (NPOA) Welcome again to our series on becoming a Rifleman – someone who can, with rack-grade rifle and surplus ammo, maintain a 4 MOA group at ranges from 25 meters to 500 yards from field positions. In Part Four, we discussed the 6 steps to “firing the shot”. Course by now, you have these committed to memory, right? But for folks who might have just joined us, I’ll repeat ‘em : 1. SIGHT ALIGNMENT -- Line up the front and rear sights 2. SIGHT PICTURE -- Keeping the sights lined up, bring them onto the target 3. RESPIRATORY PAUSE – Deep breath, exhale partially, hold breath as front sight touches bottom of target 4A. FOCUS YOUR EYE -- Focus your eye on the front sight 4B. FOCUS YOUR MIND -– Keep front sight on target 5. TRIGGER SQUEEZE –- Squeeze straight back while front sight stays on target 6. FOLLOW THROUGH -- Sighting eye open, take mental picture of where sights were when rifle discharged, and follow through with trigger Today, we’re diving deeper into Step Two of “firing the shot” and discussing “Natural Point of Aim” (NPOA). NPOA is the one factor which separates the Riflemen from the ‘wannabees.’ Like I said last time, you have two basic choices in getting and keeping your sight picture. First way is to use your muscles and fight your body’s natural alignment so as to force the sights onto the target. That’ll work – maybe – as long as you can: a) use the same amount of muscle power to force your body into the exact same position for each shot (remembering, of course, that even the “Quick and Dirty” single-sheet Army Qualification Test will require 40 shots), and b) keep your muscles from growing tired and starting to tremble as you fight your body to keep your sights on target. Being that you’re one of the bright students here (or, like Fred, you’ve gotten tired of doing the same thing and getting the same results), you’re gonna want to have your body work with you, rather than against you. So you’re going to use the second way, which is your NPOA. What does NPOA offer you? If you don’t get your natural point of aim, your shots will be off the center of the target, even if fired perfectly. Why? Because your body is out of position, and you have to muscle the rifle to get your sights onto the target. That muscle strain is difficult to replicate, shot to shot, and it wears out your body’s fine muscle control pretty quickly. A Rifleman takes his shooting position so that his rifle, with his body relaxed, is pointing at the target. He doesn’t have to fight muscle strain and he makes his job of firing the shot a lot easier. Best of all, his shots will be on target, accurately and consistently, because he’s not fighting his body’s natural position. Here’s a guarantee: learn to establish your NPOA and use your sling in all positions (more next time), and you’ll reduce your groups by at least 33%, maybe more. Promise. Sounds like it’s worth the trouble, right? Thought so. So how do you find your NPOA? First, follow Step One of “firing the shot” and align your sights once you are in your shooting position. Next, follow Step Two and get your sight picture by lining up on the target with your sights. Now the NPOA work begins. Close your eyes, relax your body, taking a deep breath in and let it out. Open your eyes and check your sight picture. 9 times out of 10, your sight picture will have changed, because your body is now relaxed. You’ll now reestablish your sight picture by making slight adjustments in your position. If you are in the prone position, you’ll shift position pivoting around your forward elbow to bring the sights back on the target. In other positions, you will make whatever small adjustments in your position so that the rifle points naturally at the target. Satisfied with your position? OK, let’s test your work. Once again, close your eyes, relax your body, inhale deeply, exhale, open your eyes, and check your sight picture. Depending on your position, your sights may be dead on target. If not, repeat the cycle: - Establish your sight picture - Close your eyes - Relax your body - Inhale deeply - Exhale - Open your eyes - Re-check sight picture - Make slight adjustments to your position, and - Repeat How many times do you have to repeat this process? You’ll want to repeat it until when you open your eyes, your sights are naturally on the target. No more, and no less. Once you establish your NPOA, MAINTAIN YOUR BODY POSITION from shot to shot by not moving that forward elbow supporting the rifle [prone] or keeping your position steady [all other positions]. Even tougher, you’ll need to keep that same body position as you reload and fire a fresh magazine. If you move, your shots will move. It’s that simple, and that important. Now, I know that someone out there is thinking, “Why do I have to go through all of this hooey just to fire a shot?” Well, guess what? You don’t have to. You can fire each shot just the way you have always fired each shot. Thing is, though: if you do that, you’ll get exactly the same results that you always have. The rest of us want to be Riflemen. We are willing to overcome our sloth and change our habits, whatever the cost, because we want to join that elite top 5% of marksmen in America. We know that if we do that, we’ll be among the best shooters in the entire world. And we are committed to that goal. Even if that means memorizing some stuff that we don’t want to memorize, and forcing our bodies into positions that are pretty darned uncomfortable, at least at first. Most of all – we are committed to becoming Riflemen, even if it means going through the NPOA cycle 10 times for every shot, until we get the hang of dropping into a good position from the beginning. You see, when ol’ Fred told you that NPOA sorts out the wannabees from the Riflemen, he was speaking in two senses. First, NPOA is the technique that will allow you, with practice, to shoot 20” groups at 500 yards. Without it, you’re toast. But even more importantly, the learning and application of the NPOA process is where you build the self-discipline, perseverance, and moxie that will benefit you for the rest of your life, both as a Rifleman and as a citizen. So, right now, while the information is still fresh – go to your gun safe, grab your rifle, ensure that it is unloaded (chamber and mag), and take 15 minutes of dry-firing practice from prone position using the NPOA steps we’ve been discussing. Start slowly, and repeat each step quietly to yourself as you do it. If you can, get your spouse, roommate, or eldest child to help you by reading the steps as you go through them. Take that practice 3 times a week, 15 minutes a session, in the comfort of your home – practice, persevere, persist. You don’t even have to go to the range – but of course, if you can get to the range, don’t miss the opportunity. You CAN do it! See you next time, with your slings! Next time, Fred discusses the importance of the rifle sling, along with other shooting tips. Logged "It calls for real men, not girly-men. Hard-nosed, hard-assed, born-again hard, glittering steel-eyed hombres who can put the trigger on their mother over a five dollar gold piece. Yes, friends, this job calls for a Zombie Hunter."

Grin Reaper Global Moderator Hero Member Offline Posts: 802 Just doin' what I can, with what I got. Re: The Rifleman Series « Reply #5 on: June 04, 2007, 11:29:11 PM » The Rifleman Series -- Part Six: Common Firing Line Errors Courtesy of Fred (www.fredsm14stocks.com), we continue on the road to becoming a Rifleman: You go to a lot of trouble to fire a shot - buy a rifle, ammo, travel a long distance, and lay out in hot and cold weather - so you should want to have that shot impact COT [Center of Target]. Well, watch out for these common errors, and you’ll be ahead of the game: #1: Failure to keep eyes open when the rifle fires to ‘call’ your shot To know where the shot just went, you need to take an instant mental photo of where the front sight was when your rifle went off. If you don’t, you lose the information value of feedback from that shot - and you’re almost certainly flinching and/or jerking the trigger. So, keep that eye open - call the shot based on the position of the front sight on the target when the rifle fired, and watch for bullet splash downrange for confirmation of your call. On the firing line, in practice, you aim to continually increase the percentage of shots that you can honestly call 'good' - the front sight was on the target when the rifle fired. #2: Failure to pull rifle back into shoulder One of the leading causes of trigger jerk, bucking, and flinching is fear of recoil, and the impact of the rifle on the shoulder. If you come away from the firing line complaining about recoil, or a ‘sore’ shoulder, this one is what you are doing wrong - and it WILL lead to flinching. So grab the pistol grip firmly and pull the rifle back into your shoulder while you fire the shot - so you ‘roll’ with the recoil. A side benefit: extra pressure of the trigger hand on the stock will give the perceived impression of a ‘lighter’ trigger. #3: Failure to get NPOA “Natural Point of Aim” has been said to be the one factor which separates the riflemen from the ‘wannabees’. If you don’t get your natural point of aim, your shots will be off the center of the target, even if fired perfectly, because your body is out of position, and you have to muscle the rifle onto the target. A rifleman takes position so that his rifle, with his body relaxed, is pointing at the target. He doesn’t have to fight muscle strain and he makes his job of firing the shot a lot easier - and his shots will be on target. Get your NPOA by lining up on the target with your sights, closing your eyes, relaxing your body, and taking a deep breath in and letting it out. Open your eyes and shift position pivoting around your forward elbow, to bring the sights back on the target. Repeat until when you open your eyes, your sights are naturally on the target. Once you establish your NPOA, keep it by not moving that forward elbow supporting the rifle [prone] or keeping your position steady [all other positions]. #4: Failure to pull ‘trigger’ leg up tight behind trigger arm to absorb recoil and generally tighten position [prone position] Try it and you’ll see your front sight settle down like it should. Grasping the forearm with the non-trigger hand and pulling slightly back into the shoulder may also help in rapid fire [what other kind of shooting is there?]. #5: Failure to maximize your feedback Shooting is always learning, and every shot you fire should be a learning experience. If you're in a match, and screw a string of fire up so badly you are ashamed, you keep shooting just as hard as before, with those educational purposes in mind. #6: Failure to ‘followthrough’ By the time you think “Followthrough” as you hold the trigger back after the shot, this step in ‘Firing the Shot’ is done. But don’t overlook it, because you need to do it. #7: Failure to keep the sight on the target The most important step in “Firing the Shot”. Ignore this, and you might as well be shooting blanks, or setting off firecrackers. This is a 2-part step: physically focusing your eye on the front sight, and firmly focusing your mind - your concentration - on ‘keeping that front sight on the target’. Whatever else you do, you must do this for the shot to hit COT. #8: ‘Flinching’, ‘bucking’ or ‘jerking the trigger’ “Flinching” is anticipating recoil by an abrupt backward motion of your shoulder to get ‘away’ from it. “Bucking” is anticipating recoil by shoving your shoulder forward to ‘make up’ for or ‘resist’ the impact. “Jerking” is snapping the trigger quickly to get the disagreeable experience over with as soon as possible. All three will throw your shot off the target - in fact, are guaranteed to throw your shot off the target. All three (usually lumped under the generic “flinching”) are natural responses to your body’s abhorrence of sudden impacts. You have to work to control your body, so the rifle is not disturbed by any movement at the time the hammer falls. You do this in several ways. One is to eliminate the recoil impact by pulling the rifle snugly back into your shoulder, so that there is no impact, and you simply ride the ‘push’ of the recoil. If you don’t pull it back tightly into your shoulder, the rifle has time to pick up speed and slam your shoulder, and you start to flinch, buck or jerk the trigger in response. So pull it back into your shoulder, and you’ll do OK. Second, keep your eyes open so you can take that instant mental photo of where the front sight was on the target at the instant of firing. If you can’t do this, you know you are guilty of flinching, bucking, or jerking. Third, concentrate on keeping the front sight on the target. Pulling the trigger is not the main task - No! Keeping the front sight on the target is the main task. So practice until that trigger finger is ‘educated’ to take the slack up and steadily increase the pressure when the front sight is on the target, ‘freeze’ when the front sight drifts off the target, and continue the squeeze when the sight is back on the target. You’ll have to do this in the 6-10 seconds you’re holding your breath. If you don’t fire the shot in that time, simply relax, take a deep breath and start over. [Trigger finger tips: middle of the pad of the first joint, or the first joint itself, should be where the trigger touches the finger. Keep the finger clear of the stock (‘dragging wood’) as it will throw your shot off. Visualize a straight pull back, not to the side.] Once out in the 'real world', you'll find that with practice, you'll punch out 20 good shots in 30 seconds, if you ever need to shoot fast. Even the best riflemen can develop a flinch, so periodically do the ‘ball and dummy’ drill to test for one, and then continue ‘ball and dummy’ until you are ‘cured’ (but remember that rarely will the cure be permanent, so you still periodically recheck). Twenty rounds should suffice for both the detection and the cure. Have a friend ‘load’ and hand the rifle to you [make sure all safety precautions are observed!] either with or without a round in the chamber. Usually, he will start off with a live round to ‘juice up’ any tendency to flinch, and then give you an empty one to see if there is movement in the muzzle when the hammer falls. He continues with ‘empties’ until your muzzle doesn’t move. Then he feeds a live one followed by more ‘empties’ - actually, he is trying to ‘smoke out’ your flinch and get it to show itself. He continues until he is convinced that your flinch is gone. Along the way he will watch your aiming eye to make sure it stays open when the rifle goes off. #9: The biggest failure is to go to the range without a goal Your goal should always be to improve your shooting, and come away from each session on the range a better shot. And you do that by firing the Army Precision Combat Rifle Qualification Course - which Fred’s has reduced to 25m for speed and convenience. Those in the know at Riverside who have fired the full course at 100, 200, 300 and 400 yards will tell you - “the course at 25m is harder!” And each time you fire it, you have a numerical score by which you can measure your progress towards becoming a good shooter - a RIfleman! #10: Failure to use your sling For over 100 years, the sling has been in military use as an aid to marksmanship. Because of the tendency of the M16 barrel to flex under sling pressure, the sling has been slighted in the last few decades. But make no mistake: the sling is one of the biggest aids to accurate shooting that you have, and you always have it with you, to carry the rifle. So, never fire a shot without the sling. Use the hasty sling for standing and anytime you’re in a rush, or may need to move fast after firing a shot; and use the loop sling for prone and sitting when you have the time, but try to make sure your upper arm is padded to block muscle tremor and heartbeat, either with a shooting jacket or heavy clothing. It’s hard to estimate how big a factor in accuracy the sling is. A minimum of 20%, going up to 80% or more. It will help in rapid fire, keeping your position tight, speeding your recovery for the next shot. The bottom line is, always use your sling - in every position, for every shot. Click on these links for some diagrams on sling use: Attaching the M1907 traditional leather sling: Attaching the 1907 Sling Using the M1907 sling: Using the 1907 Sling Using the M1 web sling: Using the M1 Web Sling #11: Failure [sitting position] to put both elbows in front of both knees If you’ve been to the range much, you’ve seen a new shooter trying to shoot sitting - with that trigger elbow up high in the air, almost like he’s shooting standing, totally ignoring that nice big fat knee, as steady as a bench, and less than a foot away. The shot will be much better, with that trigger elbow down on the front of the knee, where it belongs (NOT on top, where recoil will knock it off, slowing recovery time). And that other elbow, the one under the rifle? Hunker forward and drop that sucker on the target side of its knee - again to resist recoil. A good sitting position will initially break your back until you get stretched, but once everything falls into place, you can shoot nearly as good as you do off the bench! Don’t sell the position short, especially if you are on a downward slope and need to shoot over grass, etc. #12: Copy this checklist & take it to the range with you You'll be amazed at what a quick review of these lessons can do for the rest of your range time. Make it a habit to take a look through the list as you are eating your "range lunch", then fire your remaining shots even better than before! See you next time! In the next installment of this series, Fred will explain why you need to bring your friends to the range and make more Riflemen. Logged "It calls for real men, not girly-men. Hard-nosed, hard-assed, born-again hard, glittering steel-eyed hombres who can put the trigger on their mother over a five dollar gold piece. Yes, friends, this job calls for a Zombie Hunter."

Grin Reaper Global Moderator Hero Member Offline Posts: 802 Just doin' what I can, with what I got. Re: The Rifleman Series « Reply #6 on: June 04, 2007, 11:31:19 PM » The Rifleman Series -- Part Seven: Fight Alone, Fail Alone Today, Fred (www.fredsm14stocks.com) talks about why teamwork is the only way to win, whether in the 'soft war' or something more grim: The Rifleman knows that the defense of Liberty is a team effort, and that's why he always defends Freedom as part of a team. As one Army instructor observed back in 1942: "Experience has shown that in the absence of team training, the fire of a group of riflemen in battle is poorly controlled and is haphazardly directed. This fact remains true even where every individual in the group is an expert shot (emphasis added)...." So becoming a Rifleman is only the first step -- an important step, a worthy step -- but only a first step. If it ever comes to defending Liberty, if you are out there all by yourself....well, it'll get lonely, at the very least. Although you'll be effective firing twenty or maybe even thirty well-aimed shots per minute, you will be terribly vulnerable both to frontal and flanking attacks. By fighting alone, you will be ignoring one of the central Rifleman rules -- to stay alive to fight tomorrow. Compare that "lone wolf" vulnerability to the concentrated firepower of three trained guys, shooting as a Rifleman team. Sixty, even ninety well-aimed shots, each minute, penetrating the heart of the foe. Comrades to each side of you, sharing the pain, and the joy, of the battle for Freedom. A miniature 'band of brothers', guys you can count on to never let you down, who'll share the risks and cover your butt while doing it. If you are really lucky through persistence in recruiting, you'll be able to set up a second Rifleman team. Think what tactical advantages two Rifleman teams offer: mutual support (thwarting both frontal and flanking attacks), fire and movement, and mass rifle fire from different points (devastating to an opponent). With two teams, you also move more securely, using the techniques of traveling, traveling overwatch, and, if necessary, bounding overwatch. For all members, your team's security will go through the roof, while your effectiveness goes up - not 2X - but 8X or more. And during training, competing teams sharpen up everybody's shooting. Most importantly, with the 'soft war' in full fury right now, that same group effort which will sustain you through a Rainy Decade will make your team's political power almost irresistible, at least to any politician who wants to keep his job. The "force multiplier" effect of allied voters communicating in a coordinated fashion will be even more powerful when you and your teams network with other teams. But your basic problem, now that you are a Rifleman or soon-to-be Rifleman, is to find two more kindred souls -- today. The prospect, in present-day America, is kinda depressing. You'll be surprised at the percentage of gun owners ignorant of both the past and the future. People who should know better instead are content to sit and wallow in that slowly heating pan of water. Your audience is crowded with lazy, arrogant know-it-alls, nurtured by the best in liberal education, who are going to wilt like a spider on a hot brick as soon as you mention freedom and the traditional role of the rifleman. But you will persist. You'll persist, because it's part of being a Rifleman. You'll persist, despite discouragement, rejection, and scorn, because you know the battle for freedom has to be won. You'll persist because you understand that the only people who are going to win it are people who are mentally alert, know their history, respect those brave men who have fought before in defense of freedom, and are determined that freedom will not be lost on their watch. And the only way to get those sloths awake is to wake 'em up yourself. Your duty as a Rifleman is to be the stone in the pond, sending ripples traveling in all directions, disturbing the existing calm. Remember, by becoming a Rifleman, you have accepted, at least implicitly, the responsibility to: 1) learn how to shoot, consistently from field positions, at or above the Rifleman standard of 4 MOA from 25 meters to 500 yards; 2) recruit future Riflemen; 3) educate your fellow Americans about the need to become Riflemen, to stop further Second Amendment infringements, and to bring back what the JPFO (www.jpfo.org) calls a "Bill of Rights culture"; and 4) spread that message wherever and whenever you can. The short form? Shoot Recruit Educate Communicate Persistence is the key -- the only key -- to meeting those four obligations. Now, how you go about your recruiting is up to you. But a few suggestions can be made. A prime way is to simply let others see you shooting to become a Rifleman. As people watch you going through your shooting drills, welcome their interest by letting them try the AQT with you. Encourage them to overcome their miserable lack of skills with a little practice, using yourself as an example. This is probably the easiest way to bring new members into the fold. Once you get a couple of guys lined up as "students", your recruiting may tend to snowball, so that the second team recruits quicker than the first. You see, your first team's practice sessions are the bait for the next crew -- or so you hope it will be, anyway. Another more risky way to recruit is to attempt to wake people up through words and information. Understand though -- for whatever reason, you'll find even many gunowners to be less than receptive. Most gunowners who'll do anything at all will donate $35 to the NRA and go back to sleep on the couch. Even though to you it seems as plain as the nose on your face, those folks on the couch just don't appreciate what gunowners can accomplish by working within the system -- and working together. That cheap surplus ammo you are able to buy in unlimited quantities now? You know it came from the Reagan years, and the 1986 Gun Owner's Protection Act. In other words, that case of $150 South African 7.62 ball in your safe today was brought to you by an Act of Congress. Without wide-awake, no-fooling Riflemen campaigning and voting for the right people, it would never have happened. The Good Guys can win. Most times, it happens only by work -- lots of hard, unrelenting slogging towards a goal that may be only barely visible, at least at the beginning. Sometimes, it happens by luck, or by fate. But don't fool yourself. Luck and Fate are darned slim reeds to pin your future happiness on. We have to get this country to wake up, so that the Good Guys win by design, on purpose, through hard work - not by the whim of fate. If we don't, dark days await us. Right now, we are in the pre-WWII period, fat and complacent, sure of our superpower status. Even 9/11 did not really wake us up. We are still bankrolling the Middle Eastern lunatics who would slaughter us, rather than develop domestic oil and gas resources. Worse yet, we are still pouring billions in trade into the Chinese economy, which is dominated by the Chinese Communist military, just like we did 70 years ago with Japan. And those lean and hungry Chinese boys are not going to be stupid. If you want a taste of what the future possibly holds, check out Jeff Head's Dragon's Fury novels at http://www.dragonsfuryseries.com/. It's a five volume series, and it is explosive! Because the entire country is asleep to the lessons of history, we are going to repeat some bloody chapters in our foreign policy history once again, just as soon as we elect another appeasement-at-any-cost liberal to the Presidency. That's why now is the time to build your Rifleman team. While you know it will likely be hard to get other team members on board, it'll help you narrow the search if you know the kind of person you are looking for, so you don't waste time on the wrong - i.e., worthless - prospects. "Summer soldiers" and "sunshine patriots" have no place on a true Rifleman team. No better advice can be found than in an old AMTU Rifle Instructors Guide. Here's their list of questions to ask: Is your prospect easily perturbed? Does he quit easily? Is he easily discouraged by unfavorable conditions? Is he susceptible to rumors? Does he worry too much about equipment? Does he have the will to win? Is he cooperative? Can he work with others, of different skill levels? Is he ambitious? Is he honest? Is he reliable, even when being so cuts against his interests? Let's see - steadiness, doggedness, calmness, determination, honesty - sure 'nuff sounds like a good person to have around if TSHTF. Go ahead -- be honest. How do you stack up? Now someone is sure to ask -- "But Fred, what about shooting?" Don't get me wrong. As you build your team, you bet you're gonna work on your team's shooting skills. They will need to become Riflemen, after all. But in recruiting, you should remember an old business saying -- "Hire for attitude, train for skill." If your recruit doesn't have the gumption to persist and burn through the frustrations that he will encounter on the path to Rifleman status, he'll be less than worthless. Why? 'Cause at the same time that you're pouring your efforts down the dry hole of your prospect's bad attitude, there's likely to be another recruit who does have the stuff to become a Rifleman, just waiting to be found. Plant your Rifleman seeds where there's a good chance they'll grow into strong trees. Perseverance and willingness to learn are the good soil and water for this particular crop. Find those character traits listed above, and you'll have a good prospect. Then, using your experience and the Guide to Becoming a Rifleman (http://www.fredsm14stocks.com/catalog/acc.asp), help that recruit through the struggles that you went through as your shooting improved. Your prospect may not be perfect - after all, it's unlikely he'll be able to shoot well, for one thing - but as long as he is willing to learn both the shooting and the teammate skills, I'd sure give him a chance! And once those Rifleman skills are in the bag, you and your new Rifleman should start to integrate team shooting drills into your practice -- just read the Guide for lots of suggestions. Remember -- you are unlikely in the current environment to find anyone decisive enough to commit to the team idea, which is why the first technique suggested earlier is a good one. You don't sign them up in advance. Nope - you sucker them in gradually, until they are already a team member and confident enough to be decisive. Part of the outcome of Rifleman training is a new personality - confident, decisive, knowing who you are, what you can do, what you should be doing, knowing your goals, working to attain them. As the AMTU guide put it, "Individuals must possess outstanding qualities of sportsmanship." Of course, this was written back fifty years ago, before the angry, victimized, she-male types who are so prevalent today. So what? So it's harder to find good-natured people with integrity. Heck, it's hard to do anything in the battle for freedom. Just that first step away from the couch in front of the TV is too much for many people. You'll persist, however, because you are a Rifleman. One final thing: As a Rifleman, and as part of a rifle team, you want to get prepared and to be the best shot you can be. You know and understand your role in the defense of liberty, as visualized by the Founders when they drafted the Constitution. But never forget the 'soft war' that's raging now. You and your team should be fighting that 'soft war', in hopes of avoiding a future 'hard war'. You and your team should be waking people up, personally & with Letters To the Editor, educating 'em who to vote for, getting 'em to the range, and helping them to shoot well. And guess what? In the 'soft war', it doesn't even matter one tinker's damn if some of your teammates can even shoot! What do I mean? The 'soft war' is a political war, and the ammunition in a political war consists of contacts and ballots. Think of contacts -- letters, faxes, emails, phone calls -- as rifle rounds, while ballots -- "fired" only on Election Day -- can be considered as heavy artillery shells. There's no reason at all why you shouldn't get as many "soft warriors" as you can, each sending as many pro-Second Amendment contacts -- pro or con, as appropriate for the particular politician -- as they can send between elections. Then on Election Day, a barrage of pro-Second Amendment, pro-freedom ballots comes crashing down.....in support of our pro-freedom political allies, and in opposition to our socialist, gun-grabbing foes. In those 'soft war' battles, anyone -- as long as they are of voting age and registered to vote -- can and will be a freedom fighter, even if they have no desire whatsoever in learning how to shoot. Pretty neat, eh? So, non-shooters can and should be a part of your team in defense of Freedom. And you never know -- lots of us didn't grow up with guns. We came to the tradition through people who cared enough about us and our country to be patient with us. You, as a Rifleman, need to be patient as well. Remember, the crime is not shooting badly. Everybody shoots badly when they start out. The crime is not learning to shoot better. Sure, it's tough -- all of it. But not tough compared to what it'll be if you DON'T do it. So you do it, because it is important. Don't forget to have fun, too! Logged "It calls for real men, not girly-men. Hard-nosed, hard-assed, born-again hard, glittering steel-eyed hombres who can put the trigger on their mother over a five dollar gold piece. Yes, friends, this job calls for a Zombie Hunter."

Grin Reaper Global Moderator Hero Member Offline Posts: 802 Just doin' what I can, with what I got. Re: The Rifleman Series « Reply #7 on: June 04, 2007, 11:33:52 PM » The Rifleman Series -- Part Eight: Ammo and Sights suppliers can be found at the following link, which is maintained by SV Sniper of http://www.m14forum.com/. Thanks, SV! A few caveats/suggestions: 1) Avoid Indian surplus 7.62 like the plague. Scanning the boards over the past few months, the horror shows (stuck cases, etc.) far outweigh any savings gained by the cheap price. 2) Folks shooting calibers other than 7.62 will find food for their machines as well. The key part is to buy as much as you can now, while ammo is cheap. You’ll need enough for learning, teaching others, maintaining your own skill, and supplying your “Rainy Day/Decade” fund. That’s a lot of ammo – a lot more than you have right now, I’ll bet. See suggestions #4 and #5 below. 3) If you can do it, many dealers will give you a substantial cash discount if you pick up at their location (plus you save shipping costs and (sometimes) sales tax). The money you save can pay for the trip, believe it or not! Contact the dealers and see what they’ll do for you. 4) You need more ammo. Buy at least a case for each rifle today. Plus at least 5 mags for each rifle – buy more if you need ‘em. 5) See suggestion #4. Really. If you remember one thing about ammo, it is this – you can never have enough ammo, let alone too much. Figure out how much you will need over the next year, and multiply that amount by five, at least. Then take that amount and multiply it by five again. That’s how much ammo every Rifleman should have on hand for each rifle, all of it easily accessible. Anything less, and you are taking a chance that what can be easily purchased today will be so in the future. Wanna bet on that? How much? How about your life? How about your country? Do you really want to take that chance? Enough about ammo. Now, let’s talk about what you need to get that ammo to go where you want it to go – downrange, on target, in a tight group, at a high rate of fire. Sight settings and trajectory are keys that will unlock many doors. It’ll take a bit of work to learn what you need to know, but then a Rifleman never shys away from the work need to defend Liberty. There are two basic sets of facts you need to memorize. The first is the relationship between where you shots are hitting on the target, the measurement unit of ‘minutes of angle’ – also known as ‘MOA’, and your sight settings. MOA is what your sights are graduated in, whether an M1/M1A or scope. We’ll talk about other rifles later. As the first step, you need to know that 1 MOA = ¼ inch at 25 meters. That distance is important, ‘cuz that’s where you’ll be doing a lot of practice shooting, until you acquire Rifleman skills. That same 1 MOA equals 1 inch at 100 yards. How? Ratios – that icky stuff you avoided back in school. ¼ inch is to 25 yards as 1 inch is to 100 yards. Put another way, 100 yards is four times as much as 25 yards, right? And 1 inch is four times greater than ¼ inch, right? Memorize this ratio so that you have it down cold: 1 MOA = ¼ inch at 25 yards = 1 inch at 100 yards = 2 inches at 200 yards = 3 inches at 300 yards = 4 inches at 400 yards = 5 inches at 500 yards. Memorize that ratio, and you are ahead of 95% of shooters in America, sad to say. Do it, and you will be on you way to thinking in MOA whenever you adjust your rear sight or scope. Now, let’s apply that ratio to some shooting situations. We’ll start at 25M (which is actually 27.32 yards, or 82 feet – we’re talking close enough for Government work, as the saying goes), and have you fire three good shots at your 1” black square. You go downrange, check the target, and find that the center of your group is 1 inch below the aiming point, and ½ inch to the left of the aiming point. First step is to ask yourself if you fired good shots. If not, your group is of no use to you, so go back and fire 3 good shots. Keep at it, using your sling, the Rifleman’s Guide (http://www.fredsm14stocks.com/catalog/acc.asp), and your training until you do. Assuming that the first group were all good shots, it’s time to think about how to adjust your rear sight. If you have a Garand or M1A, your job is simple. All you have to do is remember that each click – windage or elevation – is equal to 1 MOA. Here’s how you do it: 1) Inches: How many inches, for both elevation and windage, is the center of my group away from my aiming point? In this case, you are 1 inch below the aiming point (elevation), and 1/2 inch to the left of the AP for your windage. 2) MOA: The second step is to convert your inch calculations from step #1 above into MOA for that distance. You have memorized the fact that 1 MOA = ¼ inch at 25 meters, so what you need to do is figure out how many ¼ inch units (or MOA units) there are in your 1 inch low elevation, ½ left windage calculations. Anybody know the answer? Anybody? Bueller??? That’s right – 1 inch low elevation equals 4 ¼ inch units, which in turn equals 4 MOA low. ½ inch left windage equals 2 ¼ inch units, which equals 2 MOA left windage. 3) Clicks: Now that you know what your elevation and windage errors are, it’s a simple matter to adjust your M1/M1A sights, on which 1 click for standard sights always equals 1 MOA for both elevation and windage. You know, based on your calculations above, that you are 4 MOA low, so add 4 clicks “up” elevation (that’s the left-side knob) on your rear sight. You should be turning the knob back towards you to add elevation. Same drill for windage, which is the right-side knob on your rear sight. Your windage error is 2 MOA left, so add 2 clicks right windage (checking the markings on the knob so that you know you are turning it the right way. Now, when you fire your confirmation 3-round group and those 3 shots are each good shots, your rounds should be hitting right at your aiming point. Bingo! You have established your 25M zero, which also equals your 200 yard zero, because of the trajectory of the standard NATO load. You are also only one step away from setting your Battle Sight Zero (BSZ), which allows you to shoot without worrying about sight settings all the way out to 275 yards. Next time, we’ll set that BSZ, talk about sighting-in other rifles, and reveal the secret to consistent hitting out to 500 yards….and beyond! See ya next time! Next time, Fred will talk about battle sight zeroes, trajectory, and other "secrets" of the Rifleman. Logged "It calls for real men, not girly-men. Hard-nosed, hard-assed, born-again hard, glittering steel-eyed hombres who can put the trigger on their mother over a five dollar gold piece. Yes, friends, this job calls for a Zombie Hunter."

Grin Reaper Global Moderator Hero Member Offline Posts: 802 Just doin' what I can, with what I got. Re: The Rifleman Series « Reply #8 on: June 04, 2007, 11:38:54 PM » The Rifleman Series -- Part Nine: Battle Sights and Staying Alive Besides learning how to firing a shot ‘by the numbers’, there are two other basic sets of facts you need to memorize as you continue to grow into a Rifleman. The first issue is ‘minutes of angle’ – MOA, and the second topic is your rifle’s basic trajectory. We covered MOA in our last discussion. To recap, this is what you need to know: 1 MOA = ¼” at 25 meters (where you’ll be doing a lot of practice shooting, until you acquire rifleman skills), 1” at 100 yards, 2” at 200, 3” at 300, 5” at 500, and so forth. Basically, just remember an inch for each hundred yards. Memorize that, and you’ll start thinking in MOA whenever you need to adjust your rear sight or scope. Today, we are going to talk about trajectory, a key that will unlock many doors. Central fact -- military .30 caliber rounds are pretty much the same out to 500 yards. Learn the trajectory for one, and you can do pretty well - good enough for government work - with any military .30 caliber. For those of you using either a Garand or an M1A, your trajectory studies are pretty simple. Just memorize the following numerical combination: 3, 3, 4, 4, 5, 5, 6, 8, 8. What’s that? Those are your rear sight’s “come-ups” out to 1000 yards using standard M2 150 grain FMJ ammo for your .30-06 Garand and the standard M80 147 grain FMJ in 7.62x51/.308. Learn those come-ups cold, and you’ll be on target all the way out to 1000 yards, as long as you know (1) your rifle’s initial sight settings and (2) the range to your target. How? Simplicity itself. Assume you have a 300 yard zero on your rifle and you know your target is at 400 yards. Just rotate the left dial on your rear sights four clicks up (rotating the dial back towards you, or, in other words, clockwise), and fire your shot by the numbers. Bang, hit, next target. Easy as pie. Note from Cabinboy: It helped me to memorize the come-ups with the associated ranges, like this: 100-200 3 200-300 3 300-400 4 400-500 4 500-600 5 600-700 5 700-800 6 800-900 8 900-1000 8 See bottom of page 4 of the Guide; order at http://www.fredsm14stocks.com/catalog/acc.asp. If you just wanna walk, before you learn to run, here’s all you need to really know: 3, 3, 4, 4. Those four digits give you the come-ups from 100 yards out to 500 yards. Thus, to shoot at 200 yards instead of 100, you raise your sights 3 MOA/3clicks; from 200 to 300, another 3 MOA/3 clicks, etc. Those of you using scopes will have to read your documentation. Some scopes may have quarter-minute (4 clicks = one MOA) or eighth-minute (8 clicks = one MOA) adjustment. Regardless, as long as you know the come-up in MOA, just apply the necessary clicks to move that amount in MOA. Let’s say you zero at 100 yards, like most guys do. To put your 200 zero on, you simply raise your rear M1/M1A sight 3 clicks, or 3 MOA - the first ‘3’ on the list you just memorized. To shoot 300 yards, you raise your sight another 3 clicks - the second ‘3’ on the list. To shoot 400, raise it 4 more, and 500, another 4. Hence, the ‘3, 3, 4, 4’. If you forget, count the clicks on your M1/M1A’s rear sight between the marked distances. Sound too easy? Don’t worry about that. Remember, when we talk about Rifleman standards, we are talking a group size of 4 MOA from field positions, using rack-grade rifle and ammo. That’s good enough to hit a man-sized target out at 500 yards (or 1" at 25 m), which is good enough if you ever have to defend freedom. And it’s good enough to put you in the elite down at your local gun club. These come-ups are the key to that kind of performance, once you are a Rifleman. But first you’ll have to become a Rifleman. You’ll have to get to the place where you can fire a good shot. If you can’t shoot 4 MOA from prone or sitting, you aren’t going to benefit a lot from knowing your trajectory - or any other knowledge, such as techniques for target detection and range estimation. While those last two tasks come before firing the shot, they are useless if you can’t fire a good shot. So if you can’t shoot 1” groups at 25 m - 82 ft - or 4” groups at 100 yards, with a rack-grade rifle and surplus ammo, from prone or sitting, get our AQT targets and Guide to Becoming a Rifleman - now! One other point we have to get out of the way. The rear sight on the M1 Garand is marked in yards; the sights on the M14/M1A are marked in meters. It’s not a real big difference - meters are about 10% more in distance than yards, so 100 meters = 110 yards [actually 109, but close enough], 200 = 220, etc. Where it comes into play is your Battlesight Zero [BSZ], which is your friend under pressure, ‘cuz if you are within your BSZ setting, you just aim at center mass and let fly without worrying about elevation. BSZ on the Garand is 275 yards, and on the M14/M1A, it’s 250 meters. Now that you know the meter/yard relationship, you know 250 meters = 275 yards, so the BSZs are the same. In other words, both rifles are sighted to shoot pointblank out to 300 yards. At 300 yards, they will both impact 1 MOA low on the target. Since you now know moa, you know that’s 3 inches low at 300 yards, meaning you aim at center mass, and your bullet will strike above the navel. Your target is not gonna know or appreciate the difference, nor will the folks who’ll dispose of what’s left. The rear elevation knob of the M1 and M14 being interchangeable, you need to check your rifle and see which you have. The M1 is marked out to ‘12[00]’, and the M14 goes out to ‘11[00]’ and, in addition, is marked ‘M’ for meters. In each case, BSZ is your 200 zero, plus 2 clicks - or your 300 zero, less one. Here’s how all this come together, on the range or in the field: Example 1: Your 3-shot sighter group at 25 meters is 1” low and ¾” left. What sight adjustment do you need to make? Use the formula from last time – “inches, minutes, clicks”. You already have the “inches”, and at 25 meters each minute equals ¼”, so the clicks on your M1/M1A will be 4 UP and 3 RIGHT. (On your scope, you’ll have to multiply by the number of clicks per MOA - usually either 4 or 8.) Now when you go back to the firing line, while the guys around you are guessing their sight changes - usually wrong – you’ll know that your changes are right. Example 2: Your sighter group at 300 is 1” low and 3” right. Change? Well, at 300 each MOA = 3 inches, so make no vertical change for iron sights, since you don’t have 1/3 of a click, and put 1 LEFT on. For a scope, you’d go UP 1 or 2 clicks, depending on how your scope is calibrated. Example 3: You confirm your 200 zero is 11 clicks UP and 1 LEFT on your M1/M1A sights. How? Once you have verified your groups at your sight-in distance, you count the elevation and windage clicks back to zero for each element, then record your results in your shooter’s notebook. You are keeping a shooter’s notebook, aren’t you? In this situation, what is your BSZ? 13 clicks up, as related above (BSZ = 200 zero + 2 MOA, or 2 clicks with M1/M1A sights). Example 4: Your SKS with iron sights set at 200 yards shoots 6” high at 200. You don’t have your front sight tool with you, and you want to do well in the competition. What to do? The solution: 6” high at 200 is 3 MOA, which is the same 3 MOA you would raise the sight to go from 100 yards to 200 yards (remember – all .30 caliber/7.62 mm military ammo shoots similarly, at least out to 300 yards). So, simply lower your rear sight to “100”, taking those 3 moa back out, and you’ll take out those 6” high at 200 yards and be right on! Example 5: Your best zero is a 200 yard confirmed zero of 11 UP and 1 LEFT. The target is 500 yards away. Can you hit it? Yes, if you adjust your sights per your trajectory. Simply raise them 3 + 3 + 4 clicks to go to 300, thru 400, then to 500 yards, and you¹ll hit a man-sized target. (You¹ll be alert when firing at an unconfirmed zero to spot the first shot if there is a miss, and adjust accordingly. In all cases of calculated sight adjustment, the careful shooter - the rifleman - will confirm the zero at the actual distance at the first opportunity.) Example 6: You fire a sighter group at 100 yards. The group prints 2” high. How do you adjust to get your BSZ on your sights? Your BSZ will print 5” above POA at 100 yards. How do you know that. Your BSZ is your 100 zero + 3 MOA to get to 200 yards plus 2 more MOA to get to 275 yards. This 5 MOA total translates to 5” high at 100 yards. So to get your isgher group up where it should be, you raise your sights 3 clicks/3 MOA/3 inches at your 100 yard range. Example 7: Your friend brings his new Romanian Dragonov in 7.62x54R down to the range and is trying to sight it in. It shot high at 25 meters, so he thought he would try it at 200. Bad idea - if it shoots high at 25, it will shoot proportionately high at 200. Sure enough, down at 200, his sighter group was 18” high. “What do I do?” he says. “The sights are all the way down at 0.” So I said, “Inches, minutes, clicks! Your shot group on the target is in inches; your sights are in clicks; and the bridge across is minutes of angle [MOA].” We went back up to the firing line and looked at the rear sights. An elevation drum marked in meters, with an even 2 clicks from one yardage to the next, indicating a 50-yard graduation. I said, “Here’s what we’ll do. The rifle sights are at zero, and it shoots 18” high at 200 – that’s 9 MOA - remember, an MOA is one inch at 100, 2 inches at 200, etc. So the rifle is shooting 9 MOA high at 200. Since the trajectory is about +3 MOA to 300, and +4 MOA to 400, and +4 MOA to 500 - a total of 11 MOA - you could say the rifle is zeroed at a little less than 500 yards. All we have to do is index the elevation knob to 500, and then bring the sight back to 200.” Loosening the elevation drum, I held the elevation knob steady while I rotated the elevation drum so the sight was set for 500 yards, tightened the lock screws, rotated the knob to ‘200’, and then said, “Fire a group at 200 yards.” That group was 3 inches [1.5 MOA] high and 3 inches [1.5 MOA] right. DOWN one and LEFT one would put him right on! As a Rifleman, you’ll soon start thinking in terms of hundred yard increments, and minutes. To you, a hundred yards (out to rifleman max 500 range) is 3 MOA. Likewise, 3 MOA equals a hundred yards. So if your buddy is trying to sight in his British Enfield at 25 yards, and his group is ¾” low, you immediately can tell him, “Add a hundred yards on the sight”, since his rear sight is graduated in yards. How do you know to tell him this? Because each quarter-inch at 25 yards is one MOA, so he is 3 MOA low, so - since 3 MOA = a hundred yards - all he needs is another hundred on his rear sight. For practical use out to 500, this information’ll get you started. If you want to be effective at longer ranges, learn your trajectory out to 700 or 900 or 1000 yards, and understand that you’ll be juggling a lot more balls in the air in order to make a hit. If you’re planning to go this route, take the time to find a 1000 yard range and get some long-distance zeroes. Take your time, fire each shot by the numbers, and write down EVERYTHING. The knowledge you gain may save your life. Trajectory is your friend. It’ll work for you, if you let it. All you need to do is remember MOA, “3, 3, 4, 4” - and use them before the first shot! Staying Alive If you ever have to show up, show up ready! · Have your bore and chamber clean and bone dry. · Your M1A gas piston and cylinder should be bone dry, from the last time you cleaned it. · Check the tightness of the gas plug, and with the bolt locked back, rotate the muzzle up-and-down, listening to ensure the piston moves freely. · Have your action properly lubed with the correct grease. · Front sight should be blackened with a flat black paint or other blackening. · Sights should be checked for looseness, front and rear. · Carry the complete cleaning kit in butt, along with spare parts & rod guide · Sling should be adjusted to hold the weight of the rifle when you are in your position. A check: the rifle should stay in your shoulder without having to grasp the wrist of the stock with your trigger hand. · Mark the sling so you can always adjust back to the right place. · Have your BSZ on your sight, or the zero for actual estimated distance, like 400 or 500. · Mags should be cleaned and dry, springs lightly oiled. · Other items on your list -- earplugs, cap with bill for shade/rain, clean eyeglasses/eye protection, loaded mags in pouches, at least one canteen of water, a high-energy snack, poncho, extra ammo. Now, fire each shot “by the numbers’, and you’ll do fine. Just remember: double your hit rate and you double your supply of ammo, without spending a penny - or carrying any more weight. USMC Rules For Gunfighting [with a few additions by Fred] 1. Bring a gun. Preferably, bring at least two guns. Bring all of your friends who have guns. [Rule 1.5: Try to make them a TEAM. And make the ‘guns’ rifles - see Rules 5 & 6] 2. Anything worth shooting is worth shooting twice. Ammo is cheap. Life is expensive. [Rule 2.5: When targets get plentiful, have a rifle which requires only one shot to take out a target, and fire only one shot per target. Running out of ammo in a target-rich environment can ruin your life.] 3. Only hits count. The only thing worse than a miss is a slow miss. [Rule 3.5: A fast hit is better than a slow hit. Rule 3.6: A fast miss is trumped by a slower hit. Rule 3.7: Firing too fast can turn a sure hit into a fast miss.] 4. If your shooting stance is good, you're probably not moving fast enough nor using cover correctly. 5. Move away from your attacker. Distance is your friend. (Lateral and diagonal movement are preferred.) [5.5 Engage beyond 300 yards.] 6. If you can choose what to bring to a gunfight, bring a rifle and a friend with a rifle. 7. In ten years, nobody will remember the details of caliber, stance, or tactics. They will only remember who lived. [Rule 7.5: But caliber, stance, skill and tactics may determine who lives - and who dies - today.] 8. If you are not shooting, you should be communicating, reloading, or running. [Rule 8.5: As long as you have targets, and rounds in your mag, you should be shooting.] 9. Accuracy is relative: most combat shooting standards will be more dependent on "pucker factor" than the inherent accuracy of the gun. [Rule 9.2: Shoot to Rifleman standard. Rule 9.3: A ‘kill’ hit is better than a ‘wound’ hit, but a ‘wound’ hit beats a miss - every time.] 9.5. Use a gun that works EVERY TIME. [Rule 9.9 Bring a rifle you can easily clear when it malfunctions.] 10. Someday someone may kill you with your own gun, but they should have to beat you to death with it because it is empty. 11. Always cheat; always win. The only unfair fight is the one you lose. [Rule 11.5. You have to win every time. They only have to win once.] 12. Have a plan. 13. Have a back-up plan, because the first one probably won't work. [Rule 13.5 Plan B - accurate rifle fire will save your ass!] 14. Use cover or concealment as much as possible. [Rule 14.5 Camo clothing, skin, rifle.] 15. Flank your adversary when possible. Protect yours. [Rule 15.5 Be part of a team!] 16. Don't drop your guard. 17. Always tactical load and threat scan 360 degrees. [Rule 17.5 Target Detection is #1!] 18. Watch their hands. Hands kill. (In God we trust. Everyone else, keep your hands where I can see them) [Rule 18.5 Simplify! Keep them them 300+ yards away and once ID’d as enemy, shoot them – fast and well!] 19. Decide to be aggressive ENOUGH, quickly ENOUGH. 20. The faster you finish the fight, the less shot you will get. 21. Be polite. Be professional. But have a plan to kill everyone you meet. [Rule 21.5 Plan consists of SOP and immediate action drills.] 22. Be courteous to everyone, friendly to no one. 23. Your number one Option for Personal Security is a lifelong commitment to avoidance, deterrence, and de-escalation. [Rule 23.5 Win the soft war now, and you avoid the hard war, later. Rule 23.7 Learn to shoot like a Rifleman now; it’s your number one Option for Personal Security when avoidance, deterrence, or de-escalation is not an option.] 24. Do not attend a gunfight with a handgun, the caliber of which does not start with a "4." [Rule 24.5 Do not get close enough to use a pistol -or even a carbine. Distance is your friend. See Rule 5.] [Rule 25. It is not a movie. If you catch a round, save the dramatics, ignore the hit, and keep shooting. You have nothing to lose, and you might even survive.]

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TYRANNY RORSHARCH TEST

The Photo above is from a Durham, NC SWAT raid of a "suspected" crack house.

No drugs were found yet the police treated the incident as a "success"; because a "message" was put out that such activity "won't be tolerated".

So, is "sending a message out" worth THIS?!!

Your answer should tell you just how conditioned by the beast you are to your SLAVERY

J. Croft
http://freedomguide.blogspot.com
www.rumormillnews.com

PROOF OF 9/11 CONSPIRACY!

This is a link to a live BBC broadcast made on 9/11.

They were reporting that the Salamon Bros. Building-known as WTC 7-had collapsed, when it was STILL STANDING!

Near the end of the video you see the BBC Correspondent standing with the WTC 7 still intact behind her, yet they're reporting that it had already collapsed!

They were reading from a SCRIPT! The whole day was SCRIPTED!

Link below:
http://www.liveleak.com/view?i=49f_1172526096

MESSAGE TO THE JEW

MESSAGE TO THE JEW

J. Croft
http://freedomguide.blogspot.com



ATTENTION: This is NOT a “anti-semetic” essay. I am NOT condoning the extermination of any group of people. That kind of thinking is what’s caused so much bloodshed, so much misery for the human race throughout our tragic history. Especially for the Jews, who have been targeted more than any other people in human history. However, I feel its time for me to address the issues surrounding you, the Jew.

This is a topic I’ve been trying to avoid. I’ve been trying to avoid writing to you because I’ve had some ambivalent feelings about criticizing you and your People. Partly due to residual conditioning from growing up a Fundamentalist Christian praying for the apocalypse. Partly because of the nazi tactics some of your People like to use, but mainly because I had doubts and questions about issues pertaining to your People.

The doubts are gone now.

I had doubts as to why you were targeted throughout history; as a Fundamentalist Christian I bought the doctrinal line that Satan was persecuting you and God was judging you for murdering Jesus-yet I was to pray for you because you were the “Chosen People”.

Truth is, there’s nothing special about you, nor anyone else; the doctrine of a group of people being superior to any other is the flip side of the equally misguided belief that other people need to be exterminated because they are inferior… yet both idiocies bring the same outcome.

The fact is, it’s your religion’s doctrine of being so separate, of being God’s Chosen People and the ruthless survival tactics so ingrained into your religion and culture that, yes, preserved it, but have also brought your People so much calamity throughout history:

*Ruthless business some of you practice towards “goy” outsiders while giving special deals and perks to your own. A racial and religious cronyism the elites among you carry way too far without check.

*Willingness to go along and help tyrants crush hapless peoples throughout history so long as a few of you can gain power-even at the expense of the rest of you. And you go along with it.

*Willingness to go along with the deception that all of you are actually descended from Abraham. Most of you look nothing like a Semitic would, you came from what’s now the Ukraine and Southern Russia-the one time Khazar Empire. You lost it to the Mongols when they swept westward across the Russian Steppe.

*Willingness to go along with jawdropping ruthlessness when it comes to silencing those that merely question the Holocaust. I’m not talking about some toothless, tweaked out skinheads, I’m talking about kidnapping Ernst Zundel from America, extraditing him to Canada and then Germany and going so far as to arrest his lawyers for simply acting in defense.

(The man’s a lifelong pacifist. A lot like your Parents were when the Zionists ordered them to econmically boycott Germany, and when the Nazis came to power the Zionists got the British and Americans to deny you refuge. Made your pacifist Parents a easy mark for the SS to round up.)

I’m talking about David Irving, who expressed doubts as to merely the number of your People who died in the Holocaust-in 1989… yet he got THREE YEARS IN PRISON for that speech! That man’s a scholar! I thought with your history your People would have a bit more tact, sensibility and sensitivity about coming off as hypocrites.

*You even let your leaders push through “hate speech crime” legislation that destroys Free Speech… a crucial aspect of living in a Free Society-which explains Zundel and Irving. And not living in a Free Society, with checks and balances, puts you the Jew in particular danger because of your culture’s ingrained aptitude for academics, and achieving success in a power structure already having a heavy demographic loading of your People.

The danger is when the People your people take advantage of have had too much.

Think that’s impossible in America?

As a recovered Fundamentalist Christian I was taught to revere you almost to the status of God, because according to people like Hal Lindsay, Pat Robertson, and Tim LaHaye being on your side was like being on God’s side. I’m certain that as a Jew you view such bloodthirstiness for the apocalypse as horrifying as you would, say, the rebirth of Nazism in Germany. Or it’s institution in America.

I say recovered because I saw the fundamental contradictions in Fundamentalist doctrine.

You’re not gods, you’re people-deeply flawed in your own ways like any other. Yet you’re revered-are made out to be revered by your elites and the Zionist jackals that have hijacked Christianity and turned it into a adjuct of the ADL.

So, doubts out of the way here are my questions:

HOW CAN YOU KEEP ANY LEGITIMATE MORAL STATUS IF YOU LET YOUR PEOPLE TREAT THE PALESTINIANS LIKE YOU AND YOUR PARENTS WERE?

Your People in Israel are committing ethnic cleansing and a slow genocide. Bad enough Palestinians had their lands stolen from them at gunpoint. Bad enough their Arab “brothers” give them only token support. Bad enough Palestinians are untermensch in Israel-remember THAT derogatory term?

Your People in Israel however, aren’t content with such measures. Your People have transformed Palestinian towns and villages into high security prisons, steal the very land needed to grow their food, steal their water. Your People, acting as soldiers continually disrupt their lives with checkpoints, roadblocks, detaining whole groups for hours.

Use them for target practice. CHILDREN are being murdered by Your People.

You say “they want to drive us into the sea”-DUH! Your People stole their land! They had roots thousands of years old-more than a few probably had ancestors who were real Hebrews!

You say “this is the land of our forefathers and Abraham”. Look in the mirror lately? Do you look anything like someone from the Middle East?

Abraham was a Sumerian; black hair, olive skin-essentially an Arab, a Palestinian. Most of your People, and you if you don’t look like a Arab, are descended from the Khazars. Khazars look nothing like Semitic peoples, never set their feet on the Holy Land until the Zionists played power politics and help instigate two world wars to create Israel. Khazars were converted to Judaism in the dark ages by royal decree. You’re a Thirteenth Tribe per the title of the book by Alan Koestler. You and your People are committing fraud by claiming otherwise.

At least some of you justify such fraud, such murderous activities under religious guise. I’m talking about your Talmud. In that book written by your Pharisees is justification for conduct that would make the Nazis shudder. Dwell on that.

SPEAKING OF FRAUD, HOW COME SO MANY “GOY” CAN READILY DISPROVE YOUR PEOPLE’S ACCOUNT OF THE HOLOCAUST?

Yes, your People were singled out because of the actions of your Elite Zionists whom you did little if anything to check-rejecting deals with Nazis to get your People deported while you languished in work camps. Be that as it may, how come your People’s accounts can be disproved, even sixty years later?

How come Dr. Fred Leuchter, a highly respected forensic pathologist and expert on executions went to Auschwitz; he concluded the facilities there could not and were not used for gassing? Your Zionists got him banned from Germany for his findings!

How come Auschwitz and similar “death camps” were really concentration camps used as factories to produce weapons, munitions and other war materials? Weapons?! And yet the only recorded revolt against the concentration camps was at Sobibor, which had a high percentage of Russian POW’s.

Even curators at Holocaust museums regard the whole gas chamber deal as a hoax.

There were NUMEROUS Red Cross visits to the concentration camps; any attempt to mask a genocide would be readily apparent by comparing visits.

And the number of Jews who died is debatable; the “six million” figure is a impossibility given statistics, the nature of the camps and the numbers of Jews who emigrated to Palestine.

Perhaps a million-and a lot of that was by starvation and disease due to lack of food and medicine because of disruption of the German rail network by Allied bombing.

WHY DID THE GERMANS FELT THE NEED TO TAKE SUCH DRASTIC STEPS AGAINST YOU AND YOUR PARENTS?

Zionists orchestrated economic boycotts of Germany when the Nazis took power. That would be expected but not the same Zionists having their political activities tolerated. Nor finding out your Zionists orchestrated America entering World War One in exchange for the British Empire to lay the foundation for the future state of Israel.

But back to the 1930’s; Germans remembered the 1918 revolution. They too had a high percentage of your People dominating law, culture, financial institutions, and a high percentage of smaller businesses. Yes your People do work harder to gain success but your elites don’t know when to quit and felt they could grind Germans into submission. To be denied foreign markets in a country dependant on sales of exports for it’s manufactured goods was bad enough, but to endure the shady practices a lot of your People by a lifetime of Jewish conditioning inflicted-especially the richest-was too much. Your People’s greed made the Nazis job of gaining power that much easier-and we’re talking Germans here, you know they’re some of the most docile, decent, obedient people on Earth! They took your People in after surviving the pogroms in Poland and Russia!

And yes, most of your People work hard just like any other., but in desperate times being found guilty by association is a very hard thing to avoid. You can thank your Zionist elite for leading you to you and your parents trials but undeniably, you may want to take a hard look at how you’re raised, what you believe in. What paths your leaders take you and your people.

(I have to repeat this: did you know that most of the death toll from the concentration camps came at the END of the Second World War-when American and British bomber raids had destroyed Germany’s rail network, effectively cutting off precious food and medicine to the camps? So it could be argued that America and the British Empire were the co-perpretrators of the Holocaust.)

IF YOUR PEOPLE-OR A PARTICULARLY RUTHLESS,ELITE FACTION, CAN PROVOKE GERMANS TO ETHNICALLY CLEANSE YOU FROM THEIR SOCIETY, DOESN’T THAT ALSO SHED SOME LIGHT AS TO WHY NEARLY EVERY OTHER SOCIETY IN HUMAN HISTORY HAS EVENTUALLY TURNED ON YOU?

As stated, your culture and religion make at least some of you too ruthless and too powerful for a People to endure. I’ll use my country’s example; your People dominate our culture, our politics, our economy and far too many of them have an agenda that’s brought my nation to the brink of collapse and self-destruction. Mostly for lining their own pockets like any honest parasite, but also to expand their domination.

*Hollywood movies have a secular, liberal, Jewish outlook that corrodes the family-the basic building block of a healthy society. Instead the state is glorified and it’s portrayal is grossly inaccurate.

*Political Correctness is a way to silence opposition by making everyone afraid to speak honestly, regardless of the truth of their statements which could be readily proven or disproven in a open, free exchange of ideals. For example, someone criticizes Israeli snipers for blasting little Palestinian kids in the head and your Zionists slap the P.C. slur “anti-semite” faster than a quickdraw shooter.

*Bush’s Cabinet is absolutely dominated by Zionist Jews and sycophantic Neoconservatives who make certain Israel has all the political, economic and military support it needs to keep the Palestinians crushed and the rest of the Arab World under threat of nuclear annihilation. They do this and find a way to funnel the public moneys spent into private corporations they control and make war profiteering a art form.

That’s America. In Germany, your elites got so greedy they caused and excasperbated a brutal depression that brought the Nazis to power.

In Russia, your elites made and directed the Communists to power and in the subsequent decades after the 1917 revolution burned thousands of Orthodox Christian churches, murdered millions of small farm owners, attempted the genocide of the Ukranian People… yet not one Synagogue was touched. Criticism of Jews was punishable by death-perhaps because all the ringleaders of the Bolsheviks were actually elitist Zionist Jews themselves… the kind your People have always been neglectful of keeping in check.

The Poles once upon a time tried to exterminate you because your elites worked for their lords and other inbred royalty and ruthlessly collected debts and evicted peasants from their farms.

Every society from the Romans, to the French, to the English, to the Hungarians, Poles, Russians, Germans, Spanish-have kicked you out because you won’t police your own People from going too far and endangering all of you with a brutal backlash.

If enough people tell you you’re an asshole it’s not them persecuting you-it’s you being an asshole in the first place.

AND IF YOUR PEOPLE HAVE BROUGHT SUCH CALAMITY UPON THEMSELVES THROUGHOUT HISTORY, HOW DO YOU THINK AMERICANS WILL REACT WHEN WE COLLECTIVELY WAKE UP?

Americans are the most warmongering people in history-we make the Germans, Russians and Mongols pale in comparison. Proven fact. White, Black, Latino, Asian, Native-it’s our culture that shapes us… or rather, your People trying to shape our culture, government and financial institutions to do the Zionists bidding and keep us stupid and docile. Your People’s culture war isn’t working well enough I’m here to report.

Americans ARE getting fed up with all the hustles, the scams, the fraud, racketeering, thefts, and murders done in OUR name. Crimes often perpretrated by YOUR elites-who you’ve historically failed to keep in check. And Morris Dee isn’t going to get all the guns confiscated out of our hands, not before enough of us are pushed too far and react.

And if you know your history, Americans don’t react in a good way to being pushed too far. Our people invented nuclear warfare, we’ve committed slavery, genocide. You let Your People(and you know exactly whom I refer to)you let them push our backs against the wall and all that middle class Ozzie and Harriet conditioning will slip away and you’ll see savagery the likes you’ve never seen.

And we’ll be looking for people to blame, to hold responsible for what we’ve all lost. We’ll be noting just how privileged Israel’s been to our public servants. We’ll be noting how many KHAZARS are in positions of power. A lot of us, when that day of revolt comes and it will, might confuse Saul the Bank Manager for Wolf Blitzer, or Eli the Plumber for Michael Chertoff. Or maybe some of us just won’t give a fuck and bust in your door and steal your possessions and string you up… even if you really are a plumber or a chef or a mechanic.

Sounds like a skinhead fantasy doesn’t it? Well, you’re helping to bring this about. What are you going to do about it? What are you going to do to help bring the criminals among your People to Justice so as to prevent an American Pogrom against you all?

WHAT CAN YOU DO ABOUT YOUR PEOPLE?

1.)You have to do something about yourself.

Stop being such a follower, so quiet in the face of your leaders criminality. You must make it loud and plain that you do not condone lies, oppression, theft and murder. If you’re a moral person then you must make your morality as un P.C. plain as possible.

Be honest and fair and consistent in everything you say and do. Be the counter example of the Zionists, the REAL Neonazis at the ADL and AIPAC who think nothing of murder and destroying our Freedom for power only for themselves.

Grow a sense of humor about the skinheads and other neo-Nazis. They glorify a dead, failed political movement and do it in a manner befitting a pack of ignorant losers. Next time all ten of them march in public square calling for a national socialist revolution and shipping you off to concentration camps(and they exist in America today), ask them how they can afford to take off from work to march when the lot rent on their trailer’s due?

I would also suggest asking yourself some hard questions about the Torah and Talmud. Ask yourself is murdering other peoples for their land and enslaving the survivors what you believe in as well?

2.)Furthermore, you have to persuade others to stop supporting Zionists and promoters of lies in your People’s name. Every time you stay silent as the Neoconservatives and the Israeli government act like Nazi wannabes you tacitly support their evil. You must lend your voices and support to people and organizations that oppose Zionist imperialism by America and Israel, oppose the Freedom destroying doctrine of political correctness and any notion that Jews are superior to any other People.

3.)About the Talmud: you must openly repudiate its racist, anti-human doctrines. If I a former Fundamentalist Christian can repudiate the fantasy of a “rapture”(invented by a Zionist by the way) that involves the blood sacrifice of 99% of the human race so I could have a mansion made of gold forever, then you can reject the doctrines that 99% of the human race are “goy” cattle fit only for exploitation and/or destruction. Really, the Talmud’s more racist than Mein Kampf!

4.)Be an asset to your community. To risk painting a broad brush, Jews do know how to survive, how to run businesses, how to ingratiate yourselves into positions of power, how to persuade. Average Americans need such skills in order to survive what’s coming.

Your town could use some new leadership. Help organize a emergency recall election to sweep your community of the professional politicians and parasites that have made living in America hell. Take over one single community and rewrite all the laws and cut taxes and you’ll have a beacon of Freedom that will be a Revolutionary example to your surrounding communities. They do likewise and you get control back of the county government and Sheriff-who is the highest law enforcement official in the country… even federal agents have to ask permission from the Sheriff to operate in “his county”.

Be a part of the solution and you won’t have the wholesale scapegoating of Jews in America like what happened in Nazi Germany. That’s including you of course.

We’re all going to have to come together when the hammer’s dropped on the fantasy that is Modern America-a potemkin prosperity created by debt slavery, militarism, and greed. Really, the country’s been in decline for decades now, and pretty soon all of us not of the elite or their toadies are going to be homeless or starving or fighting to survive. That includes you and a lot of scapegoating’s going to go on so make yourself obvious by who’s side you’re on.

J. Croft
http://freedomguide.blogspot.com

BONUS SECTION!

I’d like to show you what I’m doing about those of your People you can’t or won’t control so for all the Palestinians out there reading this I’d like to present to you the Palestinian Guide to Rifle Marksmanship. I assure you in the coming years we’re all going to be considered as Palestinians by the “elite”-including Jews.

THE PALESTINIAN GUIDE TO RIFLE MARKSMANSHIP

Pistols are only for close in, and are meant to help you fight to your rifle should you be dumb enough to go without it.

Aimed rifle fire is still surprisingly effective in this age of guided missiles and precision guided bombs. In Afghanistan the Mujahideen would open fire with Mausers and Enfields at up to 600 meters at a Soviet convoy. The Soviets would dismount and charge up at the Afghan sharpshooters-men with a lifetime of shooting behind them. They’d try to assault up to within AK range and then more Mujahedeen would use AK’s and bombs close up and not being able to react effectively would be taken out.

AK-47’s are as common as sand in your part of the world, but they don’t make the best rifle because:

*inconsistent ammunition produces wildly varying bullet trajectories and thus degraded consistency, which is the key to accuracy.

*the AK-47’s sight plane, the distance between front and rear sights, is a mere 14 inches and is therefore more unforgiving of improper shooting technique than say a FAL or G3.

FAL fires a larger 7.62x51 round but the FAL malfunctions under desert conditions, as you may know. Still, it can be used at much greater range than the AK-47.

M14 uses the same round as the FAL but is much better in the desert. M1 Garands may be around. They’re in a longer .30-06 round and use a en bloc clip, but it’s sights are made for longer range aimed fire. It’s front sight is the same width as a soldier at battle sight zero-it can readily be used as a rangefinder to determine being able to shoot without adjusting for elevation/range.

Any other rifle’s front sight could be used for such a task, but it’s front sight width won’t correspond to it’s battle sight zero as a M1/14.

G3 is the most rugged but it’s recoil is brutal. It’s ergonomics leave much to be desired.

M-16 is accurate, but fires a 5.56mm round. It’s also fragile and it’s operating system requires more maintenance than other rifles.

A good cheap rifle would be a old Enfield or Mauser. They were made to be shot accurately, ammo should still be available somewhere, with the rilfes. They don’t shoot as fast as a FAL or AK but they’ll shoot.

Rifles are made to be aimed, not pointed in a general direction like a oversized pistol and pray to God to guide the bullets.

You can do that yourself. Hold your rifle; notice your sights?

Put the buttplate of your rifle on the meat of your shoulder. If it has a folding stock extend it now.

Raise the barrel up, put your front sight post onto target. Lead a little if the targets moving, and at longer range.

Align your rear sight with the front sight.

Focus on your front sight.

Breath in, exhale partly, hold your breath briefly.

While keeping your front sight on target at the same time squeeze your trigger finger.

Keep your eyes open, on target, let the weapon’s firing be a surprise while keeping your sights on target. This is follow through.

Do this every time you aim and shoot.

Use your rifles for combat and sighting in. Train with airguns, like a spring airgun. BB’s are much cheaper than ammuntion.

Train everyone in the use of rifles-men, women, children. Shoot regularly and often and you’ll not only expand the size of your militia(basically your entire community)but you’ll greatly increase it’s effectiveness.

BEWARE THE POLICE

BEWARE THE POLICE

J. Croft
http://freedomguide.blogspot.com
www.rumormillnews.com

Once upon a time in America, the police officer was a part of the community. An agent of the state, yet a cop had more allegiance to his fellow citizens than to the bureaucrats and career politicians.

Times have changed-been changed-by a elitist political, economic and social movement that seeks to destroy the America we still hold dear in our hearts and transform it into part of a neo-communist empire. I say neo-communist because the policies the government pursues come straight out of the ten planks of communism(1) The state is supreme, and since these TRAITORS are imbedded within the state they get to control that supreme state.

A key component is control of the guns-force. Can’t get people who’d resist having their homes stolen from them for nonpayment of property taxes without force.

Can’t tax people via meticulous monitoring of their daily driving performance without force.

Can’t stop people from organizing resistance to being oppressed without force.

Can’t protect the state from the people without force.

Can’t enforce all the edicts from the bureaucrats and politicians and judges without force.

Get the picture people? Despite your personal relationship with certain cops the police are not and never have been on our side; police forces are standing armies trained to “keep the peace”. Their “peace” is YOUR SUBMISSION! And they are lavishly equipped for the job:

*A vast, ever expanding legal code designed to entrap the people and give the state’s agents the license to steal from them and kill them.

*Weapons-from aluminum nightsticks, pepper spray, TASERS, and handguns to assault rifles, sniper rifles up to .50 caliber, high explosives, armored fighting vehicles, even military aircraft. A standing army indeed.

*A subculture that’s kept insulated from the mainstream, a cult of authority and power that never ceases to glory in it’s affectations of self-righteousness, it’s prowess against ignorant, hapless victims. Drawing from those that naturally gravitate toward authoritarianism, cops today are molded into the state’s enforcers, robotically and sadisitically enforcing laws written by lawyers, judged by lawyers.

“But, the police are here to protect and serve.” The police are NOT required to protect you. Want proof? Look at the Columbine Massacre in 1999; the police, heavily outmanning and outgunning Eric Harris and Darren Klebold, simply laid siege to the high school and as everyone self-evacuated the police ROUNDED THEM UP AND APPREHENDED THEM AT GUNPOINT!

They didn’t lay a hand on Harris and Klebold-they simply kept shooting until their meds drove them to suicide instead of mass murder.

Ruby Ridge, Waco; federal agents wielding automatic weapons, body armor and armored vehicles just like the hero cops that didn’t do jack in Littleton, Colorado went all out on a backwoods family and a small communal Texas church. Women and children were openly targeted and MURDERED.

Isolated examples you say? Crack open your paper, look around, observe YOUR PUBLIC SERVANTS in action. Do they remotely act like the hollywood cops you see on TV every night? If you’ve ever been harassed over a “infraction”, profiled, or worse you know the right answer. Today’s cops are NOT like Sgt. Joe Friday, T.J. Hooker, or any cop character Bruce Willis or Mel Gibson played.

As Boston T. Party so eloquently wrote in “You and the Police”, the police work for the state and the state is looking for bodies.

Yours will do just fine.

IF you get stopped and you will sometime, have a voice recorder going. Yes you have to identify yourself and present ID and proof of insurance-what you get for letting professional politicians and their lobbyist pimps write the laws rather than you getting involved.

You can refuse search requiring a warrant but the cops will do a inventory search anyway-have any valuables and other no-no’s locked in a place secured to the car. Something that will require Probable Cause to get a warrant to open.

Probable Cause-in your encounter, you must deflect your public servant’s ideal of a Reasonable Articulable Suspicion. Basically he’s looking to justify his finding a excuse to stop and detain you on your normal business into a reason to arrest you. If you look like a ordinary person with no obvious criminal activity in a jurisdiction that doesn’t have harassing everyone they can get away with as their sole preoccupation you… may have a chance of continuing about your normal business.

And for God’s sake, watch your temper. A lot of cops are just itching for a provoked fight and will think nothing of putting you into the hospital. Some would just love to add another notch on their gun and put you in the ground.

And yes, race too has a impact on this. No arguing there.

If you’re lucky you get a ticket and a date with a traffic court and some fines. Otherwise you get arrested with extreme risk of bodily harm to yourself, even death. You’re thrown into cells designed to inflict a low grade form of chronic torture by discomfort. You’re surrounded by a ruthless criminal element deliberately cultivated by the state to terrorize you into continued support of their All-American tyranny… maybe you’ll make some new friends and avoid being raped.

You get some court appearances. You’ll be compelled to plea bargain for a “reduced sentence”. You’ll be compelled to hire a lawyer to defend-for lack of a better word-you, presumably against fellow lawyers who prosecute you and judge you on laws they wrote. Usually they work out a “script” beforehand, in spite of your innocence or guilt, or the fault of the law being enforced.

Getting a jury trial? Getting even one person who understands that JURIES CAN NULLIFY THE LAW amounts to something of a miracle as such knowledge is actively suppressed by the legal system.

And it all costs a lot of money, as the legal system is a racket and lawyers measure their time by the hundreds of dollars-per-hour. So no wonder the numbers of acquittals are small. No wonder 1 out of 100 Americans are now in the system in some way. Like I said, it’s what you get for letting professional politicians and lawyers run YOUR GOVERNMENT for you.

So what do we do?

First, you have to protect yourself.

I know this is supposed to be a Free Country BUT, try not to look or act like a “dirtbag”. Sad to say it, but middle class, mainstream American “conformists” are “less” likely to be harassed than others. Rich looking people are the least likely of course to be confronted by the police.

Make certain your car is up to code. Nothing broken, nothing that suggests “dirtbag” to cops. Some cars are automatically “suspicious” like those “gangbangers” gravitate toward.

Certain times you’re at greater risk for busts. Always be careful at night. If you see a long line of cars, and in the opposite lane there are cars at regular intervals, there’s a roadblock; immediately find a alternate route to your destination or you will be stopped. Be careful around schools as well, and any place that may remotely look like a speed trap. Any area where bars are at you’ll have cops fishing for busts for any reason they can come up with.

Wire up some tiny spy cameras and microphones in your car; in the front and back with a hidden activation switch to get evidence of evidence planting or police brutality. With the police officer also being an officer of the court, his mere word is considered as evidence, so you’ll need solid proof of your innocence. Only video makes that standard these days.

Perhaps you can travel in a group-safety in numbers. One guy gets stopped the rest stop as well.

Just about any behavior can be labeled “suspicious” by cops. Watch what you do. Any sideways glances, any uppity attitudes can and will be squelched by weak people with too much power who’s sense of person is dependent on how much authority they can wield on others.

For further reading, Boston T. Party’s “You and the Police” is available at www.javelinpress.com and I highly recommend it. It has everything you need to know to defend yourself against your average power hungry cop short of violence.

Better to be able to change the law and eliminate the dirty cops. This is politics so you must enter the political arena. You want change in the laws and the way the laws are enforced you have to get in a position to make those changes.

“How to win a local election”-written by lifelong political hacks provides a textbook to spring off of, but mostly you’re looking to get elected by finding your locale’s hot buttons and pushing them as long and hard as possible. This book you’ll find at your local bookstore in the politics section.

You want to change the cops you have to change your institutions-you have to actually take over the decision making process from professional politicians and parasitic lawyers. Local towns-not big cities-are the achilles heel of the beast’s political system, and the United States Government is part of the beast that’s turned this once greatest of nations into it’s absolute opposite.

Local town government is how most government power is enforced upon the People. These are shady, small minded cretins for the most part who revel in their power over our lives. They gladly go along with the status quo of taxes and regulations and current American political thought in order to profit for themselves.

Inevitably, they piss people off about something. That is what you use to inflame opposition-opposition enough to get people to the polls on election day.

You could have a election sooner than you think. Look through your town’s local laws for anything allowing a emergency recall election. Follow the procedures.

Organize your campaign; get your candidates, get your volunteers. Know your demographics; what kind of people live where, where your support’s at where your opposition’s at. Most likely you’ll have the poor areas and middle class to support you while the rich will want the status quo-but that’s a rule of thumb.

Have your red button issues. Hammer on them relentlessly. For those that retain that American attribute of hapless apathy, remind them that THEIR POLICE wouldn’t harass them for all kinds of stupid stuff if they were ORDERED not to. BEWARE OF THE POLICE, THEY WILL BE DIRECTED TO STOP YOU!

Come election, and your slate wins you and your people will actually have political power. Now that you’re in the driver’s seat it’s time to take care of some election promises. Cut some taxes. Eliminate property taxes and allow full alloidial title so that the People truly own their homes and land and be secure in their ownership. Create tax-free zones in all those boarded up downtown buildings for local small businesses. Go over your town’s Comprehensive Annual Financial Report and see where your town’s invested in… maybe that money would be better spent on schools or tax breaks.

And to get back to the point of this article, clean up your police department. Get a copy of their departmental procedures and start some very heavy editing. Clean YOUR POLICE DEPARTMENT of any and all law enforcement officers who have betrayed the trust of the People. Get input from any decent Peace Officers whether on your force or not. Your police department can’t be of the People unless it’s run BY the People.

ANY piece of equipment “donated” by the federal government MUST BE RETURNED! Under federal guidelines, accepting federal assistance puts YOUR POLICE DEPARTMENT UNDER FEDERAL CONTROL! And you spent a lot of time and money to get elected just so you could rein in your rogue cops.

What of the laws coming from the county government? First you have to take over enough small communities in your county to win a county-wide election. That means duplicating your success in surrounding communities, preferably at the same time.

Taking control of county government is a bigger goal, but if you free your town from the current crop of socialist, elitist parasites it will become a beacon, an example of Freedom that other communities will see, and duplicate. Taking control of a county means running your candidate for Sheriff-this is big because the Sheriff is the highest ranking law enforcement authority… he can even prohibit state and federal authorities from operating in “his county” without permission.

Taking over a whole county… instituting government deconstruction and return of Freedom and assets back to the taxpayers will go a long way toward greatly improving the quality of life in your community; politically, economically, socially, and would greatly reduce the need for police.

See the logical conclusion? Take over enough counties and you have enough grass roots political muscle to usurp the Democrat/Republican party lock on your state’s government. Run your candidates and with the examples of your community, and your county(PROVIDED YOU CAN KEEP THE ELECTIONS FAIR)you could win control of YOUR STATE’S GOVERNMENT.

Win control of your state government and you can disband your state’s highway patrol, on the general principle that I’ve never heard of a state trooper who wasn’t a programmed law enforcing robot. You can also bring your state’s finances under the same scrutiny you did your local community. Start scrapping laws and create tax-free enterpeneur zones for the poorest in all those boarded up city storefronts. You’ll see an even bigger improvement in quality of life, which will mean of course less need for police.
Win enough states and now winning the federal government is within reach. I advocate it’s utter dismemberment and replacement with something… a hell of a lot smaller.

This of course is contingent on there being elections and a Constitutional government, which would be null and void in a martial law scenario or when the “elites” realize their plans of integrating America, Canada and Mexico into their “north american union”. In either case, there will be no elections and your local police will truly be unleashed.

J. Croft
http://freedomguide.blogspot.com
www.rumormillnews.com

1) 1-Abolition of property in land and application of all rents to public purposes

Unless you possess Texas property with alloidal title, you “own” Real Estate-you pay a yearly property tax to the county. You miss your tax you lose your land in a tax forfeiture sale. I myself tried to take advantage of this communist policy and get a house and flip it for ten to twenty times what I’d pay out but that’s a racket that already has big fish in it… or they get a lot of people in on the bid so they can max out the profits.

2-A heavy progressive or graduated income tax

Federal, state and local taxes, are rated according to income but unless you’re homeless you’re going to dish out at least 40% to some kind of tax scheme. Medieval serfs paid less.

3-Abolition of all rights of inheritance

Ever heard of the estate tax?

4-Confiscation of the property of all emigrants and rebels

You leave America and renounce citizenship the government takes your property and/or make you pay taxes for three more years. You try resisting the government in self-defense they take your property. The forfeiture laws make a broad sweep and any excuse the government can make to take what’s yours they’ll do it.

5-Centralization of credit in the hands of the state by means of a national bank with state capital and an exclusive monopoly

When the Constitution was signed, there was a standard of coinage of silver and gold that anyone was allowed to follow to legally coin their own money.

Two attempts at a national bank were defeated in the 19th century and America enjoyed a decentralized banking system with a stable money. With the fraudulant passing of the 16th ammendment we now have a heavy, progressive income tax and a privately owned, centralized credit and money issuing system with a monopoly on issuing money.

6-Centralization of the means of communication and transport in the hands of the state

The FCC requires a license to transmit over airwaves. Licensing-permits form the state-are required to use public roads.

7-Extension of factories and insturments of producitons owned by the state; the bringing into cultivation of waste-lands, and the improvement of the soil generally in accordance with a common plan.

Basically the zoning laws, and regionalism.

8-Equal liability of all to labor. Establishment of industrial armies, especially for agriculture

A national draft for non military needs has been proposed and will be enacted during martial law. Conscript labor is already a reality in the nation’s 3 million prisoners.

9-Combination of agriculture with manufacturing industries; gradual abolition of the distinction between town and country by a more equable distribution of the population.

Corporations, with much of their outstanding stock owned by the government control most agricultural land in the US.

10-Free education for all children in public schools. Combination of education with industrial produciton.

Public schools run under the Marxist NEA have dumbed down Americans for generations. Most people are “guided” into “careers” to be useful to the govenrment and corporations instead of receiving a balanced education.

FEAR

FEAR

J. Croft
http://freedomguide.blogspot.com


What do you do that is so important that it keeps you from facing what’s wrong with America?

What the hell could be so fascinating about some billionaire owned sports club or some skank celebrity that it keeps you glued to that electronic narcotic known as the TV set for hours at a time?

Is it that there’s so much wonderful sh!t on that it keeps you from finding out what’s really going on-like how come cops nowadays are so psychotic they tazer and shoot children?!

How come voting Democrat isn’t cleaning up the government?! Or stopping inflation or the continued disembowelment of America’s economy, or stopping the stage managed drug war?

Maybe it isn’t that American culture is so fascinating, maybe it’s just plain FEAR.

You’re not alone:

There’s a Working Family; Dad, Mom, maybe two or three Children. There’s love, but they’re not together. They can’t be. Dad works the night shift at the auto plant-because his Dad got him in and it was good money(relatively speaking)for a wage job. Yet Dad’s constantly worrying not only about pleasing his demanding bosses, but about threats of wage cuts, benefit cuts-kids gotta have braces and shots full of mercury and viruses, and other modern day hustles like health insurance.

Mom works through the day, at a diner-dealing with all kinds of customers, the leering stares of her boss sexually fantasizing about her… not that she’d be tempted by his slovenly greasy ass. She hates her job, but she needs it, oh so badly, and that lecherous pervert she calls “sir” knows it. Job performance is key; it’s a frantic pace serving the lunch rush and screw ups wreck the whole rhythm of work flow. In the back of her mind Mom worries about her kids, how much she and her husband haven’t been around for them.

Both FEAR that despite their best efforts they won’t be able to give their Children the opportunity to go to college and raise themselves up in status-although that FEAR is never, ever talked about since everybody KNOWS America is all about equality… unless you’re black or latino, or some other kind of white trash.

There are millions of Americans, of all ages, ethnicities and cultures. They all get up at a time they don’t want to, travel to a job they don’t care for. They endure a gauntlet of stultifying work, horrible managers and bosses, and then commute back and forth hoping they don’t get pulled over for going at the wrong speed or noticing their taillight’s broke because they had to spend the money on rent or groceries or gas-the last two items the prices never seem to fall! They come home and after that physical and mental ordeal they’re so drained understanding how their nation and destiny have been systematically stolen is… just not happening.

You think all these Americans don’t have the dread of their bosses deciding their job’s the next to be outsourced to Chinese slave labor, and their paycheck-to-paycheck existence will come to a end in a alleyway begging for change?

Yet, without much hope they set their alarm clocks to get up the next morning and do it all over again.

There are thousands of otherwise decent folks who made the horrible lapse of judgement and became government bureaucrats. Whether it’s for the pay or they perceived they were doing society some good they went to college, took the requisite pol sci courses with the neo-Marxist professors and whatnot. They passed their civil service exams. Then they found out the real deal; they found themselves a part of the beast, the amalgamation of federal, state and local government that through the tyranny of (supposedly) good intentions robs us all of our money, our time, our wellbeing, our Lives and our very Freedom. They work with power hungry little trolls, each of them brainwashed by their college professors to believing themselves the “intelligentsia” the “elite”, each of them the king of their own anthill. They work for a caste of neo-marxist administrators, career politicians-all lawyers, all traitors.

You think these Americans don’t live in constant FEAR that they serve the beast and it’s sole purpose is to conquer and to consume and to destroy the futures of our nation, our planet and every person it can? That all the purposely designed bureaucratic misery they and their kind come down on each and every one of us-that somehow if they can’t stop it or even slow it down they just might face judgment for their crimes one day?

Yet without much hope they get up each morning and pick their battles as best they can without getting fed to the beast themselves.

There are millions of Americans, born in the backwoods, the trailer parks, the gutted out factory and mining towns of what their-our common-enemies dub “flyover country”. Born without, they struggle with hunger, with poor health, poor education. They struggle with trying to make ends meet in a economic dead zone, that “American Dream” exported long ago. Most of all they struggle with class and racial bigotry licensed by their enemies-our enemies-through the culture and official government policy. America’s white n!ggers, the peoples of the South and Appalachia, if they would wake up, shed their blind loyalties, their blind hatreds perhaps they and the blacks and all the latinos exploited like slave labor could forge a new America, truer to what we think this nation should be.

Except they still hang on to their delusions and prejudices, in FEAR that their lives truly are that worthless, that the stereotypes are that true. Or even that they have always been and always will be America’s white n!ggers.

Yet they get up at four in the morning, and get to the factories and coal mines and try to make their bills.

There are hundreds, thousands of beautiful, talented men and women who every day attempt to make their childhood dreams reality in the cesspool known as the entertainment industry. Most are crushed in the attempt at penetrating what amounts to a racket that demands you sell out-put out on the casting couch-to a ideology and a lifestyle that does great harm not only to themselves but to the nation as they’re used as pawns for social engineering and thought control. A few actually make it. Most don’t and either head back home to salvage what’s left of their lives or use themselves up salving the pain of having their dreams crushed with drugs. Some are in a hellish no man’s land of being one great project from success yet so terrifyingly close to oblivion-and time is not on their side. They’ve made horrible mistakes or twists of fate and they try to struggle on, but as much as their friends and family support them those that run the entertainment industry treat them like plutonium… as if their scandals and treasons don’t deserve the death penalty. They’d love to blow the lid on the whole sordid thing but know their voice would never be heard.

You think these men and women don’t have their fears, and dread how inevitable they are?

Yet they go from one audition to another, not giving up, going for Greatness irregardless of their past failure, the tragedy that hangs over their head like a sword.

There are Police Officers who stay true to their oaths to protect and uphold the Constitution. These lone souls do their best to protect the People from not just the criminal element on the streets, but the criminal element that has entrenched itself in positions of power. Daily they walk a tightrope between doing what’s right and being able to do their jobs amidst the sneers of those that love their jobs, love their power, love that no matter what happens to America they’ll most likely keep their jobs as massah state’s overseers.

You think the brave cops that work in that enviroment don’t have moments of fear, of despair?

Yet they strap their bulletproof vest and gun on every day and face their own mission impossible.

There are millions of Americans-probably a lot like you in some ways yet different. The existence they live doesn’t have nearly the opportunity to work a 9 to 5 job for the reward of maybe 5% of the effort they put into it. No, these Americans are stuck in economic and social dead zones, trapped by poverty, lack of opportunity and culture. These Americans could just say the hell with it and resign themselves to being without, being beaten or shot for the crumb they struggled to get. Most do, but some don’t; they band together and however way they can… even if it means hurting you… they struggle against their circumstance, against the power structure oppressing them. All to even TRY to grab a peace of that American Dream that’s promised on the TV.

You think these gangbangers, these criminals, these Designated Urban Boogeymen don’t have their moments of despair, of FEAR it’s all futile?

Yet they get up every morning and do what they got to, against us, because the rest of us ceded control of our Nation to those criminals in three piece suits that proclaimed themselves “experts”.

There are hundreds of thousands of Americans who remember what that meant once. Remember in their hearts and minds our history, our true purpose. Not to die with the most toys but to help kindle the flame of Freedom, to be an example to the rest of Man to emulate, to even improve on. They write, make videos, pass out flyers, get on the low powered nearly unnoticed college radio station week after week. They wage a herculean struggle against the socially engineered apathy, resignation, and most of all, the FEAR of nearly everyone around them. Apathy enough to tune out the in-our-face treason, resigned enough to settle for perhaps enjoying the weekend ball game as the sum of one’s purpose, fearful enough to forget that together, united as one voice they still have the power to say NO!

This collective psychological surrender is what those hundreds of thousands of Patriot Americans struggle against. You think for one second they don’t reckon with the certain knowledge that they’re playing with fire by speaking out? I know for a fact I struggle with that FEAR of futility, of being brutally and permanetly silenced.

Yet, we still lay their hands on the keyboard. Grab the latest bunch of flyers, our camcorders, sit by the mikes and at their assigned time thousands of people listen to them for the Truth, hoping that they remain on the air, that they don’t burn out and quit, or worse be silenced by massah state.

FEAR.

It rules our lives, our thoughts.

FEAR has shaped us, molded us into worker bees for massah corporation and massah state. Molded us into overseers. Molded some of us into resisting being enslaved by massah by either criminal activity or practically accepting a vow of poverty and a perpetual set of crosshairs on our foreheads by assuming the lonely, despised title of Patriot.

FEAR is what most Americans grow up with. FEAR of being hit by Mom and Dad. FEAR of being punished by those entrusted with what’s known as “education”. FEAR we’ll violate some infraction and suffer the wrath of authority… which dovetails nicely into the slots massah state and massah corporation had planned for us all along. FEAR that, if we’re not “productive citizens” that not only will we not partake in the cruel, increasingly fleeting mirage known as the er, “American Dream”, that we’ll even wind up as homeless, or common criminals.

FEAR of exclusion-which the homeless and common criminals face every day. Of being socially exiled into a underclass in a nation trained by college “educated” social scientist to both think in terms of class, status and at the same time hold oh so desperately onto the mortgage, the no interest lease on the family land yacht, the slave labor made baubles that once upon a time, fucking Americans made for themselves!

Yeah, if you’ve followed my writings at http://freedomguide.blogspot.com www.apfn.org http://indymedia.org and now at www.rumormillnews.com I’ve written repeatedly and at times excessive length about how enslaved we are.

Enslaved by a century of government and corporate policy in how we gain our sustenance, how we shelter, clothe and feed ourselves. Enslaved by the opinions and thoughts of others that out of deliberately engineered childish ignorance we adopt as our own because it came out of that electronic narcotic, the TV.

Most of all, we’re enslaved by simple, craven FEAR. Animalistic, natural FEAR of being dependent on a inherently evil system, of losing what little we’re permitted by it. And that reaction is counted on by those social scientists that prostitute themselves to the beast, to massah state and massah corporation.

We are owned by massah, slave-mind, body and soul. That is the root of your FEAR-that you’re really a slave.

Well, you are. So am I.

We’re property; our birth certificates are filed with the goddamn federal department of commerce!

Massah state owns the land your mortgaged home sits on. Want to dispute that, try not paying the rent-er, property tax for a single year. Try it and then you can experience just how wonderful being dirty, hungry, cold and a constant target of thugs and thug cops is.

We have millions of miles worth of PUBLIC ROADS we paid taxes to create, yet we have to apply to massah state for permission to use them with a car that they can revoke at any time.

We have a Constitutional Right to Bear Arms except where prohibited by law and by what type.

More and more places you can’t smoke. Social drinkers become the target of DUI law racketeering that feeds back to the court, the prison system and the lobbyists that get a piece of that action.

Nazi-ass “political correctness” chokes free debate-there are certain subjects that can get you labeled a “racist” or “radical” or “kook”. You know which ones; like the FACTS about 9/11, or how many people really died in Nazi concentration camps during World War II, or who really shot Kennedy. People have literally been imprisoned for saying the wrong thing.

Want to exercise your religion? Better be a minority because the nazi-assed ACLU will jump down your throat for any “public displays” if you’re a mainstream Christian. Have a church? That had better be registered by the internal revenue service if you want it tax free-and then there’s “political activity” that you’re prohibited from engaging in.

You can forget about a fair trial even if the enemy doesn’t declare you a “terrorist” and “rendition” you to a foreign country to be tortured.

All your other Constitutional Rights are simply not recognized by massah-and do you even know what the hell they are?! When’s the last time you read YOUR Bill of Rights?

We have what’s bullshitted to us as a representative government yet most of these clowns are related to each other by ancient bloodlines. It’s the truth: Google BURKE’S PEERAGE. They certainly act like royalty spending our money and at the same time stealing our rights until we’re now keeping quiet in honest fear we’ll be picked up on suspicion of terrorist activity. And spend the rest of our lives being tortured for that suspicion.

You’re afraid all the above and a lot more are true, which is why you willfully hide from facing the terror every day. Just keep working fo’ massahs an’ bide your time for the weekend where you can hit the bar or watch the game or take that road trip or whatever else nonsense you keep yourself occupied with to unwind while your nation-OUR NATION-is systematically destroyed.

Guess what slave? Things will never, ever get better until you make up your mind to face your FEAR.

Nothing of consequence to restore what’s been stolen from us will be gained until we are willing to sacrifice our comfort, our very lives in order regain our Freedom.

That means facing our FEAR.

Funny thing about “fear”, it’s like a schoolyard bully; it’s a real menance, and looks like it’ll crush your ass and go grab a six pack for all it’ll think of you. You face it down and give it a good asskicking and it don’t come back.

Oh, the troubles will certainly still be there but it’s the FEAR that is the central pillar that supports the structure of tyranny that keeps you and me enslaved. Yes massah state and massah corporation are formidable but take away that central, supporting pillar of FEAR and their whole house comes crashing down upon them. It’s just that massah’s still in business because not enough people have faced their ingrained fear down.

How do you face down your FEAR?

Good question, because the answer’s different with every individual.

Some will FEAR having to change their views… okay a lot of people will. Fools of all ages, vocations and colors hold onto their timeworn prejudices like family heirlooms. If you consider your great grandpa’s ball and chain from slavery a priceless heirloom you could make that argument.

For what? You really think, white people, that to keep hating blacks is going to lift you out of your home grown third world hellhole called Appalachia? Or save your dying Middle America-murdered by the same pack of blueblooded traitors that run our nation into the ground like it’s a birthright?

You really think, black, that every white person’s a Klan member? You KNOW how fucked up America is, the shafting that’s the real deal. You think blame all whiteys is going to lift you out of the home grown third world hellhole called the inner city? Or save your dying dream of making it in Middle America-murdered by the same pack of blueblooded traitors that run our nation into the ground like it’s a birthright?

You really think, latino, that you’re going to pull off this “reconquista” daydream-or at least get even from those greedy enough to exploit you for seven bucks a day(is it lower?) You think-considering you pull off the impossible and make it past all the millions of Americans who will fight you to the bitter end, and make a blood enemy for generations to come-that this “Aztlan” is going to get you Freedom? Prosperity? Consider whose running the campaign; all they want is a empire of their own so they too can exploit you for seven bucks a day.

See the hustle of race hatred? It’s perpetrated by the very people you’re taught-programmed-to look up to. They try to frame America in the ideal of race or even to a safe point for them, class. Those are lies-America is a IDEAL of Freedom brought into reality. Freedom is for everyone and while THIS America has truly betrayed Freedom, has done it’s utmost to kill it and get away with it, OUR America will rise again… or could if you’d get over your FEAR.

Maybe loss of your most cherished hatreds isn’t your problem… maybe it’s what you think you have:

Some will FEAR losing what they perceive as their friends. Americans make “friends” way too easily so they don’t value people, just like they’re trained to not value anything else. What you need to truly fear is not having anything you hold precious, that means something. What in your miserable lives is worth more than living free in a land clean of toxicity, in a society that upholds that Freedom?

Some will FEAR losing their jobs, their lifestyle-your lifestyle’s slavery! Wake the hell up and know that the five percent of the fruits of your labors massah corporation kicks to you for all your sweat and tears, government takes half, and your mortgage, car loan and credit cards bills take the rest. All of it benefiting a few thousand way too rich old white men that control the corporations, the government. What is it about being dependent on massah is more attractive than freeing yourselves from their chains and learning how to sustain yourself and work for yourself?

A whole lot will FEAR the time and effort it will take liberating yourself-it might mean missing your favorite shows on TV. Thirty seconds into watching that damn thing your mind essentially falls into a sleep-like state… so ask yourself what is it about allowing our enemies to literally PROGRAM you that is worth more than taking time away from TV worship to waging a peaceful revolution?

…While we still have a political system we can affect change with?

Some will FEAR losing what they reckon as their “freedom”. First off, you know you’re really not Free; otherwise you wouldn’t have read this far! To massah state you’re sure as hell not free to:

*marry
*drink
*work one’s profession
*preach
*bear arms in defense of one’s self and theirs
*drive
*conduct business
*protest
*buy or sell

without massah’s tax or license. Certainly not without the blessings of massah’s army of bureaucrats and agents and thugs who exploit that we won’t stand for our rights. Certainly not unite with others being oppressed like cr*ckers or n!ggers or b&aners who’s being crushed by massah when they get uppity.

And certainly, everyone will FEAR losing their lives. Know this: your body’s genes will make more mistakes than can be fixed and you’ll wear out, but you, your soul is eternal. Everyone’s going to face death someday and the only cure for that is to have a purpose from God to set things right. Again:

OVERCOME YOUR FEAR WITH THE REALIZATION THAT YOU’RE HERE FOR A PURPOSE!

And no I’m not talking about that bucktooth douche Joel Osteen’s self indulgent me generation pandering garbage. You people have had enough of being made to feel good. You feel so good it’s killing you; everyone going through bankruptcy now, or are gonna, you think they don’t regret not facing reality before the party ended?

Your party will end too. You know this, otherwise like I stated, you wouldn’t have read this far.

I’ll spell your purpose out to you: it’s to help reclaim the America we’ve all let go of for the false promises that have made you a debt slave. That have made you forget one of the most important lessons of history… you can’t count on your enemies to respect what’s yours. It takes fire and spilled blood and inflicting unbearable tragedy and death to secure what’s yours. And yes, that’s NOT a lesson taught in the state run publik skools and the megacorporate owned media and cultural outlets. Teaching Freedom doesn’t make for good slaves.

Two centuries ago brave men, some of them rich, gave all to gain Freedom. I have some examples here, cribbed from a favorite book of mine, Hologram of Liberty: Signers of the Declaration of Independence…

FRANCIS LEWIS had his home burned and his wife tortured by the British for two years. She died shortly after her release.

JOHN HART’S home was looted and burned, his ailing wife died and his 13 children scattered. He eluded capture by sleeping in caves.

The 1,000 acre estate of LEWIS MORRIS was ransacked and burned. His home was destroyed, his cattle butchered, and his family driven off.

RICHARD STOCKTON was imprison and repeatedly beaten at the brink of starvation. His home was destroyed, his papers burned.

CARTER BRAXTON saw virtually every merchant ship he owned sunk or captured. He was forced to sell off his land.

THOMAS NELSON, JR. led 3,000 Virginia militia against the British. Redcoats took refuge in his own home, so he turned a cannon on it.

Doesn’t sound like you or me does it?

I’ll tell you the truth: the only difference between them and us is they realized that there are Ideals worth fighting for that are more precious than their own loved ones lives. That to struggle for a Future of their own design is worth more than all the gold, all the land and businesses and ships and goods they could ever hope to acquire. www.hermes-press.com has some more philosophical thoughts about the greater need of humanity has to overcome one’s own intolerable losses. Yes the struggle for Freedom will get this ugly.

Order Hologram of Liberty at www.javelinpress.com learn how a pack of bankers and lawyers hijacked the American Revolution-OUR Revolution and turned it into the beast we all struggle with every day. Then order Boston’s Gun Bible.

SO, WHAT, AM I ADVOCATING REVOLUTION?

Yes-a SMART, hopefully PEACEFUL Revolution but I’m not counting on our enemies to be peaceful.

See, elements in government actually WANT a armed uprising of some kind after they’re done using this country up to forge their “new world order”. Collapse the economy when the Americans are no longer needed or wanted as consumers and soldiers.

Being without the knowhow to fight properly or even just to survive, millions will starve helpless. Millions more will throw themselves blindly at government forces, guns at their hips blazing away wasting ammo as the TV taught them that gosh, the good guys shot this way and the bullets hit the bad guys why ain’t this work-ugh.

Millions more will toady up to their enslavers, now fully unveiled for the beasts they are hoping for another piece of bread to fuel their starving bodies in another day of abject slavery.

Yes, millions will die when the financial props holding the corpse of America’s economy are kicked out from under us… with all the factories gone, everyone a debt slave to keep up the appearances of prosperity, our military stretched to a breaking point so it’ll destroy itself destroying the rest of the planet… So that means learning some basic trades, like repair work, metallurgy, agriculture. Google Lindsay’s Technical Books, spend a couple hundred bucks and then find something that matches your temperment. Kurt Saxon also has some good info in his Survivor series-order that at www.survivalplus.com . Also, check out www.survivalblog.com for a lot more articles.

As for guns… violence will be unavoidable-it’s the enemy’s plan and sooner or later somebody will snap and wage war on the government. At that point martial law plans will be implemented and that hapless rebel will be used as a domestic Osama Bin Ladin-a straw man to justify the government finally being honest in how much they hate us. All the patriots who think just buying some gun show special SKS, some clips and taking their marksmanship lessons from the TV set are going to be easy pickings for all the over testosteroned psychopathic cops and agents massah state has been psyching up for decades… to take YOU out.

More fools tricked into thinking they’re superior for some stupid neo-marxist reason.

So if you want to stand a chance, learn how to shoot. Go to www.rwva.org the Revolutionary War Veterans Association. Keep the rhetoric to yourself and concentrate on learning how to shoot. Then hit a gun show to buy unpapered(unregistered to the government) firearms and ammo and TRAIN. SWAT shoots a thousand rounds a week in training-what’s your excuse, Real World Denver on?

Make five quality friends that you can depend on with your life. Make them EARN your friendship for a change-hopefully they’ll do likewise. Fast “friends” will become fast enemies when everything is gone.

Get a mountain bike and extra chains and innertubes. The fuel will be cut off. Be prepared to abandon your worldly goods and become a nomad to stay Free.

Stock up on hand tools, basic 19th and 20th century technical books, basic foodstuffs, seeds. This society’s designed to implode easily so you’ll have to sustain yourselves. Get land near a small town with adequete mix of goods and services well away from the highways and cities. Start growing your own food.

Learn a basic trade or three or more. Survival won’t be the best hunter, trapper, or nut gatherer it’ll be the person who can weld, machine, cook, repair, shoot or train others to do likewise.

Go for some road trips. Find some abandoned homes half collapsed, or some caves nobody uses. It could be in the country on in some cracked out ‘hood. You might piss off massah and will have to make a run for it.

Find a militia unit on the internet and train with them, learn. Do it now while you still can associate relatively freely.

GET YOUR FLABBY ASS INTO SHAPE. WEAN YOURSELVES FROM MASSAH CORPORATION’S PROCESSED FOODS, EAT ORGANIC. Massah likes to put all sorts of poisons into us to make us dull and lazy. Eating organic as God intended will clean you out-I speak from personal experience.

Learn how your local government works, who runs it, and look for ways to take over.

I could go on all day but the Revolution must be a peaceful one if possible. Go to my blog, look up Message to Mr. and Mrs. America, it’s my basic plan to retake our nation peacefully through self reliance and team work in taking over government from the grassroots.

But the Revolution must first start in your heart. You must face down your faults, your prejudices, your FEAR before you’re able to stand against the coming storm and be counted as worthy of Freedom.

You can’t-you won’t-be able to stand unless you’re truly right with God.

Don’t’ roll your eyes I’m not talking about joining a church. In fact I say avoid them. They preach lies and being IRS approved will get down on both knees for massah state.

No, your true church is in your heart, your soul. Jesus said the Kingdom of God is within.

Ever take the time to just tune everything else out and just feel your heart?

Hint: that’s where Our Father lies. Take time, make some silence, or just cruise in your car that’ll work and just listen.

Next thing you’ll know, you’ll be changing your diet, you’ll be exercising, stop watching TV.

You might even start figuring out your true talents, and what it would take to do what you’re meant to do.

You might even stop working so much at massah corporation’s peon job-which’ll cut into your shopping budget but you’ll be selling off all that crap you’ve accumulated as a salve.

You might even start challenging all those “authority figures” you’ve been trained to think are good in spite of being so rough. You might start thinking “no they’re not overworked they’re just assholes” and fight for your rights.

You might start going to websites like www.awrm.org, www.americanminuteman.net and www.rwva.org and start asking for advice on how to properly arm up. You might start hitting all those evil gun shows, start looking for tables with prices with no cents or “private seller” signs. You might start acquiring a couple good firearms like a FAL, HK-91 type, or M-14, a dozen or more magazines, web gear to hold your mags, spare parts and all the cased surplus .308 you can lay your hands on. And a good fighting scope and mount. You might sign up for an Appleseed shoot and learn how to use your new purchase properly out to 500 yards(if not more!)

You might actually read the Constitution and the Bill of Rights. You might start going to your local city council meetings, and quickly becoming the local political hacks worst nightmare. You might start raising awareness of others-not all at once because that didn’t work for you either and the person who tried came off as a babbling kook… but only because you were so ignorant.

No, you might start at points the average ignorant FEARFUL ‘murikan can relate to, like how jobs have become America’s number two export(behind weapons and wars)and how illegals are imported to further depress your slave wages. Then you might go into how corporations are run and how the CEO’s and the Boards of Directors are also on other corporations and subsidiaries Boards, revealing how all the corporations really do work in lockstep. www.theyrule.net gives a graphic Flash presentation.

You might go further next time you talk with your mark and talk about how those CEO’s are all lawyers and not only that, of old line royal blood, and how their cousins and whatnot also dominate national and state politics like it was their royal birthright. You might go on and state with all that power that they control how these “royals” could NOT POSSIBLY REFUSE TO RIG THE RULES TO THEIR FAVOR.

You might start telling your new friend just how fearful he’s become-how fear has been inoculated into his very psyche by the very centrally controlled American culture. How FEAR controls him, rules him. Or her. You might even go so far as to state the only way to get rid of your FEAR is to face it, with COURAGE-and that you’ve found the only source for that in a nation of fearful sheep is by communing in a quiet place directly with God, Our Father.

You might make some new friends. Together, you might start training together as one of those (gasp)UNDERGROUND militia units. You might start becoming active in your local town’s politics; getting candidates for all the offices and aldermen. You might run on a platform of radical reduction in taxes and revelation of your town's true finances with the Consolidated Annual Financial Report www.cafr1.com which shows where your tax dollars truly go to make more cash by investing in massah corporation(they and massah state truly are one and the same!) That and ending corruption and firing bully cops.

You might win. You might actually keep your election promises and turn your town into a example of Freedom. The People might actually become inspired, make pilgrimages to breathe some Freedom into their starved souls, and inspired replicate what you’ve done in their community.

You might be the one who starts a snowball of profound political change-a political revolution of many individuals and parties working together to secure a common goal; the bottom-up transformation of the American political structure to what the common folk of the First American Revolution fought and died for-and had cruelly stolen from them by the ancestors of the bankers and lawyers that have been laying siege to Our America for the past 220 years!

You might be able to do all that-but only if you will face your FEAR! Only with God given COURAGE to say NO MORE! and be willing to sacrifice as our forefathers did will you and your children have a chance to live Free.


If you’re on the internet here’s a quick test of how willing you are to struggle for your Freedom; go to Edit, click SELECT ALL, then click COPY. Go to all your favorite message boards and whatnot and PASTE this essay, or some other essays that inspire you. Or COPY and PASTE the link from wherever you read this. Or, if this doesn’t quite do the job PLEASE write something that will! I don’t write these essays for myself, but for the hope that people will learn to overcome their FEAR. That everyone will in their own way lead themselves and us all to Freedom.

J. Croft