Around 600 BC, the Greek storyteller Aesop wrote a story about the value of planning ahead. One character in the story was an ant that toiled away foraging for food and storing it away below ground. The other character was a grasshopper that lived for fun and didn’t bother himself with planning for the future. […]
What defines the “ultimate” rifle? This is one of the most divisive topics when it comes to shooting for self defense and sporting purposes and its easy to understand due to: Numerous options for barrel length, caliber, sights, accessory rails, proprietary coatings, trigger pull weight, trigger shape, dominant-side v. ambidextrous controls, and etc. Dozens of […]
First person account of a utility restoration following a national disaster Dear, Friends: Over the last couple of days, I have received several phone calls and text messages to check in on me and see how I am doing with the approaching storm. I’ve been unable to respond for some combination of working nights and […]
This is a Facebook note that I wrote years ago and only recently ran across… eerily prophetic. Strasser, Todd. The Wave. Dell Laurel-Leaf, 1981. The Wave is a book I picked up at Barnes & Noble on a whim in May 2011. It is a short read at 138 pages and the drama unfolds at […]
Avtomat Kalashnikovs (AK) are loved by a few, inspire curiosity in many, and are misunderstood by most of the rest. I had been in the camp of curious and want-to-love-it for a while but courses are oddly rare for a firearm that has been found in just about every military/guerilla conflict over the last fifty […]
Discussing a hardware problem and subsequent remedy