“Worst case is some dude’s barricaded internal doors, has got like, [ … ] steel hollow core shit going on … this weird … in his house because he’s a weirdo and a prepper and a threeper that hates cops and he’s trying to suck you in and kill you, right?” [More]
I’m a Threeper as Mike Vanderboegh defined it. And what’s wrong with preppers?
More to the point, what’s right with jackbooted thug attitudes?
To me, the most interesting comment was this one:
“On June 17, 2022 at 7:51 am, Drake said:
The “worst case” for these guys is a well-barricaded door they can’t get through so they are stuck in the open – AND – every guy in the neighborhood starts engaging them from covered and concealed positions from 50 to 100 yards away. All that fancy room clearing gear is worthless if a community decides to take the fight outside.”
Unfortunately, even among Americans who consider themselves proficient with their rifles, only 20% can reliably hit a man sized target at 100 yards. Not even in Texas. “Yours truly” included. That is perhaps the most disturbing fact that has come out of collected “after action” reports from the “Appleseed” program.
In his seminal book, “The Influence of Sea Power Upon History, 1660-1783” Alfred Thayer Mahan, widely regarded as the father of the modern US Navy, discusses the concept of a “fleet-in-being”. What he wrote, in essence, was that in order for a threat to be effective as a deterrent, it must be credible. The bad news is that Appleseed has proven that our “threat” isn’t credible. The good news is the this is a very fixable problem.
On the first day your first target simulates engaging “Redcoats” at various ranges. Out of 150 shooters, with a good mix of youngsters in their 20s to retired vets in their 60s, casual hunters, some who followed the hi power competition events, we had not one person qualify as a “Rifleman” on that first target. A “Rifleman” in Appleseed terms is expected to be able to put 20 rounds into a man sized target at 500 yards and do it in under a minute using a rack grade rifle and milsurp ammo. That’s an aimed shot every three seconds. Hits count, misses do not. Misses are just you making noise and wasting powder. I got one hit. They have you fire repeated relays over the two and a half days of a typical shoot, broken up by marksmanship lessons and brief presentations on the marksmanship skills of our ancestors. By the end of last day when the “shoot boss” calls out “Shooters, prepare two magazines!” my first thought was “Please don’t make me do this again!” A quick look around showed that about a third of the class had agreed with me and had already left. Bottom line is that I didn’t make “Rifleman” that weekend. I was good out to only 250 yards. But I was better than when I walked in two days earlier, and i knew what I needed to do to get better. Like I said, out of the original 150 people, around 50 dropped out. Depending on the length of the class, you fire 350 to 500 rounds. Firing that much .30-06 or 7.62 NATO can wear you down. Of the remaining 100 or so, only 5 got their “Rifleman” patch.
We all have work to do to make ourselves “credible.”
https://appleseedinfo.org/
https://appleseedinfo.org/schedulemap/
P.S. Completion of an Appleseed Shoot will get you the paperwork to qualify to buy a CMP Garand.
https://thecmp.org/sales-and-service/m1-garand/