Monday, August 10, 2026

VIDEO: Never Answer A Knock Like This

The author of this video gives his or her thoughts on the types of people that may come to your door after a societal collapse, as well as a rough timeline of when events will occur. My personal belief is that the local government will show up at some point and forcibly search the homes of anyone they think has supplies and take them; and your neighbors (or one of them) will rat you out. 

 VIDEO: "Never Answer a Knock Like This After the Collapse"
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The Green Eyed Monster Contemplates Piedmont, CA

The New York Post reports that "Civil war breaks out in rich, white California town as activists from crime-plagued neighboring city demand it’s ‘canceled’." The article recounts:

    A bitter battle has erupted over one of California’s wealthiest enclaves, with activists from neighboring Oakland calling for the predominantly white city of Piedmont to be “canceled.”

    Oakland resident Jesse Rosemoore is behind the provocative “Cancel Piedmont” campaign targeting the 1.7-square-mile city of roughly 11,000 people that is surrounded by Oakland but maintains its own schools, police, parks and tax base, according to the San Francisco Chronicle.

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    The professional transit planner now regards the campaign as a way to tackle the sharp racial and economic divide between Piedmont and the rest of the city.

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    The median price of homes in Piedmont is almost $2.6 million, which is more than three-and-a-half times that of Oakland’s.

Census data cited by the outlet shows Piedmont is roughly 70% white and around 1% black, while about one in five Oakland residents is black.

Closing the Barn Door

"Gun sales spike in Twin Falls after In-N-Out shooting; store owners stress training"--KIVI TV. From the lede:

Gun sales surged in Twin Falls the day after a mass shooting at a local In-N-Out restaurant, with at least one gun store reporting one of its busiest sales days in years. Local firearms dealers say the spike in purchases is a reminder that owning a gun and knowing how to use it are two very different things. 

The rest of the article is basically an advert for a Twin Falls gun store and its training services.  

Wilder's Latest Civil War 2.0 Weather Report

In his latest Civil War 2.0 Weather Report, John Wilder addresses the urban versus rural divide. In the Chinese Communist Revolution, he notes, the Communists won because they controlled the countryside--and they won rural support from the peasants through offering up "free" land taken from the wealthy landowners. In Russia, the Communists held the cities, but nevertheless enjoyed an advantage in terms of armaments, control of the rail network, and a large pool of young men. 

    Wilder believes that in the modern United States, with so little of the food stored in cities, rural areas will have a distinct advantage over urban areas.

Today’s cities have about three days of food in them in the stores, and three days in the individual homes.  So, inside a week, people would get hungry.  Not starve, but get hungry unless they got sea and air lifts of food inbound.  Given the levels of self-control of certain segments of the population, well, how long before cites go full Alferd Packer?  Since they’d be surrounded by millions of residents with more weapons and ammo than all the militaries of the world, combined, they could be easily contained.

    He also believes that the higher diversity in urban centers will work against them. "Why would Somalians fight for Minneapolis or Minnesota?" he asks. That's a good question. But there are those on the Left working on that issue. For instance,  Hasan Piker, an "influencer" and left-wing political commentator recently stated: "We want more immigrants to come into your countries and then they're gonna f**k your sisters and then your daughters. We're here to destroy the White Race, Bitch." In other words, the standard Islamic motivations. And they can promise to throw open the borders and invite in more invaders, while offering up other people's land and property as rewards--already talking points among the DSA. 

    And these ideas appear to be becoming more main stream. For instance, I was reading a news article earlier today on a Hispanic teen killed while "playing" with a handgun at a friend's house. Someone had commented about the "other 'them' again" and received the following response: "just remember as each day goes by you are becoming more and more extinct". That has been the Leftist plan all along: the genocide and extinction of whites. People need to wake up to this before it is too late. 

7.4 Earthquake Strikes Columbia

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Sunday, August 9, 2026

Gun & Prepping News #93

Some links that may be of interest: 

    Sell hunted deer on foot for many years, very successfully, and attacked the brush-busting question as scientifically as possible. He set up tests where he fired at targets behind bushes and measured bullet deflection afterwards.

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     Sell blasted away with a very wide range of cartridges, trying to determine the optimum bullet weight and shape, as well as velocity. His findings: A velocity between 2,200 and 2,500 fps deflected the least, and was also less likely to have the bullet blow up when hitting a branch or twig. He found that a bullet weight of 150 grains or heavier also made a big difference. He did not note any significant difference between different bullet shapes, and also did not note any difference resulting from bullet diameter—6.5x55 and .270 performed well, along with cartridges using .30-caliber and even .35-caliber bullets. He did, however, note a test where 500-grain .45-70 bullets performed inconsistently in his test, with two bullets “screaming off into the forest” when fired at a target through brush, and then the next two bullets showing no deflection at all.

    Funnily enough, Sell noted that high-velocity, high-performance cartridges fared poorly in his brush-busting experiments. Conversely, the .30-30 performed very well in his test, particularly when loaded with a 170-grain bullet. ... 

  • "The .44 Best?"--Guns Magazine. An in depth look at the .44 Special and a good caste bullet and load:

    I cast the bullets for my handloads, usually from an MP-Molds 6-cavity aluminum mold. I started with a brass 2- cavity hollow point (HP) mold, soon progressing to a 4-banger after being so impressed by the quality. When Mihac Previc, owner of MP Molds, offered an aluminum 6-cavity mold, I quickly jumped on board. The molds are a direct copy of Elmer Keith’s Hensley & Gibbs 503. Bullets cast from it usually run 15 grains heavier than Elmer’s other design, the Lyman 429421.

    I’d venture to say my 6-banger has birthed a thousand-plus pounds of lead over the years. My slugs are then powder coated with a polymer coating and baked at 400 degrees for 20 minutes. These PC coated projectiles are then seated over a charge of Alliant Unique powder in a Starline Brass cartridge case.

    Since this isn’t YouTube, I will divulge the powder charge of 7.5 grains of Unique, but most diehards know this. The load is nostalgically referred to as the “Skeeter Load” from the millions of Skeeter fans who know a good thing when they see it. Loved for its balance of power, bullet diameter and acceptable recoiling characteristics, Skeeter Skelton’s popularity and warm writing style did more to promote this load and cartridge than anything. This charge weight provides a fuel-efficient 933 loads per pound of precious Unique powder.

    At some point in the 1970s, Jeff Cooper created what is often called the Color Code.

    When he originally thought it up, and as he taught it, his purpose was to describe a shooter’s “…capacity…to cross the psychological barrier that inhibits [the] ability to take deadly action,” i.e., his or her mental preparation to press the trigger on a live target.

However, the Color Code was subsequently reinterpreted (misinterpreted) from describing a psychological commitment to using force to describing a level of situational awareness.

    When you walk into any space, you’re building a quick picture of the environment before you commit to a position in it. This doesn’t require a full tactical assessment. It requires about ten seconds of actual attention before you sit down.

    Exits first. Where are the ways out? The front door is obvious. What’s less obvious is the kitchen exit, the emergency door at the back, the hallway that connects to a side entrance. You don’t need to memorize all of them. You need to know that they exist and roughly where they are.

    Sight lines next. Where can you sit and see the entrance? Seeing who comes through the door before they see you, or before they can close the distance on you, is a meaningful advantage in almost any situation. It costs you nothing to position for it.

    Then the room itself. Who is in it? How many people, where are they seated, is anyone paying unusual attention to entrances or exits? This doesn’t mean treating every stranger as a threat. It means taking a picture of the baseline so that anything that changes later registers as a change. 

There is a lot more, including where to sit.  

Firearm springs wear out because they are repeatedly cycled. Recoil springs, which travel through nearly their full range of motion with every shot, have one of the highest duty cycles in a firearm and are rightly considered routine maintenance items. Magazine springs, by comparison, typically see far fewer complete compression cycles over their lifetime. That’s why a well-made magazine spring can remain fully loaded for decades with little effect, while a recoil spring in a heavily used pistol may legitimately need replacement after several thousand rounds. 

  • "Threadlocker How-To // The Glue That Binds Us"--Recoil Magazine.  It goes over how to read thread pitch, why you want to use a torque wrench and not over tighten screws, before getting to the subject of the title and discussing what is Loctite and how it works before getting to application:

    While some of the newer offerings of Loctite offer some oil and solvent resistance, I find that thoroughly degreasing all the threads to be bonded using a strong solvent is an absolute must. My favored method is removing all the screws I needed to coat at once and dipping them in my small steel bench ramekin full of MEK. I let them sit for a few minutes, then remove and blow dry with compressed air. I strongly advise the use of rubber gloves and that this be done in a well-ventilated area. This stuff is super gnarly and will for sure give you face cancer.

    For the most effective bond, the adhesive must coat the complete length of the thread engagement area. Loctite is a thixotropic formula, which means it is thick and viscous under static conditions, and as it spreads along a surface under capillary action, it becomes thinner and will seem almost self-guiding. You’ll find a modest drop on a section of threads will find its way around the circumference and “creep” up and down the helix. When threaded in, this action compounds and the adhesive will work its way up and down the length of the threads quite easily. 

    For large parts, applying to both faces provides the most adequate adhesive application as well as for blind-hole assemblies such as cap screws — threadlocker should be applied to both the bolt and the mating threads. If applied only to the screw going into a blind hole, air pressure tends to force the liquid threadlocker out of the hole as the bolt is torqued down. The anaerobic process hardens in minutes at room temperature and fully cures within 24 hours. 

    When determining the amount to use, it’s important to remember that less is more, and dipping the screw to the head will not make it “more better.” The space between threads allowed by tolerances is actually quite a bit smaller than you think, and the location that the adhesive is applied is much more important than the amount. If you’re trying to determine which level of adhesion fits your specific needs, start on the low end and work your way up gradually and try experimenting a bit if you have the time and resources.

The article also discusses tips on removing screws or bolts secured with Loctite, so read the whole thing.

    With factory sights and a rest, five five-shot groups at 25 yards averaged 2.65 inches. The groups were plagued with flyers. One four-shot group was 7/8 of an inch. The pistol could shoot better than the aging eyes of the shooter.  The pistol shot about 3 1/2 inches high at 25 yards.

    The Viridian optic was mounted. Five five-shot groups were fired from a rest while sighting in the PR57. At 25 yards, the average group, center to center, was 2.01 inches. Five five-shot groups, fired at 100 yards, averaged 7.6 inches from a rest. There was considerable vertical stringing, which was attributed to an unsatisfactory rest. 23 of the 25 shots fit into a 5 x 8-inch box at 100 yards. The shots were fired deliberately, about a minute per shot.

  • "NITECORE NPL25 GL Weapon Light and Green Laser"--The Shooting Wire.  The two main points about this is that (i) it is fairly compact, and (ii) it has a mounting system that allows it to easily adapt to different accessory rails:

    The NPL25 has a sliding plate that can adapt to the rail slot on a wide range of guns. There’s a sprung button on the left side of the light that moves that toothed bar up, releasing the plate. You then slide it to the position you need and release the button to lock it in place. Easy peasy with no plates to hold onto and (inevitably) lose in about 36 hours.

    On a pistol like the FN (above) that has a standard Pic rail, you can a few options as to placement of the sliding plate. On a gun like the G19 (below) with just one slot, it’s easy to adjust and mount it right where you need it. NITECORE ships the NPL25 with a small “Picatinny rail adapter” piece that screws into the two holes you see above, but I mounted the light without a problem without the adapter.

  1. Water storage and purification;
  2. Food storage and preservation;
  3. Cooking from scratch;
  4. Medical skills;
  5. Making cleaning and sanitation supplies;
  6. Basic home repairs;
  7. Basic sewing and clothing repair; 
  8. Home gardening;
  9. Self defense; and,
  10.  Using a HAM radio.

And some other articles discussing important skills for prepping:

I’ve owned a Berkey system for years, and recently I replaced my aging filter elements with the new Phoenix Gravity New Millennium Edition™ filter elements. If you’re a Berkey owner wondering what your replacement options are, here’s why I made the switch and why I think every household should have a plan for safe drinking water.

    This is incredible. I always wondered how family liaison officers from RICU or the CRS reliably got the families of victims murdered by political or racial terrorists to provide such anodyne, don't look back in anger public statements. I figured in most cases it would be concern trolling, with legal threats held in reserve.

    This lays the technique bare, using interviews conducted both with victim's families and former police officers. Liaison officers serve as anesthetic patches that get slapped on the open wounds of the migration war. They apply therapeutic techniques to calm and reassure the families, establishing dependent relationships and using the trust they build to guide them away from saying anything inflammatory when the time comes to speak to the public. If families become noncompliant in this respect, they're threatened with causing a mistrial should they speak too openly about their feelings.

    That isn't all RICU does, of course. ‘Communications’ includes a huge propaganda arm, which uses every tool at its disposal, including battalions of fake social media profiles. You have to wonder how much of the culture war of the last decade or more was pure hallucination. 

Friday, August 7, 2026

Weekend Reading #68

 Time has gotten away from me this week, so this will be brief:

  • Jon Low has a new Defensive Pistolcraft news letter posted at his blog.  There is too much to summarize it here, but one item that caught my attention in particular are Jon's comments concerning the incident/video of the guy that shot himself in the groin while drawing his weapon. (to find it, ctrl-F for "testicle"). Jon notes that he does not carry AIWB. 
    • Also, Jon has some comments about a fellow who was right handed but left eye dominant and having an occasional issue of totally missing the target because, for that shot, his dominance changed. If you are one of those whose dominant eye does not align with your dominant hand, you might want to read it. (ctrl-F for "dominant"). 
  •  Greg Ellifrtiz has a new Weekend Knowledge Dump. Like I said, my time was short so I have only had time to glance at a couple articles:
    • The piece on irons vs. optics reminds me of the caliber debates. I don't particularly like concealed carry of my optic equipped pistol because the optic is just added bulk and a lint collector. Besides, as this article acknowledges, "Pistol optics probably don’t provide a huge accuracy advantage at close range…but a high level of accuracy likely isn’t needed at extreme close ranges. They do provide massively better accuracy at longer ranges (say 15 and further)." So really, they will be of most use for a target or range gun anyway. 
    • Even though your odds of being killed by a bear are less than being killed by lightning, I still like to read articles about bear defense. The article in question this time is on whether the AR15 in 5.56/.223 would make a good bear defense weapon. A couple things that came to mind reading the article: (1) an AR15 is more powerful than most handguns people choose for bear defense, so I don't know why it wouldn't work unless it was loaded with varmint ammo that will violently disintegrate in the first few inches of gel; (2) there is an episode of "Monster Hunters" where they are investigating claims of brown bears in Alaska mating with polar bears and producing hybrids, which episode included a couple accounts of close encounters with bears. In one of the accounts, the hunter was using a large caliber rifle (a .375 if I remember correctly) who was only able to get off one shot before an attacking brown bear started to maul him (he survived but not without serious injuries); and the other was an Inuit hunting with a select fire M16 (!) who was also attacked by a brown bear and dropped it in its tracks with a magazine dump on full auto. 
  • I don't have a long read for this weekend, but here are some articles I came across today that seemed interesting:

In-N-Out Shooting: More Video

The New York Post has an article with photos and an embedded video showing more of the shooting. The video is from security cameras at the In-N-Out store, so it shows more of what happened inside the restaurant and in the drive-thru lane. It includes footage showing the off-duty Idaho State Police officer with a small handgun helping herd employees out of danger and moving through the kitchen area of the restaurant, apparently toward the drive-thru window where he engaged the gunman.  

Mass Shooting ... In Thailand

The New York Post is reporting that a teen in Thailand killed his grandparents and then went to the Debsirin Nonthaburi School in Bangkok where he killed 6 more people, plus himself.  Fifteen people were injured. It appears that the teen used a semi-auto pistol, which is strange because in Thailand you have to be at least 20 years old to obtain a permit to possess a firearm; and you have to undergo a thorough background check in order to get a permit. It is also illegal to carry in public without a permit with heightened penalties for carrying at certain locations such as schools. 

    The Post goes on to relate: 

    It is the second school shooting in Thailand this year after a teacher died and a student was injured in the south of the country in February.

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    Gun ownership and gun violence are not uncommon in Thailand, which has seen a series of deadly shootings in the past six years, with children among the victims.

    Thailand’s worst mass killing by a single perpetrator in its recent history took place in 2022, when a former policeman ran amok in a three-hour gun-and-knife attack in the northeast that killed 36 people including 22 children stabbed as they slept at a daycare center.

    A gunman killed five people including security guards and a vendor at a Bangkok market in July 2025 before turning the gun on himself, while a teacher died in the southern city of Hat Yai in February this year when a shooter opened fire at a school where she worked.

    In 2020, a soldier killed 29 people in a shooting rampage in Nakhon Ratchasima. 

    And in 2023, a 14-year-old used a modified handgun to kill two people and wound five others at a luxury Bangkok shopping center.

    After the 2023 shooting, Anutin, who was then serving as interior minister, ordered a raft of gun control measures, including a short-term ban on new licenses, import restrictions, and banning of people under 20 years from shooting ranges.

    Longer-term measures also included a medical certificate assessing the mental health and psychological condition of gun owners as well as a specified validity period for some gun licenses.

And, of course, the knee-jerk response from politicians is to impose even more gun laws.  The thing here is that gun laws will not stop someone intent on killing others--they will obtain firearms through other means (avoiding the permitting process) or select a different means of killing (which is why we see more knife/machete attacks and vehicular attacks in Europe). Rather, all the laws do is disarm the victims. 

The Truth Shall Set You Free--Unless You Are James Comey

From Matt Margolis at PJ Media: "Bombshell Declassified FBI Document Blows Up Everything We Ever Heard About Russiagate." From the lede:

    For years, Democrats and their media allies swore up and down that the FBI's investigation of Donald Trump was a serious national security investigation, launched only because of grave concerns about Russian collusion. Newly declassified FBI records tell a different story. It turns out that the bureau formally opened its full counterintelligence investigation into Trump back in 2017, and used his firing of FBI Director James Comey as the justification.

    The president exercised his constitutional authority to fire an FBI director, and the FBI responded by opening a counterintelligence investigation into him.    

VIDEO: Never Answer A Knock Like This

The author of this video gives his or her thoughts on the types of people that may come to your door after a societal collapse, as well as a...