September 3, 2017 -- A Quick Run Around the Web

"FIELD DRESSING LARGE GAME - Deer"--Richard Smith (9-1/2 min.)

Smith has another video that covers the whole process of field dressing, skinning, and butchering (1 hour)

Firearms/Self-Defense/Prepping:

• This weekends' Weekend Knowledge Dump from Active Response Training.
• "Brass vs. Steel Cased Ammo – An Epic Torture Test"--Lucky Gunner. This is a 2013 article of which I only recently became aware. Four carbines and 10,000 rounds through each using different types of ammunition: Winchester, Wolf, Brown Bear, and Tula. The Winchester worked flawlessly, but the Wolf and Brown Bear only had 15 and 9 stoppages, respectively. (The Tula had some significant issues, which was attributed to the timing of the peak pressure). The author concluded that lacquered cases did not contribute to extraction issues, but I would note that the carbines had chrome lined barrels and chambers. My own experience with my AK-74 with a U.S. made bare steel barrel and chamber seemed to indicate that the lacquer could melt and deposit in the chamber causing extraction problems until the barrel was "cured." The more significant issue, however, is that there was increased barrel wear from the bi-metal bullet jackets on the Wolf and Brown Bear, effectively rendering the barrels smooth bores by the time 10,000 rounds had been fired. However, even if you had to replace a barrel--at least in these particular models--it was still significantly less expensive to shoot the steel cased ammo over the brass.
• "Anatomy of a Taliban ambush"--Long War Journal. The article discusses a Taliban video (you can find the video here) showing, among other things, the ambush of a convoy of supply trucks (starts about the 12 min. mark). The ambush appears to me to be poorly executed. They start shooting at the first vehicle, causing others to stop behind it, but the road was not blocked, and other vehicles start driving through. Nor, from what the video shows, did they disable the rearmost vehicle. In any event, they destroy a couple of fuel trucks, much to their joy. Based on the remains of a prior truck off to one side of the road, this must be a popular ambush site. However, there are a couple notable points that are discussed in the article. First is that the ambush was accomplished mostly using fire from small arms and what appears to be a single machine gun. No mines, RPGs, road blocks, etc. Second, although there was at least one Blackhawk helicopter accompanying the convoy, the Taliban seemed completely unconcerned about it, and, based on what they video showed, the helicopter made no attempt to engage the ambushing forces. In other words, there was no effective close air support. 
• Apple Butter recipe from Delish. This recipe uses lemon juice instead of pineapple juice like many recipes. Although about any type of apple can be used, softer apples like Gala or Red Delicious will process faster. 
• "The Trace: Civilians Own 70 Times More Guns Than U.S. Police and Military Combined"--The Truth About Guns. This is based on an estimate of 270 million firearms in civilian hands, which is probably well below the actual number. In any event, this again underlines the fact that the real story about America's gun culture is not that we have as high a homicide rate as we do, but why it is so low given the number of firearms in private hands. 
• "Shocking footage captures the moment a teenage girl is violently dragged into her house in brazen daylight home invasion"--Daily Mail. One of the men was dressed in a fluorescent vests worn by many utility workers, contractors and so on, so they apparently fooled the teenager to open the door and/or to step out. But she also opened the door to a subset of the population that commits a disproportionate amount of violent crime. 
• "What It Was Like To Attend A French Survival Training In Poland"--The Return of Kings. An excerpt:

        We started with wound training, particularly Tactical Combat Critical Care (TC3), which is focused on stabilizing the wounded until they can be evacuated.

        “Your natural instinct will be to immediately rush to the wounded, but this is a good way to get yourself killed,” the instructor said. “If you’re in a mall and there is a shooting, first wait until the threat is gone before you help anyone, or at least drag them to a hidden area.” He showed us a technique to press your knee against an artery in the leg or arm to stop bleeding while continuing to shoot the enemy, assuming you have a gun.

       We were taught the MARCHE system:

       M – Massive bleeding (apply pressure to arteries or put on a tourniquet)

       A – Airways (make sure the wounded can breath)

       R – Respiratory (check for possible pneumothorax)

       C – Circulation (re-check for blood loss, apply gauze inside wounds)

       H – Hypothermia and Head injuries (maintain body temperature and ensure at least one artery is feeding blood to the brain)

      E – Everything else

         The best thing you can do in an emergency situation is prevent the wounded from bleeding out until they get to a hospital. A tourniquet is the simplest tool to achieve that when it comes to limb wounds, and the trainers showed us how to apply one on ourselves. When a couple of the students complained of pain when the tourniquet got too tight, a trainer flatly said, “Either take the pain or die.” They tightened the tourniquet. He relayed how if you’re putting on a tourniquet for someone else, they will howl in pain as you tighten it, but that’s necessary to ensure survival.

• "'Worst' energy crisis US has seen in decades: Storm-damaged main pipeline carrying 58.8million gallons of fuel from Texas to the East Coast a day shuts down as international traders rush to reroute fuel to America"--Daily Mail.  From the article:

        The biggest fuel system in the United States is temporarily shutting down its main line because of outages at its supply points from Tropical Storm Harvey and a lack of supply from refiners.

        The closure of part of the Colonial Pipeline Co, which connects the refineries of the Gulf Coast to the populous East Coast, threatens a major blow to the already storm-ravaged fuel system.

Other Stuff: 

• Mao Zedong taught that "[t]he guerrilla must move amongst the people as a fish swims in the sea." Which is what this headline is really about: "TERROR WARNING: Britain home to 35,000 Islamist fanatics, says security chief"--Sunday Express. Of these 35,000, some 3,000 "worry" MI-5.
• "Michigan Man's Arrest May Be Tied to Terrorism, But Case Shrouded in Secrecy"--PJ Media. Yousef Mohammad Ramadan was stopped at the Detroit airport as he was about to board a flight to Jordan. He claimed he was going with his family to the Palestinian controlled West Bank. He is being held on gun charges. However, the article notes that although the government has denied that Ramadan's arrest was related to terrorism, "[t]he case is being handled by the counterterrorism division of the FBI Detroit field office, and the U.S. attorney there is handling the case with a high degree of secrecy."
• "White people, here are 10 requests from a Black Lives Matter leader"--LEO Weekly. Some of the demands:

       1. White people, if you don’t have any descendants, will your property to a black or brown family. Preferably one that lives in generational poverty.

       2. White people, if you’re inheriting property you intend to sell upon acceptance, give it to a black or brown family. You’re bound to make that money in some other white privileged way.

        3. If you are a developer or realty owner of multi-family housing, build a sustainable complex in a black or brown blighted neighborhood and let black and brown people live in it for free.

        4. White people, if you can afford to downsize, give up the home you own to a black or brown family. Preferably a family from generational poverty.

        5. White people, if any of the people you intend to leave your property to are racists assholes, change the will, and will your property to a black or brown family. Preferably a family from generational poverty.

        6. White people, re-budget your monthly so you can donate to black funds for land purchasing.

The rest of it are various demands to ruin the lives of anyone that doesn't apologize for being white.

• "The 2016 Election is Not Reversible"--Angelo Codevilla at American Greatness. Codevilla believes that the bipartisan ruling class feels it has dodged a bullet, what with it compromising the Trump Administration, but is very mistaken:

As I explained a year ago, by 2016 the ruling class’s dysfunctions and the rest of the country’s resentment had pushed America over the threshold of a revolution; one in which the only certainty is the near impossibility of returning to the republican self-government of the previous two centuries. The 2016 election is not reversible, because it was but the first stage of a process that no one can control and the end of which no one can foresee.

He continues:

The ruling class and its Democratic Party had been practicing identity politics with increasing intensity for more than a generation. The elections’ outcome convinced them that they needed to engage in it just about exclusively, and in a warlike manner. Possessed of the modern administrative state’s manifold levers of power, they expect to win that war. That is unlikely, if only because its components’ notions of their respective identities’ demands are ever expanding. Hence they preclude imposing any extended peace among themselves, never mind with the rest of America. This impossibility of socio-political peace is the reason why the revolution in which we are living is just getting started.

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Let us be clear: the 2016 electorate chose Trump and they saw Trump as the vehicle by which to challenge the ruling class. During the first half of 2017, the Republican Party finished discrediting itself as a possible vehicle for that job. Since this is so, were Donald Trump seriously to bid for the presidency in 2020, it would have to be by leading a new party focused on the identities of anti-ruling class Americans. Carrying the Republican label would be an impossible burden.

        His belief is that the Republican party is finished as a national party--that the do-nothing Republican Congress has sealed the fate of the GOP, and the presidential race in 2020 will be between the Democratic candidate and a third party candidate.  

        Oswald Spengler predicted we would be entering a period of Caesarism. Certainly Obama paid no attention to Congress or the Courts whenever they opposed him, demonstrating the powerlessness of the other two branches of government; the inability of Congress to repeal Obamacare merely underscores how powerless and dysfunctional it has become. We will see increasing social disorder, such that the only path forward will be through a strong leader able to reign in the bureaucracy and impose order.  

"One of Antifa’s cherished symbols...."

• "First they came for the bald man."--Dalrock. An article on why white nationalists will be but the first victims of the Left's violence. 
• "Thoughts from Below the Rio Bravo: A Preliminary to Going into Hiding"--Fred Reed. Reed has unintentionally written an article describing why allowing immigration from Latin America (particularly Mexico) is so dangerous for the United States. His article describes how Mexican culture is alien to that of United States, including philosophy and outlook; Mexico and the United States have been at war, off and on, since Mexico gained its independence (although Reed only gives a one-sided view, ignoring the provocations from Mexico such as the Salt Wars, Poncho Villa's raid into the United States, the nearly incessant cross-border raids during the 19th and early 20th Century, and Mexico's plot to cause an uprising among Hispanics and Native Americans); and their overall hostility toward the United States.
• "China bans children from attending church services as it continues a crackdown on religious practices"--Daily Mail. Communism only allows for one god--the Party.