January 12, 2019 -- A Quick Run Around the Web

"1944 British Advanced Snap Shooting"--Bloke On The Range (16 min.)

Apparently mid-way through the war, the British army decided its soldiers needed better training and evaluation as to snap shooting. The exercise here is taken from a 1944 memorandum outlining an evaluation drill.

• Active Response Training's Weekend Knowledge Dump for this week.
• "How to get unlimited power after SHTF: Kodiak Solar Generator"--City Prepping. What this appears to be is a portable battery bank that has the inverters and such needed to provide power to household appliances and power tools. It does not come with solar panels, so you will need to provide those. While expensive, it does offer some advantages. First, as the author notes, as long as you have sunlight you can charge this thing, so you are not going to have to store large quantities of fuel as you might with a gas or diesel powered generator. Second, its quiet--too often generators are loud and can attract thieves from the sound. Third, it is safe to operate indoors. In a grid down situation, I could see putting out the panels during the day, and then bringing them at night to avoid their theft--the Kodiak "generator" could be kept indoors all of the time. Besides the cost, the downside I see would be that certain types of disasters might not provide you with enough sunlight to quickly or fully charge: e.g., a meteor strike or volcanic explosion that might throw significant dust or ash into the air, or prolonged storms or cloud cover. 
• "How to Wipe Your Butt Post-SHTF"--The Survivalist Blog. Great article on some substitutes for toilet paper. The author, obviously, recommends that we store toilet paper and/or wet wipes. Traditionally, however, rags would be used and thrown in a bucket for later washing. Other substitutes mentioned are "paper from books, magazines or newspapers, cloth, a tool of some kind like a scoop or scraper, natural items like rocks, sticks, leaves or even snow." One thing that the author doesn't discuss, but should be mentioned, is that we were designed (or evolved, if you prefer) so that wiping was rarely needed. A diet higher in fiber and squatting when defecating should generally eliminate or reduce the need to have to wipe. 
• "Thinsulate™ Gloves 3M™ Insulation – How It Works & What You Need"--Modern Survival Blog. Not only does the author describe what is Thinsulate and how it works, he also discusses the gram weight (grams per square meter of insulation) which provides a guide to how much you need in gloves or other clothing. He relates, for instance:

The higher the gram weight, the more it insulates and the warmer you are.

• 40 gram for high activity levels or cool conditions

• 70 gram for moderate activity levels or cold conditions

• 100 gram for light activity levels or very cold conditions

• 150 gram for very light activity levels or extremely cold conditions

He goes on to discuss what weights he finds works best and other tips for selecting the appropriate glove for the appropriate task.

• "PRACTICAL CARBINE ACCURACY: OFF THE BENCH AND IN THE FIELD"--American Partisan. Some tips and analysis on the issue of accuracy and shooting in the field. While the author's article is oriented toward combat, the points he raises are valid for hunting. He notes that while mechanical accuracy is desirable from a rifle, there are trade-offs if you are going to carrying and using the rifle in the field which may dictate something less than a heavy target rifle. Also, notwithstanding the mechanical accuracy of a particular rifle, the shooter must still have the skills and experience to match.
• "'Am I shot?': Shocking moment Indiana officer is accidentally shot in the shoulder by her PARTNER as they search for a fugitive and is left writhing in pain as the clueless cops make her walk to get help"--Daily Mail. Per the article, Officer Lane Butler was shot in the back by partner Aaron Wright on January 8 while searching a house for a suspect. The article contains an embedded video showing body-cam footage. The key part starts about the 2:45 mark. As the officers are exiting the building, a dog apparently jumped up on Wright, startling him, and he discharged his pistol. The department has determined that Wright was not negligent, as would be expected, but I don't see it myself. First of all, Wright is searching using his weapon-mounted light, so he already demonstrated lack of proficiency. Then, he has a loaded weapon pointed at his partner's back as they exit the building and, based on what happened, his finger on the trigger. Even if the dog had not startled him, he could have stumbled with the same result or worse.
• "FRIDAY NIGHT LIGHTS: Review SiOnyx Aurora – Digital Night Vision That Works"--The Firearm Blog. The Aurora is a color night vision camera that works very well where there is a fair amount of ambient light, in fact better than standard night vision because you have the addition of color. In darker conditions, however, it is not as good as a Gen 3 analog night vision devices. It can be mounted to a helmet, but the lag in the screen update makes it awkward to move around. However, the author believed it was a good piece of kit for the price.
• The gun grabbers got bump stocks banned and now they are coming for everything else: "Pitts: No Rational Person Supports AR-15 Ownership"--The Truth About Guns. The article cites a column written by Myron Pitts calling for a new "assault weapons" ban on the federal level.

• Related: "Five Republicans Join Democrat Push to Criminalize Private Gun Sales"--Breitbart. The five cucks are Reps. Peter King (R-NY), Brian Fitzpatrick (R-PA), Fred Upton (R-Mich.), Chris Smith (R-NJ), and Brian Mast (R-FL).

• Related: "Felons, Feinstein and Facts: How Criminals Get and Use Their Guns"--The Truth About Guns. A summary of a DOJ survey of felons and how they get their guns and use them in committing crimes. 43.2% of criminals get their firearms through the black market. Another 6.4% steal their guns. 10.1% purchased their firearms through a retailer. You can download a PDF of the report here.

• "Why You Should Buy A 300 Blackout Gun"--The Truth About Guns. From the article:

       Today, the 300 BLK is a full-spectrum cartridge that can launch bullets as fast as 2,800 fps and maintain excellent accuracy at a 500 yard effective range. Crazy, right?

       Lehigh Defense makes a 78gr load that hits that high velocity from a standard 16” barrel and I had no issues keeping up with .308 rifles at 500m. I’m not saying that it is a dedicated long-range round, but the capability is certainly there. You can go from 220gr subsonic ammunition to lightning-fast supersonics with just a mag change. The versatility is unequalled by any rifle round in common use.

       As far as being a suppressor-only round, that’s also false. There are plenty of reasons to own a 300 BLK, even if you don’t own a suppressor. The idea that the round was designed around subsonic suppressed use is generally true, as dedicated supersonic ammunition had yet to be fully developed at the time the load came on the scene.

       Bullets specific to supersonic use in the 300 BLK are readily and commonly available today and feature elongated profiles to aid in feeding from AR mags. The supersonic, un-suppressed 300 BLK is a wonderful, easy-shooting .30 caliber round that is kind on the shoulder and hard on game.

Well, I don't know if the versatility is unequalled--I suspect that the .308 or .30-06 has it beat by a long shot-- but if you have a sound suppressor, that would certainly expand the versatility. But it is certainly more versatile than the 7.62x39, especially if you hand load ammunition, because it benefits from the large number and variety of .308 caliber bullets. 

"It happened again."--Paul Joseph Watson (6 min.)

Another Disney brainwashed couple disappears (probably killed) traveling to a third world hell-hole so they can virtue signal to their friends about how everyone is just the same inside, and its a small world after all.

• "Scientists warn Earth's magnetic North Pole has begun moving 'erratically' at speeds so fast they are having to issue an emergency update to maps used by electronic navigation systems"--Daily Mail. The article relates: "'It's moving at about 50 km (30 miles) a year. It didn't move much between 1900 and 1980 but it's really accelerated in the past 40 years,' Ciaran Beggan, of the British Geological Survey in Edinburgh, told Reuters on Friday."

Also:

        'In early 2018, as part of our regular assessment of the WMM, we found that the model exceeded its specification for declination only three years into the five-year WMM cycle,' [Arnaud Chulliat, a geomagnetist for NOAA and the University of Colorado Boulder] told the American Geophysical Union meeting. 

      'We investigated this error and tracked it down to the combined effect of a global geomagnetic acceleration pulse occurring in 2015-2016, and a fast-changing magnetic field in the North polar area. 

The article mentions a study that showed that magnetic reversals can occur much quicker than had been believed, in as a little as a couple of centuries, "decreasing in strength by about 90 percent when a field reversal occurred." That opens the door to all sorts of nasty cosmic rays and solar wind, which can cause weather issues (cosmic rays contribute to the formation of clouds) and geological phenomena. 

• "Shifting north magnetic pole forces unprecedented navigation fix"--Reuters. From the article:

        Rapid shifts in the Earth's north magnetic pole are forcing researchers to make an unprecedented early update to a model that helps navigation by ships, planes and submarines in the Arctic, scientists said.

       Compass needles point towards the north magnetic pole, a point which has crept unpredictably from the coast of northern Canada a century ago to the middle of the Arctic Ocean, moving towards Russia.

      "It's moving at about 50 km (30 miles) a year. It didn't move much between 1900 and 1980 but it's really accelerated in the past 40 years," Ciaran Beggan, of the British Geological Survey in Edinburgh, told Reuters on Friday.

      A five-year update of a World Magnetic Model was due in 2020 but the U.S. military requested an unprecedented early review, he said. The BGS runs the model with the U.S. National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration.

      Beggan said the moving pole affected navigation, mainly in the Arctic Ocean north of Canada. NATO and the U.S. and British militaries are among those using the magnetic model, as well as civilian navigation.

• Signs of the times? "Mecca’s Grand Mosque plagued by swarm of locusts"--The Times of Israel. Per the article, "[a] massive swarm of locusts plagued Mecca, Saudi Arabia, earlier this week, prompting authorities at Islam’s holiest site to launch a cleaning operation to remove them." It also relates that "[v]ideos posted to social media showed the insects swarming around cleaners and worshipers in the city’s Grand Mosque, where millions of Muslim pilgrims congregate every year." This follows unprecedented flooding and hail storms a few weeks ago.
• I recently saw a MGTOW author predicting that feminism was going to result in women increasingly committing suicide. He specifically suggested more women shooting themselves, but women are less likely to commit suicide with firearms, generally choosing other "less violent" methods. Thus, this article caught my attention: "Drug overdose deaths soaring among middle aged women: Rate shot up 500% since 2000, CDC report reveals"--Daily Mail. The article reports that drug overdoses have increased 260 percent among women aged 30 to 64 since 1999, but when you focus on women 55 to 64, the rate went up by 500%. The article portrays the increase to drug addition issues, but that seems unlikely for the older women.
• "New Ebola-like virus discovered in a bat in China"--UPI. "The potentially dangerous filovirus, known as Měnglà virus, comes from the Rousettus bat in Yunnan Province, China, and can lead to fatal fever diseases in humans, according to findings published Monday in Nature Microbiology." However, the article doesn't mention any specific instances of humans contracting the virus, but ends by stating the scientists will be studying whether the virus can cross over to other species. So, nothing to worry about, but that might, in the future, pose a problem.
• A reminder that evolution can occur much quicker than you were taught in school: "Elephants have EVOLVED to not grow tusks in Mozambique national park where nearly 90% were slaughtered for ivory to fund 16-year civil war"--Daily Mail. The article mentions that "around a third of females - the generation born after the war ended in 1992 - have not developed tusks."
• Nice to know: "Dinosaur-Killing Asteroid Triggered A Mile-High Tsunami Across The Globe"--Forbes. The author also mentions:

As if the tsunami wasn't enough, the asteroid impact created shock waves in Earth's crust that traveled across continents and threw up enough rock and dust into the atmosphere to cause friction-induced lightning, start forest fires, cook animals alive, block out the sun for years and rain sulfuric acid.

• From the Huffington Post: "Kamala Harris: The Country Is ‘Absolutely’ Ready For A Woman Of Color President." Of course, according to her, she would be ideal for job, although she is not making any formal announcement that she would be running for President in 2020. Harris backs an new "assault weapon" ban.
• I wonder what things would be like if Harris gained charge of the country? "Race row in South Africa as health officials advertise for 100 new doctors - but white people are told not to apply"--Daily Mail.
• Words have meanings: NBC New York tweeted this out the other day: "Police say a New Jersey man fought off an unwanted house visitor by using the suspect’s own gun, ultimately killing him." Not burglar or home invader, but "unwanted house visitor." Like "undocumented immigrant," it attempts to downplay and mislead.
• "The Worst Racism My Children Have Experienced Came From Black Peers"--The Federalist. 
• Diversity is our strength: "Shocking video shows a group of white [sic] men setting a car free from a tow truck after they called the black traffic agent a 'loser' and told him he should go and 'work in Harlem'"--Daily Mail. From the article:

        A black 26-year veteran traffic enforcement agent found himself the subject of a racially charged taunt after attempting to haul away an offending SUV in Brooklyn.

      The tow truck driver, who hasn't been named, had a car hooked up and ready to tow away on Thursday when an angry group of Brooklyn residents managed to set the vehicle loose and then started shouting abuse at the driver.

       Video shows the truck driver being confronted by a group of Orthodox Jews at the corner of 44th St. and 15th Ave. in Borough Park, Brooklyn ....

• "‘Venezuela is a cradle of terrorism,’ member of underground resistance group tells i24NEWS." According to a leader of the resistance group, "the Venezuelan government has collaborated with members of various terrorist organizations, including Hezbollah, to threaten dissidents."
• Failed state: "Video shows moment suspected fuel thief is forced to the ground as vigilantes brand his back with 'por rata', ‘for being a rat', with a hot metal plate." The perp was caught steeling gasoline.
• Dreams of Empire: "Paris and Berlin herald new era of integration"--The London Times. From the article:

        France and Germany are to forge shared defence, foreign and economic policies in an unprecedented “twinning” pact regarded as a prototype for the future of the European Union.

      Angela Merkel and President Macron will sign a treaty this month to open the way for the neighbours to present a united diplomatic front and act jointly in peacekeeping missions.

      Regions on either side of the Franco-German border will be encouraged to form “Eurodistricts” with merged water, electricity and public transport networks. Berlin and Paris will offer cash to incentivise these cross-border areas, which could involve shared hospitals, joint business schemes or environmental projects. Some officials regard these experiments as a petri dish for the integration of the EU.

• A reminder that we live in the 21st Century: "Elon Musk shows off SpaceX’s massive Starship test rocket"--Market Watch. What is interesting is that looks just like a rocket that you would have seen on the cover of a sci-fi book or magazine in the 1950s.