This is a basic rifleman’s guide to rapid engagement on targets at unknown distances out to 500(ish) meters. This approach is modeled on low powered variable optics, using mil based reticles and a 100m zero. This is not meant as a mil relation article but hopefully you can start to pull the beauty of mils …
Continue reading Unkown Distance (UKD) Rapid Rifle Engagement, by JRS
In the Guerrilla Logistics post from yesterday, one of the comments was absolutely superb in highlighting the challenges and resulting limitations the Irish experienced during the Black and Tan War. The West Cork IRA Flying Column had a terrible logistic problem in the 1919-1921 Black and Tan War with England. The Units commander Tom Barry, …
Continue reading The Irish Perspective on Guerrilla Logistics
Almost as predictable as the rising of the sun is the issues of keeping a guerrilla group supplied. In every historical account I’ve read and personal encounters training and patrolling with the Kurdish Peshmerga and even the Afghan Border Police (which is little more than a government sanctioned militia) the number one issue boils down …
Continue reading A Challenge of Logistics: Ammo in Guerrilla Groups
This article originally appeared on American Partisan and is even more important toady than when I wrote it back then. The military, sad to say, is by and large compromised. This was by design. -NCS The past few weeks have been intense on this end. Back to back classes packed over capacity, long hours on …
This originally appeared on American Partisan. Both of those VSKAs have been run hard and put up wet, used as training rifles for students in class both in the AK courses and as OPFOR weapons. They're continuing to perform well. -NCS A search for Century Arms online can certainly garner some interesting points. They get …
So there you are…caught at the street protest with your boys and the Commies are a little too close for comfort. Unbeknownst to you, you’re all alone in a high threat environment and out of the blue you find yourself knocked on your ass with a handful of thugs looking to make the next Jackson …
So you’re out there on a patrol, the commo window is open and you need to make a Cyril Report back to your TOC. Your RTO sets up the yagi getting ready to make contact, checking and rechecking the azimuth. He glosses back over the transmit and receive frequencies to make sure everything is set, …
The DM-1701 is an inexpensive dual-band VHF-UHF DMR/Analog radio. It includes some features that are not legal on the amateur bands such as two different modes of encryption, but overall, it is a nice radio that’s rugged enough for commercial use. If you’ve attended NC Scout’s RTO course recently, you know that he’s picked up …
Continue reading Setting Up A Baofeng DM-1701, by Captain Attilla
You’ve got your column formed- the world has taken a turn for the worse, and the baddies are inbound for a raid. Fortunately, your team has the weapons they need and you agreed on a group standard with serviceable day optics and a combat load to go with it. Right on. Time to form up …
Continue reading Night Fighting: Basic Rules for Implementing NODs in a Guerrilla Column
The second run of FM 7-93, Long Range Surveillance Handbook and the Special Forces Antenna Handbook are back in stock- there was a huge demand for the first run and they sold out very quickly. I've added FM 23-10, Sniper Training, to the mix. They're $20 each, spiral bound and pocket sized to make them …
