HAPPY NEW YEARS !!!

 

Just How Good Are Your Defensive Shotgun Skills?

 Well, fear not. Chris Baker is here to help you determine whether or not you're up to par, or in need of some remedial training. The two videos below will both provide  a baseline for testing your abilities with a Home Defense Shotgun. 

At least that's the intent. So sit back, get a cup of coffee or your favorite adult beverage, and pay attention. 

 

Wheelgun Wednesday At The Blog - Today We Have An Indepth Review Of The Henry Big Boy Revolver

 

  https://www.gunsamerica.com/digest/henry-big-boy-revolver-a-new-classic/

MERRY CHRISTMAS!!!

 

"It Happened To Me" 3 Stories Of Citizens Defending Themselves From Various Criminal Situations

It Happened To Me: Home Invasion & Self-Defense Stories

 ‘It Happened To Me’ stories where would be victims overcame home invasion, dangerous deceit and a thug ambush.

Copyright@PersonalDefenseWorld May 2014

HOME-INVADER TAKEDOWN:
We live in a major urban area, which has its challenges. Our area has seen its crime sprees.Thankfully, it’s also gun friendly, and I got my gun permit, took some training and purchased a 9mm handgun for home protection.
Usually when I was home, I kept the gun near me at all times, out of a fear of someone breaking into the house. One night, we were all settling in for when we got the surprise of our lives. Three armed men kicked in our front door and burst into our home. The invaders started yelling for us to be quiet, sit down and do as they said. I was just processing the situation when, I guess, we weren’t moving fast enough and one of the invaders grabbed my younger daughter and held onto her in a hostage-like move as the other two began to ransack our home.

I was somewhere between disbelief, fear and anger. I guess the anger got the best of me because I remembered that I had my gun on me and drew my weapon. I drew my weapon and aimed at the suspect holding my daughter, who wasn’t paying attention because he was watching his two partners in crime. Taking advantage, I aimed at his upper body, well out of the way of my daughter, and fired. As the shot hit his upper torso, the invader released his grip on my daughter and fell to the ground. The other two invaders, hearing the shot, shouted some expletives and ran out of the house, leaving their comrade behind. I wasn’t sure if they were more afraid of getting shot or of getting caught. Either way, I was happy they left. One of my neighbors had heard the commotion and called 911. The police were there moments later. I was very happy that my family and I survived the incident, but I didn’t like the emotional toll it took on us. Regardless, that situation made us make the overdue decision to move, which we did to a much quieter area of town. –DL, AL

WRONG WOMAN:
I was driving home one day with both kids in the back seat when a car cut me off, forcing me onto the shoulder and off the road for a bit. After I got cut off, I got back on the road, flashed my brights at the driver (which was not the best idea) and shouted a few G-rated curses at them. As I was driving, I realized something was wrong with the car and pulled over. While on the side of the road, I called our tow service, since the car seemed unsafe to drive. While waiting on the side of the road, a black sedan pulled onto the shoulder behind me. The car looked like a police car but without the markings and lights. A man got out and walked up to the car, wearing a pistol on his belt.

I had all the windows up, and he approached the driver’s side of my car. Through the glass, he said, “Do you need some help?” I politely replied, “No, we are OK. I’m waiting for the tow service, which is a minute out.”
He looked at me, then at my kids, and said, “I’m a cop and can help you. Why don’t you roll down the window and let me check the car?” I started to feel uneasy and said, “Sir, we are OK, and if you are a cop, please show me your badge”. At that request he became visibly irritated and said, “Roll down the window!” Sensing danger, I reached inside my pocketbook and withdrew my gun. I carry a small Ruger .380 and pointed it at my window and said, “You aren’t a cop, and if you don’t leave us alone now, I’ll shoot! Plus, the tow service is about to arrive—now leave!” At the sight of my gun he seemed completely surprised and just turned around, got back in his car and left. The tow company arrived moments later. When I told the tow service what happened, they suggested I let the police know, which I did. I’m not sure who that guy was or what he wanted, but he picked on the wrong woman that day. –CH, NC

DERRINGER DELIVERANCE:
My story is actually my friend Mark’s story, but he is no longer alive to tell it so I will tell it for him. He would like that. Before his death from cancer, we were very close friends and saw each other just about every day. Late in his seventies, he purchased a small derringer pistol for self-defense. He paid about $500, which was a big deal for Mark at the time because he had only his Social Security check to live on. But, he said, people sometimes tried to take advantage of his age and push him around, particularly at night. So he needed a safe and reliable self-defense weapon.

A year after buying the derringer, he was accosted in a park by several tough young men who ridiculed and then attempted to physically harm him because, according to them, they did not like the way he looked. They got very rough with him despite his advanced age. Although he repeatedly asked them to go away and leave him alone, they began to get very physical with him and threaten him to the point at which he felt his life was endangered. So he slowly drew the derringer out of his jacket pocket. “I did not even point the gun at them,” he said. “I did not have to. I simply showed it to them.” “Was the gun loaded?” I asked. “Of course,” he said. But the sight of the gun alone, resting in the palm of his hand was enough. They immediately stopped bothering him and went away, never to return. “That little derringer was the best $500 investment I ever made,” he said. From Mark I had learned an important life lesson that I’m carrying with me for the rest of my life. A good handgun is the best defense against bullies whenever and wherever we encounter them. –JM, TX

Sunday With Blackthorn - "Tend To Your Own Business" and "Surveillance Detetction"

 The following two articles are from Claude Werner's Tactical Professor Blog. the first article is the latest one, but references the second one that was actually written a couple of years earlier. They go to the subjects of knowing when to, and  not to, get involved in a situation. As well as situational awareness if their might be some blowback afterwards.

 

Tend To Your Own Business

 https://thetacticalprofessor.net/2023/10/27/tend-to-your-own-business/#comments

 

Surveillance Detection 

https://thetacticalprofessor.net/2021/06/25/surveillance-detection/

 

How About A Pepper Spray Video From Mas Ayoob To Spice Things Up For Thursday

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pWUq-OEYpiI

Only In America!

 Any Of You Guys Remember Yakov Smirnoff?

Sunday With Blackthorn - Bet You've never Even Heard Of This Guy

He’s Got $250 Million to Spend on Communist Revolution

 Fergie Chambers is heir to one of the biggest American family fortunes. He’s also a revolutionary with ‘actual bloodlust’ building a mysterious commune in Massachusetts. His neighbors are scared. 

By Suzy Weiss December 4, 2023 copyright @ The Free Press 

Nestled into the mountains of the Upper Valley in New Hampshire, up a semi-paved road in a house next to a tiny cemetery lined with white picket fencing, Fergie Chambers, 38, leans over his kitchen island, worrying over his commune. 

 “It feels like we’re throwing the same half-assed solutions at this over and over again and hoping it will yield something different,” he groans into his iPhone, which is on speaker. Fergie’s slight, but buff, on account of his multiple times a day martial arts training and competitions. His hair is cut short. A silver boxing glove dangles from one of his ears. He is covered in tattoos, including a double portrait of Stalin and Mao inked onto his thigh. He looks as if the phrase “Fuck you, Mom and Dad” were a person. 

 I offer my hand to a wheezing bulldog named Madison while Fergie talks over the phone to his employee in Alford, Massachusetts—the tiny Berkshires town where he’s bought 300 acres since 2019. Around 10 people live there at any given time. But he’s unclear—with me, possibly with himself—on what that place is exactly. 

 

To Read The Rest Of This Article, Click on the link Below; 

https://www.thefp.com/p/hes-got-250-million-to-spend-on-communist

Static Counter-Knife Defenses By Carl Cestari

 OK, no fancy footwork, flashy techniques, or showy manipulations.

 Just Carl C. doing what he knew best.

 

 

 

 

More Classic Groundfighting From Carl Cestari (Circa 1991)

Home Protection Humor For Thursday

 

Bob "Gold Bar" Menendez Is The Gift That Keeps on Giving

 Someone should have told him that when you take bribe money, even in the form of Gold Bars, you should make sure that the Serial Numbers have been removed. The best part is that the Gold Bars were traced back as belonging to  the Real Estate developer he's been accused of giving favors to, including trying to keep the developer from being prosecuted by the U.S. DOJ.

 https://nypost.com/2023/12/04/news/gold-bars-found-in-sen-bob-menendezs-home-linked-to-2013-robbery-report/

 

Sunday With Blackthorn - Today James Reeves Of TFB TV Reviews The New Glock 49

As Rod Serling used to say "Submitted for your approval".

 

Friday Humor