Outdoor adventure requires substantive personal safety and self-defense skills. Here’s help.
September 13, 2022
Outdoor adventure requires substantive personal safety and self-defense skills. Here’s help.
Concealed Carry Advice To Secure Your Safety
Let’s face it, outdoor adventurers: Your outdoor pursuits sometimes take you into some very remote, lonely places. Mastering concealed carry techniques can help to make sure you continue to enjoy what you love for years to come. This no-cost-to-you, 56-page ebook from editor Steve Barlow can help.
The first phase of situational awareness involves observing all the elements in your environment. What do you see? Hear? Even smell? Look for people, objects, their locations, motions, actions and how the entire group and environment are flowing together (or not). Are their movements part of a pattern? Does everything feel normal?
Take the time to learn exactly what different bullets will do against different objects. While there are classes and seminars available on this topic, the most readily available source of information will be YouTube. Learning what bullets will and won’t do will give you a basic understanding of what constitutes cover and what doesn’t.
“What is keeping a low profile’? I like to call it being the gray man or gray woman and that just means you don’t dress, act or speak in a way that makes you memorable or stand out from anybody else in that environment,” writes Brian Morris.
A warrior is a master of spherical awareness, ever vigilant with their head on a swivel. They know their operational environment, can improvise, adapt and overcome all adversities, and while they’re able to accept that they aren’t invincible, they never run from adversity; instead, they face it head-on with a positive outlook.
You’re going about your day when a robber/terrorist/Antifa thug pulls out a knife/rifle/skateboard and tries to end your life or that of your loved one. In a flash, you pull out your tactical folding knife and stop the threat before it even starts. You’ve saved the day! You’re the hero … in your fantasy.
“There are bandits ahead on this road—very bad men! We can guide you past them.” The driver of the 70-series Land Cruiser pickup seemed touchingly concerned for our welfare, as did his grinning friends in the bed, dressed in djellabas and carrying AKs and a single century-old Lee-Enfield straight out of a David Lean epic.
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