fletch_man wrote on Apr 26^th, 2012 at 4:50pm:


I love you man! 

You really don't need anything but the beeswax and olive oil, the beeswax is an excellant antiseptic all by itself.  Also, if you get it too hot, you kill all the antiseptic qualities so make sure it stays way below boiling point, you want it just warm enough to get soft and then stir it into the oil.

Happy Monday Survivors.  Got another  tip from Dan the Man way out there in the woods someplace.  "Ol Dan say's:

  "Hey Fletch, here is another set of "Survival" tips that can come in handy.

RULES FOR A GUN, KNIFE, BASEBALL BAT OR FIST FIGHT:

1. Forget about knives, bats and fists. Bring a gun. Preferably, bring at least two guns. Bring all of your friends who have guns. Bring four times the ammunition you think you could ever need.

2. Anything worth shooting is worth shooting twice. Ammunition is cheap - life is expensive. If you shoot inside, buckshot is your friend. A new wall is cheap - funerals are expensive.

3. Only hits count. The only thing worse than a miss is a slow miss..


4. If your shooting stance is good, you're probably not moving fast enough or using cover correctly.

5. Move away from your attacker and go to cover. Distance is your friend. (Bulletproof cover and diagonal or lateral movement are preferred.)

6. If you can choose what to bring to a gunfight, bring a semi or full-automatic long gun and a friend with a long gun.

7. In ten years nobody will remember the details of caliber, stance, or tactics. They will only remember who lived.

8. If you are not shooting, you should be communicating, reloading, and running. Yell "Fire!" Why "Fire"? Cops will come with the Fire Department, sirens often scare off the bad guys, or at least cause then to lose concentration and will.... and who is going to summon help if you yell "Intruder," "Glock" or "Winchester?"

9. Accuracy is relative: most combat shooting standards will be more dependent on "pucker factor" than the inherent accuracy of the gun.

10. Someday someone may kill you with your own gun, but they should have to beat you to death with it because it is empty.

11. Always cheat, always win. The only unfair fight is the one you lose.
(similar thought from S.M. Stirling's Draka series: Win. And if you can't win, cheat.)
12. Have a plan.

13. Have a back-up plan, because the first one won't work. "No battle plan ever survives 10 seconds past first contact with an enemy."

14. Use cover or concealment as much as possible, but remember, sheetrock walls and the like stop nothing but your pulse when bullets tear through them.

15. Flank your adversary when possible. Protect yours.

16. Don't drop your guard.

17. Always tactical load and threat scan 360 degrees. Practice reloading one-handed and off-hand shooting. That's how you live if hit in your "good" side.

18. Watch their hands. Hands kill. Smiles, frowns and other facial expressions don't (In God we trust. Everyone else keep your hands where I can see them..)

19. Decide NOW to always be aggressive ENOUGH, quickly ENOUGH.

20. The faster you finish the fight, the less shot you will get.

21. Be polite. Be professional. But, have a plan to kill everyone you meet if necessary, because they may want to kill you.

22. Be courteous to everyone, overly friendly to no one.

23. Your number one option for personal security is a lifelong commitment to avoidance, deterrence, and de-escalation.

24. Do not attend a gunfight with a handgun, the caliber of which does not start with anything smaller than "4".

25. Use a gun that works EVERY TIME. "All skill is in vain when an Angel blows the powder from the flintlock of your musket." At a practice session, throw you gun into the mud, then make sure it still works. You can clean it later.

26. Practice shooting in the dark, with someone shouting at you, when out of breath, etc.

27. Regardless of whether justified or not, you will feel sad about killing another human being. It is better to be sad than to be room temperature.

28. The only thing you EVER say afterwards is, "He said he was going to kill me. I believed him. I'm sorry, Officer, but I'm very upset now. I can't say anything more. Please speak with my attorney." 


  A big, ballistic shout out to Dan for some good advice in case you ever have to drag iron on a bad day.  Remember Survivors, the first rule of gunfighting is to have a gun,

  Fletch Out........................................

I'd like to add something to #5.  The army, and I imagine the marines, teach something called the barrel roll.  It's a way to move when  you're under fire without cover, like when you're running from cover to cover toward or away from your enemy.  Run three steps then barrel roll.  You should be able to fire coming up out of the roll if you want to take the time, but often it's not a good idea.  Run another two or three steps and do another barrel roll.  Vary which direction you roll in.. make sure you keep it random or you're dead for sure.  Never run for more than a few steps or two seconds without  rolling.  Doing this will make you a much more difficult target to hit.  If you run straight and your enemy is a fair shot you're dead meat.  This tactic works much better if you have a buddy to cover you.   I tried unsuccessfully to find someone doing this on youtube.

Yes, that's it, but you don't stop.  You run a few steps, roll, run, roll, run, roll.  And you do it a lot faster than the Captain or you'll get chopped up.

I love this guy!!!!!#21 is my favorite. That and Gibbs Rule #9.

For todays survival tip I've decided to tell you how to make fire with urine. Take a nice solid ziplock bag and fill it about halfway with urine (the clearer the better so hydrate well). Close the bag securely and hold the bag so that it forms a concave lens. Use this to focus the suns rays like a magnifying glass and Voila'....fire.

Yeah, only if you are in a dessert or someplace with really ample sunlight. In which case you are normally pretty dehydrated. The lesson I got from learning about alternative fire making, always carry some kind of firelighting device with you. I normally carry a zippo or bic around town, but I prefera a large fire steel if I am in the woods.

Also, I can imagine the looks you'd get from your neighbors, when holding a bag of pee over a pile of dead leaves in the middle of the day. And when they ask what the heck you are doing the "Just trying to start a fire" would be hilarious, I don't think they'd ever think of you the same.   

Thanks Morphy.