Winners Named in the New Major Bill Barker All Service JROTC Air Rifle Championship
Submitted by Wayne Harkley, MSgt, USMC, (ret.) Fontana High School recently renamed their annual Southern California All Service Championship event to the “Major Bill Barker All Service JROTC Championship.” This change was made to pay tribute to an awesome mentor, teacher and Marine, Major Bill Barker. Every year, during the Martin Luther King Jr. birthday weekend, we host this event. Continue Reading
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Your Hump Day Reading List for February 21, 2018
If it’s Wednesday, this must be the awesome collection of personal safety and preparedness articles known as the Hump Day Reading List. What do you know — correct on both counts!
Duplicate function, not form
Those who’ve read Prepping For Life know that I make incessant fun of the “two is one and one is none” philosophy; it’s usually nothing more than a justification for needless consumerism. Instead of duplicating items, I’m a fan of having an alternate …
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Junior Olympic & World Champs Opportunity Awaits 763 Young Athletes
School Shootings and Banning Assault Rifles
I try to avoid politics here, but sometimes I can’t. Any mass-murder spree is horrific and tragic, and school shootings are particularly awful. We are the only nation in the developed world that regularly experiences these tragedies. Semi-automatic military-style rifles (commonly and incorrectly called ‘Assault Rifles’ in modern parlance) are used in almost half of […]
Grant’s Monday Miscellany
A few quick notes of interest:
— On last Thursday’s Training Talk, martial arts and combatives expert Cecil Burch and I talked about defensive use of the knife. Cecil may be known as “the Brazilian Jiu-Jitsu Guy”, but he also has multi-decade experience in several edged weapon disciplines. He’s taken that knowledge and applied it to plausible self defense for the rest of us, and what he has to say is very interesting. I learned quite a lot from our …
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Range Report for 18 Feb. 18
A day of good news/bad news at the range. The good news is that the Walker Conversion put all it’s shots in the same hole. The bad news is only three of the fourteen rounds that I had loaded went off. It wasn’t striking light either, as you can see in the photo- I’m pretty […]
Reprise: The Dark Side of the Force? Black Guns vs. Classic Wood & Steel Models
Caution: this is somewhat political. Again. Prompted by my friends over at the Liberal Gun Club, this is another in an occasional series of revisiting some of my old articles which had been published elsewhere over the years, perhaps lightly edited or updated with my current thoughts on the topic discussed. This is an article […]
Robert Mitchell Rifle Championships Conclude in Colorado Springs
CMP Seeking Current College Athletes as 2018 Summer Camp Counselors
By Ashley Brugnone, CMP Writer The Civilian Marksmanship Program (CMP) is seeking qualified individuals to fill counselor positions for its Junior Rifle Camps program for the 2018 season. This premier program has an established history of providing the highest quality three-position and international air rifle instruction in the country for high school athletes. Camp Counselor positions are open to college Continue Reading
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Junior Athletes: Apply Now for CMP’s $1,000 Scholarships
By Ashley Brugnone, CMP Writer The Civilian Marksmanship Program (CMP) is delighted to again award exemplary student-athletes for the 2018-2019 school year in their future endeavors through its annual scholarship program. The CMP offers $1,000 one-year scholarships based on merit and marksmanship participation to current high school seniors only. The deadline for application submission is March 20, 2018. Scholarships may Continue Reading
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