Posted on 06/14/2015 11:43:10 AM PDT by SleeperCatcher
TALKEETNA — David Luntz grilled steaks Friday evening as the summer sun lit up a broad meadow fringed with canvas tents.
A few people sitting in camp chairs sipped gin and tonics, getting to know each other before the weekend got started.
Rick Ford and Jon Droska walked up with unloaded hand-built machine guns. Ford, in head-to-toe camouflage, shouldered an AK-47. Droska, a bearded, burly U.S. Navy veteran who now conducts emergency medical instruction, carried an AR-15. Around his legs rippled a charcoal-gray “Elkommando” kilt made by Mountain Hardware.
Welcome to the fourth annual Prepper, Survivalist and Militia Rendezvous.The gathering probably isn’t what most Alaskans think of when it comes to the state’s militias.
Then again, if the 25 or so rendezvous participants drawn this weekend to 50 acres of private land near Montana Creek are any indication, Alaska’s militias are hard to pin down.
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Posers.Just look at the pictures.
Ping!
They look like they take it seriously. I’m with a militia here in Arkansas and they seem to be doing similar things that we do when we train.
Talkeetna is such a cool place. You can take the Alaska railroad there from Anchorage or Fairbanks. The restaurants are really exceptional.
N.B.: Gin and tonic is forbidden to commercial pilots because of the quinine in the tonic, which has been found to interfere with color perception for as long as 72 hours.
Hendricks gin and Fever Tree tonic.... Yum. I know what I’m having before dinner.
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Would you know the difference?
Which branch were you in?
“Homemade machine guns”? Really? Lost me right there.
Alaska ping.
Glad guys like this have the time!
There is also the Alaska Territorial Guard up here. I have a couple friends in that.
A bunch of good guys!
I read the whole article and can’t see anything I disagree with; they are taking pains to appear law-abiding.
I approve of folks obtaining and improving their woodcraft skills. I can’t see a downside to that.
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