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Bracken: Night Fighting 101
Western Rifle Shooters Association ^ | 8-16-12 | Matt Bracken

Posted on 08/22/2012 4:49:46 PM PDT by dynachrome

So how do you become a self-taught deadly warrior of the night? You begin in the daytime. Lay out a walking path through your neighborhood “Area of Operations,” a path with plenty of transitions across all types of urban, suburban and rural terrain. Culverts, gullies, overgrown chain link fences, woods, meadows, railroad tracks, bridges, power line right-of-ways, abandoned commercial properties and fallow fields will be your classroom.

To begin, mark your route every twenty or thirty yards. Small torn rags stuck on fences and tree branches look fairly natural, and won’t be noticed. Walk and crawl through thickets, under fences, over walls, through the doors and windows of closed factories or falling-down barns. Travel your path in daylight both ways, several times. If it’s summer where you are located, dress for bugs, thorns and mud, but stay inconspicuous.

Then come back after dark on a moonlit night. Your mind and memory will already know the route very well, but the darkness will swallow up much that was plainly visible by day, while revealing new folds and textures of light and shadow. Your rag markers will help you to stay on course. You can also blaze a temporary trail with a small bag of baking flour, leaving a white pile at intervals.

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TOPICS: Books/Literature; Education; Outdoors; Reference
KEYWORDS: banglist; bracken; nightfighting; shtf
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To: spodefly

I’d like to see some testing done of various “field expedient” anti IR methods. One thing I know is the govt doesn’t want to peasants to know what would work.


61 posted on 08/25/2012 1:27:21 PM PDT by Travis McGee (www.EnemiesForeignAndDomestic.com)
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To: Joe Brower

Yep, I go for the 3” brim, adn the old ripstop material. Everything is a tradeoff, but I prefer light weight and fast drying.


62 posted on 08/25/2012 1:28:35 PM PDT by Travis McGee (www.EnemiesForeignAndDomestic.com)
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To: Travis McGee

Those shields people use behind the windshield on sunny days to protect the interior may be handy to have around.


63 posted on 08/25/2012 1:31:52 PM PDT by going hot (Happiness is a momma deuce)
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To: going hot

Yeah, get a couple, and stitch them together to fold up in one unit. Might even do double duty as part of a ground pad for sleeping. Very interesting concept.


64 posted on 08/25/2012 1:54:45 PM PDT by Travis McGee (www.EnemiesForeignAndDomestic.com)
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To: yarddog

One night around age 10 or 11-years old I pissed off a couple of the neighborhood teen bullies who chased me for a block. I had about 5 seconds on the closest one and ditched between two houses and into the shrubs along a garage wall. It was pitch black and I was sprawled up against the garage wall when the teen came around the corner and started poking the shrubs. I was 3’ from him and he never noticed me.


65 posted on 08/25/2012 2:04:00 PM PDT by Rebelbase (The most transparent administration ever is clear as mud.)
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To: Eye of Unk

FLIR is always trying to gget people into training classes so you will buy ther products. Some or most are free.


66 posted on 08/26/2012 5:04:40 PM PDT by kennyboy509 ( Ha! I kill me!!!)
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