"A pistol is what you use to fight your way back to the rifle that you stupidly left behind."
You gotta love the guy! I'm currently reading his seminal work, "The Art of the Rifle". A very concise and brilliant work, wrought from the hand of experience.
"A pistol is what you use to fight your way back to the rifle that you stupidly left behind."
Actually, I think that one comes from Clint Smith at Thunder Ranch, but either sensei might well be quoting the other. My 1978 Orange Gunsight API 250 course served me well, and I felt much more comfortable going in harm's way with *only* a handgun than previously, and I certainly don't think of the Colonel, then or now, as at all undergunned with both a good handgun and the knowledge of how to use one effectively.
That said, there were generally some pretty serious longguns, or at least medium-longish ones around me in those days, particularly in the work vehicle I had then. And in these as well....
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Damn, I like this one, too for a sig file. Decisions.....decisions...
"In World War II, the Swiss had defenses no other country had. Let's begin with the rifle in every home combined with the Alpine terrain. When the German Kaiser asked in 1912 what the quarter of a million Swiss militiamen would do if invaded by a half million German soldiers, a Swiss replied: shoot twice and go home."
America's Fifth Column ... watch PBS documentary JIHAD! In America
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