"The Walking Dead" Part ONE
Part ONE... From the Civil Defense Manual. How to increase your chances of surviving a gun battle. These tips and your behavior pattern may be the difference between walking away... or not.
The real winners in a ‘Gun Battle’ are those who avoid one and everyone walks away.
However, if you can’t walk away or retreat from a deadly threat and you have no choice but to use a firearm to defend Yourself, Family or those Innocents or those not capable of defending themselves. As cold, calculating, brutal and heartless as the following sounds, read on… It is the reality of survival…
To really be proficient with a firearm in a gun battle, you need to learn to do the following, under pressure:
1. Learn to shoot at stationary targets from a fixed standing position…
2. Learn to shoot by reflex at “pop out” targets from a fixed standing position (the basis of a “Jungle Lane”).
3. Learn to shoot by reflex at stationary targets while in a crouching position…
4. Learn to shoot at a stationary target while on the move standing…
5. Learn to shoot at a stationary target while on the move crouching…
6. Learn to shoot at a MOVING target while on the move standing…
7. Learn to shoot at a MOVING target while on the move crouching…
8. Learn “Skipping Rounds” techniques (In the Civil Defense Manual).
9. Learn “Drake Shooting” techniques (In the Civil Defense Manual).
10. Learn Speed Reloading and Tactical Reloading, the difference them and when to use them.
11. Reflex shooting with time constraints is the best training for real life scenarios… it removes the hesitancy to take life and the immediate trauma from it… but you’ll be alive to deal with that trauma later.
One important thing to remember when shooting is that “Distance makes a variable of Time.”
That’s a statement to tell you, that as fast as a bullet moves through the air… the further the distance from your firearm muzzle to your target… the more that the additional faction of a second allows your target to be in a different position than your sight picture presented when you pulled the trigger.
This is the reality of what you will face in a Gun Battle
What happens when you shoot someone and their Bullet Resistant Vest stops the bullet?
Bullet Resistant Vests AKA ‘Body Armor"‘ (They are not totally Bullet Proof) protect against most pistol calibers entering the wearer’s body. Unless ballistic or ceramic plates are worn in the vest, which you generally cannot see, most high velocity rifle caliber rounds will go through a Bullet Resistant Vest into your assailant’s body or Vice-Versa. The ballistic and ceramic plate will stop most pistol and some rifle calibers.
If you hit an adversary with body armor dead center on the body armor you will most likely knock them off their feet with most pistol caliber rounds. They will probably have much of the reserve air knocked out of their lungs causing them breathing problems. They may be struggling to breath, severely bruised and physically shocked to some degree but THEYARE NOT DEAD and will recover to fighting some level of adversarial capability.
So, within seconds to a few minutes… that threat will engage you or others again. YOU HAVE NOT STOPPED THE THREAT. An exception to this is shooting between the front and back Bullet Resistant panel areas or other parts of an assailant’s body not protected. There is usually a gap between the front and back vest panels where the arms normally hang down when a person is at rest. These are not commonly protected by a Bullet Resistant Vest but don’t count on this.
This is where ‘The Survival Mentality’ comes into play, in the previous Chapter ‘Introduction to a PATD-the Reality of Desperation.’ You will have to ‘shoot to stop the threat’ and continue to shoot until your assailant stops, by you stopping the threat. To kill your assailant if necessary. You are not shooting just to stop the threat, you shooting to stay alive and keep your loved ones and Group Members alive.
If possible, attend a Close Quarters Combat Shooting course, or CQCS. There are a number of excellent courses across the country. Many are staffed by instructors with recent urban warfare combat experience in Iraq and Afghanistan.
There are also some excellent schools on Tactical Training. Some of these guys have forgotten more than I know.
These courses teach combat fundamentals, flanking and anti-ambush techniques of an offensive nature that will help you establish a Proactive proactive Defense defense for your Neighborhood Protection PlanTM.
Aim for ‘Torso Center Mass’ or ‘Head or Groin Center Mass’
Reference the shaded body image in “The Walking Dead” on the next pages.
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‘Torso Center Mass.’
What is commonly known as ‘Center Mass’ is the Torso area of human anatomy that contains the most vital organs. The chest area from the waist up to the beginning of the neck and in between the arm pits. That’s the lighter area surrounding the white center area in the silhouette diagram chest area here. TORSO CENTER MASS IS THE PRIMARY CENTER MASS TARGET YOU SHOULD AIM FOR. The largest blood vessel in the human body, the Aorta, is right there. Puncture the Aorta, and your assailant dies quickly. The others areas of “Center Mass” are only if the assailant is wearing a Bullet Resistant Vest. If you are intent on stopping a human attacker, these areas are the recommended target area.
‘Head Center Mass.’
With the prevalence of Body Armor, the “New Center of Mass,” as one Instructor calls it, is the head. I actually include the groin area (crotch). The corresponding lethal areas to hit on the head are also white and the lighter area surrounding the white area in the silhouette diagram here.
‘Groin (Crotch) Center Mass,’ AKA “Shooting Dick.”
Again, with the prevalence of Body Armor, another Center Mass target is the crotch and groin area shown on the silhouette pictured is the lower white space. That is shooting at the inner femoral artery sides of the groin or crotch at the top of the legs around the reproductive organs.
If you hit the femoral artery, ‘BINGO,’ the Game is Over! Your adversary may still be a threat, but will bleed to death inside of a few minutes. If you are intent on stopping a human attacker, these are the target areas commonly recommended that are the most effective areas to shoot at with firearms. You will read about this next in ‘The Walking Dead.’
DO YOU HAVE THE MINDSET TO SHOOT TO WOUND!? If you are intent on shooting to wound, because you don’t want to kill to stop the threat, don’t carry a firearm. When you point your firearm, be mentally prepared to use it… and to use it to hit one of these areas of Center Mass. To fire until you stop the threat.
You have to be mentally prepared with that process to take another human’s life… to kill. Killing another human will haunt you until your End Days. You increase the chance of that threat being successful against you when you wound your assailant. LEARNING QUICK REACTION SHOOTING WITH TIME CONSTRAINTS WILL REMOVE YOUR HESITANCY TO USE YOUR FIREARM AGAINST A HUMAN BEING. REFLEX SHOOTING.
If you try to wound your assailant, you will probably miss hitting altogether and like wounded animals… a wounded assailant will be more dangerous than one you’ve not hit at all. A wounded assailant will become just that… like an animal… an assailant that just keeps coming after you like ‘Terminator’ Arnold.
A further danger is that you may kill innocent people behind your assailant when your bullet misses or goes through a flesh only part of your assailant. If you cannot have the mindset to kill if necessary, do not carry a firearm or it may be taken away from you by your assailant and used on you and others. If you hesitate to use your firearm when justified, you will then most likely be playing a game of checkers with Elvis Presley.
Shoot to stop the threat… that means to kill if necessary!
My recommendation… When you’re a lefty learn to shoot predominantly with your right hand. Most Firearms Instructors will condemn me for this statement despite my Rhodesian SAS Instructors and Israeli Commando Instructor insisting on lefties learning to shoot predominantly right handed. Almost all firearms are designed for right handed shooters.
Most military weapons and many available to civilians are not easily used if you are left handed. God wasn’t fair when he made us, but approximately 90 out of 100 of us are right handed and so most firearms are designed that way. Adapt to this even when you’re left handed! If you’re going to learn to shoot properly, learn to shoot with your right hand and train your right eye to be dominant.
That being said… If you’re right handed learn to shoot with your left hand also. Learn to shoot with your strong hand and your weak hand, to fully operate your weapon and reload with either hand and one hand by itself (one handed). Learn to shoot with both eyes open! You DO need to know how to shoot with both left and right hands, regardless of your ‘strong hand.’ This will be the case if you’re wounded or incapacitated in some manner and forced to use your firearm with the other hand, whether you’re right handed or vice versa.
Again, also learn how to safely reload with your strong hand and your weak hand... and with only one hand… you may have to do that.… holding your firearm between your knees and/or chambering a round by pushing against the sole of a boot… etc. Get ‘intimate’ with your firearms!
Bullet Resistant Body Armor Level Comparison protection against common firearm calibers
Center Mass
Center Mass on the silhouette pictured is the white and light red chest area. The corresponding lethal areas to hit on the head are also white and light red. The same for the groin.
If you point your firearm, be mentally prepared to use it… and to use it to hit Center Mass… to fire until you stop the threat. You have to be mentally prepared with that process to take another human’s life… to kill.
If you cannot do that, do not carry a firearm or it may be taken away by your assailant and used on you. This happened to my Wife’s next door neighbor in Africa while I was in the bush. The neighbor was killed and his assailant was never caught. The assailant took his pistol with him and was thereafter armed.
Always aim for Center Mass. If A Collapse Of Society occurs, some Intruders will eventually acquire body armor… mostly bullet resistant vests. If Intruders are wearing bullet resistant vests, you can aim for the following additional areas… the upper and lower legs, the groin area, arms and the head. If they’re wearing really good body armor… use Molotov Cocktails and set them on fire. Shoot them afterwards to be humane.
“The Walking Dead”
Again, unless a single shot is to the smallest incapacitating target of the human anatomy… the brain and preferably the Medulla Oblongata connecting it to your spinal column and the rest of your body, your assailant will not be stopped ‘Dead in Their Tracks’.’
Actually, this Author has seen an enemy combatant continue to shoot for hours that had half his skull and part of his brain blown off from taking a head shot. Before he was stopped, this Terrorist with half a skull and part of his brain gone, killed 4 troopers and blinded one. Some of his shots were from 200 meters and all with iron sights on a SKS rifle.
This guy, as brave and determined but ideologically misdirected, as his motivation was Communism, was trained in Libya or Russia at the “International Agricultural School” in the Russian city of Gorky. They were the most dangerous of the terrorists and we never stopped until we got them. Night or day. Six of us chased him into a dry river bed and forced him to depart the planet.
I had no idea that an AK bullet could travel through a person’s head from temple to temple and not kill that person, but permanently blind him by severing and destroying the optic nerves. Such was the fate of a 6 RR Rhodesian soldier from this shootout.
This joker almost got me, before we put him down. I learned a good lesson from that… don’t peek around the corner of the dry river bed bank, in the same spot that your mate had just looked around, unless your friend is a foot taller or shorter than you. This guy’s sights were dead on that river bank edge spot, just waiting for my snout to appear. I came close to learning the Grand Secret.
So, there are parts areas of the brain that, when hit, can allow your adversary to carry on doing what he or she was doing to harm you… and there are areas of the brain that will positively shut down an assailant’s body in a split second.
I was taught these in Shooting Courses and snipers learn these… but we’re I’m not going to go into that because it’s too advanced and a target area that is hard to hit for the average person and even experienced professionals in the heat and confusion of conflict. Have I shot anyone in those areas? No… that is for ‘the perfect world’ that you will rarely experience in a fluid combative situation. These are shots that are calmly taken for a very small area, difficult for most shooters to hit, even on a stationary target.
However, the common misconception exists with people that one shot to the Torso Center of Mass is enough to kill an assailant. This is true in some cases, but an attacker can remain alive for seconds, minutes, even hours and days during which time they can still function to kill you or others… so “Continue to fire until you stop the threat!”
One shot will not stop your assailant…
The assailant may be dead, but they haven’t bled out. After an assailant is shot even multiple times, exclusive of a direct head shot to specific areas, they have about 15 seconds of blood circulating in their body. During this 15 second period, this ‘dead’ attacker’s mind and body can still function to inflict death or great bodily harm on you or others.
Decades back, while on one of the largest Metro Police Boards in this country, I watched one of the first patrol vehicle camera videos shown while going through the Police Academy. Unfortunately, this one recorded the death of a Highway Patrolman who emptied all six shots of his .357 magnum into the chest area of a guy with a knife, who was 20 some feet away from him. He killed the guy, but the 15 seconds of blood pumping around in this assailant, “The Walking Dead,” was enough for this assailant to cover the 20 some feet to the Highway Patrolman, and stab him to death. I explain this in the Civil Defense Manual, but look up The 21 Foot Rule.
Aim for Center Mass and shoot fire 2 to 3 times or until the threat is stopped.
It’s like shooting holes in a large container full of water, the bigger the holes and the more holes you shoot in it, the faster the water runs out and the faster it is empty… when it’s empty… it’s ‘dead’ and the threat is stopped.
The more holes you put in the attacker’s body the faster that assailant’s body will bleed out thus depriving the attacker’s brain of oxygen… which stops the attacker’s brain from functioning… which stops the attacker’s body from functioning… and which prevents that assailant’s body from further attacking you or someone else.
Two or three shots are necessary to the Center of Mass to create a quicker bleed out that will reduce the remaining time that the assailant has to inflict harm on you. I’m not encouraging you to empty your weapon into each Intruder. To the contrary, keep rounds in reserve unless you are VERY QUICK in doing a Speed Reload. However, to understand that to effectively and quickly kill, you must fire at least two to three shots into an assailant. Aim for Center Mass and fire 2 to 3 times or until the threat is stopped.
The final thing for surviving a Gun Battle is to pray to your God, your Savior or your Higher Power.
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Other authors, books and resources I recommend for Preparedness and Survival… because I don’t do this just for money… it’s also for my children, grandchildren, Americans and America!
Recommended Blogs, Internet Shows and Websites…
Western Rifle Shooters Association at: https://www.westernrifleshooters.online/
Matt Bracken at: www.EnemiesForeignAndDomestic.com
AND Matt Bracken’s Substack
Forward Observer at: www.ForwardObserver.com
General Michael Flynn’s Substack at:
Normal American at: NormalAmerican.com
NC Scout at: www.brushbeater.org
SELCO at: www.shtfschool.com/ (His books and his Survival Boot Camp)
Johnny Paratrooper at: www.patreon.com/GreenDragonAcademy
Prepared Airman at: www.preparedairman.bigcartel.com/
Big Country Expat at: www.bigcountryexpat.com/
Stan Szymanski at: www.EcouragingAngels.org
Survivor Library at: www.survivorlibrary.com
Joe Dolio at: www.Tactical-Wisdom.com
Nehemiah Strong at: www.johndyslin.com/
Don Shift at: www.amazon.com/Don-Shift/e/
Daisy Luther at: www.theorganicprepper.com
Christopher Parrett at: www.ldsavow.com
The Tactical Hermit at: www.thetacticalhermit.com
J.C. Dodge at: www. www.masondixontactical.wordpress.com/
Infantry Dort at: https://www.InfantryDort.Substack.com
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