And what country can preserve its liberties if their rulers are not warned from time to time that their people preserve the spirit of resistance? Let them take arms. The remedy is to set them right as to facts, pardon and pacify them. What signify a few lives lost in a century or two? The tree of liberty must be refreshed from time to time with the blood of patriots and tyrants.
In "Shooting to Live" Fairbairn has chamber empty and you load it as you pull it out. It's a good read by people who developed the practice the hard way. Here is a pdf copy you can download...
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ReplyDeleteWe tankers carried like that.
ReplyDeleteSo did everybody that could beg, borrow or steal (usually steal) a tanker's rig.
DeleteCajun, did you carry like that with a chambered round?
ReplyDeleteIn "Shooting to Live" Fairbairn has chamber empty and you load it as you pull it out. It's a good read by people who developed the practice the hard way.
DeleteHere is a pdf copy you can download...
http://the-eye.eu/public/murdercube.com/Military%20Science/Shooting%20to%20Live%20-%20Fairbairn%20and%20Sykes%20-%20FMFRP%2012-81.pdf