Wednesday 8 March 2017

Single Shot Wilderness Guns - A Recipe for Death

There are a lot of single shot, folding, break-action wilderness shotguns on the market.  They appeal to people because they they typically sell for less than $200.

These guns are a terrible idea.  They instill a false sense of security which in turn encourages people to take more risk in the wilderness.

When a person is under stress their heart rate goes up.  Their vision becomes narrow and they lose fine motor control.  To simulate how well you would actually shoot in a life or death situation, sprint as hard as you can for 50 meters to get your heart rate up and then shoot.  You'll feel like a Star Wars Imperial Storm Trooper with shots going all over the place.

It is arrogant to assume that when you are under stress being charged by a dangerous animal that you will hit on the first (and only shot).  And if you do hit, you are making the gross assumption that it will stop it;  it may not.

The only intelligent thing to do is twofold:
1) Train.  You NEVER rise to your expectations.  You only fall to your level of training.
2) Get the right tools.  Here is my suggestions:

AS41

AS44/41



Fake News

This is not a firearms or survival related post so it is a bit out of the ordinary for me but I'd like to address "Fake News".

A lot of people have been using this term to describe things that they don't like.  In the gun world CBC is defined as Fakes News but that is not really true,  Heavily biased and poorly researched yes but not really Fake News.

Fake news can be identified by using the following checklist:

1) Is the page predominately advertising?
Web pages will create fake news stories and pay for it to be disseminated on facebook,  The ads give the page owner money each time someone opens it.  As people share it, the page owner is rewarded for his false news

2) Is the page something that is designed to evoke a strong emotion or to confirm a bias?
People are more likely to share something that they feel is unjust, confirms a strong world view or has shock value.  Any story that threatens or strongly affirms a persons money, ideology conscience or ego is more likely to be shared.

3) Do you need to click "next" a whole bunch of times to get the entire story?
Again, each time a page with ads is visited, the page owner makes money.  Clicking 'next' multiples revenue for the page owner.

4) Have you heard of this website or organization disseminating the news?
There are alternative news sites you may not of heard of but if #1-3 is true, it is probably not an alternative news site but a fake news one.