Also working on a meme one

To be fair, that is significantly less stuff than my everyday carry, but I’m very on board with the plainclothes offensive pistol man

It's pretty much my edc minus wallet, phone, keys, knife, trauma shears, pen, and occasionally some other stuff

My view on the whole grey man versus tactical argument is both are valid things but only function in certain settings. If I knew i was walking into a potential fight I'd go tactical. If I'm just trying to get from A to B and not expecting a fight and not wanting to draw attention while doing it then its grey man

And in SHTF people look for soft targets and is you look like any old joe you will get attacked even if in a small group. Now take that same small group but deck them out in full kit and rifles they would have a lesser chance of being attacked by opportunistic criminals or raiders

mission drives gear after all. Most of the time, tactical stuff puts you in more danger, but if you know you're probably going to be shot at on sight anyway, then kitting up is a good plan

My experience is people are generally pussies and if you look scary enough they will avoid you

Noticed it when attending rallies in full kit. The counter protesters would be acting violent and attacking people unlit 5 or 6 guys in kit square off with them then the get all pacifist and non violent meanwhile 5 minutes before they were striking people and throwing shit

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> My experience is people are generally pussies and if you look scary enough they will avoid you
@BugsyBaldwin NGL Chief That is just super duper fucking wrong

Depends, it's more of a horseshoe scale

imo

https://www.amazon.com/Violence-Mind-Training-Preparation-Extreme-ebook/dp/B07BGJFD7L

If you think your appearance is scary to anyone worth scaring, please go read that book.

Eventually on any extreme you'll find people more willing to take their chances and fight

*fires two warning shots from my shotgun to scare off the bad guys*

The people at the protest: 😮

Shut up and read some book nerds, it’s like 5 bucks.

> Eventually on any extreme you'll find people more willing to take their chances and fight
@Fabultishere That’s not the point. Exposing your capabilities makes you less lethal.

True, being unexpected is important

Although that is also saying water is wet

Concealed plate carriers for the win.

Depending on the scenario, exposing your capabilities makes you a target. If you're out on recon, or grabbing milk at the store, you don't want to stand out. If you're making a show of force with 30 others, then throwing your second line gear on top and standing out will make you more effective.

Up here in Minnesota winter nobody would have any clue you got a plate carrier on, even if you went overt instead of covert

I can't find a torrent of that book ☹️

“The more you project about your intentions or capabilities, the more you present them with the ultimatum of taking you down decisively in ambush or facing loss themselves. What if your overt projections of strength deterred 10 low-level fights that you could have probably won, only to give the advantage to the one high-level attacker that takes you down for good?”
- That book ^

Reminds of highschool with the gangs.

Except it’s about shooting people directly in the back of the head

Makes sense. Being the psycho that people were worried was gonna shoot up the place worked back then. Not so much the real world.

Yup. That’s what he’s trying to say. If you look tough, they won’t give you a chance to fight back. The police apply the same thought process

A couple of people on fb are going "so look like an oFf DuTy CoP" so I'm making one specially for them

because apparently only off duty cops wear polo shirts

Vertex polos are kinda on that line, depending on your AO. construction company hoodies or similar are what I like to rock.

I just happen to work in an office for a more industrial company so I have to wear a polo

My buddy was the derpy happy go lucky pothead, nobody knew he was packing a revolver lol. That's the way to be.

Yup

The enemy should have no idea what your capabilies are until you employ them, or after

So I already have a reloading press for .308 and I'm considering reloading for 5.56 at this point consider how little I use .308. Is it worth it

Might as well

At least just to have the knowledge and tools/supplies on hand just in case

There we go, all done

Yeah I need to get away from reloading .308, not super comfortable out of a semi automatic platform