by David Reeder | May 8, 2024 | Uncategorized
What does tactical mean, you ask? Glad you asked. Even if you didn’t. The most commonly cited tactical definition in my world is something along these lines: “Of or relating to tactics; possessing qualities inherently more suitable for use in physical...
by David Reeder | Jul 18, 2023 | Uncategorized
I use the term FYSA a lot. Probably too much. And I often use it improperly, when maybe FYI would be better suited. But it made a great alliterative term for my “FYSA File” articles. FYSA means For Your Situational Awareness. It’s an acronym...
by David Reeder | Jul 1, 2023 | Uncategorized
I’m writing this in June of 2021 but I’m gonna backdate it so it looks like I did it back when this issue of RECOIL actually ran. I recently* wrote an article about a really solid dude who spent a lifetime in the service of our country: Frankie McRae....
by David Reeder | Jun 16, 2023 | Uncategorized
…it has so many meanings. Many of them entirely incorrect, even when used correctly. You know what I’m talking about. Tactical is the most common marketing term in the firearms/training/outdoor/tactical industry. In fact, I’d venture to say...
by David Reeder | Sep 5, 2021 | Uncategorized
I finally finished my Team Rubicon training. It only took me, I don’t know, all year? There are several reasons I was procrastinating, but that hardly matters. It’s done now, and I’m finally eligible for the Team Rubicon Roll Call…and...
by David Reeder | Aug 1, 2018 | Real life
The case of Defense Distributed v. U.S. Dep’t of State, C15-0372RP (W.D. Tex), recently ruled on by the Honorable Judge Robert Pitman, has created a furor over the last several days, but very little of the headlines are accurate. At best they, like this headline, are...
by David Reeder | Jan 31, 2018 | Uncategorized
Crossbows, Golden Eagles, and Verisimilitude How I get sideways, learn a lot, and get nothing done. Research in fiction is key to accuracy, plausibility, and verisimilitude – but it’s also a depthless as Kaidas1, a bottomless pit that sucks you waaaay in. I know this...
by David Reeder | Jan 1, 2018 | Uncategorized
React When Ready – Don’t go Shark-Eyed Don’t presume to assume. Don’t suppose you oppose. Think it through. React only when ready, and don’t go shark-eyed. We are about to enter a new year. If every year since…ever…is to be a...
by David Reeder | May 14, 2017 | Uncategorized
The International Institute for Strategic Studies (IISS) released their Armed Conflict Survey a couple of days ago, beginning with the term hyper-violent criminality. Unfortunately for Mexicans, visitors to Mexico, and large numbers of US citizens living in frontera...
by David Reeder | May 4, 2017 | Uncategorized
“None of it’s perfect, Dave. None of it is wrong. It is, what it is, when it is. Until it isn’t…” That’s the last thing I remember Pat Rogers saying to me. We were, appropriately enough, talking tactics. I quoted him in a farewell piece I wrote...
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