You have a stronger stomach than me dude. That stuff tastes like rubbing alcohol.
I'm pretty sure he made it using an old truck radiator.
It felt rude to refuse.
I'm pretty sure he made it using an old truck radiator.
It felt rude to refuse.
same as any writer, dude. anyone who cares to read.
Fowler knew to take a multitool and an e tool, but he didn't know to add a real saw edge to the e tool, or to use the visegrip-based Crunch multi-tool. His axe and big saw were wasted picks. Even he now concedes that much, despite being the knothead that he is.
You dont have to and dont want to cut or haul big wood, or try to heat a large shelter. What you want is 1-2 Dakota pits, with big flat rocks propped atop them, reflecting heat at you while you are working under your work tarp awning. At night, slide the hot rocks under your raised wooden bed, in your little sleeping shelter. A 9x9 tarp will suffice for that. You hang it on the ridgepole in the diagonal format, and split the end triangles, so that they can droop down and become the ends of your shelter. You want it just big enough for you, your raised bed, your sleeping bag, your body and any gear that's at risk from animals or the wind. That means that it's 3.5 ft high on the head end, and 2.5 ft high by your feed. Dig a shallow trench alongside of your bed, so that you can sit up by turning sideways. The trench is a place for displaced cold air, but having it requires that the ground not be subject to being soaked. That might be hard to arrange on the island, depending upon where you get dropped off.
they supposedly draw lots for their dropoff sites. Several have been really bad, but the guys could have made a raft, even if just out of their gear and the tarps, and swum behind the poncho-raft, with some hot coals in the skillet atop the raft. and all your clothes and gear wrapped up to keep it dry. Then you can always get out of the water, get dry clothes on and have a fire in a few minutes. When you can be clearing $3000 a hour, a dip in cold water aint that big a deal!
Fowler knew to take a multitool and an e tool, but he didn't know to add a real saw edge to the e tool, or to use the visegrip-based Crunch multi-tool. His axe and big saw were wasted picks. Even he now concedes that much, despite being the knothead that he is.
You dont have to and dont want to cut or haul big wood, or try to heat a large shelter. What you want is 1-2 Dakota pits, with big flat rocks propped atop them, reflecting heat at you while you are working under your work tarp awning. At night, slide the hot rocks under your raised wooden bed, in your little sleeping shelter. A 9x9 tarp will suffice for that. You hang it on the ridgepole in the diagonal format, and split the end triangles, so that they can droop down and become the ends of your shelter. You want it just big enough for you, your raised bed, your sleeping bag, your body and any gear that's at risk from animals or the wind. That means that it's 3.5 ft high on the head end, and 2.5 ft high by your feed. Dig a shallow trench alongside of your bed, so that you can sit up by turning sideways. The trench is a place for displaced cold air, but having it requires that the ground not be subject to being soaked. That might be hard to arrange on the island, depending upon where you get dropped off. they supposedly draw lots for their dropoff sites. Several have been really bad, but the guys could have made a raft, even if just out of their gear and the tarps, and swum behind the poncho-raft, with some hot coals in the skillet atop the raft. and all your clothes and gear wrapped up to keep it dry. Then you can always get out of the water, get dry clothes on and have a fire in a few minutes. When you can be clearing $3000 a hour, a dip in cold water aint that big a deal!
same as any writer, dude. anyone who cares to read.
Fowler knew to take a multitool and an e tool, but he didn't know to add a real saw edge to the e tool, or to use the visegrip-based Crunch multi-tool. His axe and big saw were wasted picks. Even he now concedes that much, despite being the knothead that he is.
be subject to being soaked. That might be hard to arrange on the island, depending upon where you get dropped off.
they supposedly draw lots for their dropoff sites. Several have been really bad, but the guys could have made a raft, even if just out of their gear and the tarps, and swum behind the poncho-raft, with some hot coals in the skillet atop the raft. and all your clothes and gear wrapped up to keep it dry. Then you can always get out of the water, get dry clothes on and have a fire in a few minutes. When you can be clearing $3000 a hour, a dip in cold water aint that big a deal!
That's the good thing about that area... Just like how the weed business has gotten insane in Denver and Cali since there is a lot of access... If you make bad whisky in Franklin County then you keep it to yourself because there is so much being made there that it's a point of pride and competition.
you can easily have 7 ft tall poles over which to hang your tarp, up where a small fire is no threat to it. cut and sharpen some 2-3" OD stakes, 3 ft long. Use a ball bat sized baton to drive the stakes a foot into the earth. then lash the 7 ft tall poles to the stakes. presto, head room under your tarp. Lash on some horizontal sticks, pile some brush up against the sticks, pile debris and then dirt on the brush, and you'll have sides and ends on your shelter, without wasting tarp on the sides. No need to take the dirt all that high, what you mostly need is a windbreak. Always lash all the tarps in place with loops and toggle sticks, so that you can drop and raise them again in a very few seconds, in case of storms. Best to lower and tie them down before you go to sleep, or before going off on a long hike or paddle. If you lose a tarp entirely or have it torn badly, you're in major trouble on that rainy island.
This was maybe 20 years ago.
And we stumbled on his land while hiking. Despite greeting us with a shotgun, he was quite friendly once he realized we were just hiking through.
His accent was insane. Very tough to understand.
he and half a dozen other cops in NYC, back in the late 60's, always two at a time, would hide out in the backs of liquor stores in Harlem. Usually, this intense sort of manpower usage was reserved for places that were being robbed twice a day, (by the same guy)! They apprehended 270 robbers in about a year's time span and only had to shoot about 40 of them. He's got some books out about it. He shot his first guy in the head, from about 15 yds, and then the others shot at him. He hit one in the side and shot the third one in the back. Because all he had was .38 Special LRN (lead round nose) ammo, the 2 who fled were able to change buses/subway at least once and made it to the hospital under their own power. First shot to last, about 1 second flat. Cooper later tried to say that students should be able to draw, and get 2 head hits on each of 3 targets at 15 yds, in 4 seconds, but that's bs. Nobody's going to just stand around being shot-at, for anything like that long a time period.
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I dunno about 270 robbers and shooting 40 of them
Sounds like a stretch
Sounds like a stretch
I don't know how well you know OP, but he isn't one for exaggeration.
Check yourself.
Jim got first hand accounts of about 20 other shootouts. He claimed that the stakeout cops never missed. I never thought to ask him if they'd always used hearing protection. Often, from their hideouts, they'd not be able to tell if a robbery was occuring. They'd be behind the robber's back, you see, with him doing SOME sort of transaction at the cash register. So Jim started wandering out into the stores, as if he were another customer, or an employee, with his hand in his pocket, on his 2" Detective special. When he saw a weapon, he'd draw and challenge. If the guy turned towards him, gun in hand, Jim would start shooting, and so would his partner from the back room. Jim said that of the 40 shootings, only twice did one body hit suffice. He saw a guy keep on trucking after taking 2 well-centered hits to the chest, with 00 Buck from a 14" barreled Ithaca pumpgun.. Once from about 10 ft away. Jim claimed that you really CAN see daylight thru a man! The guy fled and Jim shot him again, in the back and like a nightmare, the guy kept running (full of heroin, you see). Jim's partner put him down, with a .38 lrn to the hip joint. He came back up on his hands and knees, gun in hand, so Jim shot him a third time with the 12 ga, the pellets passing thru a glass door first. He said that the guy rolled over, came back up on his hands and knees AGAIN, and said "HEY, man, that's ENOUGH" and died in the ambulance on the way the hospital. Jim said that at that point, he lost all faith in any handgun sufficing with just body hits.
The guy fled and Jim shot him again, in the back and like a nightmare, the guy kept running (full of heroin, you see). Jim's partner put him down, with a .38 lrn to the hip joint. He came back up on his hands and knees, gun in hand, so Jim shot him a third time with the 12 ga, the pellets passing thru a glass door first. He said that the guy rolled over, came back up on his hands and knees AGAIN, and said "HEY, man, that's ENOUGH" and died in the ambulance on the way the hospital. Jim said that at that point, he lost all faith in any handgun sufficing with just body hits.
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The numbers came from Jim's book. Dunno if it's still in print, since Paladin Press went out of biz. Her'es amazon claiming to sell them still.
https://www.amazon.com/s/ref=nb_sb_noss_1?url=search-alias=aps&field-keywords=jim+cirillo
jim cirillo stakeout unit - Google Search
here's some info about Jim. He was the real deal. a champion shottist at PPC matches, and took several deer with a revolver.
https://www.amazon.com/s/ref=nb_sb_noss_1?url=search-alias=aps&field-keywords=jim+cirillo
jim cirillo stakeout unit - Google Search
here's some info about Jim. He was the real deal. a champion shottist at PPC matches, and took several deer with a revolver.
Well, there you have it.
It's gotta be true!
