Tuesday, March 5, 2013

Lone Wolf: Eight bits of advice.

Via WRSA

 
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 Having been off the net for a while I'm still playing catch up.  Max Velocity's article on tactics for the Lone Wolf has stirred the debate, and now I get to add my two cents.

First off, if you absolutely have no other option, then be a lone wolf.  A relatively good fire team will make short work of a loan wolf in a react to contact situation.  You have to be infinitely better as a loner than you do as a member of a team, because there is NO ONE else to help cover your mistakes.

You have two (or less) eyes, and can only hear as good as you can.  That fire team has eight (or less, down to four eyes if you take one from each member), so even if you had a half blind fire team you would still have twice as many eyes as a lone wolf.

The only offensive tactic available to a Lone Wolf is the ambush.  Whether this is due to sniping (long range ambush) or an explosive device (short range ambush) that is it.  No deliberate attacks, no raids, no anything that requires both fire and maneuver.


7 comments:

  1. You want to be a lone wolf , and live then don't use an AK or AR in fact don't use a carbine class wepon AT ALL. Don't get that close to your enemy. I read all the bullshit from the "experts" on how you will get hunted, how you will starve and how you will get so filthy your skin will rot and fall off. Its all government propaganda ment to scare the shit out of the Freefor, I have spent YEARS liveing alone in the bush, At one point in my life I spent TWO YEARS outdoors and NEVER slept under a roof. Think on this guys & girls, 99% of the "experts" on the web are Federal government disinformation. ANYONE can learn to live in the bush ,keep clean and find food. EVERYTHING else is "depend on me for the truth"

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    1. ANYONE can learn to live in the bush ,keep clean and find food

      Thanks.

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    2. Depends on where the "bush" is and, as is the case where Brock and I live, your affinity to 95 deg temps, 90% humidity, ticks, biting flies, rattlesnakes and bush so thick that bears and deer have to plow their way through it. Yes it can be done but not by anyone.

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  2. I knew men in my youth who did all the above in the Great Smoky Mountains for years at a time. This was thrilling to me except for the 99% experts statement. Could it be that bad?

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    1. Could it be that bad?

      Maybe just a figure of speech, but as to an accurate percentage? Anybody's guess, I believe.

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  3. Stalinist commies. They'll kill you if they can.

    Even loners have brothers. He's not heavy and he shoots a .30 bolt with a quick change scope.

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    1. Stalinist commies. They'll kill you if they can.

      Without batting an eye.

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