Just to give people some inside info, I only have three people PAID for both courses, and one extra PAID for just the shotgun course.  We need AT LEAST 6 people total for each course each day.  We've had lots of interest, but not as many plunking down the cash.  This is the first Crusader course set being taught here on the East Coast, and it just happens to come at a great time in George's life in that he has just moved to the East Coast.  We're hoping that if this class is successful, it will lead to many more classes in the future. 

This is going to get interesting.  Until they're all lawyered up and ready to talk -- or not, as I'd guess immense pressure is being brought to bear on them right now -- won't know for sure how much more the dike is crumbling.

http://pjmedia.com/rogerlsimon/2013/05/21/pjm-exclusive-ex-diplomats-report-new-benghazi-whistleblowers-with-info-devastating-to-clinton-and-obama/

PJM EXCLUSIVE: Ex-Diplomats Report New Benghazi Whistleblowers with Info Devastating to Clinton and Obama

by Roger L Simon

More whistleblowers will emerge shortly in the escalating Benghazi scandal, according to two former U.S. diplomats who spoke with PJ Media Monday afternoon.

These whistleblowers, colleagues of the former diplomats, are currently securing legal counsel because they work in areas not fully protected by the Whistleblower law.

According to the diplomats, what these whistleblowers will say will be at least as explosive as what we have already learned about the scandal, including details about what really transpired in Benghazi that are potentially devastating to both Barack Obama and Hillary Clinton.

The former diplomats inform PJM the new revelations concentrate in two areas — what Ambassador Chris Stevens was actually doing in Benghazi and the pressure put on General Carter Ham, then in command of U.S. Africa Command (AFRICOM) and therefore responsible for Libya, not to act to protect jeopardized U.S. personnel.

Stevens’ mission in Benghazi, they will say, was to buy back Stinger missiles from al-Qaeda groups issued to them by the State Department, not by the CIA. Such a mission would usually be a CIA effort, but the intelligence agency had opposed the idea because of the high risk involved in arming “insurgents” with powerful weapons that endanger civilian aircraft.

Hillary Clinton still wanted to proceed because, in part, as one of the diplomats said, she wanted “to overthrow Gaddafi on the cheap.”

This left Stevens in the position of having to clean up the scandalous enterprise when it became clear that the “insurgents” actually were al-Qaeda – indeed, in the view of one of the diplomats, the same group that attacked the consulate and ended up killing Stevens.

The former diplomat who spoke with PJ Media regarded the whole enterprise as totally amateurish and likened it to the Mike Nichols film Charlie Wilson’s War about a clueless congressman who supplies Stingers to the Afghan guerrillas. “It’s as if Hillary and the others just watched that movie and said ‘Hey, let’s do that!’” the diplomat said.

He added that he and his colleagues think the leaking of General David Petraeus’ affair with his biographer Paula Broadwell was timed to silence the former CIA chief on these matters.

Regarding General Ham, military contacts of the diplomats tell them that AFRICOM had Special Ops “assets in place that could have come to the aid of the Benghazi consulate immediately (not in six hours).”

Ham was told by the White House not to send the aid to the trapped men, but Ham decided to disobey and did so anyway, whereupon the White House “called his deputy and had the deputy threaten to relieve Ham of his command.”

The White House motivation in all this is as yet unclear, but it is known that Ham retired quietly in April 2013 as head of AFRICOM.

PJ Media recognizes this is largely hearsay, but the two diplomats sounded quite credible. One of them was in a position of responsibility in a dangerous area of Iraq in 2004.

We will report more as we learn it.

I do quite a bit of pistol practice at 25-50 yards. My situation puts me in  many areas where I only have my pistol and might be forced to engage at ranges even over 50 yards. It is not uncommon for me to walk up on grow ops or stills. I would likely be at a distinct disadvantage, but I try and at least make it where I have a fighting chance. The only logical conclusion I can find is to practice with my pistol at ranges beyond "pistol range".

I put almost 90% of my practice in with my pistol. The rifle and shotgun are huge holes in my training program now. Since the pistol is with me 99% of the time. It is hard for me to invest in training with rifle and shotgun. I love long range rifle shooting, but fat lot of good it would do me in any sort of "tactical" rifle situation.

**SNIP**

I confine all my handgun practice to 7 yds and less,

Why ?    did you get a contract somewhere or a promise that any problems or issues that come up will either be 7 yards and closer or you'll have advance notice so you can get your rifle ? 

in other words,  nice box your putting yourself in.