James,
I have been soaking up your web site for the last month now with great respect, thank you for this wealth of knowledge. You may or may not be aware of a television show that is on the outdoor channel called “The Best Defense” [1] they have completed their second season earlier this year. The first season was all about personal self defense, awareness, and they reviewed a lot of handguns. The second season is the “survival” series covering topics from HazMat [2], forest fires, earth quakes, civic unrest, to economic collapse, some group and team development, and they moved into reviewing long guns.
This series is a weekly must see for me and it has helped open my wives eyes to the skills that I learned and developed in the military. The outdoor channel currently is only showing repeats and I am hopeful for a third season soon. I have found online that they are offering season one on DVD so it is on my “Christmas list”.
I encourage you and your readers with the outdoor channel to watch the show, the hosts are extremely professional and have a lot of knowledge to share. Their web site has clips from each episode which made for a good refresher to the shows I watched previously. All the best and God bless, – Ken A. in Ohio
JWR Replies: The Best Defense is produced by Michael Bane, a name that should be familiar to SurvivalBlog readers. (He is also the producer of DownRange TV [3] and the editor of its associated blog.) Many of the survival segments in The Best Defense feature Michael Z. Williamson [4], SurvivalBlog’s Editor at Large