 Do you use 20 round magazines in your AR-15? In The Walking Dead, did you think that Negan was the hero? Are you a fud? Do you believe that if you turn a kit off a limb that you're then going to have to amputate it? Do you think that three people will make up a fire team? Do you not use the full rules of gun safety and go for some other rule variation? Do you dream of a post-apocalyptic America where you are a feudal lord who enslaves your neighbors through threats of starvation and confiscates their handguns, all the while slowly building their resentment so they get out the guillotines and kill you? If you answered yesterday's questions then stay tuned because I've got the book for you. Hello everyone, Dylan Schumacher, Citadel Defense, and we are back with another edition of Tactical Book Review. Today's book is Prepared and Armed Team Shooting Tactics for Home Defense by Mr. Joseph Terry. Now if you can't tell during the introduction I don't really like this book. In fact if I'm honest it is the worst book that I have reviewed on this channel so far. And we'll talk about why that is. I came across this book on Amazon randomly as I was looking for other books. It had a handful of good reviews, I mean there was only like a handful of reviews and they were all positive. And the title intrigued me and so I therefore got it because I thought huh that's an interesting concept I'm curious to see what this is about. To be fair and I think the main reason that I don't like this book is that this book isn't really a tactical book. This book should be subtitled like Preparing Your Shooty Shoot Fantasy for the WRL world. This is really a prepper's book. This is not a tactical shooter's book. This is for preparing for the time when there is temporary or permanent, I would argue this book leans more towards the permanent, erasure of society and the rule of law and order. And so then how do you protect your house in that time? I'm not here to slam on the prepper community in general, I mean it's not necessarily my bag but you know like that's if that's your thing, go for it, knock yourself out. I'm just telling you that this book when it comes to doing the shooty shoots isn't really helpful. First off just let me say that there are some good things in this book. I do think he has some unique ideas about things at certain points like for example he suggests having a garden cart that way if you have to load some bags in it and some people and you have to travel long distances you can do that with just a big garden cart, these big hand push carts and I thought oh that's an interesting little nugget, I'll take that. And there are some other little nuggets in here that I think are interesting and just kind of give a different perspective and that I can appreciate. I also like the way he structures the chapters. He writes the chapter about whatever he's writing about and then at the end he has these little sections for like exercises and things you can do to try to apply the concepts from this chapter. So like one of them for example is like when you're trying to figure out who your prepping community is going to be basically he says go on a camping trip, everyone go on a camping trip together and you're going to get a good feel if you're going to be able to work in adverse conditions or not and I thought huh that's a good idea you know I should do that. So there are some things in here that I definitely can appreciate but by and large it's bad news. Let's talk why. First of all he gets off on this fire team thing and it's building your fire team to defend your house and you know again societal collapse and for whatever reason he lands on the number three as the minimum number that you need to defend a residence. In my opinion he hasn't really explained very well how he got there, I didn't really get a firm understanding of that, additionally I know that you know we're using the term fire team here loosely but four guys is a fire team and there's a reason for that because it conveniently breaks down into two buddy pairs. Three guys doesn't and that's a problem when you start to try to do other stuff that he talks about in the book. There's a reason that we've run for four man fire teams for the past I don't know 20, 30, 40 years something like that and I don't think that number should really be screwed with without good reason. Having three guys on a fire team is inherently awkward and I just think it provides more issues. If you would have said six, six is the minimum number then I could get behind that because now of course you got three maneuver elements but they're buddy pairs and that makes a significant difference. There's other little things in here that I just don't like like he constantly refers to having 20 round mags near AR-15 and I don't know anybody who is a serious shooter with their rifle who carries 20 round mags. That's just weird. Maybe it's just a preference thing and you're going to come at me because I'm going to lead us jerk but that's weird and I don't like it and I don't know anyone who actually carries that. Why would you ever carry 20 in the gun when you can carry a real magazine with 30? He doesn't use the four rules of gun safety. He looks like I would say goes after kind of the NRA kind of three rules of gun safety which would make sense if he was a firearms instructor I'm assuming he then had some kind of NRA police firearms instructor certification which you can get and then he goes after it that way and he continues down the NRA way of doing things by telling people that when you're introducing the gun you should have them disassemble it and reassemble it and disassemble it and point out all the parts and say what they mean and say what they're called and then reassemble it and be able to do it and I kid you not blindfolded. And I'm just sitting here thinking listen I've taught I don't know how many people to shoot that I've never shot a gun before but a lot a significant number and I never had him disassemble anything you know what I did I put the gun in their hands we did some dry fire we worked on stance and grip and sight alignment and sight picture and then we shot the gun because that's how you teach people how to shoot they got to shoot the gun you got to get you got to get the reps in either dry or real preferably both and that's how people are gonna get one enjoy it and get excited about shooting that gun and learn how to shoot it and two they're gonna get good I've had brand new people never touched a gun before and all of a sudden they are able to ring steel at 40 50 yards with a suppressed 22 caliber pistol why because we just shot the gun and they listen to me now again that's as my context in normal times and I understand he's talking about you know when the world's falling apart here but still I'm not buying it I think I really should have been tipped off when he lists in the combat ruck that you're supposed to have on all the time which isn't a bad idea that's that's a totally fine idea that one of the things you should have in there is a 22 caliber conversion kit with a couple hundred rounds of 22 because in my combat ruck when I run out of AR-15 rounds I'm gonna convert it to 22 like I literally I don't understand that and he never explained it and so I'm just left wondering why on earth would you ever do that why wouldn't you just carry more AR-15 mags one of the most concerning things in the book and one of the things he never really explains is shooting past your teammate he just references a couple times like that's something you're gonna have to do and I'm not really sure what he means if he means like okay we're just gonna be in like you know fired fire lanes and you know me my buddy over here and we're shooting and we're moving and you and your buddy over there and you're shooting and you're moving and we're you know we're leapfrogging or we're doing some kind of fire maneuver either attacking or regressing or whatever if that's what it means hey fine okay yeah because you know they're technically downrange right they're 10 15 yards ahead of you and you're shooting this way and okay I get that but that's not very clear and I'm not sure I don't think that's what he means I'm pretty sure what he means is like we're all in a room together and you're like right here and I'm like shooting past you to get some bad guy down there and that violates every single CQB rule I have ever heard in any class I've ever taken and any instructor I've ever watched nobody and I mean nobody teaches you to do that you've got to earn the shot that that's a very common thing you got to move your feet get online with your buddy and then you can shoot that that's like a huge huge safety thing and because he doesn't explain it very well that could potentially be a huge safety hazard in the hands of someone who doesn't know what they're doing and if they take him to mean what I think he means then that's not good at all huge safety violation and some of the scenarios that he would imagine you applying some of these things in the book I just think are far fetched I mean look we just had some of the worst riots in the history of the nation okay I lived in Bloomington Minnesota which is just south of Minneapolis when the Minneapolis riots happened I was my house was maybe five ish five six miles from like the epicenter of where it was all going down okay it wasn't that bad and what I mean is like in my neighborhood it was it was untouched you know there wasn't an issue if I hadn't been connected to the internet in the world I might not have even known what the problem was up in Minneapolis right like that that's how untouched it was now maybe you know there'll be like another great depression coming in America and we can talk about that and and maybe the damage will be more widespread but it's hard for me to imagine even now with as bad as things are for there to still be complete and total shutdown of like a eight-county wide area I mean could it happen sure it could but I think that's a really low percentage thing even now even with how bad things are and so in that some of the scenarios he's talking about are things like when your neighborhood or area whatever has been without food for like two plus weeks which again I have a hard time not that it can happen just super low percentage and talking about recruiting your neighbors because they didn't prepare and they don't have food and then he talks about you know giving them a certain like food ration a day which is basically like a starvation ration and confiscating their handguns because they shouldn't be allowed to have those around you and then you're only gonna feed them so much in exchange for their work and you're gonna set up some ground rules and you're in charge and they're not in charge because you have the food it's just weird like it's just he goes into he goes on and on and I'm reading this and I'm thinking like in what reality has this happened I mean even when Katrina happened some things like this didn't happen did cops go around and illegally confiscate your guns oh you better believe it and that's a huge problem but that's not what I'm talking about even then even in some of the worst disasters in modern history these kinds of scenarios he's talking about a low low percentage and he talks about other things like attacking let's say you were displaced from your house by an organized attack mob with that was armed with guns and how you're going to attack and retake your house and things like this that I'm just like listen I don't think that that's one a very high percentage chance I mean we're super I consider myself a low percentage guy but this is super low percent and two these aren't feasible it feels like a person who read some books and didn't entirely grasp all the concepts necessarily and then kind of applied them in this different place and just use some of the words and some of the themes that they've learned but didn't really understand on the deep level that's what it feels like to me from reading the book and I don't know this author at all don't know anything about him not trying to slander the guy I'm just telling you what I think of it because on that line he throws terms around that aren't necessarily the proper use of the term and doesn't reference the original meaning of the term and that just bothers me for example he uses the term mad minute and he uses that term to talk about when your house is being attacked you need to put out a high volume of fire and shoot a bunch and he talks about the mad minute which is two mag dumps of 20 round magazines why are they 20 round magazines so you dump out these two magazines and that's your mad minute and I'm like okay but that term comes from an ambush like when we initiate an ambush and you're you're dumping rounds in an ambush that that's the mad minute because you're trying to kill everyone in the kill zone that's the mad minute and even then I think it goes back further to the british when they were running bolt action rifles and they could run like it was something like 12 rounds a minute maybe was a little higher than that um and that was a mad minute because they could they look how fast they could shoot and work this bolt gun I'm sorry I just don't like using terms out of context it just it just bothers me he has chapters like basic skills which are like basic which is fine and then advanced skills which in my opinion are just basic skills and I can't really tell the two chapters apart and so I don't understand I I hate the term advanced skills in general I think that's in most of the time in shooting a garbage term I think it's pretty much all basics and we just need to do the basics well you ask anybody is it the highest level of anything and they just do the basics well there's really advanced skills it's really mostly a myth in my opinion at the end of the day like I said earlier I think my main issue is it's not a tactical book it's a prepper's book by someone who thinks they have a good grasp on tactics and shooting and based on what I've read in the dozens of other books I've done on this channel the I don't know how many hours of classes I've taken I'm gonna go with no this is not an application of tactics that's correct or that's helpful or that really is going to be able to get you where you want to be so that is my less than favorable review for prepared and armed team shooting tactics for home defense by Joseph Terry hope that's helpful do brave deeds and endure