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[Il Duce]

"Cold Camp", a survivalist fictional story written by a former Army Ranger who is currently serving as a cop. He focuses on his B.O.B. a great deal and he shares some very insightful Ranger tricks and experiences.It seems to describe life in a post-police state, alot of survival and tactical information with very accurate descriptions of gear, weapons and evasion techniques.

You can read it here, in PDF format, or print it for yourself :

http://benderstreet.com/hosted/cold_camp.pdf

Here are three paragraphs from around page 36...

He approached the closest pile, what looked like two steamer trunks, elevated from the cement floor by two pallets. He saw a plastic freezer bag taped to the top. Opening it, he saw it was a list of the boxes contents. He went down the list. Civilian clothes, first aid items, shoes. Moving around the cellar, he read more. Feminine hygiene items, rice, a bicycle (!), and finally, one that said “FAL rifle and equipmentâ€. Dave whipped out his Spyderco and cut open the heavy plastic sheeting. Underneath was a black plastic locking case and two long plastic food containers duct taped to it. Under that were two .50 caliber sized ammo cans, and one .30 caliber sized one. He cut off the duct tape and lay the long case on top of the steamer trunks.

Undoing the latches, he opened the case to reveal a camouflage painted L1A1 rifle. He recognized it, having built it in his own shed. Bill had fallen in love with it, so Dave sold it to him for the cost of his parts, immediately building another just like it. Dave had hoped it was this rifle when he saw the tag. It was built on an Imbel receiver with an Inch parts kit. In deference to Dave’s preference, it had a metric magazine release and took Metric magazines. Dave had built it in accordance with the law of the day, with US made fire control parts, gas piston, hand guards, pistol grip, and butt stock. Looked like Bill had been busy though. The muzzle brake had been replaced with a Vortex flashhider. The sling he had put on it was rolled up in the corner of the case, and the rifle was coated in grease. He closed the case and placed it near the ladder. He opened the first plastic container. In it was a Makarov, four magazines, a box of hollow point ammo, one of ball, a leather holster, a nylon holster, two USGI ammunition pouches, and a small pair of binoculars.

The second container contained an StG-58 cleaning kit, a stripper clip guide for FAL mags, a GI ammo pouch with two empty FAL mags in it, and a Woodland camouflaged nylon chest pouch with room for eight magazines, as well as two smaller ones for pistol mags or similar sized objects. Dave set these items aside, too. Opening the ammo cans he found them full of 7.62 ammo on stripper clips, the .30 caliber can contained ten 20 round FAL magazines. Dave was elated

[Il Duce]

Just finished it. Pretty decent read although it has a few spelling and grammar mistakes.

[-boatman-]

I have downloaded it and plan to read it when I finish the book I am reading now.

[kckndrgn]

Finished the other night, it was ok. I can overlook the spelling and grammatical mistakes - I make them all the time, so no biggie from a non-published author.

Story was almost too unrealistic, I know it's a work of fiction. But no one in the main characters party ever got killed? Were they really that good, and the bad guys that "bad"? Kept waiting for someone in their party to get killed. Not that I wanted someone to die, but in that type of scenario, I think the "patriots" would have had more deaths. JMHO.

All in all, it was a good read.