APPLETON, Wis. – RECOIL OFFGRID Magazine, a publication of CMG West, LLC, has released its latest issue, number 54, with an emphasis on escape and evasion.

The title of this editor’s letter is actually a quote from our good friend and contributor, Ed Calderon. The full version goes something like this: “All restraints are temporary. You either get released from them, escape from them, or the coroner removes them from your lifeless corpse.”

It’s a rather grim outlook, but one we feel adequately captures the grave perils of being taken or held against your will. While kidnapping per se is not an immediate threat to most people, there are a number of situations that could lead to you being trapped or taken hostage, on a short- or long-term basis. These include abductions related to sex trafficking and restraints applied by an abusive spouse or angry ex. Even though it’s a statistically unlikely scenario, it’s probably one of the scariest and most severe survival situations you could wind up in. This is why many military units go through rigorous multi-week survival, evasion, resistance, and escape (SERE) training programs.

So, we’ve decided to take this issue to examine how to evade danger – whether it’s before or after you’ve been actively held hostage. Our What If? column examines an escape-from-captivity scenario in extra depth, with security specialist Mel Ward providing a veritable treatise on how to prepare for, and deal with, such a situation. Patrick McCarthy’s training column, The Final Weapon, covers lockpicking skills and tools. Dean Freeman has contributed an article on facial recognition technology, and how to preserve your privacy in an age of constant surveillance. In a similar vein, our longtime friend and contributor Freddy Osuna of Greenside Training has recently begun teaching an entire class on camouflage and concealment techniques. Patrick Diedrich brings us the scoop on that. We also have a surprisingly thorough, if not a little stomach-turning, article on the viability of eating canned dog food to survive, in the event nothing else is available.

Elsewhere in the issue, Mr. McCarthy brings us a very thorough introduction to selecting, mounting, and employing a Low-Power Variable Optic (LPVO) on a general-purpose carbine. If you’ve been thinking about upping your optic game from a red dot to a 1-4, -6, or -8x scope, read this first! Joe Alton also gives us some information about common cold weather injuries, since many of you will still have snow in your yards when you read this.

We hope you find this look into escape and evasion informative and thought-provoking. We also hope you never need to use anything you read here. Stay safe and stay ready.

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- On newsstands everywhere starting February 14, 2023

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RECOIL OFFGRID Issue 54 is available at www.offgridweb.com, Gun Digest Store, Zinio.com, iTunes, Google Play, Amazon.com and BarnesandNoble.com, and also from many independent booksellers.

About the RECOIL OFFGRID Magazine

The team at RECOIL OFFGRID is your partner in preparedness. Since 2013, we have promoted the values of self-reliance and self-sufficiency, and guided readers towards developing a well-rounded survival skill set. Our print publication, web articles, and video content take a practical, analytical approach to the key topics you need to be resilient in the face of hardship — urban survival, situational awareness, escape and evasion, self-defense, first aid, navigation, communication, and much more. Sign up for our weekly newsletter here: www.offgridweb.com/email-newsletter/.

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