FUNDAMENTALS OF ADAPTIVE COMBATIVES & TACTICS
The Double-Stack Micro-9 Hype Part 2: Not-So-Universal Concept
The marketing says double-stack micro-9s are perfect for everyone. Women say otherwise. Smaller hands, less strength, and that punishing snap turn “snappy” into painful — thumb blisters, slide bite, and guns they hate training with. The CSX? Even lighter recoil spring, harder kick, and slide bite for me too. Women love the crisp trigger at first… until the recoil bites back. That’s why so many grab the Beretta APX A1 Carry, Walther PPS, or just go bigger. They want shootability, not hype.
MODERN CHRISTIANITY IS A PERFORMANCE ART
When I began my journey and practice of the Christian faith, my pastor sat with me and answered questions for what seemed like hours. Finally, he issued me a challenge. He wanted me to seek my answers in the bible. He challenged me to read the bible and understand the story of Christ and his teachings. This challenge only opened my eyes to the hypocritical ways we worship and how upside down our faith is to this day. We praise Jesus in song repetitively and call it "WORSHIP", but never find a word in the bible that promotes this idle behavior. Churches of today have become little more than money-harvesters using spiritual entertainment to encourage cheerful giving. There is a real war raging inside every one of us against the evil one and the sin that tries to rule our lives. Yet the modern church has completely lost this battleground. It has turned into nothing but a performance art show full of singing and manipulative tricks to squeeze money out of people.
The Double-Stack Micro-9 Hype Part 1: My Journey
Everyone’s chasing P365s, Hellcats, and Shield Plus like they’re the future of carry. I did too — wrote articles calling the Shield Plus the gold standard. Then I fed it real service-grade ammo instead of range mouse-fart loads. Springs wore out fast, recoil control vanished, my hand got punished, and I finally saw the truth: the double-stack micro-9 isn’t an upgrade. It’s a compromise. Here’s exactly how I walked away and went back to single-stacks that actually work.
YOUTUBE GUN CHANNELS LIE, AND YOU BUY INTO IT
I run the Adaptive Combatives & Tactics YouTube channel at youtube.com/doitriteak, but that doesn’t stop me from being seriously frustrated with most gun YouTube content out there. In fact, that frustration is exactly why I started the channel. Before I ever hit “record,” I was just like you—scrolling reviews on the web and YouTube, hunting for straight answers on gear that actually matters for self-defense, EDC, home defense, and building real readiness. What I kept finding was a straight-up lie: clickbait titles, lazy 200-round tests, sponsored infomercials, zero talk of break-in periods or long-term wear, and reviewers who never dry-fire, never carry the gun, and never connect it to actual adaptive combatives and tactics. Pure chaos—just like the ammo panics I’ve lived through. That’s why I decided to do it right and fill the gaps with honest, no-fluff, real-world testing that treats you like a serious student of combatives, not just another consumer chasing the latest shiny object.
The U.S. Military: Prepping for the Next War... or Just Pretending?
We're dumping $1.5 trillion into defense, yet we're training for Afghanistan 2.0—quick wins, air dominance, low losses. Ukraine screams otherwise: drones shred mech forces, medevacs take days, light teams win. Hegseth's cutting DEI and boosting fitness—good start—but empire-building waste, tactical atrophy, and a soft youth pool mean we're not ready. History's lessons ignored, tech worshipped: wake up or get killed.