One weekend, a screwdriver you already own, and under $100 of plain hardware — measured, timed, written down.
Hardware, rehearsal, and the whole plan on one page — start with Volume I or take the complete set.
Close The Four-Second Gap
All three volumes, hardware to rehearsal
Rehearse Before It Happens
Nothing here asks you to buy another firearm. It asks you to time one walk in the dark, swap eight screws, and put the flashlight where your hand already goes.
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Dale Defense Gear
I'm Dale. I've had firearms in this house since I was nineteen, and for most of those years I assumed that settled the matter. It didn't. One night I heard a shoulder against the back door, reached for a flashlight that wasn't where I'd left it, and stood in my own hallway not knowing which way the slider latch turned. Nobody came in. I still couldn't sleep. So I started measuring things — the walk, the door, the hinge screws, the light. I compared what I found against published burglary and entry-point data, then walked the same list through nineteen neighbors' houses in two counties. The screwdriver I used is the same yellow-handled one that's been in the kitchen drawer since my father owned it. That's where this came from.
I didn't set out to write anything. I set out to answer one question for myself: how long does it actually take me to get from under the covers to standing ready at my own back door, with the lights off and nobody helping me. The answer embarrassed me. Not because I was unarmed — I've never been unarmed — but because I had spent thirty years accumulating and roughly zero minutes rehearsing. So I broke it into three parts, and that's how these three volumes came out. Volume I is the house: what fails, in what order, and what a handful of screws changes. Volume II is you: the drill you can run tonight, in the dark, without a range. Volume III is the whole thing on one page, including the conversation with your wife about where she goes and what she says in the hall. Nobody in this is a beginner. We just never timed it.
Read the volumes, walk your own hallway in the dark, and write your number down. If the plan doesn't give you something concrete to fix this weekend, email us within 7 days and we refund every cent. No forms, no interrogation, no hard feelings.
One walk in the dark, one Saturday of hardware, one rehearsal you can run tonight.
GET THE FULL SYSTEM $97 →Harden Your Back Door is $27 — the screws, the hinges, the porch bulb, the timed walk. That's the part that changes this weekend.
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