Holstering and Safety

 Negligent discharges happen often enough that you should be concerned when you handle your gun near your body. One of the most dangerous times is when you go to reholster your gun. This simple act is rarely talked about and often overlooked. Re-inserting the gun into a holster is a high-risk activity for many, but it doesn’t have to be. Avoid pain and disability, or worse, by doing it the right way, every time. Here are some pointers about equipment and behaviors to keep you free of unwanted holes, not to mention looking competent on the range.

In this article and in many shooting classes, the term “firing grip” means the “V” of your thumb and forefinger is as high as reasonably possible on the backstrap, the three non-trigger fingers are wrapped firmly around the grip, and your trigger finger is straight and planted against the frame.

1) Maintain a firing grip throughout the holstering process

Keep a firing grip until the gun is secured. Keep fingers where they belong.

Never loosen your grip as you reholster. This is essential discipline for not only safety but developing an automatic habit that will serve you in self-defense or competition when there’s other important stuff to think about.

2) Be sure the holster is clear of obstructions involving the holster itself

Be sure to clear outerwear material out of the way. Jacket zipper pulls are especially dangerous.

Some holsters have retention straps that tend to dangle over the opening. Some have trigger finger-operated retention devices that can, however rarely during rough use, collect snow or small sticks that protrude into the holster. There is nothing inherently wrong with either type, so long as you ensure that the opening and interior are clear before inserting your gun. Never use your muzzle to clear an obstruction, and never cross your support hand in front of the muzzle to clear the holster!

These types of holsters are good for practicing under low-stress conditions and for carrying or storing the gun in something that covers the trigger guard.

3) Be sure the holster is clear of potential wardrobe malfunctions

It’s best to tuck your shirt in tightly when wearing a holster outside the waistband. If not, or if you’re wearing a shirt that’s baggy, you risk pushing a fold of clothing or—heaven help you—a button into the holster. That can result in an unintentional discharge that chews up your leg.

Clearing baggy shirts from the holster area is best done by placing your support hand flat against your abdomen just in front of the holster, pressing against yourself as you draw that hand toward your midline. This will clear the holster opening while preventing the muzzling of your own hand.

Pull loose shirt material toward your midline with your support hand flat against your abdomen.

Outerwear, like an open jacket, is also of concern. Be especially careful if you’re wearing a jacket that has zipper pulls or a drawstring at your midline. These can get inside the trigger guard as you reholster, possibly offering no feeling of having to push harder to insert the gun before a round breaks and ruins your leg. If you must keep such a jacket on during practice, tighten the drawstring above holster level on your waist, and use the shirt-smoothing technique above.

If you feel resistance when holstering, STOP. Don’t insert the gun any further until you’ve inspected the cause.

3) Don’t use the muzzle to work the gun into a collapsible holster

Never reholster into a sheath that goes flat without first removing it. The muzzle is NOT a fishing tool…

My everyday carry holster is a Sticky brand. It works great for me, but one of its limitations is reholstering. Like several other soft-sided brands, its opening collapses flat when the gun is drawn. Flat as a pancake, in fact, when it’s in my pocket. The muzzle is not a fishing pole! Holsters that collapse upon drawing must be deliberately placed back on the gun—not vice versa. That means I have to remove the holster from my pocket and, using my support hand, lower it onto the muzzle from above. This way the muzzle never covers my non-gun hand or other body parts. It’s very little trouble since this is only necessary when I’m doing a chamber check or after firing.

4) Stand up first, reholster second

Avoid reholstering when not standing. It’s a great idea to practice firing from different positions once you’re safe and comfortable shooting from a standing position. It’s a big risk to reholster when prone, kneeling, sitting, and so on. Keep your muzzle in a safe direction with the gun in a firing grip in one or both hands as you rise. If you want to be proactive in your training, visually scan your environment as you come up to a standing position. But if you are not familiar with shooting from positions other than standing, concentrate on getting up and controlling your gun. Then go to the holster. Once you have gone to get up many times while controlling your muzzle, you can start scanning. Be sure of what you’re doing.

5) Take your time

Gunsite Academy has many sayings. One important one is “draw quickly, fire slowly, reholster reluctantly.” This was often followed by “there are no awards for speed reholstering.”

This simple investment of a couple extra seconds will protect your life and health.

Safety is often overlooked in many areas. Especially when you are experienced. The most experienced shooters are sometimes the most dangerous because of their familiarity with guns. It’s easy to get complacent and over-estimate your knowledge or skill. Taking a lot for granted with dangerous things can get you killed or at least injured. Stay vigilant.

Remember also the importance of inspecting and maintaining your holster. Wear and tear can cause a multitude of problems. Make sure what you carry is safe.

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Celebrating Annie Oakley

 Today the 13^th of August is Annie Oakley’s birthday.

She began trapping animals at age seven and shooting and hunting at eight—though some sources have her doing both by the time she was six—in order to put food on her family’s table.

By age 15, she had paid off her mother's mortgage with her earnings from hunting.

At 15, she defeated traveling marksman Frank E. Butler in a shooting contest, who later became her husband.

She adopted the stage name "Annie Oakley" after joining Buffalo Bill's Wild West Show in 1885.

Her shooting skills earned her the nickname "Little Sure Shot" from Chief Sitting Bull.

She could shoot a dime tossed in the air from 90 feet away.

 

Born Phoebe Ann Moses, Annie Oakley became a legendary sharpshooter and performer in the late 19th and early 20th centuries. Known for her incredible marksmanship, she joined Buffalo Bill's Wild West Show, captivating audiences with her shooting skills. Annie Oakley could hit targets while riding a horse, shoot dimes tossed in the air, and even split playing cards edge-on from a distance. Her talent wasn't just for show; she advocated for women's rights and taught over 15,000 women how to use firearms for self-defense. Despite facing numerous challenges, Annie Oakley left an indelible mark on American history, proving that skill and determination can break barriers.

We remember Annie and honor her on her birthday!

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The Church and Security Abroad and Domestic

I am a student of security.  My family say I am obsessed with it.  They listen as I drone on about home security, internet security, personal security, et al, ad nauseam¼  Yes, they are sometimes, understandably, annoyed with me.  But I have seen some of that obsessive behaviour pay off.  They are more careful, ergo, I continue.  Now how the heck is that of any interest to you?  I only bring up my “paranoia” to say that I keep track of some obscure data.  For instance, I have been (very unofficially) tracking acts of violence on The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints property.  I also have been interested in anti-Mormon activities for many years.  On my mission I had the mission’s largest collection of anti-Mormon material.  I did not spend much time reading it or studying it (heaven knows it’s not very deep) but I was interested in what would make someone be “anti” anything.  I learned a lot from that “literature”.   So, between my crazy anti interest and my security obsession (that’s what happens when you get shot at!) I have had some interesting conclusions.

The following is snip from a NY Times Op-ed piece in 2012 when Mitt Romney was running for President of the United States.   

“Why We Fear Mormons” Op-ed in The New York Times

By J. SPENCER FLUHMANJUNE 3, 2012

“When a perceived oddity is backed by Mormon money or growing political clout, the left gets jumpy. MSNBC’s Lawrence O’Donnell and HBO’s Bill Maher have resorted to caricature, stereotyping and hyperbole in their anti-Mormon attacks. Liberals were outraged by Mormon financing of Proposition 8, the 2008 ban on same-sex marriage in California. They scoff at Mormonism’s all-male priesthood and ask why church leaders have yet to fully repudiate the racist teachings of previous authorities.

For the right, Mormonism figures in even more complicated ways. The Mormon Road to respectability has often led, as it did for Mr. Romney, through Harvard Business School; pro-business Republicans have found ready friends among well-placed Mormons. But many rank-and-file evangelical Protestants call Mormonism a cult — as the pastor Robert Jeffress did last fall — or a “non-Christian religion.” Indeed, evangelical hatred has been the driving force behind national anti-Mormonism.”

https://www.nytimes.com/2012/06/04/opinion/anti-mormonism-past-and-present.html

Our religions opponents are generally light weights.  I’ve never put much stock in their rantings and ravings.  I have been a member of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints my entire life.  There are those who think they are “experts” on our Church and our religion.  Studying something for X number of years, does not an expert make.  I am a gun instructor.  “Experts” in that field abound yet I feel you can always learn, and the term “expert” is very fluid.

In my study of those who study us, I’ve found there is usually an agenda in their interest.  There may be some who honestly want to learn about our religion from a scholarly point of view.  But most are trying to tear it down and some are even bent on destroying the Church.   As I’ve believed for many years, if the Church has any enemies, the worst would usually be ex-members.  Some of these are even, in my opinion, physical threats to the Church.

Actual acts of violence against the Church are considerably less common in the United States today than they were in the nineteenth century. However, one major event related to the persecution of the Church is the murders of two missionaries in La Paz, Bolivia in May of 1989 by a terrorist organization called the Zarate Willka Liberation Armed Forces. On May 28, 1989, in the streets of La Paz, Bolivia's cemetery district, two Anglo missionaries were cruelly assassinated. For the first time, Guerrillas deliberately stalked and struck at representatives of the Church.  This type of violence has increased.

Other events happened in the 1980s.  Anti-Mormon protestors stood outside the Denver temple and threw rocks, and a firebombing scare was also reported there. Another Bolivian terrorist group, the Tupac Guerrilla Army, claimed responsibility for two attacks against chapels. The Latauro Youth Movement in Chile conducted twenty-seven small-scale bombings against Mormon churches in 1992 as well. It has been reported that a total of one hundred and forty-nine individual attacks had been carried out against LDS targets in Latin America since 1983.  There have been 27 acts of violence on Church property in the United States from 1999 until 2018.  In 2018 there were 3 separate incidents.  I’m not an alarmist but my time in the military taught me to look for trends.  This violence is a trend.  Now I will be the first to recognize that these acts of violence are not the acts of someone persecuting the Church.  Most of them are acts by individuals targeting other individuals. 

 

This is from an article from Bloomberg Businessweek September 25, 2018

Turkey May Target Mormons Next After Case Against U.S. Pastor

By Marc Champion and Cagan Koc

“The indictment, filed in May, ties Brunson to three alleged coup attempts against Erdogan since 2013. Yet the sole evidence for the Brunson-Abney meetings at the center of the prosecution’s conspiracy argument consists of cell phone tower records showing that, on the days the planning allegedly occurred, the two men’s phones were in Alsancak. Given that both men lived there, that would have been true most days of the year. “We never met Brunson” or even knew of his existence until his 2016 arrest, says Abney, now 71 and on a Mormon mission in the U.S. Nor, says Abney, had he conspired in any way against Turkey. “We just wanted to help people,” he says, by bringing wheelchairs to the disabled, pomegranate trees to poor villagers, and computers to schools.

According to Abney, the main witness against Brunson is almost certainly a former LDS member whom the prosecution has code-named “Dua,” a word meaning “prayer,” to protect his identity. Some of the evidence Dua produced comes from the Abneys’ computer, according to Kenneth Abney, who says the laptop was taken for repair by an interpreter who was later expelled by the church for allegedly embezzling $10,000.

Dua makes some spectacular claims—for example, that an umbrella organization for Christian churches that’s led by Mormons but involves the CIA, FBI, and National Security Agency controls the deployment of all U.S. Christian missionaries; that they identify each other in the field with a secret handshake, a curl of the middle fingers into the palm; that LDS members sent to infiltrate Turkish military high schools as language teachers all had a finger missing; that Mormons make up 40 percent of the U.S. military stationed overseas; and that evangelicals and Mormons are driven to Turkey by a common desire to bring about the end-of-days prophesies in the Bible’s Book of Revelation, by reuniting the Kurds—the lost 13th tribe of Israel.”

It's not interesting to me that the Church is targeted in Turkey, I think that is pretty typical for these days.  I think it will change soon though.  What is interesting to me is that an ex-member has fabricated a wild story of conspiracy.  Even in Turkey ex-members are the Church’s worst enemy.

Then enter Deseret Nation. (#DezNat)  This is the Twitter/X hash tag that represents what the users of the hashtag describes as:

DezNat participants have typically insisted that their sole purpose is to gather orthodox Latter-day Saints and defend the church against critics. Correspondingly, they see the term "alt-right" as inaccurate and even defamatory.

When this hashtag first appeared, I embraced it.  I thought of it as those trying to support the church and to defend it. I feel it has been exploited to mean other things lately.  I would not want to use it now because of some alt-right and violent ideas it has been associated with.  I think it would have been better if the creator actually started a movement and established standards with the movement.  By leaving it open to interpretation just about anything will be used to the extreme.

I do not like “secret” groups whatever their cause.  But I understand the need for secrecy because if you’re involved in something that others consider “radical”, your life can be eviscerated by the internet.  People have lost their jobs over tweets if you can believe it!  Free speech in this country is basically over.  I would like to belong to a group that defends the Church.  I would want to remain anonymous, but others would want to “expose” me, I’m sure.  Anonymity in this situation would be security related, not cowardice.  I try to remain anonymous on this blog, but like I’ve said before, it’s probably not that hard to figure out who I am.  But being a part of a group like that, with standards of behavior, would be a great opportunity I believe.  Defending the Church is what I have been advocating for many years. This does not include physically or verbally attacking any lifestyle, organization, or idea we would not agree with. 

 But unequivocally standing up for and defending it.  If need be it might be physically one day. 

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Helping Someone Choose A Gun

 This is an updated repost from May 1, 2015

I was at the range the other day (when am I NOT at the range?) when I heard a comment from the guy a few bays over. I’d heard it before… “You’re shooting that!?” I had just cranked off a magazine full so his perception was uncanny. Sorry for being sarcastic but I thought it was obvious what I was shooting. I won’t go into what gun it was. Suffice it to say it was a low end Smith and Wesson. Come to your own conclusions. Anyway, I’ve shot this gun for a good many years. It is very reliable. I know this because I’ve shot several thousand rounds through it and have had no problems at all. So, when someone rags on this weapon I just smile. I actually own three of the same guns. They are flawless. So, when this guy was incredulous of my weapon choice, I just let it happen. I’ve long since stopped trying to explain my choice and my experience with my guns. There are many who have asked for my advice on what weapon to buy. I have a shpeal all worked out to tell them. Because of the latest riots I’ve had a few people ask for my recommendation of a weapon. Sometimes this causes a problem for me. My weapons systems and gear have been acquired after years of experience and testing and training. They are right for me. They may not be right for you. So how do those experienced in weapons and self-defense offer intelligent advice to someone without unconsciously but inappropriately projecting our situation onto theirs?

Be Realistic
I would love to see every person who comes to me for advice about owning a gun be willing to put in as much time and effort into understanding the question of self-defense and firearms ownership as I have. I know that few, if any, ever will. I generally have some level of knowledge about the person asking the question and I can use a few simple exercises to figure out where they are in terms of commitment to help guide the answers that I give them. It's critical to be realistic about what you believe this person is willing and able to do if you want to be helpful. Don't project what you hope is true about them...assess what's really true about them and work from there.

Be Reasonable
While you want to give useful guidance, it's impossible to do that if you aren't willing to engage within at least some of the limits the person is dealing with. Just as an example, I personally don't care for the .380 ACP as a primary carry cartridge...but I recognize that there are people who have physical limitations that make shooting a weapon with better terminal ballistics painful or outright impossible. If I'm dealing with such a person I am not going to tell them that if they aren't packing a high-cap 9mm loaded with at least 16 hollow-points and a reload that they might as well give up. You're not shooting for ideal here, you're shooting for likely good enough. It's true that in many circumstances "good enough" is an excuse for low standards, but in many others good enough really is good enough...as in the best you can do under the constraints you are working with. A person who has no gun right now but who acquires and regularly carries a Beretta 21 next week has improved their situation considerably. No, it isn't ideal. It's better though, and that opens the door to further improvements down the road. Being dogmatic in the early stages, even if you believe you are doing the Lord's work at the time, often shuts the process down completely and alienates the person to boot.

Present options, not necessarily opinions
One of my favorite approaches to these sorts of questions is to bring the person asking to a gun store or the range and present them a number of different firearms that they can interact with. I like to present the firearm in a pretty agnostic way allowing them to lead the discussion with questions while I respond as factually as possible. At a recent range outing with a young couple looking for their first gun I pulled out several different handguns and let them experience all of them after a safety brief on each. As they were looking at a Glock 34 and the S&W M&P the male half asked "So from your description, these two seem very similar...what's the difference between them?" That's the kind of interaction I'm looking for. When I demonstrated take-down of both weapons mentioning that the Glock requires a trigger pull to disassemble, the male half asked "Wait, couldn't that be a problem?" Yes. It could be. That's exactly the sort of critical thinking I'm hoping for. When they understand that every weapon has its good points and bad points, and that their task is to choose the set of compromises that best suits their particular situation, they will achieve a happy result for themselves. That won't happen if I spend the whole time lecturing on why I’m anti-Glock (which I’m not). I may guide the conversation here or there and I will certainly clear up any outright factual errors encountered along the way, but I want their brain to be engaged. They, after all, have to live with their decision. What I like may not be what they need, and I have to be intelligent enough to get out of the way and let their needs drive the process.

Keep it fun
The subject matter is very serious, but that doesn't mean we have to wear sack cloth and ashes the whole time. You can have fun with guns, too. It's possible to make the process fun and interesting without compromising on the important parts like safe handling habits, proper marksmanship fundamentals, etc. Citing the young couple again, after familiarizing them with a number of different pistols I set up a little competition between them where they could use whatever pistols we had worked with up to that point to go against the other. This, from their perspective, was fun. It was also an introduction to using a gun under some level of stress with something on the line to lose. They enjoyed the experience AND learned a little bit about using a pistol under some level of stress at the same time. Win/win.

If I had my way I’d tell everyone to do what I do, buy what I buy, shoot like I shoot, but then they are not me. The best thing you can do if you want to teach independence is to present options and go over the pros and cons. Choice and personal taste is what makes the world go around. Long ago we fought for our own agency and won. Now we can choose. But to make a good choice we must have information. The best thing you can do is provide good, factual information. Not really opinion.

Thanks to Gun Nuts Media (gunnuts.net) for the points for this article. I’d never really thought about putting it down this way.

There may be more that you would add to this list. But the gist of it is, when helping others with weapons or gear choices, give them some information to make their own decision. One of my sons owns a Bushmaster AR. Another son owns a Colt AR. Both choices were made with money influences. If money is no object all of us may make different choices. Sometimes we may buy a more expensive gun because we know how it performs. I love Rugers. I don’t think I’ve ever shot a Ruger I didn’t like. Because of this, my oldest son loves Rugers too. He had many years and many Rugers to shoot to come to that conclusion. Then he bought a Ruger LC9. He finally sold it because he had such a difficulty with the size. I don’t think it being a Ruger made a bit of difference; he just couldn’t handle the size with his big hands. In this case my influence over the years and his positive experience with a Ruger moved him to buy a sub-compact Ruger. He didn’t realize how shooting a sub-compact would be. Any sub-compact. So be careful what kind of advice you give.

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An Appeal to Bishops and Stake Presidents on Security

Security in an American LDS Church building is less than stellar. 

I am concerned about an incident that happened while I was out of town (thankfully).

A Sister’s ex-husband showed up on Sunday during Primary time.  He was searching for his children that he had a weekend visit with that weekend.  Apparently, the kids did not want to be with their dad that weekend and their mother did not want to force them.  The EX wanted his kids and went into their Primary class to get them.  Their teacher did not want him to take them.  There are lots of details I do not have, but in the process of trying to forcibly remove the kids the EX pushed either his ex-wife or his child’s primary teacher (a sister) down.  He did assault both in some way because that is what they charged him with.  The police showed up and took the EX into custody.  No one was seriously hurt but there was enough contact to warrant assault charges.  I’m not sure of all the implications but I know the children have not been with their father since.  I was in the Bishopric, so I was aware that this incident was reported to Salt Lake and the legal and security departments gave directions.  A restraining order was filed against the EX, and he never came back.  I knew Church Security was aware of this incident because of my friend who was working Church Security at the time. He had talked to our Bishop.  I have known the EX since the beginning of his relationship with his ex-wife (who has since remarried).  He is a snake.  I believe he had drugs planted on his ex-wife’s car so that they were caught at a Border Patrol checkpoint.  Her husband took the rap and did his sentence which I believe was parole.  I do not trust the EX. I have had run-ins with him myself.  He is scared of me and with good reason.  I have told him I am on to him and that I know who he really is and that he can try to fool others.  My wife and I drive by the home of his ex-wife which is off of a hi-way, on our way to our house.  One day we went by their home and noticed a car at their gate.  Their gate is only closed and locked when they are away from home.  I turned around and caught the EX climbing the gate.  I told him he should not trespass and that he should leave.  He gave me a little attitude and so I stepped out of my car, my wife was driving.  He scurried to his car and rolled up the window.  We had some words, and I probably insulted his height.  Anyway, the Sheriff showed up there after he was called by the EX’s ex-wife who had some phone calls from the EX and was on her way home.  I told the officer I had stopped the EX from trespassing and that I was leaving.  This is previous to the above incident at church.  The EX had a jerk personality.  I would not be surprised if I ended up in jail one day over this weasel.  But rest assured, if I am in jail, he is in the hospital drinking through a straw.

My concern is this.  We get so comfortable at Church that we have no type of guard up when something like this happens.  Here in the U.S. we live in relative safety and security.  But because of that, we are not very concerned about security.  If there are any Church leadership who read this, I beg you, please implement some security features.  Lock all the doors but one.

Have a priesthood holder cruise the hallways.  If you are so inclined put together security teams with some training and organization.  Don’t depend on “Run, Hide, Fight” to save your members in the case of a mass shooter incident.  At the very least, have your members who are law enforcement, if you have several, be in contact with each other to coordinate in some way.  Don’t leave the security of your wives and children to chance.  Prepare!

 

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Canning Jalapenos from FLAG

I found this article in a group from my wife.  It's not evident but this article was about 2 years ago.  It's never been posted so I thought I'd do it now.

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     We got lots of Jalapenos through last winter.  In March we had an unexpected late freeze and it caused damage to the plant.  We were so blessed this year in our garden.  We only planted one jalapeno bush because that one bush is enough to meet our needs.  But this plant grew 6 feet tall and 3 feet wide.  In all my years of growing jalapeno plants, they have never grown that big.  So, we were blessed with many of them and shared them with friends and family. 

     Because the last harvest was so big, I decided to can them to use during the winter months.  My family loves a bean soup that calls for jalapenos.  This is the first time I have attempted to can them.  I have frozen them and dehydrated them for future use, but I am working on not storing much in my freezer because you never know the power situation.  If power was out for a period of time due to natural disasters, I don’t want to worry about food spoilage in my freezer or having to worry about canning the food in a stressful situation.

     I decided to can them in half pint jars since that is the amount for my soup.  The recipe calls for water bathing them for 10 minutes.  I invested in a steamer years ago and decided to go on that route. I always put the seals in a pot of water and get them heated up.  I do the same with my jars.  I get a big pan of water and put the jars in them and heat them on the stove.  I don’t have a dish washer to heat them and keep them hot for canning. 

     Once the jar water is hot, I take the pan off the stove.  I have on the burner the steamer with the amount of water needed for the canning process.  Then there is a pan on the stove with the solution that will go in the jar with the with jalapenos.  I get all these things going at the same time so that when I start putting the jalapenos in the jar, it is a fast easy process, and everything is hot when going into the steamer.

     Make sure to wash and clean your jalapenos before using.  I cut them in 1/4 to ½ inches in size.  Do all the cutting of the jalapenos first.  When cutting the jalapenos I usually use gloves, so the juice does not get on my hands.  It is so hard to get off and if you touch your nose or eyes, boy, does it burn.  So once all the jalapenos are cut, set them aside.

     Next get the solution made that will be poured into the jars.  Here is the mixture:

 

     1 C white vinegar

     1/4 C olive oil

     1 Tbsp pickling spice (tie in a material bag)

      1/4 C water

      1 tsp salt

       Bay leaf

     Depending on how many jalapenos are being canned, you will decide on how much mixture you will need to make.  I did 12 half pints and did the recipe times 6.  Get this mixture on the stove and heat it to boiling.  Turn heat down and start canning. 

     Put the bay leaf in the bottom of jar and put in jalapenos.  Pack loose.  Pour in solution.  Wipe off the jar. Put on seal and twist on ring.  Place it in hot water bath or steamer.  Continue this process until all jalapenos are in their jars and ready to be processed.  Once the water bath is boiling or steamer is to right steam.  Start timing for 10 minutes.  When the process is complete, place hot canned jars on a towel and cover up to keep from draft and let cool. 

     Once they are cooled.  Wipe and clean jars if needed.  Take rings off jars.  They can be used for future canning.  Date the jars and place on shelf.  That's all there is to it!

Stay spicy friends!

Until next time, FLAG signing off!