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The Harder Target

60 illustrated lessons for staying aware, hardening your home and knowing the law
“You don't need a fortress. You need to be the hardest door on the street.”— Wade Tucker

Inside: sixty lessons — the warning signs before a stranger closes distance, the door tricks that cost a scammer nothing to run, cane and flashlight and pepper-spray moves sized to a hand that doesn't close all the way, the three-inch screw that stops a kicked-in door, the safe-room test, and the actual law on castle doctrine and what to tell police afterward. It doesn't need a fortress, just a harder door than the one next to it.

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60Numbered lessons
6Parts
136 numbersin the reference section
184Problems in the index
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Before, not during

Read it on a quiet afternoon

This isn't something to read for the first time with your hand already on the door. It's built for a slow evening at the kitchen table, pencil nearby, long before anyone knocks.

What you needThe short list of what's required — a screw, a phone, nothing exotic.
How it goesNumbered steps in order, each one you can test with your own hands.
Why it worksThe one sentence explaining why this fix beats the common guess.
How people ruin itNamed mistakes, the sign you're making one, and the fix.
Where it doesn't holdThe honest limit — what this lesson can't promise you.
What makes it different

Built for the day it goes wrong

Look up the failure

An index in the back runs symptom to lesson — 184 entries, from 'window won't stay pinned' to 'can't reach my phone' — so you find the fix by what's wrong, not by guessing a chapter.

Every mistake gets named

208 named mistakes sit inside the lessons themselves, each paired with the sign you're making it and the specific fix — not a vague warning tacked on at the end.

A drawing for every lesson

All sixty lessons carry their own illustration — the hand position, the screw depth, the angle of approach — so you're checking a picture, not parsing a paragraph.

Measured, not estimated

A reference section holds 136 numbers pulled straight out of the lessons — screw lengths, spray distances, strike points — gathered in one table you can tape inside a cabinet door.

THE ARITHMETIC

What the door actually costs

A locksmith call to reinforce a door and frame typically runs about $100 to $250 once you add the visit fee. The same fix — a longer screw through the jamb and strike plate, into the stud instead of the trim — typically costs under $10 in hardware and about twenty minutes, done yourself with a drill you already own.

These are typical U.S. figures for one exterior door; your price depends on your door, your hardware store, and your market, and will vary.

What you'll be able to do

After the book

  • Spot two closing-distance warning signs before a stranger is within arm's reach.
  • Verify a utility worker or delivery driver at your door without ever opening it.
  • Swap three screws to turn a hollow strike plate into one that resists a kick.
  • Pick a cane, flashlight, or pepper spray sized to a hand with arthritis, and draw it in under two seconds.
  • State what your own state's castle doctrine actually requires before you ever need to use it.
VOLUME ONE · SIX PARTS

From the Driveway to the Courtroom

Sixty lessons in six parts, starting with the parking lot and ending with the ten minutes after you call 911.

Part OneReading Trouble EarlyAwareness, distance, exits, and the instinct to leave before anything happens
Part TwoThe Door You Didn't OpenKnock tricks, scams, and verifying who's really outside before you say a word
Part ThreeTools That Fit Your HandSimple moves and legal everyday tools built for a body that doesn't move like it used to
Part FourMaking the House the Hard OneDoors, locks, windows, lighting, cameras, and dogs that add real seconds, not a feeling
Part FiveWhen Help Is Far AwayThe safe room, the break-in itself, firearm readiness, and the extra minutes a rural address costs you
Part SixLaw, Aftermath and ValuablesThe law, the aftermath, and hiding what you actually need to reach again
From inside the book

Every lesson has a drawing

Sixty illustrations, one per lesson, show the hand position, the screw, or the angle instead of making you picture it from a paragraph.

Lesson 6 drawing
Lesson 6 · page 16 · Trusting the Gut Flinch
Lesson 16 drawing
Lesson 16 · page 38 · Never Say You're Alone
Lesson 26 drawing
Lesson 26 · page 61 · The Palm Heel Strike
Lesson 36 drawing
Lesson 36 · page 85 · Cameras That Actually Deter
Lesson 46 drawing
Lesson 46 · page 106 · The 911 Call That Works
Lesson 56 drawing
Lesson 56 · page 128 · What to Tell Police
A page from the bookA page from the bookA page from the book
WHY THIS GOT WRITTEN DOWN
You don't need a fortress. You need to be the hardest door on the street.

A video runs once and you're left holding whatever you remembered. You can't pause a video at the hardware store, and you can't flip back to lesson eleven when someone's already standing at your door with a clipboard.

So this went on paper, with the questions viewers ask folded into it instead of answered one at a time in a reply box.

Every fix got a number attached to it — a screw length, a spray distance, a seconds count for drawing a tool — because 'reinforce your door' isn't an instruction, it's a feeling.

Every lesson got its mistakes named, because most people don't fail from not knowing the fix, they fail from doing a version of it that looks right and isn't.

And every lesson got its limits written down too, because a method that doesn't say where it stops working is just confidence with no edges.

That's the book. Not more footage — a drawer you can actually use at two in the morning.

— Wade

WHO'S TALKING

Wade Tucker

Wade Tucker

Wade Tucker hosts the channel and teaches self-defense and home security for people over 60 and anyone living alone — reading a stranger before he closes the distance, hardening a door that's weaker than it looks, and knowing what the law actually allows before the night it matters.

This book is that same teaching taken out of video and put on paper: sixty lessons across six parts, each with its own drawing, its named mistakes, and the point where the method stops working. A 184-entry symptom index and a 136-number reference section sit at the back so you can find a fix by what's wrong, not by hunting through chapters.

“You don't need a fortress. You need to be the hardest door on the street.”

All 60

What's inside

    Reading Trouble Early

  1. 1Pre-Attack Warning Signs
  2. 2Reading the Parking Lot
  3. 3The Comfort Zone Test
  4. 4Walking With Purpose
  5. 5The Elevator Rule
  6. 6Trusting the Gut Flinch
  7. 7The Distance That Saves You
  8. 8When to Run Not Fight
  9. 9Your Voice Before Your Hands
  10. 10Picking Your Exit Early

    The Door You Didn't Open

  1. 11The Utility Worker Lie
  2. 12Never Opening on the Chain
  3. 13The Peephole Habit
  4. 14Fake Badges and Real Ones
  5. 15The Two-Man Knock
  6. 16Never Say You're Alone
  7. 17The Clipboard Con
  8. 18Package Theft Setups
  9. 19When They Won't Leave
  10. 20Calling the Number Yourself

    Tools That Fit Your Hand

  1. 21The Fist Load
  2. 22Choosing a Cane That Fights
  3. 23The Flashlight as a Weapon
  4. 24Escaping a Grab From Behind
  5. 25Pepper Spray Range Test
  6. 26The Palm Heel Strike
  7. 27Breaking a Wrist Grab
  8. 28The Pocket Alarm
  9. 29Practicing With Arthritis in Mind
  10. 30Carrying Legal, Carrying Ready

    Making the House the Hard One

  1. 31The Three-Inch Screw Fix
  2. 32Pinning a Window Open
  3. 33The Gravel That Talks
  4. 34Motion Lights Not Floodlights
  5. 35The Dog That's Enough
  6. 36Cameras That Actually Deter
  7. 37The Storm Door Lie
  8. 38Hinges on the Wrong Side
  9. 39A Door Wedge Alarm
  10. 40The Driveway Chime

    When Help Is Far Away

  1. 41The Safe Room Door Test
  2. 42Two Ways Out Never One
  3. 43The Room's Emergency Kit
  4. 44Killing the Light Line
  5. 45Never Search the House
  6. 46The 911 Call That Works
  7. 47Ready but Locked Away
  8. 48The Racking Shotgun Myth
  9. 49Choosing a Home Defense Gun
  10. 50The Rural Response-Time Problem

    Law, Aftermath and Valuables

  1. 51Castle Doctrine Isn't a Shield
  2. 52The Ten Minutes After
  3. 53Hollow Points and the Courtroom
  4. 54Printing Versus Brandishing
  5. 55The Permit That Isn't National
  6. 56What to Tell Police
  7. 57Documenting Your Break-In
  8. 58Hiding What You Use Often
  9. 59A Safe Bolted Down
  10. 60Staging a Decoy Drawer
From the comments

What viewers say about the channel

Word for word from under the videos on YouTube. These are about the channel's advice — the book is new, and reviews of it will go here once readers send them.

“After the great depression people got creative like this inside the mattress, behind paintings, etc. antique dealers still check these places. I appreciate the creativity in this video thank you!”
@elizabethlibero1878 · YouTube comment
“THANK YOU MATE, GOOD STUFF I NEED TO HEAR THIS, THANKS FOR BEING HONEST.”
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Straight answer

Who this book is for

It's for you if

  • You live alone and the house makes noises at night you can't explain.
  • Someone's already knocked claiming to be from the gas company, and you want to know if you handled it right.
  • Your hands don't close into a fist the way they used to, and you want a tool that still works.
  • You own a gun for the house and have never actually read your state's castle doctrine statute.
  • You want your door and yard to be a harder target than your neighbor's, without turning the place into a bunker.
  • You'd rather learn the warning signs on a quiet afternoon than during an actual knock.

It's not for you if

  • You want a bodyguard-style martial arts course — this is awareness, doors, tools, and law, not a fighting curriculum.
  • You're looking for real-time legal citation updates — the law lessons teach you what to check, not a substitute for your own state's current statute.
  • You need the physical door and window fixes done for you — this is a guide for doing it or hiring it done, not a handyman service.
Before you buy

Questions

What do I actually get?

One digital book, 60 lessons across six parts, each with a drawing, numbered steps, named mistakes, and a limits section, plus a 184-entry symptom index and a 136-number reference section at the back — delivered as a PDF.

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Can I print it?

Yes. It's a PDF built to be printed single-sided for notes, or read on a tablet at the kitchen table — either way, for your own use.

Is the advice in here safe?

It's educational content covering real tools and techniques — pepper spray, firearms, canes, door and window modifications — each with real risk if practiced carelessly, and each lesson's limits section tells you exactly where the method stops working. Every safety and legal claim was checked on the web against official sources before the book went out.

What if it isn't useful to me?

You have 14 days to ask for your money back, no explanation needed.

How do I pay?

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The hardest door on the street

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