Nov 06
We like to discuss possibilities, what if this and what if that. I’ll throw one at you right now: Power clicks off in your home or work, a virus has taken down the grid indefinitely (you just don’t know it yet). Let that play out for a minute in your mind and think about where …
Nov 02
If you are distressed by anything external, the pain is not due to the thing itself, but to your estimate of it; and this you have the power to revoke at any moment. Marcus Aurelius, Meditations Follow me on this one, any of the below look like an attention grabbing headline: 5 Reasons Why the Stock …
Nov 01
Who here remembers all of the Covid shenanigans: Hoarding toilet paper, riots in the streets, things on fire, most preparedness online retailers sold out, canned food aisles wiped out and a nasty little word: quarantine. For what it’s worth I never got vaccinated and am somehow still here to type about it. I was still …
Oct 31
It’s interesting when you talk to guys about a post SHTF world and the first topic that comes up is guns, ammo and being able to hoard (or take) supplies. They think of it like a movie where they are the Warlord of their local community, guys in body armor are standing watch while the …
Oct 30
I have to admit, although we enjoy it we’ve never made bread before. We asked around and mostly the advice that we received involved just buying a bread maker and following the instructions. While not particularly in the mood to spend money on a bread maker and wanting to keep things a little more rustic …
Oct 23
Straight from another article I wrote, here is my definition of prepping: Obtaining information on and preparing for low probability / high impact events as well as high probability / low impact events while taking into consideration (and always improving upon) one’s resources and personal requirements in order to live a more stable and predictable …
Oct 18
Many of you know that I do not watch the news, typically I have no idea what is going on in the country or even my own state outside of a 20 mile radius. I had no idea a hurricane hit Florida recently until told so (obviously sorry for their plight and loss), quite frankly …
Oct 16
I have two neighbors who live up the road from me, one is 75 and the other is close to 70 I believe. Every morning at 9 am they meet up and walk 3 miles before sitting outside and enjoying some coffee. That’s 21 miles a week of walking at 8500 ft elevation (barring inclement …
Oct 08
Raise your hand if you’ve ever stayed in a short term rental (AirBnB or VRBO). I’ve stayed in a few myself and they are literally everywhere, including out here in the mountains or the country where others live. People cycle through these rentals trying to get a little taste of the outdoors and I’d suspect …
Oct 04
First things first, the hook. See a screenshot from the test I just ran on my phone a few minutes ago. Key points of this post: Starlink is very quick, almost laughably faster compared to other Satellite providers Starlink is super easy to set up and has been very reliable Starlink’s cost makes it crazy …
Sep 26
It was Tuesday last week and we were on a difficult jeep trail with no cellular service in the middle of nowhere. The trail was one we found by chance and it was rough and rocky, as such we aired down the tires and made a slow but steady go of it. We crossed a …
Sep 07
I’ve written about expiration dates on canned food before but this was probably the most expired thing I’ve eaten and as such I thought to share with everyone. As far as tiered food storage I’d rank canned food as #2 on the list, all of the items you have in your fridge / freezer would …
Sep 01
The idea of having a generator for T-SHTF is not a new one, I probably wrote my first article about them almost 10 years ago. Yet as technology changes the way we approach using generators should change. We now have generators that can run on dual fuel (gasoline / propane), very powerful inverter generators that …
Aug 31
Even out here in the mountains we need trash removal, after all who wants a bag full of leftovers steaming in the sun for weeks on end? Tuesday is our day and we have missed that day twice this year (and had our can stolen by a bear) and each time it was such a …
Aug 29
I was at the range today with my missus, the recipient of a new Springfield Armory Hellcat Pro, a compact 9mm fitted with a Holoson RDS. It fit her hand well, she loved the 15 round capacity and it should be noted that we spent lots of time with her trying other pistols out before …
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