Nov 03
I’m back to making Youtube videos, of the concise and informational variety. Please check this out and subscribe to the channel, share if you feel you need to. More great content to follow! The video below is not meant to be a recommendation vid, as in “you should get this for sure.” Rather, thought provoking …
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 …
Nov 11
I was sitting in a restaurant chatting with an older gentleman from Iowa about a month ago and I’m not sure how we got on the topic of dog food but this is what he said: “Dog food? What is dog food? When I was growing up the dog ate table scraps and that was …
Nov 07
I attended a survival course once and we had to make fire the primitive way, while the knowledge was good I was left with one distinct thought: ALWAYS have lighters and/or flints around. Since then I have stashed lighters everywhere, in vehicles and bags and all around the house. Sure I might have been exposed …
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 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 13
I remember when I started this blog back in 2012, I was stationed in Washington D.C. of all places and living in an apartment south of Old Town, Alexandria. I had a reloading station in my apartment, guns under the bed, a storage unit within walking distance full of supplies and an extreme desire to …
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 …
Sep 30
The Gray Man, an almost tired subject addressed countless times on various prepper blogs / youtube / whatever. I think I’ve even written about it a few times but lately I’ve been thinking about it so buckle up, here we go again. Before we get into attire let me ask you a question: You walk …
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 17
So you carry a handgun for self defense…perfect so do I. Let me ask you something: how many gunfights have you or your close friends been in over the last 10 years while here on US soil? The answer is probably none. Now let me pose another question to you: how many vehicle accidents have …
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 …
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