Several years ago, I had the privilege to go to the Amazon jungle. It was a trip of a lifetime, and I have no desire to go back. The experience taught me much that directly relates to prepping. ALWAYS Have… Continue Reading
Lots of folks have built AR-15s and the YouTube library is full of videos on how to do it. (Okay, “assemble” for the purists.) I wanted to build an AR-10, so I could fend off bears, which looked like pretty… Continue Reading
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Air ambulance membership as a prep? The first things most preppers think about, concentrate on, are large-scale breakdown low-probability SHTF situations. From large-scale grid-down TEOTWAWKI situations, nuclear attack, terrorist bombings, you name it… the sorts of events that invade the… Continue Reading
The Eclipse of 2017, in a sense, was a mini-SHTF mass-movement run through. No, there were no major problems, but we did see mass movements of people into areas of the country that do not have the infrastructure to handle… Continue Reading
Two keys to prepping against antibiotic resistance After the development of antibiotics, experts in infectious medicine who’d seen the fatalities in their field drop by more than 90% trumpeted an end to their entire specialty; and many medical schools closed… Continue Reading
Wounded Knee. Most people have heard of it, but were I a betting man I would wager that few people in the prepper community have even given the thought of Wounded Knee or the “settlement of the west” the slightest… Continue Reading
Tetanus. It’s called ‘lockjaw’ because the jaw muscles are among the first to be affected. They spasm and seize up, holding the jaw firmly shut. The good news is, starvation is not likely to be a problem. The… Continue Reading
Bears! People keep telling me that it is futile to prep in the Peoples Republic of New Jersey, but I keep on doing it anyhow. You might wonder why since New Jersey is a socialist mecca. The answer is pretty… Continue Reading
Spiders All Salty did was take a hike in the woods of a state park. At the time, we didn’t notice anything amiss. A thing like that shouldn’t take the wonders of modern medicine to keep from killing a guy,… Continue Reading
I just got back from a hiking trip in the mountains, and wanted to share my experiences: The good to encourage their use and the bad to save you from learning the Hard Way. A prepper win (or six) and… Continue Reading
Leg Swelling And You I’ve been working on a series to give people ideas for managing chronic conditions when they can’t get medical care (search the Bandages tag here on the BBBY site if that interests you). This is just… Continue Reading
I admit it, many things scare me, and I to an extent sometimes catch my fears dictating the course of my life… Most people don’t want to admit their fears, but I think it’s important that we recognize them as… Continue Reading
Wait a minute, Salty, you want me to believe that the act of giving away food that I grow in my garden is actually a prep? Seriously? Why yes, my doubting reader, I sure am. Let me explain. When we… Continue Reading
Prepping To Not Have Asthma One of the readers of one of my previous posts on asthma asked if there was a way to keep kids from getting asthma in the first place – really much nicer than having to… Continue Reading