Rust is he enemy of all-things firearm. Protecting your valuable firearms from the insdeous clutches of rust is a thankless but necessary part of prepping. Rust is also something that can attack your guns without you even noticing it until… Continue Reading
Some time back Salty wrote a post about the minimum amount of ammunition to have on hand. This has also been a perennial favorite topic on various prepper forums. There are also YouTube videos on the subject. The figures tossed… Continue Reading
It was a dark and stormy night. Some loser drunk had collided with a power pole and left its debris in the road. Salty and I hit at highway speed a cable that was stretched across the road. The front… Continue Reading
News flash! Men and women are different! Well… anybody with any sense at all knows. As we explain in this weeks 3BY podcast, meeting the challenges of mastering our differences is a critical part to thriving both everyday and if… Continue Reading
In some ways humans are unique among living things; but when we get scared enough those special things bolt off into a hole somewhere and we’re left with responses common to many animals. This is what physiologists call the sympathetic… Continue Reading
You’re laughing with a friend and having a great dinner when she gets a startled/alarmed look and reaches for her throat. She makes a few vigorous spasms with her torso, starts to turn odd colors, and slumps over without having… Continue Reading
When you are in a survival situation, when your life is on the line, you simply cannot have the vital gear you need to survive breaking. The lesson that Spice and I had drilled into our heads over and over… Continue Reading
To accurately shoot a firearm, for starters, you have to know how to properly aim it. This probably sounds pretty self-evident, but as I’ve worked with people teaching them how to shoot, I have to constantly remind myself that unless… Continue Reading
We’ve all seen posts on forums and other references talking about how huge the Derivatives Market is and how supposedly dangerous it is. The amazing thing to me is the folks posting, clearly don’t know what a derivative is. … Continue Reading
Change: A scenario. It had been nearly a month since the earthquake. Many businesses were still closed and the bridges were out so you couldn’t drive far, but Sue had been doing fine: Lots of wood on hand to keep… Continue Reading
Prepping can seem an impossibly difficult task. The ultimate goal, after all, would be able to deal with anything life sends your way. It’s like trying to eat a whole elephant! So how do you start? Anything is better than… Continue Reading
As preppers, one of the hardest things that we can do is find balance in our preps. For various reasons we tend to overdo or neglect. In today’s article & it’s accompanying podcast, we take a look at eight different things… Continue Reading
The media makes money by exciting you, scaring you and making you put emotion ahead of reason. Lots of money. Obscene amounts of money… and power… Why is this important for a prepper? It is critical that preppers understand when… Continue Reading
Last winter I was warned the roads might get bad, so I was careful to put on good tires. I didn’t have an accident. Now this winter they’re saying the same thing, but to heck with worrying about tires; I… Continue Reading
For most of my adult life I have lived on an extremely tight budget. A huge amount of things in the prepping community are prohibitively expensive. I wanted to give you some guidance and encouragement to those who would like… Continue Reading