Yellowstone: The Natural Wonder That Will Kill America Yellowstone is one of the most amazing, beautiful, magical and awe-inspiring places on the planet. It is unique, a place of incomparable wonder that enchants millions of visitors a year. Yellowstone is… Continue Reading
When The Excrement Strikes The Rotary Oscillator Sooner or later, the Excrement will Strike the Rotary Oscillator (ESRO), or… as it’s more commonly stated, the Stuff will Hit The Fan (SHTF). Nobody knows how. Nobody knows when. Also unknown is… Continue Reading
Don’t feel the burn I do some volunteer work for the Red Cross, and one thing we can count on is that when the going gets cold, there are a lot more fires. We fend off the cold with the… Continue Reading
Do what do you plan to buy when you go shopping right after the Stuff Hits The Fan (SHTF)? It’s a commonly asked and debated question on many prepping forums and websites, and it’s also a question that Spice and… Continue Reading
What do people who live in the desert find to talk about with strangers? Here in the Midwest, small talk can always start with the weather. It’s like a pet goat; always doing something unexpected — and usually troublesome. That’s… Continue Reading
Prepper Finance: An Outline This is something I came up with a long time ago, with some recent changes, and was never able to follow through on. Just consider what might apply to you and forget the rest. This is… Continue Reading
Pandemics happen. They’ve killed major percentages of the human population in the past and might again. How might communities respond to such a pandemic? One indicator is the epidemic response of communities who have been under the shadow of such… Continue Reading
Here at Beans, Bullets, Bandages & You we are all about dual purpose devices, and the Orion Smoker certainly fits into that category. This is a product we can use in good times as well as if the Stuff Hits… Continue Reading
Dry feet save lives and attitudes. Mostly attitudes. But sometimes lives. The truth of this isn’t always obvious during a day on the beach, or when you do some walking on nice groomed trails. It becomes really clear when you’re… Continue Reading
I was training for a long ride, so Salty had dropped me and my bike off with plans to pick us both up a hundred miles down the trail. I was about eighty miles down the trail and the sun… Continue Reading
AR-15 Alternatives I think every firearms enthusiast and prepper knows the day is coming when there will be a large public and political move yet again to ban the Black Rifle and 30-round magazines. Whether they have enough political juice… Continue Reading
Knowledge is the best prep ever, because its so darned useful and so hard to have taken away. There’s also more of it than any one person could ever consume available for FREE. If you’re able to read this, you’ve… Continue Reading
Post SHTF Community Economies Part II Salty’s Note: This is part two of an article that Jerry wrote for the prepping community at large, presenting some ideas about what a post SHTF community might look like and things that one… Continue Reading
Home food production is one of the most versatile preps. It serves every situation from ‘money’s tight’ to ‘there’s no food that can be bought’. It also is a stealth prep and one that offers benefits even if there’s no… Continue Reading
“If we knew what we were doing, it wouldn’t be research.” <– attributed to Albert Einstein. I like this quote; it helps make a virtue of necessity. Being human, we necessarily make errors and try things that don’t work. The… Continue Reading