When Children Died Young Nearly all first-world children today live until adulthood, and most can expect to die as senior citizens. What most people living in first-world countries fail to realize is that low child-mortality is a new thing historically.… Continue Reading
Cheap to shoot guns are a great way for a prepper to be able to afford to practice shooting regularly. Having said that, there’s more than just the cost per round to consider when choosing a training gun. I’m going… Continue Reading
If the Stuff Hit’s The Fan (SHTF), what would your profession be? What would you do if you didn’t have your ‘day job’? I don’t mean “How would you survive.” At least for a while a prepper should have food… Continue Reading
Three Prepper Guns That Won’t Get Banned As I write this, semi-automatic firearms have just been made illegal in New Zealand and bump-stocks have just been banned in the United States. Banning firearms ownership is one hot political potato that’s… Continue Reading
Public gun ranges can be very much a dilemma for preppers. On the one hand, they offer a convenient place to practice shooting our firearms. On the other hand, they are the place we are most likely to get shot.… Continue Reading
Twelve Preps From A Discount Tools Store Like a lot of folks I know, I’m not really somebody who enjoys shopping in places like malls or big-box all-in-one stores like Walmart or Target. There are a few stores I do… Continue Reading
It happens. The End Of The World As We Know It. Fortunately, TEOTWAWKI happens in the spring. (Really the best time for it; Universe please take note.) The intrepid prepper grabs his Can o Seeds, digs up his yard, and… Continue Reading
“One Month” food buckets are everywhere. They are in big-box stores, wholesale clubs, on the internet… Are they good? Are they bad? Somewhere in between? Is “One Month” the truth? “One Month” – Truth or lie? It’s not that the… Continue Reading
Small preps can really save the day. So much of what we and other preppers concentrate on is for big “Stuff Hits The Fan” (SHTF) moments and the specter of The End Of The World As We Know It” (TEOTWAWKI).… Continue Reading
Truck and car guns are a fact of life for a lot of us. Here in the Midwest, it’s almost a given that most farm and country trucks have at least one gun in them for shooting varmints and vermin. … Continue Reading
Seizures can happen for a lot of reasons (which you can read more about here). When they recur, it’s called epilepsy. About 1 in 26 Americans have epilepsy, so it’s not that uncommon. Some have it from birth; others develop… Continue Reading
Flooding. It’s horrible. Getting flooded out is something every prepper needs to avoid if at all possible, because being flooded is one of the surest ways to lose most… if not all… of your preps. While it’s true that flooding… Continue Reading
Good latrines may be the difference between you and your neighbors surviving a multi-week or longer “Stuff Hits The Fan (SHTF)” situation or quickly falling ill and possibly dying from dysentery, cholera and other fecal born diseases that hit third-world… Continue Reading
You’re taking care of a child with a high fever. Or you and your family have been walking for hours in the heat, bugging out of a bad situation. Maybe you’re trapped at home by a major ice storm and… Continue Reading
Prepping is doing. Effective preppers do, not just think and plan. They get the job they need done finished, and then they move on to the next task and DO it. Doing. I can’t speak for anybody but us, but… Continue Reading