Plans for Ammunition When “Normal” Returns I wrote a previous post on ammunition, before the current shortage, that described my method for figuring out how much ammunition to inventory. Given the current shortage, it is safe to say that very… Continue Reading
Learning to Hunt To be a real country boy prepper, you need to know how to hunt. Having lived all my life in relatively urban to suburban areas, hunting is not something I grew up with, or have done until… Continue Reading
Clothing Clothing is a basic need, but moving from a sometimes-cold climate in People’s Republic of New Jersey (PRNJ) to the mild to hot climate of South Carolina has caused me to reevaluate my wardrobe. I might as well make… Continue Reading
Gun Safe: My New Jewelry Box I was a bit disappointed at leaving my firearms safe-jewelry box behind in the People’s Republic of New Jersey (PRNJ) when I moved, but the cost of loading, storing, and eventually unloading, a 900… Continue Reading
Update on Glocks In my past writings, I made the case that the perfect prepper weapons were AR-15s and Glocks. You may be thinking that I have changed my mind. In fact, there have been some developments that make that… Continue Reading
Water, Water, Water In my prior writings, I described the categorization I use for my preps. You can use a different categorization, but mine works for me, so I’ll tend to discuss my new and improved prepping plan by that… Continue Reading
Food During my recent move, I was drawing down some stocked items. One of the things we decided to consume and restock post move, was a bunch of Spam that I had acquired from 2011 to 2014. My wife, who… Continue Reading
I’ve been trying to update my prior thoughts and posts due to my move out of the People’s Republic of New Jersey (PRNJ), but all the Coronavirus conversation has derailed my progress. I’m going to try to update my thoughts… Continue Reading
PrepperNomics 107: Prepping for Shortages Those of us who are firearms enthusiasts are used to the periodic shortages that develop when it looks like gun laws might change. Many of us are also familiar with empty grocery shelves, at least… Continue Reading
Coronavirus Preps Following Lessons Learned While I have no special medical knowledge, I did go through planning for Ebola back in PRNJ. I was entirely dissatisfied with my preparations then, but I learned a lot from the exercise. Since this… Continue Reading
Plans to “prepperize” the new manse! Is “prepperize” an actual word? In any case, we moved in, and now have an ordinary house, instead of the barn like structure we previously owned in the People’s Republic of New Jersey (PRNJ). … Continue Reading
I’m Back! Some of you have been around awhile and may have read a few of my posts when 3BY was new. As the site developed, I hit a point of writer’s block, not to mention being kind of busy… Continue Reading
Stripped Lowers as 2nd Amendment Insurance I haven’t written anything for BBBY in some time, but I hope to be returning with a few posts in the near future. As a quick update, I have “Escaped from the People’s Republic… 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
Prepper Storage After the WTC experience, I realized there was no way I could predict the type of disaster. I never in my wildest imagination (wild at times) could have dreamed that one up. Suicidal maniacs hijacking airplanes and flying… Continue Reading