Buying your first handgun can be pretty intimidating if you’ve never done it before, so this article is designed to give you an eight step process to get you started. This article covers buying a handgun in the USA from… Continue Reading
We’ve started working on one of our prepping needs, a bug out vehicle (BOV). Bug out vehicles are a rich topic of discussion in the prepping community, and we have several articles about there here on Beans, Bullets, Bandages and… Continue Reading
Flooding is tragic, dirty, expensive, and above-all-else dangerous. Dealing with the results of a flood is something worth thinking about and prepping for. Here are some things to consider when dealing with flooding, based on information put out by the… Continue Reading
On Assassination November 24, 1963 My first memory, ever, is a hazy image of John F. Kennedy’s casket lying in state in the rotunda of the US Capitol building… I can remember seeing the sunlight (or spotlights, not sure on… Continue Reading
There are many things to avoid if the SHTF, here are four of them that come to mind today. Bad Ideas To Avoid The good ole bad idea. Bad ideas happen all the time, the trick is to not act… Continue Reading
Bad Midwestern Hay Crop Will Pressure Meat Prices Further The news isn’t getting better for consumers of meat products, as both grain and hay production have taken huge hits due to excessively wet weather. Spice and I were driving around… Continue Reading
Fences. It doesn’t matter if you are city, suburban or rural, fences are everywhere. The very look of a fence can explain what that barrier is meant to do. For example, a four-foot-high fence between back yards are meant to… Continue Reading
We are doing a bit more construction here at 3BY over the next few days, so we won’t be publishing new articles for a couple of days as we work on moving some of our stuff to upgraded servers. No… Continue Reading
“Normal, everyday” preps… the kind of things that “non-preppers” often do (as do many preppers as well). Sometimes we get so keyed up about prepping for The End Of The World As We Know It (TEOTWAWKI) Stuff Hits The Fans… Continue Reading
I think a lot of people need to rethink the availability of meat in a post SHTF situation. What brings this to mind today? I was driving around from one very rural bird watching area to another, and as I… Continue Reading
Want a stealth neighborhood reconnaissance idea? Become “that guy or girl who’s always riding their bicycle around the neighborhood.” I kid you not, you can learn more about what’s really going on in your neighborhood by simply hopping on a… Continue Reading
Chemical accidents. I work as a volunteer on our county’s emergency management committee, and the #1 thing we prep for is something I don’t hear anybody in the prepping community talking about… probably because it’s not sexy, doesn’t require guns… Continue Reading
Eyeglasses are a prep that lots of people ignore, and for some it’s not a big deal… if you don’t wear them, then obviously for everyday activities you don’t need them, fair enough. BUT… if you DO wear them, at… Continue Reading
I’ve become an executive staff member of our government county-wide emergency response team headquarters as a prep. As a member of the executive staff (volunteer position) I am a part of all conversations with our local emergency management governing body,… Continue Reading
Salty here, just check in and reporting that all is well with us. We should have more articles hopefully starting tomorrow (they are written, it’s a matter of having enough access to get them set up. Be well and we… Continue Reading