The man charged straight at me. He was huge and I am small. At nearly three hundred pounds and over six and a half feet of nothing but muscle and violent intent, he was unbelievably fast. I backpedaled rapidly but… Continue Reading
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If you are new to firearms, you are probably wondering “so what’s up with all the bullet sizes & all those codes?” Never fear, we’ve got a few simple answers for you to get you started. Over the last 150… Continue Reading
Before we go too far into this PrepperGuns 101 series, I want talk about something critically important to everybody, firearms safety. First, let’s just start with the four laws of firearms safety. RULE I: All guns are always loaded RULE… Continue Reading
Welcome to another edition of Salty’s Gun Review. The views expressed are my own, and I will pull no punches… these are guns I own and shoot, and I will address them from a “prepping/survival perspective”. I am reviewing one… Continue Reading
Welcome to the debut of our new PrepperGuns 101: Firearms Information For Beginning Preppers Today’s installment is about “magazines and clips”. What exactly are they? What kinds are there? What is the difference between a magazine and a clip? These… Continue Reading
Ask any group of preppers what the Number One prepper survival long gun on the planet is, and doubtless some version or other of the ubiquitous Ruger 10/22 semi-auto rifle will be at or near the top of the list.… Continue Reading
You Can Prepare Anywhere By now you may have realized there is a prepper myth that I just don’t agree with. The idea is that urban centers, and perhaps other locales, are simply impossible to survive in if SHTF. I… Continue Reading
My name is Salty, and I am an ammohaulic. I admit it. I have more ammo in storage than I will ever shoot in my lifetime. I’m good with that. My wife, Spice? Not so much. After extensive conversations (many of which involved her… Continue Reading
Let’s say that for whatever reason, guns are available but the ammo supply has dried up. We’ve seen it happen several times in recent years for various reasons and it’s likely to happen again one of these days. What are… 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
The oldest axiom on how to make money on Wall Street is to “buy low, sell high”. It should come as a surprise to nobody that gun sales are off following the 2016 elections. We don’t talk politics, even a… Continue Reading
Here’s a lesson from the School of Hard Knocks. Sometimes buying ammo is a mistake… or at least buying the particular ammo that you put in your shopping cart is. Ammo hard knocks I’ve made a lot of prepping mistakes… Continue Reading
It’s a hard thing to do, admit that you made a mistake… especially to do so in public. I’ve made a lot of them over the years, as have we all… and some of those prepping mistakes have been quite… Continue Reading
Does James Wesley, Rawles’ book “How To Survive The End Of The World As We Know It” actually help us do what the title claims? In as much as any book could help in such a dire situation, yes. Does… Continue Reading