Choosing a weapon for self-defense is serious business and can be a difficult ordeal. Lethal and less lethal options abound, and you can have ones for close range or long range as the situation dictates. Many preppers trend towards the use of a firearm for self-defense, but the gun is not the end all, be …
Preppers should be compiling and storing important documents with the same vigor as we self-reliance minded folks stockpile food, water, and supplies. Both during but especially after a SHTF scenario, paper copies of essential marriage, custody, ownership, and health records preserved digitally may not be accessible (temporarily or ever again) depending upon the nature of …
Most of us who consider ourselves adherents to a lifestyle of readiness or serious students of self-defense often think through or war game our responses to a violent attack. We will go through countless variations of different encounters in different places at different times of day with varying numbers of attackers. Maybe we go to …
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Fighting is something that can and does terrify most normal people. This is because most people are good people who don’t want any trouble. With that said, there’s no denying that these situations – while totally avoidable – do happen. It’s also fair to say that they follow a few different patterns. One part of …
In the realm of self-defense law, the Castle Doctrine is a concept that codifies that a defender has no obligation to retreat from their home and typically their business or vehicle when confronted with an intruder or someone who would attempt to harm them while occupying any of the above. Formerly a fairly contentious legal …
The carabiner and snap hook are both hooks with a safety mechanism to stop them from opening. The carabiner comes from the German Karibinerhaken, relating to the carbine – a rifle with a shortened barrel used from the 19230’s onwards. The clip was used to fasten the gun to a strap for carrying and be …
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Castle Doctrine is one of the most important legal concepts to understand pertaining to self-defense law. Roundly, Castle Doctrine means that a person who is occupying their home, place of business or occupied vehicle has no obligation to retreat and may use lethal force in defense of any such place when an intruder enters or …
Everyone has a plan until they get punched in the mouth. Mike Tyson Truer words were never spoken, we all like to think of what we would do in a self-defense situation – usually with no experience in dealing with those situations. A big part of self-defense, from a physical standpoint, is striking. Punching and …
As preppers, we get ready for all the many curveballs, emergencies and disasters that can befall us on this journey we call ‘life’. Naturally, disasters of the natural variety are right near the top of this list of concerns. Tornadoes, earthquakes, hurricanes, wildfires, landslides, blizzards, you name it: When Mother Nature is having a bad …
Any prepper that is serious about getting ready for rough times is going to accumulate a store of food that they and their loved ones will be able to rely on when conventional means of obtaining food, like dash into the grocery store, are no longer options. In the aftermath of a society toppling event …
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