Being prepared is about a lot more than acquiring mountains of gear. True preparation is about gaining experience, learning new skills and practicing those skills until you can’t get them wrong when the pressure is really on. When you look at the cross section of skills you’d be advised to learn, it can seem like …
Cold weather brings with it many inherent risks and one of the most serious risks that preppers will have to face is exposure. One particular danger in extremely cold temperatures or wet conditions is the danger of frostbite, the freezing of body tissues. Particularly vulnerable parts of the body are the extremities, namely the fingers …
How Do You Protect Your Toes and Fingers From Cold? Read More »
North Carolina is a state with generally amenable laws for pepper and other defensive sprays. It does have a fairly restrictive capacity limitation, but other than that you can carry any kind of spray you want be it made from natural or artificial ingredients. Additionally, only people who are not convicted felons may possess pepper …
In this latest article covering team tactics for prepping will be exploring multi-vehicle response drills. As we learned in the previous entry, vehicles place highly on our list of transportation priorities and are often an essential piece of equipment in our disaster preparations. Though some of us might rely only upon a single vehicle either …
Multi-Vehicle Response Drills – Team Tactics for Preppers Series Read More »
Maryland is another state with generally permissive pepper spray laws, although this is one state where you can have only legitimate pepper spray, not tear gas and not a blend of any other defensive spray formulations. The law is quite specific concerning the formulation of such sprays and its ingredients must be derived from actual …
Whether you love your country or not, you probably have no love lost for our government. Levier of taxes, corrupt arbitrator of laws and bloated, decadent ruling class, a veritable fountain of graft and constant miscarrier of justice. You don’t need me to tell you that we are no longer rule over by a government …
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Raccoons might be cute and cuddly, but they are troublesome, intelligent pests that are notorious for breaking into trash cans, infiltrating attics, and generally making themselves a nuisance. They’re uncanny intelligence and dexterous forepaws give them a major advantage when it comes to climbing and manipulating objects. This means that trapping them is easier said …
You wouldn’t know it by looking at me but I’m crazy about martial arts, and have been training in Taekwondo for the last eight years – finally achieving my 1st Dan (1st Degree black belt) in December last year. Over the course of my training, I’ve had to answer a couple of different questions and …
Are Traditional Martial Arts Useless for Self-Defense? Read More »
I’m a self-admitted chicken-acholic. I have yet to meet a recipe for chicken that I didn’t like. I could probably eat it every day – with the occasional break for a good burger. When we got a pressure cooker, the first recipe we canned up was chicken breasts. This was for two reasons. First, I …
As preppers, it seems like our shopping lists never end. Always buying new supplies, to supplement or replace those that we already have. We need new gear and new equipment in order to better prepare for what might lie ahead, or cover our bases in case of some new and unexpected threat. Some preppers might …
