Category: Interesting Stuff
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The Audacious Risk Taker Theory by Dr. Alton of DoomAndBloom.net
by Joe Alton, M.D., aka Dr. Bones of www.doomandbloom.net You’ve seen it on TV and elsewhere. Young men ride bulls in the rodeo, a young woman jumps off a skyscraper with a parachute, a diver swims with a great white shark. Are these people just Audacious Risk Takers, or is there a survival advantage to being a…
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Coast HP14 High Performance Focusing 339 Lumen LED Flashlight Review
I’ve been interested in a new, quality flashlight for some time now and, though I do like my trusty Maglite and even the lesser expensive Coleman Max, this Coast HP14 LED Flashlight stands to supplant both of them. Here’s a few details direct from Amazon’s website so we’re on the same page here: Light output:…
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WTF? Wednesdays: Do NOT Buy Pants from LAPoliceGear.com!
First, do you see anything wrong here?… Right, the pants are different lengths. Despite what it may look like in the photo they are lined up evenly at the top. Let me explain… When I first saw the following video on Bombproof $20 Outdoor/Tactical Pants! from Chris at PreparedMind101 I was excited! So excited, in fact, I…
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If You Haven’t Seen This Yet, Check it Out!…
I just signed myself up for an interesting new summer event, called Summer of Survival. Seems there’s a whole lot of FREE webinar training to be done over the course of 12 weeks from June 3 through August 21. The fun thing is that it involves all sorts of good people in the preparedness community, including: David Kobler…
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My Weaknesses List is a Heck of a Lot Longer Than My Strengths List! How About You?
My kids were finishing up their homeschooling lessons and one of them happened to be a final report on themselves. To be included in the report was a list of strengths and weaknesses. My youngest was having a bit of trouble thinking up some ideas to include in the weaknesses report so I tried to help.…
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If I Had the Chance to Start Prepping All Over Again, Here’s What I Would Have Done…
There’s no doubt that prepping is a journey, a life-long one, in fact… at least for anyone who takes it seriously. And, even though I’ve been at this seriously for a few years now and “interested” for several years, I often feel like I wasted too much time and money and could have been far…
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There are Only Two Types of People Post-SHTF: Assets and Liabilities. Which Are You?
People can be classified in all sorts of ways if you like: tall or short, pretty or ugly, predator or victim. In a post-SHTF world I like to look at people as either assets or liabilities. This means EVERYBODY, including people you expect to be in your survival group, people that show up on your…
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What do You Think, Should I Sell Out or Not? Survival Blogs Worth Money!!
The folks over at SurvivalReader.com recently sent me this post on The Best Prep Nobody Talks About: Make a Survival Blog? and I realized that I recognized both sites. In fact, I had some correspondence with the previous owner of PrepHappy.com quite a while back trying to help her get her blog going. Anyway, I have…
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If Prepping Was a Club, My Family Would Have Got Me Kicked Out Years Ago!
I got to thinking about my college fraternity recently–most likely because they keep sending emails wanting me to update my contact info–and for some reason I started contemplating that “if prepping were a club, like my college fraternity, I’m positive my family would have got me kicked out years ago!” Why? It’s really all about…