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Gathering Your Cleaning Preps – One of the Easiest Prepping Actions You Can Take
I’ve said it before and I’ll say it again: appropriate hygiene and sanitation will be very necessary for your survival in any grid-down situation. And a significant aspect of appropriate sanitation are your cleaning preps. Fortunately, you don’t need a lot of knowledge or even a lot of money to get this aspect of your preps in…
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OnlineCarryTraining.com – Possibly the Easiest Way to Get Your Concealed Carry (CCW) License on the Planet
Getting my CCW permit has been one of those things on my to-do list that never quite gets done and, sadly, is probably one of the more important prepping actions to GET DONE! Fortunately, a few weeks ago I was contacted by the folks at OnlineCarryTraining.com about their course. To be honest, I had no…
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Review of SurvivAmino – a Survival Protein Supplement for Your Bug Out Bag
A few weeks back I was asked if I would review SurvivAmino, a survival protein supplement designed with preppers in mind and, specifically, for your bug out bag. Initially, I was hesitant to do the review because I wasn’t sure how in the world I was going to review a bottle of pills! Eventually, I…
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What’s in Your Wallet? Here’s 14 Items in Mine and What Probably Should be in Yours
Everyday Carry (EDC) is an important part of any prepping strategy. After all, you’re only really as prepared as what you have on your person at the time of an emergency. Today I’m not talking about my entire EDC but, rather, just what’s in my wallet. So, I figured the best way to do this…
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Sun Oven Sunday – Self-Rising Biscuit Bread (No Yeast!)
A few days ago I re-read this article on How to Make Self-Rising Flour and since I’ve never actually tried making bread without yeast and because I wanted to make bread in my sun oven this weekend, I decided to give it a go. Substituting for yeast is actually incredibly easy. Basically, you just use 1.5…
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80 Uses for Paracord: What Did I Miss?
Please note: This article is written by ‘Above Average Joe’ and was originally seen on SurvivalLife.com. Last week a friend of mine saw the paracord lanyard that I keep on my keychain and asked what it was for. I explained a little history of paracord and told him and many of the different ways that…
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One Infectious Disease That Could Comback and Seriously Ruin Your Day!
I was reading this article titled The Burden of Disease and the Changing Task of Medicine from the New England Journal of Medicine the other day–don’t worry, I rarely read such nerdy medical stuff–and viewed the interactive graph when it became happily apparent that a once leading cause of death (100 years ago) has seemingly vanished in today’s…
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Add This Wristwatch to Your EDC Preps (or something very similar)
A month or so ago I posted a video by Wranglerstar that discussed finding north using a wristwatch. For some reason I recently watched the video again and began to take note of what he said about the important characteristics that a watch should exhibit, including: Analog (not digital) – It’s impossible to use a digital…
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Review of Hoppe’s BoreSnake – Easiest Rifle Cleaning System Ever!
I’d never heard of the BoreSnake until a few months ago and, to be honest, I’ve only used it once since I bought it but I could immediately tell I’m already in love with it! The BoreSnake is without a doubt the easiest way I’ve seen to clean a long gun. Since I wasn’t sure about…