If you know who Practical Preppers are then you’ll want to pay attention. If you don’t know who they are, Practical Preppers are two well-known YouTube personalities, Scott Hunt (aka. Engineer775) and David Kobler (aka., SouthernPrepper1), who are two wonderful people you should be paying attention to in the preparedness community.
Practical Preppers Books
Recently, I was contacted to review Scott Hunt’s new book, The Practical Preppers Complete Guide to Disaster Preparedness (there’s also a Kindle edition if interested), and I can say I was delighted to do so. Even more important, I was glad I read it since I learned quite a bit… more than I thought I would, in fact.
To be clear, this isn’t a “how to” book that details how to go about setting up a water catchment system or solar power setup. Not at all. Instead, it’s more about explaining the many possibilities and solutions that he, Scott Hunt, has learned about and employed not only for his clients (they run a prepping consulting company) but also for his own family as well.
I like this approach a lot because he was obviously quite honest in his experiences and opinions with the various prepping solutions outlined in the book. He often shared his own thoughts, recommendations, concerns, and pros/cons about the topics discussed. Coming from such a knowledgeable person that means a lot!
As for the content the book discusses eight main topics, including: water, food, shelter, power, medical, bug out, security, and community. You might think he’s missing some critical aspects (such as sanitation, lighting, comms, etc) but he does cover these “lesser” topics in specific chapters. Personally, I would have liked to have seen a bit more about some of these “lesser” topics from his point of view but overall I was very pleased with the book outline and major topics discussed.
Overall, each chapter of the Practical Preppers book is a wealth of information and, to be honest, I’d have purchased the book for the chapters on water and power alone. These two areas, in my opinion, are what Scott seems to know best and it shows in his writing.
If you’re looking for a book that covers the aforementioned major areas in-depth enough so that you can make quality decisions about furthering your prepping strategy to be truly more self-sufficient then this book is a must-have!
Scott does a marvelous job with the topics he covers and I wouldn’t hesitation to recommend you add The Practical Preppers Complete Guide to Disaster Preparedness to your library.
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