While talking with some prepper friends, I was shown a picture of the kit of a particular survival instructor. This man had skills, no doubt. However I was amazed at the magnitude of his gear. He had 3 different shovels – from a small backpacking trowel, to a large sharpened cold steel shovel. He carried […]
Year: 2012
Bung Sizes for Brewing
Today’s article on Bung sizes is more for me, than it is for you. I need a handy reference of what the numbers on the sides of the rubber stoppers mean in relation to size. The other day I needed a stopper for a non-standard (meaning scrounged) glass carboy. The jug was bigger than my […]
Prepsteading – A New Take on an Old Concept
I recently heard a term that, as both a prepper as well as an urban homesteader, spoke to me. It is such a simple term that I wish I had devised it. Fortunately by tracking down the term’s creator I met an interesting group of people that share the same common goals. The creator of […]
Rebuttal: Doomsday Preppers are Socially Selfish
This Friday morning I was sad to discover an article on emergency management.com in the “Disaster Academia” section entitled Doomsday Preppers are Socially Selfish. Why do people think Preppers are selfish? It amazes me how someone in emergency management that claims through her “academic” title to be intelligent fails to grasp how preppers actually […]
What is Reasonable
If you have any defensive firearm training of any sort, you have to have heard the term “Reasonable Force” at some point. The Reasonableness standard is probably the most important test when someone is trying to decide if your defensive action is justified or not. However, you may ask just what is reasonable? This is […]