Tag: David Nash

Prepper Precepts #2 Don’t Look Forward to Disaster

52 Unique Techniques for Stocking Food for Prepper

I don’t want the manure to strike the air oscillation device. Hopefully, I won’t ever be told that I was right about prepping. I want my food storage to hit its shelf life unopened. But I feel better knowing I have food insurance.

Don’t look forward to disaster you just might end up getting to be in one.

Rules of Civility: The 110 Precepts that Guided Our First President in War and Peace

These precepts are my creed, and having prepper precepts guides me when I face tough choices. A wise man once told me that when facing a moral problem, the right choice is usually the action you don’t want to take.

I am not a pollyanna person that is wishy washy or blindly follows rules, heck I have a little rebellious streak and love to know the WHY of rules, but I do respect and understand the need for law and know how vital it is for a society to have a moral code.

By knowing what I believe in you can know how I will act. This is very important in times of stress. If you don’t want to read these precepts one by one, the completed list can be found here: Completed 27 Prepper Precepts.

I hope these precepts are useful to you, I feel that by sharing my creed I can, in some little way, help make the world better by opening a discussion about the importance of having rules to live by.

November 26, 2015
TNGun Fan Finder Ad

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TNGun started as a firearm school where David Nash taught Tennessee handgun carry permit and armed security courses, but as David evolved and matured this site morphed into the Shepherd School and began to teach more than just guns. The video below is the YouTube fan finder ad for the tngun channel.

The TNGun website showcases all of the Shepherd School YouTube videos in a way that is much easier to search than they are on YouTube. Besides the videos we have articles and hundreds of free downloads.

The goal of this site is to help people become better prepared and to pass the message that stuff is not enough – you have to have skills and knowledge to complement gear.

I don’t claim to have the best way to do things, and many of my projects are rigged together and make experts in that specific area scream, but they are all real and unedited – and if something does not work I don’t hide it.

I appreciate all the people who visit this TNGun website, my students, and the friends that have helped me grow and do the things I do. This website is more than just words on a screen, it is my life.

August 23, 2014
52 Prepper Projects: Book Review

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52 Prepper Projects is a book about self-reliance and the journey toward a more self-sufficient life.

The author, David Nash, has been a “prepper” his entire life, and has always tried to learn how to do things instead of searching out where to buy things.

This book is designed to start with simple projects and progress to more complex projects. The projects get better as the reader gains more skill and confidence.

Each project in this book can be completed with simple hand tools and many projects build upon tools and skills created in earlier projects.

The 52 Prepper Projects Book is full of projects like the ones in this site. Actually some of the projects are on this site. However, in the book they are better documented and arraigned in a manner that makes sense.

The Book Is Similar in Content to This Site

This book is a companion to the tngun website. I feel like the projects in the book are worth having on paper in the even the internet is ever throttled or shut down. At one time that idea seemed like a 1984 type conspiracy, but Google and other internet giants have been working to reduce this type of information on the web.

This is more likely to happen than most American’s think. Therefore, having paper copies of things you find important is becoming more vital every day.

November 10, 2013
PRN Episode #38 Cheap Food Storage Plan
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Ask 10 Preppers their food storage plans (how rude….) and you will get 11 answers.

I know that besides what is the best prepper firearm, what is the best way to store food is probably the hottest topic.

Well, today I am going to talk about my Cheap Food Storage Plan and why it is best for my family’s situation.

I needed something that was shelf stable long term as I am not panic buying because I believe a disaster will come next week – but rather I am hedging my bets just in case.

Additionally, I needed something easy to store so it did not get overly confusing to my wife

Also, I needed something cheap – because in a fight between might need later and need diapers now – diapers win…

I did not need to worry about:
- Food that was particularly easy to cook
- Compact size
- Food allergies
- Low water/pre-cooked
This narrowed down my search, and once I determined my food storage strategy, I was able to spend some time finding cheaper sources of supply.

Here is the basal metabolic calculator as mentioned in the podcast:

http://www.webmd.com/diet/healthtool-metabolism-calculator

You can find several articles on my www.tngun.com website discussing how to prepare the foods mentioned for long-term storage – just use the search function, or click the food and water link under “Categories”.

The show is scheduled for Monday at 10pm central time at this link.

If you cannot listen on Monday, you can always download the podcast for listening at your own leisure.
October 6, 2013
Prepper Precepts #27 Think, Learn, Plan, Test, Repeat…

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Think, Learn, Plan, Test, repeat…

This is called the exercise cycle and it is vital to creating workable plans that people use. Every time you practice a plan you learn it’s weaknesses. Fix those weak points and retrain and retest. Eventually you will be so skilled and so prepared that it is second nature.

A side benefit of this cycle is that it trains the brain for action and sets in shortcuts and paths. If you practice long and hard enough eventually when the problem strikes your brain will think it is a test and stay much calmer.

The exercise cycle is a vital part of emergency management and it should be a vital part of personal preparedness. By running the cycle you learn without the cost of failure during disaster.

Rules of Civility: The 110 Precepts that Guided Our First President in War and Peace

These precepts are my creed, and having prepper precepts guides me when I face tough choices. A wise man once told me that when facing a moral problem, the right choice is usually the action you don’t want to take.

I am not a pollyanna person that is wishy washy or blindly follows rules, heck I have a little rebellious streak and love to know the WHY of rules, but I do respect and understand the need for law and know how vital it is for a society to have a moral code.

By knowing what I believe in you can know how I will act. This is very important in times of stress. If you don’t want to read these precepts one by one, the completed list can be found here: Completed 27 Prepper Precepts.

April 20, 2012