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65 Reasons Ham Radio Operators Love Them
65 Reasons Ham Radio Operators Love Them Most of us know that a ham radio is one of the pieces of gear that preppers want. But are there more reasons than just prep gear to own one? You must have a license to legally operate one. So why do people go through the license process, …
Surviving a Vehicular Terror Attack
Surviving a Vehicular Terror Attack Yes, I know as with guns, vehicles don’t kill, people do. But if you have a several ton vehicles baring down on you on your local sidewalk, are you really going to debate what is happening? Just like guns, vehicles are being used against civilians as a method of …
Avoiding Detection Covering Your Trail
Avoiding Detection Covering Your Trail One thing we all agree upon is that if we are bugging out we don’t want tons of others running from whatever disaster has befallen us to follow! It may also be that the disaster itself, if it is manmade that we don’t want to know where we have gone. …
Tracking and Counter Tracking
Tracking and Counter Tracking Whether you are searching for a lost group member before or after a SHTF event learning the basics of tracking is a great skill to have. Counter tracking would be real handy after a SHTF event to prevent being followed back to your bug out location. So no matter if you are hiding or seeking tracking is …
Are You Ready For a Venezuelan Style Collapse?
Are You Ready For a Venezuelan Style Collapse? It is always said if we don’t learn from the past, we are bound to repeat the mistakes. This can be true when it isn’t your direct past. As the world watches the devastation of Venezuela after their total economic collapse, I can only hope that we …
Some Suburban Preppers are Ready for Anything
Some Suburban Preppers are Ready for Anything Rural preppers often feel they have a foot up on the suburban preppers based strictly on location. Maybe they do. But with the preppers spoken about in the featured article linked below from Chicago Magazine are ready for just about anything. They are hidden among the rest of …
50 Reuse and Recycle Ideas
50 Reuse and Recycle Ideas I love to reuse old items to make new ones. First I hate to throw away anything that could be usable, secondly I just think they look cool! 😛 I enjoy articles like this one because of the ingenuity and ability to visualize out of the box, a talent needed by homesteaders …
15 Top Conspiracy Theories
15 Top Conspiracy Theories Preppers get accused more often than not of also being conspiracy theorists. Now you can’t put even just two people in a single room for any period of time and expect they won’t disagree. So when you take the population at large you will find there are a number of different …
14 Awesome Camouflaged Home Designs
Some posts may contain affiliate links. 14 Awesome Camouflaged Home Designs It doesn’t matter if you just want to live off grid, have the resources to put these homes on the grid, or are looking for a camouflaged but out location. There is no denying these are some pretty awesome homes! They are kind to …
Tips For Preparing Your Parents and Other Elderly Loved Ones
Tips For Preparing Your Parents and Other Elderly Loved Ones You can’t be with those you love 24 hours a day everyday. As parents we try to teach our children how to keep themselves safe when we can’t be with them, just as our parents did us. But now many of us have aging parents …