Purple Paint Law This law has been in force for some years in Missouri, but I admit this was the first I had heard of it! I think truthfully, it’s an awesome idea and I am glad to hear other states are adapting at least a portion of it. Now in Missouri a purple square on …
Tick Borne ‘Powassan Virus’ Is Worse Than Lyme Disease (3 links) Lyme’s disease took years to diagnose and has been extremely difficult to treat for those infected. Depending upon the severity of the infection symptoms can be mild to life devastating. Now doctors are telling us that there is another tick-borne virus we should be aware …
Improve Your Rifle Marksmanship Practice makes perfect is what we are all taught when it comes to building a skill like marksmanship. However, before you begin practicing make sure you are doing it correctly to start. You want to make sure that you aren’t honing the incorrect method which could cost you later. The featured …
Do’s & Don’ts Ammo Storage The value of storing ammunition goes without saying for a long term SHTF event and for even a short-term event for the purpose of self-defense if it becomes necessary. Nothing bugs me more than having spent my hard-earned money on something to have for a specific purpose only to find …
10 Basics For Your Armorer’s Kit Almost every prepper site talks about having a personal armory for the day when you must hunt for food and or protect yourself and your family from those who would take what you have or simply want to do harm. But they don’t talk about the fact that just …
Field Dressing a Deer Almost everyone who talks about post SHTF food sources refers to foraging, gardening, and hunting. Hunting is not a pretty thing to see or do. It’s not a far-off shot and that is it, you go home and feed your family this foreign food that magically appears after the gun shot. …
Field Dressing a Turkey Field dressing your prey after the hunt helps insure that as much as possible of your kill stays usable and makes it much easier to pack out of the woods and back to your home or camp. In a SHTF scenario many who don’t currently hunt may have no choice but …
Why Have a Survival Cache? Even if You Plan to Bug In There is always a lot of banter on prepping, homesteading, and survival sites about survival caches. Most of the time the talk revolves around having a cache or two along the way from your home to your bug out location and/or between your workplace and …
Beating the Ammo Shortage (2 links) There are a lot of concerns during normal times about the availability of ammunition. What is it going to be like after a long term SHTF event? Will it come to a time when you are hunting for dinner and not have enough ammo to do so? Or could …
DIY Laser Assisted Blowgun First the required warning: Blowguns are not toys; they are weapons and should be treated as such. Children should never handle them without adult supervision. Blowguns can cause serious injury, so please only use with caution. The video below shows a DIY blowgun being built and with the added use of …
