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(Continued from Part 4.) 3 – Growing Food When Lives Depend On It In addition to industrial-scale emergency forging, growing food should be started ASAP by the local community after most T2Es.This is the 2nd Tactic. 2nd Tactic: As early as possible in an emergency start a neighborhood/community-wide food growing effort that aims to swiftly create a calorie surplus. The calorie density and volume of garden/farm crops is much higher than most foraged food sources. As mentioned earlier, if we do not have sufficient local water resources don’t try this. We will fail. Crops need lots of water to grow…

On October 24, 1836, the earliest American patent was issued for a phosphorus friction match to Alonzo Dwight Phillips of Springfield, Massachusetts — October 24th is the anniversary of the firing squad execution of Norwegian traitor Vidkun Quisling, in 1945. His ignominious place in history was to have his surname become a noun. “Quisling” is now a moniker synonymous with treason and alliance with an invading army. — And on October 24, 1946, a camera on board the V-2 No. 13 rocket launched from White Sands, New Mexico captured the first photograph of Earth from outer space. — SurvivalBlog Writing…

I am continually amazed how the .22 Long Rifle has resisted replacement over the course of its astonishing 138-year history. No other cartridge has even come close, and there have been attempts.Most recently, in 2004, Hornady released what was touted at the time as the “heir apparent” to the old double-deuce: the 17 Hornady Mach 2 (HM2).The 17 Mach 2 uses a .22 LR case (a Stinger case, to be exact) and necks it down to accept a .17-caliber bullet. The result is a faster, flatter shooting small game cartridge capable of picking a squirrel off a tree branch at…

00:00:00 Speaker 1: Every hunter knows that the wilderness is full of surprises. Sometimes what you find out there isn’t an elk or a bear, it’s something darker. 00:00:15 Speaker 2: They never made sense what law enforcement was saying to us. How could she have just gone down there and accidentally died? How could there have been no marks on her? 00:00:26 Speaker 3: All theories are out there, you know, everything from murder to ufollows to Bigfoot. 00:00:31 Speaker 1: This season on Blood Trails were following the trail of seven cases that start in the field and…