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Back in 2016, the organizer for a local church’s senior citizen ministry approached me regarding a program she wanted someone to present on family emergency preparedness. In the two previous years our area experienced a “thousand-year flood” and the wind effects from a passing hurricane. Several of the seniors had requested a speaker who could help them think through steps that could be taken to minimize the impacts of another storm or similar short-term disaster. This article is a summary of what that presentation has become after multiple iterations over the past ten years. My hope in sharing is that…

(Continued from Part 1.) The next topic is water. I begin with the low hanging fruit of having water stored at all times. It hurts my soul to thoughtlessly parrot the “one gallon per person per day minimum” tripe we have all heard so many times. My recommendation is to store no less than three gallons per person per day or ten gallons each. I follow this up by encouraging each family set a goal of having a five-gallon water jug set aside for last minute filling for each person. For those who lament storage space, I recommend the collapsible…

On January 9th, 1580, Francis Drake‘s ship the Golden Hind struck a reef off the Celebes islands. It fortuitously slipped off the reef at high tide the next day and sailed onward to Java, and then around the Cape of Good Hope and back to Plymouth, England. — January 9, 1839: Louis Daguerre demonstrated his ‘daguerreotype‘ photographic process to the French Academy of Sciences. — The 20th Anniversary SurvivalBlog 2005-2025 Waterproof/EMP-Resistant Archive USB sticks are selling rapidly, in pre-ordering.  The limited number of them packaged in steel keepsake tins have nearly sold out.  Orders should start to be mailed in the…

Brent Wheat and Roy Huntington take a sharp left turn from their planned topic to address a growing frustration in the shooting community: the toxicity of internet gun forums. The post Why Gun Forums Push New Shooters Away appeared first on GUNS Magazine. Read the full article here

In this era, if you use the term “Heavy Browning,” many people will assume you are referring to the .50-cal. Browning M2 machine gun. While that is technically correct, Browning’s massive .50-cal. design is truly in a category of its own. Call it semantics, but in the first half of the 20th century, the term “Heavy Browning” referred to the .30 -cal. M1917 water-cooled machine gun.  In early 1918, there were two Browning machine gun designs being prepared for service: the Browning Automatic Rifle and the tripod-mounted M1917. While the nearly 20-pound M1918 BAR may have been heavy for a…

The victim of a New Year’s Day mountain lion attack on the Colorado Front Range has been identified as Kristen Marie Kovatch—a 46-year-old woman from Fort Collins.Kovatch was hiking by herself on Crosier Mountain Trail in Larimer County when the attack occurred sometime in the morning. Two other unrelated hikers found her lying dead in the trail around noon the same day, according to a Colorado Parks and Wildlife (CPW) press release, and threw rocks at a mountain lion still hanging around the victim to scare it away.One of the attending hikers happened to be a physician, CPW public information…

Taurus has launched the TX9 polymer-frame, striker-fired 9 mm family of handguns. This series of full-size, compact and subcompact pistols represents the next evolution of Taurus’s TX platform, formerly only available as the TX22 rimfire, but now in centerfire variants. Taurus delivers this new pistol as a reliable, professional-grade firearm purpose-built to perform when it matters most and deliver ultimate reliability, regardless of intended use. Becoming more and more familiar in the handgun world, the TX9 uses a serialized chassis as the fire-control group which allows a wide range of customization and optimization for the individual shooter. In addition to…

00:00:01 Speaker 1: Welcome to the Wired to Hunt Podcast, your guide to the White Tail Woods, presented by First Light, creating proven versatile hunting apparel for the stand, saddle or blind. First Light Go Farther, Stay Longer, and now your host, Mark Kenyon. 00:00:19 Speaker 2: Welcome to the Wired to Hunt Podcast. This week on the show, I’m joined by Michael Easter. He is the author of The Comfort Crisis and Scarcity Brain, and we’re discussing tangible ways we can add wildness back into our lives and the real impact that can have on our happiness, our outdoor…

00:00:00 Speaker 1: This is the one thousand dollars gym. We are going to do a one thousand dollars gym this week. Next week we will do a five thousand dollars gym. 00:00:06 Speaker 2: Yep. 00:00:07 Speaker 3: Should we do an intermediate like twenty five hundred or no? Now you’re either a thousand or you got you got some coin? 00:00:12 Speaker 2: Right? Five thousand and then ten thousand, ten thousand. 00:00:16 Speaker 4: That’s practically an unlimited budget. 00:00:17 Speaker 3: Ten thousands, ten thousand you can do for yourself. 00:00:21 Speaker 5: Yes, ten thousand.…