I was listening to the Survivalist Prepper podcast the other day and he was interviewing Matthew Stein about the threat of an EMP. Here's the podcasts if you'd like to listen: EMP’s, CME’s and Nuclear Meltdown With Matthew Stein and EMP’s, CME’s and Nuclear Meltdown With Matthew Stein Part 2. Matt Stein has done a lot of... Continue Reading →
A Brief History of Prepping
In the not-so-distant past growing, processing, and storing vegetables and grains, raising animals, and hunting was how we survived. Sometimes we had to pick up a spear, sword, musket, or whatever we had for weapons at the time and fight off people who wanted our land and food, or to kill our families. A Brief... Continue Reading →
Creating a Bug-Out or Bug-In Plan
You've looked around at the state of the world today and decided you don't like the way things are looking. You're researching web sites that give you all kinds of conflicting information about what to do and what not to do. Some advise you to bug-out, others advise you to bug-in. Who's right? Here's the... Continue Reading →
Ten Common Prepper Fails
TEN COMMON PREPPER FAILS Being successful at prepping is a lot more difficult than most people think. In fact, the failure rate for fully prepared survivalists is pretty high on a deployment level. This is nothing to be ashamed about, because nobody ever said that life itself was going to be easy. Prepping effectively just... Continue Reading →
A Frank Discussion About Prepping
If you're reading this the chances are good you've given some thought to SHTF events and how you'll get you and your family through a myriad of possible events. In my mind the biggest question is: "Are we prepping for nothing?" Is there really a chance society could collapse and cause a SHTF event of... Continue Reading →
The Main Reason To Prep
Why is that you spend so much time prepping? You stock food, water, guns and ammo, items to barter, first aid supplies, and some even store nails, boards, tools, and so on. You know that society could collapse at any moment, or that a solar flare could send us back to the stone age, or... Continue Reading →
Peurto Rico Aftermath – It’ll Get Worse Before It Gets Better
In case you've been on vacation at the bottom of the ocean with no Internet connection, two ridiculously big storms recently ran over Puerto Rico like a steamroller. In the aftermath people are stuck without electricity - likely for months. In case you missed that let me say it again. They will be without electricity... Continue Reading →