There are some hard times ahead for many of us, and we don’t know from one day to the next which of us the hard times may fall on. We don’t know if it will be tomorrow or next month or ten years from now. It doesn’t take an earthquake or other natural disaster to […]
Basic Firearms Part 4: Proper Sight Alignment or Sight Picture
Sight alignment is extremely important if you ever want to actually hit what you’re aiming at, and it’s really not that difficult to understand. In fact, you can teach your children as young as 4 or 5 years old about sight picture. Here’s how it works. Most every gun has a rear sight and a […]
Emergency School Backpack Survival Kit Thoughts
Suppose something catastrophic happened while your kids were at school. They are there a good part of the day, right? Unless you home school which would solve this little dilemma for you. But the majority of us send our kids off to school somewhere every weekday. We already have a plan in place with the […]
7 Special Survival and Preparedness Situations
There are a number of situations for which you may need to alter the “standard” preparedness information you read or learn. Not every piece of survival advice applies to every family or each individual, and some can even be dangerous in certain situations. Here’s a list of 7 of the more common “kinks in the […]
A Trip to the Range with the Kids
My husband needed to sight in his muzzleloader for the hunt, so we took a trip to the range this weekend. Packed all the kids and the gear and the guns in the car and headed to an actual range. Usually we just go shoot at the hill outside of town, but for sighting in […]
Be Prepared . . . To Help Others
When we are prepared it saves us from a lot of troubles we might otherwise encounter. But one of the added benefits of being prepared is the increased ability to be of help to others. Yep, the “other” people who are in some way less prepared than we are oftentimes need a little assistance. You […]
A Couple of New Books I’m Checking Out
Got a hold of a couple of new books I’m excited about. The first I’m borrowing from a friend. It is Dinner Is In The Jar: Quick and Easy Dinner Mixes in Mason Jars or Mylar Bags by Kathy Clark. The book has 30 recipes using mainly dehydrated/dry/food storage ingredients. The ingredients for each recipe […]
Thrift Store Oil Lamps
I really enjoy browsing the thrift stores for preparedness supplies. I’m usually there looking for something else specifically, but it never hurts to browse the “miscellaneous” section or the camping/outdoor gear or look for canning jars or candles. Sometimes I don’t find anything, but sometimes I do. The last couple of times I’ve gone, I’ve […]
Tattler Reusable Canning Lids
We do a lot of canning here. And the thought has always followed that in an emergency situation, canning things would be impossible without a good supply of canning lids. The jars and rings can be re-used, but the lids are supposedly a one time use deal. So we stock canning lids in the food […]
Family Survival Training with Airsoft
Today we have a special guest post from John Durfee. I’m not experienced with airsoft much and he’s got some real good ideas here. Thanks, John. Enjoy :) Family Survival Training You’ve been watching him from your post for about ten minutes now. Your ingenious buddies knew of an old deer stand, which has made […]