Endless Fall – Part 6: Trouble Comes For Dinner (Alternate Ending)

by ST | Dec 6, 2011 | Civil Unrest, Economy, Food, Guest Posts, Guns & Weapons, Levels of Awareness, Preparedness, suburban survival, Urban Survival

Note: The fol­low­ing is the sixth install­ment of a series that rep­re­sents a first-hand chron­i­cle of a fic­tion­al eco­nom­ic col­lapse in the Unit­ed States. This series is to be viewed as only one pos­si­ble sce­nario. Con­tains explic­it lan­guage.   May... Read more

One Step Closer, National Right-to-Carry Reciprocity Act, Passes the House

by suburban | Nov 17, 2011 | Guns & Weapons

U.S. House Pass­es NRA-backed Nation­al Right-to-Car­ry Reci­procity Leg­is­la­tion The U.S. House of Rep­re­sen­ta­tives has passed an impor­tant self-defense mea­sure that would enable mil­lions of Right-to-Car­ry per­mit hold­ers across the coun­try to car­ry... Read more

Book Review: Surviving the Economic Collapse

by Prepperjim | Nov 9, 2011 | Barter, Books, Civil Unrest, Crime, Economy, first aid, Gold and Silver, Guns & Weapons, Health, Knives, Levels of Awareness, Physical Fitness, Psychology

I recent­ly heard of a man called Fer­nan­do “Fer­fal” Aguirre from Jack Spirko over at The Sur­vival Pod­cast. Fer­fal is from Argenti­na and has lived through their eco­nom­ic crash from Decem­ber 2001 until today. He wrote a booked about his expe­ri­ence... Read more

A Prepper Ammunition Discussion

by suburban | Nov 3, 2011 | Guns & Weapons

The oth­er night at din­ner we got talk­ing about ammu­ni­tion caches… We dis­cussed at a high leve what we thought every­one should have (per­son­al­ly speak­ing, of course).  One of the guys brought up JWR’s guide to ammo stor­age.  As you may or may not... Read more

And Then There Was a Dinner Meeting

by suburban | Oct 31, 2011 | Bug In, Bug Out, Bug Out Location, Cooking, Guns & Weapons, Personal, Preparedness, Prepping, Self Reliance, suburban survival, Urban Survival

Last week, I had din­ner with three oth­er prep­pers.  One was new, and the two oth­ers I have been in touch with for some time.  We all live in North­ern NJ, and are con­cerned with the econ­o­my, job growth, Bug­ging In, Bug­ging Out, etc.  The... Read more

Carbines, Shotguns, Rifles, and The New Prepper, Part Two, Contributed by Cameron Green of GAPPNJ.COM

by suburban | Sep 29, 2011 | Guns & Weapons, Preparedness

This is the sec­ond install­ment in a series of papers to edu­cate the new prep­per about what weapons they should have on hand.  I’m approach­ing this from a SHTF sce­nario, and while I’m not advo­cat­ing using any firearm in an offen­sive man­ner, I stress that... Read more