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Repacking Some Core Preps for Portability, Ease of Use, Care Packaging, and Rotation

Repacking Some Core Preps for Portability, Ease of Use, Care Packaging, and Rotation

We talk an awful lot about how to rotate your canned, jarred, and oth­er preps for fresh­ness.  We also talk a lot about stor­age, how to store, what to store, etc.  Yes­ter­day, I under­took a small job of repack­ing some of my “basic” preps.  What are some of my most basic…

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The Becker BK 2 Knife

The Becker BK 2 Knife

The Beck­er BK2 by Ka-Bar. I’ve had this knife for sev­er­al months, and keep for­get­ting to write a review of it. So, here it is… In hind­sight, I remem­ber pulling this knife out of the box… My first impres­sion was how heavy it was. My sec­ond impres­sion was how thick…

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Prepper Evangelical

Prepper Evangelical

I read ST’s post from last week and start­ed think­ing about how to con­vert peo­ple to our pre­pared­ness mind­set. To be frank, I think it is almost impos­si­ble to change peo­ple’s ideas on just about any sub­ject. Their opin­ions have been formed over count­less hours of…

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The Interesting Road to Actually Bugging Out, Thoughts During a Mandatory Evacuation

The Interesting Road to Actually Bugging Out, Thoughts During a Mandatory Evacuation

Yes­ter­day, I received an email, and text mes­sage from the local emer­gency sys­tem I was signed up for.  The may­or of my town, and the coun­ty, I believe, insti­tut­ed a manda­to­ry evac­u­a­tion of homes due to flood­ing from the Pas­sa­ic Riv­er.  As I got the text and email, I…

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