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Survival at Sea, 51 Days

Anoth­er sur­vival sto­ry, attrib­uted most­ly to luck. A crew­man on a com­mer­cial tuna-fish­ing boat was the first to spot it: some­thing shiny and metal­lic in the water off the ship’s bow. The crew­man alert­ed the nav­i­ga­tor, and the 280-foot San Niku­nau slight­ly altered…

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An SKS Transformation

An SKS Transformation

Well, I was sit­ting around a cou­ple weeks ago, clean­ing one of my rifles when I took a close look at her and thought that I might want to give her a new look.  Basi­cal­ly replace the stock.  My issue, how­ev­er was that being in NJ, I have to keep her NJ legal, which…

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“Store what you eat, eat what you store”

In the sur­vival­ist and prep­per com­mu­ni­ty, this is a mantra often repeat­ed. Like any mantra or sim­pli­fied rule of thumb, it serves its pur­pose up to the point. While hav­ing sim­ple rules to fol­low is often a good thing, the dev­il is in the details. For me, this sim­ple…

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Different Story, Different Result

I not­ed pre­vi­ous­ly that a lady sur­vived 49 days in the wilder­ness of Neva­da. Today, I read a sto­ry of a man who was trapped in Ore­gon and died after approx­i­mate­ly 60 days. McDon­ald, 68, liked to camp. While he did­n’t have a lot of food, he had gal­lon jugs of water, a…

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Saturday Videos

Indi­vid­ual First Aid Kit httpv://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JxnrT9OemqM NYC / Urban EDC Kit httpv://www.youtube.com/watch?v=n70GY-iz2N0 Eco­nom­ics: Does Wealth Evap­o­rate Or Is It Trans­ferred? — Mike Mal­oney of WealthCycles.com httpv://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Y‑OYs92coa0…

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