Bare Minimum Gear You Should Have at Your Bug Out Location
So, after having a conversation with a couple of preppers this week, I decided to put together a list of gear in no particular order around what you should have at your Bug Out Location. Recently I have been chatting with a lot of people around this, and it seems to me that while your […]
Prepper Jim’s Goals
I previously wrote that the beginning of any prepping plan is goals. That is, what is it you are actually trying to accomplish? In other words, you must have SMART goals. SMART stands for Specific, Measurable, Achievable, Realistic and Time Bound. So, at the beginning of 2011, I sat down and really thought about what […]
The High Level Plan to Preparedness
Well, after last evening’s interview with Doctor Prepper, I thought I would write up a few thoughts on planning for your preparedness goals. This will probably appeal to novice preppers, but it got me thinking about a few points of discussion around how to get the ball rolling and keep your head on straight at the same […]
Prepper Jim’s Pocket EDC
“You know you are a prepper if it takes five minutes to load your pockets each time you leave the house.” The subject of gear seems to be of great interest to the prepper community so I will address my gear-related items from time-to-time. I have come to think that gear cannot solve all problems, […]
What I Did First, by PrepperJim
I am going to preface PrepperJim’s post today with a brief statement, and say that I really personally enjoyed this post, as it let me know that I was not alone in making my own mistakes. Making mistakes is how many of us learn, especially when we have no one else to bounce our […]
Introducing Guest Blogger “Prepper Jim”
Please welcome Prepper Jim as a guest blogger… He will be providing some great information from time to time, and I look forward to his posts here… So without further hesitation, please let me introduce, “Prepper Jim.” Hi everyone. Please allow me to introduce myself. My “handle” out there on the anonymous Interwebs is PrepperJim. […]
Saturday Videos
Part One – Preparing and Survival in the City httpv://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TWsSwmVfpqM Part Two – Preparing and Survival in the City httpv://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CnadqzyV8PI Part Three – Preparing and Survival in the City httpv://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BSmAGkFE-EQ Part Four – Preparing for Survival in the City httpv://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZgDl7SVAJLw Beans, Bullets, & Band-aids httpv://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lLRZyU0zs0g Five Easy Survival Food Preps httpv://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fx3E3O57hz8
‘Suburban’s” Take on Sharing Your Gear, Supplies, and Food With Others
Over the past couple of weeks a reader and someone I correspond with via email wrote a couple of posts for the blog that have had some good comments associated with them regarding ethics and gear. You can find them here if you have not read them: The Case for Non-lethal Defense Share and Share […]
Understanding Everyone In the City Will Be a Refugee Post SHTF
Not often spoken of, I think in the survivalist or prepper circle, is how to avoid becoming a refugee post SHTF. We talk a lot about prepping, we talk a lot about bugging out or bugging in, but we never really talk about the situation where we do find ourselves shut off from our gear […]
Wow, What a Week. A few Updates, a Passed Up Savage, and More…
Well, what a week it has been. The crazy news, the weather here in the northeast, work is crazy, and the weekend is going to be about catching up and be just as nuts. Currently, I am in the process of reading a book by Scott B. Williams called “Astray of the Herd: Observations, Commentaries, […]