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Review of Ron Hood’s Urban Master DVD “Away From Home”

As many of you know, I do a lot of traveling for work.  In fact, one of my concerns is always security and possible SHTF when I travel.  I don’t think there can be a much worse situation than being without any of the gear you are familiar with than when the SHTF and you […]

Review of Ron Hood’s Urban Master Volume 1, The Home

After it sitting on my shelf of a couple of months, I slipped Ron Hood’s DVD on Urban Survival in the DVD player this weekend.   In the first volume Ron discusses Urban Survival tactics for the following categories: Home Away from Home Threats to Your Person Urban Skills Recovery

Lone Wolf or Survivalist Group?

As many of the readers know, I have joined a meetup.com group for preparedness.  I joined for a couple of reasons.  First, as a “lone wolf” I was looking to connect with like minded people to hopefully teach and learn from them.  The second reason I joined, admittedly, was to possibly become part of a […]

Ultra Light Weight Shelter for Your Bug Out Bag

As I start to prepare my gear for my Bug Out Weekend, and I re-evaluate what is in my Bug Out Bag, I may be looking to replace or eliminate some gear if I think it is redundant.  This is the first time I am really taking a “harder” look at my Bug Out Bag. […]

The Design of a Bug Out Weekend Gear Test

I joined, not too long ago, a preparedness meetup group in Northern NJ. There seem to be only a few of us that are regulars and show up once a month to the meeting.  There are various other members of the group that may make it depending on their schedules or not.  One of the […]

Storing Your Bug Out Gear in the City

When I worked in NYC (post 9/11), I was always wondering how I was going to store any type of gear to get me across two rivers into NJ to my apartment, so I could bug in or bug out if the SHTF and the bridges and tunnels were shut down.  I decided on, but […]

Bugging In and Bugging Out Podcasts at Chip Monk

Last week the Chip Monk Family Survival Podcast had two podcasts on bugging in and bugging out.  Thought I would share them here: Bugging Out:  http://chipmonk.podbean.com/2010/09/20/episode-62-buggin-out/ Some interesting concepts in his thoughts on this podcast… Bugging In:  http://chipmonk.podbean.com/2010/09/21/episode-63-and-buggin-in/

How Do You Classify a SHTF Event?

I tend to think a lot when I have a little down time.  I was on the plane for work this week and it hit me, that I am not sure h0w I would classify what type of an event and how severe it was before I were going to bug out or bug in. […]

Do You Live In a Constitution Free Zone

I sure don’t.  Wondering what a “Constitution Free Zone” is?  So was I until about an hour ago. A Constitution Free Zone is the area “within “100-miles of the US land and coastal borders.” Airports are also in these zones, regardless of their geographic location. According to 2007 figures from the US Census Bureau, 197.4 […]