Surplus Rifles
As one of my previous articles shared, I love the Mosin -Nagant surplus rifles. The Mosin is not my only surplus rifle. I also have a good collection of Carl Gustavs Swedish Mausers in 6.5x55SE. I must confess theses are my favorite rifles. The 6.5x55SE is a fairly easy load that I or my wife […]
Reality check – Part 2: Hunting In A Post-SHTF World
Hunting in the forest or field for meat is a common theme in survival/prepping. Many preppers are already active sport hunters. Either as a supplement to limited commercial meat supplies or as the main or sole source of meat, the expectation to be able to hunt animals is a corner stone of many survival plans. […]
Reality check – Part 1: Farming/Growing Your Own Food
Every survival/prepping website and book has some section on growing your own food during a SHTF event. There are ads for seed companies showing a person pushing a shopping cart down isles of empty supermarket shelves and the caption reads something like “How are you going to feed your family?”. And even one of the […]
Pigeon? For Dinner?
Okay, I was in the car for about four hours today… I had some time to think… My mind started to wander, and the gears were spinning. I asked myself, if the S#!t has hit the fan while I was in Philadelphia, and I knew no one. If food supplies are low and I was […]
Reviews of the Henry Survival Rifle / AR-7
So a couple months ago I bought a Henry .22 Survival rifle. It is an interesting rifle that packs up into its own stock for storage. I’ve shot it a couple of times and have mixed feelings about it. It seems to do exactly what Henry said it would do, and the manufacturer stated you […]
Car preparedness, Part 3, hunting and fishing gear for your car kit.
First, I need to preface this post with I condone poaching for sport. If you are poaching to poach, then you deserve to get what is coming to you. However, if you are in a SHTF situation, then hunting to live or to save your life is another story, laws or not. That said, here […]