As is usually the case with anything, the first step in choosing a rifle sling is to decide what you are going to use it for.
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When all hell breaks loose, are you doomed if you don’t have your full battle rattle on?
We can look at what is most likely to occur in the near future and our lifetimes, and use that information to help us decide where to focus our time, efforts and resources.
It’s the kind of thing in between our normal, everyday life and an actual major disaster that just doesn’t get prepared for all that often.
If you have the tooling, settle for the basics and shop wisely, you should be able to bring this in under $50
I was looking around for more prepper and survival gear the other day and often readers ask for gear recommendations so I wanted to give you this list of the best-selling prepper gear but with a twist.
Happily, there are some things that can be salvaged for free or found at very low cost that make a world’s worth of difference.
Not only do the masses USUALLY get things right in aggregate, but it can make your life easier in the long run to just go with the crowd.
The true solution is to have many copies of your important data stored locally, updated frequently, and maintained in a Faraday cage in case of an EMP attack.
It has been on my list of things I should probably know how to do and when my stepfather, who keeps bees, brought me seven pounds of beeswax from his hives, I thought the time was right.
Even with some small, modest beds, there are a few tools like hooked three-prong hand cultivators or a small spade that come in handy.
We look at what is needed to get the firearm functional. In particular, we will concentrate on the AR-15 style rifles and pistols.
I was taught to think about preparedness for disasters. I came away from the class with the knowledge that I was in the dark when it came to being prepared for a disaster.
That means adding to the long lists of things we need to do, buy and plan for should our worlds fall apart on either a small scale or a large scale.
This isn’t an article about which guns to buy, it is merely my personal thoughts on why two weapons have advantages over others.
When we’re ready to delve into long-term disaster planning, water needs to be a focus. Without water, and a backup plan for water, all the rest of our preparations become null and void.
A survival situation can occur not only from nefarious individuals/governments, but also from natural disasters such as earthquakes, tornados, and hurricanes.
In part two, after some final thoughts on tools, we’ll look at knowledge and skills needed in gunsmithing.
Your emergency bag is just as important as the supplies inside it, so pay close attention to what you are buying.
When a disaster happens, you don’t have time to start thinking about survival supplies you need. You need to be prepared and function on autopilot
You can do it on your own firearms without any problem, and you might be able to do it for friends and family, especially if you don’t get paid for it.
Below are some of the wilderness safety tips women can put in place to be safe. Some of the tips revolve around things women may have been doing before, in preparation, not while faced with danger.
As mentioned, no serial number is required by Federal law or regulation on your self-manufactured firearm. But, rightly or wrongly, firearms without serial numbers are looked at with suspicion.
If things are bad enough that you need a survival kit, I’d want something substantially better.
Whether somebody’s looking at a long-term, widespread, nation-altering event and wants the sustainable source of materials, bamboo has a lot to offer us.
I realized early in my survival career that fishing was one of the best ways to get calories when your body was craving for food.
Building your own firearms may be a pain, unless you like doing mechanical things like that, and might well cost you more than just buying the thing ready-made.
One thing that can help is to simplify the shopping list. In some case it’s about paring it down. In other cases, it’s about finding multi-purpose items.
For us it was the combination of hearing about the increasing devastation of more natural disasters in the U.S. and abroad, and seeing how many people lost their jobs and homes during the economic recession.
If we evacuate, we need to evacuate our animals.