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5 Bullet Saturday

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Hello, folks, instead of the usual what did you do to prep this week I thought that I would mix it up a bit this week with a 5 bullet Saturday instead. I got the idea from Tim Ferris.

What I’m reading —

I’ve been reading several things this week including old issues of American Survival Guide and Backwoods Home Magazine as well as The Book of Mysteries by Jonathan Cahn. This has to be one of the most interesting books that I’ve read. Once you start reading it it’s almost impossible to stop… even to eat or sleep, it’s that good.

Purchase I’m enjoying —

Besides reading The Book of Mysteries, I’ve also been enjoying shooting my new Chief’s Elite Slingbow – this thing is awesome! It’s super fun to shoot and is far more powerful than I thought it would be and it’s plenty powerful enough to take down deer at close range with a broadhead tipped arrow. The only downside that I’ve found is that it takes time and practice to learn how to shoot it accurately, but that could just be me. You might hit the bullseye with your first shot.

What I’m watching —

Old M*A*S*H reruns on TV and NatGeo – Electronic Armageddon on YouTube.

Most popular post on the blog —

How to Make Your Own Faraday Cage at Home (Quick, Easy, Effective!) Lot’s of search traffic this week to that article, apparently people are really worried about an EMP attack from North Korea or China. A couple of readers have emailed me suggesting that the EMP could come from China with China making it appear as if North Korea carried out the attack. A false flag.

Our full list of EMP related articles can be found here…

Quote, I’m pondering —

“I am always doing that which I cannot do, in order that I may learn how to do it.”

– Pablo Picasso

Okay, over to you. What’s your five bullet points for the week? Or what did you do to prep this week? Whatever you want to share in the comments below is up to you. Have fun.

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Wandering The Wasteland After The Collapse

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I was reading another survival blog when the age-old Semi versus Bolt gun argument came up.”Our character is out wandering around after the Apocalypse ( Wastelands: Stories of the Apocalypse ) and is attacked by dogs. He gallantly fought them off with his SKS. And made the comment that he would have been dead if he had only carried a bolt-action.”

I wrote the Dog attack 3 articles series back in 1999 first published on Captain Dave Survival site. The basic concept was that today people love their dogs so much they would not put them down and let them go. The end result would be huge dog packs attacking and killing people. Since then many writers have put this in books and articles, one guy even used pictures of snares from my website for his article without giving me credit for it. Since I know for a fact I was the first one to explain using snares as a defense against dog packs. The best defense to protect your garden and livestock or game animals would be snared. I would have 10 dozens coyote grade snares.

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Indivisible: With Justice for Some by Troy Grice

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They were laughing at her.

Maiden Lane was an Assistant to the Secretary of the Treasury but in addition to that, she was a woman of high-percentile physical attractiveness. A slender, tightly-curved woman of forty-five—a glimmering Venus—she illuminated the otherwise murky cosmos of grim bankers.

Ms. Lane had made her sacrifices to the gods of vanity performing self-flagellating penance on hotel elliptical machines at four a.m. almost every morning for nearly twenty years. Her high firm features and smoothly-defined legs were accentuated by a wardrobe of tight-fitting business suits—black, thigh-length business suits.

She often pondered all those women she had passed along the way up the career ladder. She pitied those androgynous trolls, as she referred to them, mocking how they sheathed their swords of sensuality in scabbards of shaggy uni-brows and general frumpiness. Losers, she regarded them.

Maiden, or Mae for short, had no regrets about wielding her aesthetic weapons. You have to think like a winner in order to win, she reminded herself in her rare moments of doubt. Never project weakness. Never go on the defensive. Never pull a punch. A woman must use everything she’s got if she wants to reach the capstone. It’s a man-eat-man world.

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First Aid Kits, Medical Kits for the Disabled/and Normal Daily Prepper

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What you need to have and what you should have…

First Aid Kits or Medical Kits are absolutely essential to you and your families continued survival in any situation. Quite simply, without a medical kit and the knowledge how to use it, you will succumb eventually, certainly water, shelter, food, and fire are important. However, without a medical kit, especially individuals with young children, older individuals and physically or mentally disabled individuals are doomed to an agonizing death.

When I put together my medical kits (yes I have many of them) I do so intentionally looking at worse case scenarios. A few quick rules that you should incorporate into your medical kit building.

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What did you do to prep this week?

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Best Survival Guns Handguns, Shotguns and Rifles for the Survivalist and Prepper

Wow, it’s hard to believe that it’s already been a full week since our last segment.

It seems like the older that I get the faster the hours, days, weeks, months, and years slip away. I often lie down at night and try to sleep but my mind takes me back to times past and I find myself wondering how it all went by so rapidly and left me with only misty memories to hold onto as I grow into old age.

Soon I’ll pass by the mirror and glance at an old man whose best days are in the past and days in the future uncertain.

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