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What did you do to prep this week?

Last updated on September 9, 2017 By M.D. Creekmore 312 Comments

Wow, what a temperature change in TN! We’ve gone from the upper 90’s for daytime temperatures to the 70’s and upper 40’s at night. I woke up this morning with cold feet and sinus drainage that felt like it was going to choke me to death before I could get up and get it cleared. As […]

How to Handle Dental Emergencies In Survival Situations

Last updated on September 8, 2017 By Contributor 19 Comments

Medical preparedness is an important part of surviving a disaster scenario and, indeed, many believe that they can handle any emergency if the grid goes down. For those who are trained to stabilize and transport, that may be true for typical injuries due to trauma. The true survival medic, however, is the end of the line for medical care, not a way-station to a modern medical facility.

That means long-term care. I often encounter folks who believe that they’re medically prepared, and they are, for a disaster that means a few days or even weeks without power. There are issues that crop up after months or longer off the grid; some of those are dental issues.

If you’ve spent a day at work with a toothache, you know that you weren’t at 100% efficiency, which is where you need to be in a survival situation. The medic needs to be able to handle dental emergencies as well as medical ones.

Protecting Electronics and Cars from an EMP (Simple, Easy, and Effective)

Last updated on September 6, 2017 By Contributor 54 Comments

Perhaps the question that I’m asked most often regarding EMP Attacks is how to protect various types of electronic equipment. The answer is that it depends on what you’re trying to protect. Small items, such as radios, cell phones, LED flashlights, etc. can be stored in homemade Faraday cages. To learn how to build one using aluminum foil, check out my article How to Make Your Own Faraday Cage at Home (Quick, Easy, Effective!).

How To Prepare For and Survive a Nuclear War

Last updated on September 4, 2017 By Contributor 43 Comments

With this week’s claimed test of a hydrogen nuclear device, North Korea is one step closer to making good on its threat to nuke some portion of the USA or its territories. It is still not an imminent threat since North Korea apparently lacks the technology to build a warhead can withstand the extreme heat of high-speed reentry into the atmosphere—the last two missile warheads burned up on reentry.

Even more disturbing is that North Korea has long been suspected of being the “trigger event” for a third world war between Russia, China, and the United States. So, with President Trump threatening a military response, it’s time to take nuclear preparations seriously. That said, I do not think Russia and China are ready yet to take on the US in a full blown war (until into the next decade) so it is still possible that another Korean war may not cause Chinese and Russian intervention—though you should count on that as an absolute.

PODAVACH Multi-Platform AR15 & AK Magazine Loader: Weekly Product Review

Last updated on September 4, 2017 By Jesse Mathewson 13 Comments

How many magazines have you loaded by hand? A dozen, a few hundred, a few thousand? If you served in the military or as law enforcement, you have loaded hundreds of magazines at a bare minimum. Of all the magazines to load the AR15 / M16 magazines and or the AK magazines are by far the hardest to load.

Whether you load them to capacity or 28 rounds like I do, it takes up time and honestly makes your fingers and hands quite sore. You can use stripper clips, however, these sometimes cause more issues than they solve. In many cases, they are unreliable at best.

Podavach Multi-Platform AR15 & AK magazine loader is a truly classy product. It takes something that is mundane, blister causing and time-consuming and makes it into something that others will be begging to use. Get one for your unit, department or get one for that special someone in your life. All I can say is they really are amazing and built to last.

Prepping for a Major Hurricane (What Have I Overlooked?)

Last updated on September 4, 2017 By Bam Bam 163 Comments

Bam Bam

With Irma out in the Atlantic, I have been looking over my supplies. I know I don’t list a lot from week to week. I think that’s because I’ve reached a plateau of prepping—I don’t know what else I can do to prepare. But having watched the devastation in Texas I want to double check.

Here are the steps I have taken. I placed an order with Amazon.com for a water bob. I will pick up another 10 cases of water on Tuesday. I have a 60-gallon water barrel that I will fill up. We also have a Big Berkey.

We have plenty of canned food, MREs, plenty of ways to cook . . . We are on high ground. We have bleach. (We have a one year’s supply of food and I know how to cook with it.)

We have our meds stocked. We have a whole closet of medical supplies including antibiotics. I am thin on gauze and medical tape.

My dh changed the oil in the generator. If we need more fuel we will fill up gas cans on Tuesday. The generator is grounded and we have appropriate extension cords. (My dad was an electrician in the Navy and set up the genny.)

Self-defense is not a big issue—we’ve got two 12-gauge, two 9 mm, and lots of hunting rifles. The guy who lives across the street is Army Ranger—we’ve never talked self-sufficiency, weapons or the like but he’s got, kids. Duh.

I bought this property because it was on high ground. If I flood, the entire state is in trouble.

Question friends, what have I left out?

What did you do to prep this week?

Last updated on September 8, 2017 By M.D. Creekmore 309 Comments

You’ve probably not noticed but I spent most of the past few days making TheSurvivalistBlog.net more secure for you. Look up at the URL and if you’re using the Google Chrome web browser you’ll notice a lock icon before the site URL and the word “Secure” in green.

This means that the site is secure using https instead of http – read the explanation below from Instant SSL:

Hyper Text Transfer Protocol Secure (HTTPS) is the secure version of HTTP, the protocol over which data is sent between your browser and the website that you are connected to. The ‘S’ at the end of HTTPS stands for ‘Secure’. It means all communications between your browser and the website are encrypted.

It took me over 20 hours to get it working correctly and to do everything needed to avoid issues with Google and other search engines. Thankfully it all seems to be working correctly now and will be better and safer for you.

Over the past three months, I’ve been working hard to bring this blog up from being an outdated design from 2009 up to current design and safety standards. It’s been a lot of work but we’ve made it. The site looks good with modern web design features and security.

If you’re having any issues or have any suggestions then please email those to me…

Also, if you look over to the left sidebar and scroll down to “Other Great Sites” you’ll see that I’ve added some new links to that section. I’ll probably add five or so more links there so if you have any suggestions for links to add email those to me as well.

Okay, now what did I do to prep this week…

I received my order of three Tac-Mag Gun Magnets as well ass my orders of the Gun Storage Solutions Magazine Mount and Hyskore 6 Gun Modular Pistol Rack for my gun safe.

I also ordered the book Grow or Die: The Good Guide to Survival Gardening and finished reading Survival Theory: A Preparedness Guide and The Lost Ways.

Well, folks, that’s it for me this week… what about you? What did you do to prep this week?

Sustainable Vegetable Gardening Tips For Homesteaders and Preppers

Last updated on September 1, 2017 By Contributor 54 Comments

Everyone knows that you need to practice your gardening skills now before the world as we know it ends. However, how are you implementing that practice? Did you purchase your seedlings from a store? If you have bugs in your garden, do you reach for the Seven? If a plant dies, do you run to the store to get another one? Did you purchase commercial manure or garden soil to ‘plus up’ your soil this year?

As we all know, this isn’t sustainable. My idea of survival gardening is to take all necessary actions needed to overcome the need/desire to run to the store when I have a gardening problem. Running to the store won’t be possible when the world as we know it ends. Survival or sustainable gardening takes work (and planning), a bit of knowledge you may not currently have, and a different mindset. I propose a four prong approach for you to consider implementing.