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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif; font-size: large;">Below is a great YouTube video that shows how to suture up a wound.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: large;">As ISIS continues to move into Europe and Asiatic countries, they will gain access to materials that emit ionizing radiation. Aging nuclear power plants, aging missiles, and radioactive dumps all pose a threat to our health and well being without even being in the hands of an enemy nation or terrorist group.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: large;">That's why you need a reliable means to detect nuclear radiation on a routine basis, and you can even build yourself such a device, as an alternative to store bough Geiger counters.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: large;">Here's what you need to know about different ways to build an ionizing radiation detector and how much it will cost to operate and maintain the equipment.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: large;">Ionizing radiation comes in 5 basic forms. For the sake of simplicity, it is easiest to rate them by what they can and cannot pass through. Ideally, you should be able to detect at least alpha and gamma rays, as they span the range of particles you would need to be most concerned about as someone trying to survive a nuclear event.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: large;">Alpha carries the least amount of energy. It can be stopped by a sheet of paper. These particles are still very dangerous if swallowed or inhaled. Even alpha particles are the easiest to stop, they are also some of the hardest forms of ionizing radiation to detect. Typically, it will take a conventional Geiger counter to detect alpha particles. There are some DIY explorers that claim they are able to detect this form of radiation with modified photo diodes and transistors.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: large;">These particles carry more energy than Alpha particles. They can be stopped by aluminum foil, thin boards of wood, and other fairly lightweight material. Beta particles can also be very dangerous if swallowed or inhaled. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: large;">You are more than likely familiar with these particles because they are routinely used in medical imaging studies. As with other forms of ionizing radiation, they are derived from unstable atoms that break apart and release rays of energy. X-rays cannot penetrate bone or thicker metal plates.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: large;">Typically, even the thickness of most metal pendants is enough to stop X-rays from passing through. Some talcum powders and other body powders can also stop a good percentage of X-rays from passing into the body.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: large;">Of all the radiation types that can be released by a nuclear power plant, a nuclear bomb, or from nuclear waste, gamma rays are the most dangerous. They carry a good bit of power and can only be stopped by lead, iron, or other metal shields. Gamma rays can be detected readily enough by photo diodes and other alternative ionizing radiation detectors.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: large;">Worst comes to worst, this is the form of radiation you should be most concerned with detecting. If you know there is gamma radiation present, and can track the changes in the amount, then you can estimate when beta and alpha particles will also be gone.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: large;">Since this is one of the three main parts of an atom, it is also one of the most dangerous because other atoms can absorb it and become unstable. Once the host atom becomes unstable, it can also release radiation, or become “radioactive”. Neutrons can only be stopped by large amounts of water, concrete, or other substances that contain a large amount of hydrogen.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: large;">Bear in mind, however, these substances will also become unstable and release radiation to some extent. Overall, it is not easy to detect neutrons. Fortunately, relatively few are released from an atomic explosion when compared to other particles.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: large;">Modern electronics has made a lot of advances in terms of changing from vacuum tube based technologies to solid state devices. Some forms of ionizing radiation still require a vacuum tube and high voltages.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: large;">While a Geiger counter is still the most reliable device for detecting the widest range of radiation types, it can be very expensive to make.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: large;">The vacuum tube can be damaged by incorrect voltages, or need to be replaced for other reasons. Since this is also the most expensive part of the detector, it is fairly easy to see why most people don't try to build, let alone maintain a conventional Geiger counter for use on a routine basis. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: large;">Building a Geiger counter with Arduino isn't so different from building anything else. You will need to start with a main board and then add the appropriate sensors and output devices. With Arduino you have the choice of using a gas tube like a regular geiger counter, or you can use a solid state version.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: large;">Build the tube version (choose a dosimeter/geiger counter kit that has the LCD shield and tube bundled with it) and keep it on hand for situations where you suspect there is a need for detecting all particles emitted by a nuclear event. You may also be able to use conventional tubes that weren't originally designed for use with an Arduino board. Just make sure that you know their voltage requirements and how to test if they actually work.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: large;">You can also build the version that relies on a solid state sensor. This one is sturdier and uses less power. You can simply set up nuclear watch stations that report around the clock. I would also recommend adding an additional board to the Arduino main board that will accommodate a memory chip.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: large;">This will enable you record sampling data around the clock so that you can upload it to your computer and compare it over time. As you learn what the normal radiation levels are in your area, you can always set the sensor to beep or give some other type of alarm when the levels are too high.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: large;">You can also try adding an wireless remote system or even one that will report directly to your smart phone. If you live near a nuclear power plant, or any other area that houses any kind of radioactive material, it is very important to have these kinds of records so that you have a better sense of what is going on around you.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: large;">For an even simpler and cheaper option, you can purchase a solid state radiation sensor that will plug into the sound jack on your cell phone. As with Geiger counter tubes, there are a few different models available. Take some time to study the apps that control them so that you can find one that meets your sampling and data recording needs.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: large;">Of all the ways to detect radiation, the Kearny Fallout Meter (KFM) is one of the cheapest and simplest. If you don't know how to maintain the meter, it can produce some unreliable results. In order to make this meter, you only need some tin foil, a tin can, some paper, charging wires, and a means to give a static charge to the foil leaves. Make a Gamma Radiation Detector Using a Photo Diode</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: large;">Making a radiation detector using a photo diode will cost about the same as using an Arduino kit. The advantage to building it using this method is you will have complete control of all the parts. Once you have the main elements figured out, you can also look for ways to convert from solid state parts to ones that will better withstand an EMP.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: large;">If you choose a sensor to add to your cell phone, it will only cost around $30.00, while a good Arduino system may cost as much as $150.00. Building your own conventional Geiger counter could cost several hundred dollars by the time you purchase the tube, build the power supply and other supporting parts.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: large;">There are some down and dirty ways to build a radiation detector for under $10.00 with items from around your house. While there are several videos and DIY forms that claim these radiation detectors work, it may be hard to test that out and get viable answer.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: large;">Unlike the Kearny Fallout Meter that has a long history of validation, other forms of tin can radiation detectors may or may not work as described.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: large;">To start off, you will need a metal can (soda cans work well) with an interior that conducts electricity; some tin foil, a 4.7K ohm resistor, some wire, a 9 volt battery and attachment clip, a multi-meter, and an NPN transistor. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: large;">You can also use any transistor that is over 1.0 K ohm. If you are scavenging for parts, or included them in your bug out gear, variable resistors may also be good to start with. Since this meter is highly susceptible to false readings caused by electromagnetic fields (even if you move around or change body position, the meter numbers will change), you may be find a different resistor setting works for different occasions. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: large;">Next, drill a hole in the center of the bottom of the can. Pull the leads of the transistor apart so that they do not touch each other. Solder some wire onto the collector and emitter leads. Make sure that the wires never touch each other or the can. Transistors can be shorted out very easily if the leads cross or anything that extends from them. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: large;">Solder bare wire to the base lead of the transistor and then stick it through the hole that you drilled in the bottom of the can. The bare wire should reach to the opening of the can, but not touch the tin foil. The wire for the transistor emitter connects to the negative lead for the battery tester. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: large;">The other side of the diode connects to the positive lead on the multi-meter and the positive side of the battery. In order to reduce stray electromagnetic impulses from impacting the sensor, you will need to cover the open part of the can with tin foil.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: large;">To test the meter, you can try purchasing radioactive rocks. Just make sure you know how to store them properly so that you do not inadvertently wind up with radiation poisoning.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: large;">As with any other DIY project, you will need to experiment with different materials so that you are accustomed to seeing what sets the meter off and whether or not you need to be concerned about it.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: large;">In these challenging times, there are many ways and places where you and your loved ones may come into contact with ionized radiation. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: large;">If you want to limit your exposure, know when to bug out, or even know whether the area is contaminated, being able to test for radiation is very important.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: large;">While you may not be able to afford a conventional Geiger counter, there are several less expensive alternatives. This includes making your own Kearny Fallout Meter, as well as an ion detection chamber.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: large;">As you improve your skills with building electronic devices, you can try building a detector that uses a photo diode as the main sensor, or better yet, a detector that uses an Arduino board and compatible output devices.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: large;">This will make it much easier to be confident of your findings in both nuclear emergencies and situations where the truth about increased ion radiation levels in your area is being hidden from you.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: x-small;">[This article has been written by Carmela Tyrell for Survivopedia. ]</span><br />
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Urban Survival Skills received this question from BlackHat16: <i><span style="color: yellow;">"I want your opinion on reloading equipment. I want to buy, maybe spread out due to the cost, a reloading setup in case shit hits the fan I can reload ammunition as I believe it will be hard to come by. What versions of reloading equipment would you recommend and any other recommendations on equipment would be appreciated." </span></i><br />
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Mr BlackHat16, I would have to ask several questions before I get into reloading presses and ancillary equipment. Have you any experience in reloading? Do you plan on stocking reloading supplies, such as powder, primers and bullets? In a SHTF scenario, I would think that reloading supplies such as primers, powders and bullets would be as or more scarce than ammunition. <br />
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I think having reloading equipment and more important, the experience in reloading would be a good survival skill, in fact a mandatory skills, but much lower in priority that say, wilderness survival skills, farming and canning skills and others, simply because of the requirement of having the components - powder, primers and bullets, not to mention empty cases (brass). However, if all other survival material and equipment needs are met, having some reloading equipment would be a good idea.<br />
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Lyman hand press, single stage press, rotary (aka Progressive) presses could provide a capability, again given the components, to produce good quality ammunition, given the skill, and/or be a barter item in the coming crunch. If pushed, you could make a usable powder, re-manufacture spent primers and cast bullets, but you need some equipment, material and skill to do so. <br />
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I am NOT trying to dash your thoughts of getting reloading equipment just know that it can be overwhelming for a novice re-loader and most preppers may be better served using the required money to invest in ammunition, firearms or other higher priority survival equipment and items. All reloading presses or tools requires dies for that cartridge. Please go to YouTube and research reloading - plenty of people willing to help there. <br />
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A hand tool, such as the Lyman 310 hand-tool, is like a pliers type of re-loader and the cheapest route you can go. See the picture. You need the Lyman 310 and a set of dies for whatever caliber/cartridge you want to reload. The benefit in this method is the small, portable package. Go to Lyman Products to see their Lyman 310 and other reloading equipment.<br />
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A single stage reloading press like the RCBS Rock Chucker is a quality piece of equipment, not so portable!, but user friendly, just requires the changing out of dies for each step in the reloading process, so it's slow. See one of the RCBS single stage presses in the picture.<br />
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Going to the RCBS website and look at their equipment and kits is a good idea. <br />
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Likely the best reloading products come from Dillion Precision. Mike Dillon, the founder, just passed away this past November, but he left a legacy that won't be beat anytime soon. He revolutionized the reloading industry with his dynamic progressive presses which is about as automatic of a reloading setup as you can get. You can go to their website, but don't leave without requesting their Blue Press Catalog.<br />
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One overall good distributor of reloading equipment would be MidWay. They offer a lot of products and have good prices and service. Go to their site here: <br />
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Again reloading skills are good to have you can go to Sword of Survival and these videos to check out survival type reloading skills. Here are a couple links for survival ammo reloading:<br />
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http://www.swordofsurvival.com/2016/06/reload-209-primers-using-field.html<br />
http://www.swordofsurvival.com/2016/06/field-expedient-ammo-reloading.htmlCharliehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00177364539498093342noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4709268009452512912.post-2685694552734913542017-04-25T14:38:00.000-06:002017-04-25T14:38:10.883-06:00Is George Orwell's 1984 Coming True?<span style="font-size: large;"><i><br /></i></span>
<span style="font-size: large;"><i>" Here is a good article I just read. Its getting to get real...."</i></span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">In February 1937, an idealistic and ungainly Englishman in his thirties traveled to Spain to take his place in the trenches at the Aragón front to defend the Republic. His name was Eric Arthur Blair, remembered by history as George Orwell. This month, 80 years after the start of that adventure, Richard Blair, the writer’s only son, now a 72-year-old retired agricultural engineer, visited Huesca to take part in the opening of a major exhibition about his father.</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">Talking to EL PAÍS during his brief stopover in Madrid on his way back to London, Blair evoked the figure of Orwell and commented on the relevance of his legacy and the enormous interest in his final novel, 1984, which has become an international best-seller since Donald Trump became US president.</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">“It’s true that in recent weeks, with the references in the United States to ‘alternative facts’ [cited by Kellyanne Conway, one of the president’s top advisors], there has been increased interest in his book. But my father has never gone out of fashion.” The book was not so much a prophecy as a fable about Nazi and Stalinist totalitarianism, says Blair, although as he points out, some details from the novel that once seemed like science fiction have been part of our everyday life for some time, such as security cameras that watch our movements, or what some companies know about us from our internet activity, or how we use our credit cards. “Society has evolved toward what he saw. The world is becoming Orwellian,” he says.</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">Blair is patron of the Orwell society, a not-for-profit organization dedicated to spreading knowledge about the life and work of the writer, as well as debate about ideas, and that remains scrupulously neutral about politics. Which might explain why he is so careful in choosing his words when talking about Trump.</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">“I think that there is a lot of tension and compression in the White House right now. It is true that Trump is attacking the press, but he is a complete enigma, they are all maneuvering and learning to live with each other,” he says.</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">Nevertheless, he says he cannot help but be happy at the hike in sales of his father’s books, particularly as he inherited the publishing rights (“which expire in 2020,” he points out). But he recognizes concerns that this has been due to the public finding parallels between the current situation and the dystopia Orwell described.</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">Orwell and his wife Eileen adopted Richard in 1944. Ten months later, Eileen died on the operating table. Some of the friends of the tuberculous-stricken writer suggested that he give up custody of the child but he ruled out the possibility. The relationship between Orwell and his adopted son became closer when the two of them moved to the Scottish island of Jura, chosen because it was a healthier location for Orwell to overcome his illness and where it was so cold that “if you move six feet away from the fireplace, you freeze.”</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">Blair’s memories from those days are of a loving father who made wooden toys, who had a strange sense of humor, and whose parenting style had none of the political correctness of modern upbringings. On one occasion he allowed the three-year-old Richard to smoke from a pipe filled with tobacco collected from his cigarette butts. The result, aside from a vomiting fit, was that the child saw himself temporarily vaccinated against the vice of smoking.</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">It was on Jura that Orwell finished 1984, writing in his room during the day and spending the evenings with the child. One of their favorite activities was fishing, especially for the lobsters that filled out a diet otherwise made frugal by post-war rationing. One weekend in August 1947, however, on a journey back from a weekend of relaxation on the west side of Jura, their boat sank and they almost drowned. Blair says Orwell’s health suffered as a result. David Astor, owner of The Observer newspaper, which published the writer’s work, asked to be allowed import the newly discovered antibiotic streptomycin from the United States, with which he was treated between December 1947 and July 1948 in a hospital near Glasgow. But his efforts were in vain: Orwell developed an allergy to the medication. “His nails fell out and blisters appeared on his lips,” Richard recalls. The writer died in January 1950 at age of 46, when his son was about to celebrate his sixth birthday.</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">What is the most important lesson that Orwell taught us? For journalists, says Blair, there are many. “To be honest. The most important things are facts which can be corroborated, not reality as you want it to be. Journalists today do not have time to check facts, and errors are perpetuated and multiplied on the internet until they become true.” The writer’s son also recalls Orwell’s six rules for clear writing from his 1946 essay Politics and the English Language. “Never use a metaphor, simile or other figure of speech that you are used to seeing in print; Never use a long word where a short one will do; If it is possible to cut a word out, always cut it out; Never use the passive where you can use the active; Never use a foreign phrase, a scientific word or a jargon word if you can think of an everyday English equivalent; Break any of these rules sooner than say anything barbarous.”</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">Blair finished up with his father’s definition of liberty: “If liberty means anything at all it means the right to tell people what they do not want to hear.”</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">Blair is particularly concerned about the lack of dialogue in contemporary society. “All people do is shout at one another, without actually listening.” And he is surprised to see young people who, instead of speaking face to face, spend all day staring into their smartphones. “Even couples in restaurants! Are they communicating with each other via text messages?!” he jokes. And what would Orwell make of the 21st century, the era of the internet, great scientific advances and post-truth?</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">“Ah, now that’s the million-dollar question. But it’s impossible to get into anyone’s head. Nor to come up with the answer by reading his books. If he were still alive he would be 113, and would have had a lot of new influences… There’s no point in speculating.” As such, we don’t know, and we can’t know. But he does go as far as to assume one thing: whatever his thoughts, they would be characterized by common sense.</span><br />
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This article was first posted on El Pais<br />http://elpais.com/elpais/2017/02/21/inenglish/1487677236_774641.htmlCharliehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00177364539498093342noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4709268009452512912.post-58923331986231787842016-12-20T01:00:00.000-07:002016-12-20T01:00:09.147-07:00Dripping Survivalism to Neophytes<br />
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I was talking to a friend of mine this past weekend. He knows generally that I am a prepper but he does not know to what extent. He (we'll call him Bill) said that prior to the Presidential election he was concerned about the country falling in anarchy. So much in fact that he bought a gun. Bill told me he had inherited a 12 gauge "bird hunting' shotgun from his father, but never had plans to buy another gun until he got 'scared' - for his family and himself. So he went out and bought as Glock 9mm handgun. He didn't even know what model number.<br />
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Bill is some sort of a financial planner, trust funds or something, I really don't remember and could not give a shit less, but I could not pass up the opportunity to educate him and used that angle to get him thinking:<br />
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UrbanMan: Well Bill, having a gun, several guns in fact, are a good idea for protection especially when the security situation becomes worse, but you need training and well as have some ammunition stocked up for the time when it gets scarce. Ammunition, as well as food, batteries, water, etc., will be the first to fly off the shelves - and before it flies off the shelves the price will raise dramatically.<br />
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Bill: I guess you are right. I have a box of 50 bullets for the Glock.<br />
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UrbanMan: Bill, if I were you I would buy another 150 or 200 rounds of ammunition and continue to buy at least a box a month until he have 1,000 rounds minimum. Plus you need to have some 12 gauge bird shot and buck shot, as well as some slug shotgun shells also.<br />
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Bill: That's a lot of ammo! Do you really think I need that much? Although you are right about the shotgun. I don't have any ammunition for that.<br />
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UrbanMan: Yes, you need plenty of ammunition. You don't want to wait until you need it. At that point it will be expensive, maybe very hard to find and you will expose your safety going to gun shops trying to find it. Go buy two boxes of bird shot, which would be 50 shot shells, five boxes of 00 buckshot (total of 25 rounds) and two boxes of one ounce slugs (10 rounds). Buy a couple boxes of each, every month until you have two to three hundred of each load. Get an old Army metal ammunition can and keep it in your closet. It won't take up much room and it'll give you peace of mind.<br />
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Bill: I don;t know. That's a lot of money.<br />
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UrbanMan: Jesus Bill, you make a lot of money, so stop buying beer or ice cream or movie tickets of whatever else you don't need every week and invest in your survival insurance. Also what are you going to do if the banks close or the dollar tanks or the ATM stops working or the government says you can only withdraw $100 a day and food prices go up 1000%.<br />
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Bill: Well, I think we'll have more problems than money if that happens.<br />
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UrbanMan: That's right, hence the guns. And the food you have stocked up in your pantry and garage. And the safe place you have a plan to get to rather than staying in the suburbs.<br />
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Bill: I am really uncomfortable planning on the world to collapse.<br />
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UrbanMan: Uncomfortable? How about not being able to protect or feed your family? That in my book would be a lot more uncomfortable. All I am suggesting is a modicum of planning and preparation. You deal in the financial world. Is diversification of investments generally a good thing?<br />
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Bill: Generally, it is. You don't want to have all your assets in one area, say stock funds.<br />
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UrbanMan: Well, consider a little prepping as diversification of your survival portfolio. Do you track the precious metals exchange?<br />
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Bill: Yes, I have clients who own gold and silver stocks. And come to think of it, I do field questions from existing clients on adding that to their portfolios. I really don;t recommend too much resources devoted to that investment.<br />
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UrbanMan: You are talking about 'paper' gold and silver, which will do you no good if everything collapses. You should think about buying at least some silver each month and put it away as a hedge if the dollar collapse or hyper inflation hits. Silver is about $16.75 an ounce right now, but if you research it, you'll see that U.S. silver production is declining significantly over the past couple of months and expected to decline further. So solely as an investment I'll think you see silver increasingly around $3 to $5 an ounce within the next three months. Just a few months ago it was around $21 an ounce and remember it wasn't too long ago when silver hit $48 an ounce.<br />
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Bill: You may be right, but the precious metals market changes from time to time under forces we never fully understand,...everything from price manipulation to large purchases by various countries.<br />
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UrbanMan: Exactly. That's why you need to protect yourself. I am not advocating an 180 degree change in your financial planning or monthly spending. I am just talking about small changes, re-directional really, that plug holes in your ability to survive.<br />
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Bill: Okay. Well I'll think about it.<br />
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UrbanMan: Ok, you think about it. In the meantime, I'm going to send you some website and recommended reading. Don't be the dumb ass left out.Charliehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00177364539498093342noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4709268009452512912.post-7788975093647039042016-12-15T16:17:00.000-07:002016-12-15T16:17:27.285-07:00Benefits of Honey<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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Recently I had a cancerous tumor removed from one of my dogs. It was on surface of the ear and it left a nasty wound. I was surprised when the Vet had me change the dressing every day with a non-stick pad coated with all natural honey. My Vet said it would heal the wound as good or better than anything they could give me.<br />
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So I was interested when I saw this article from HealthMixer on the "35 Amazing Benefits of All-Natural Honey". I hope you will too. Oh, by the way, my Dog's wound healed quickly and nicely!<br />
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Honey offers a wide range of trace minerals that are necessary for the body’s proper functioning. It is an anti-bacterial that can help with constipation and calcium absorption. When one endeavors to study the benefits of honey, it is completely believable that a list surpassing 75 elements can be achieved. We chose to narrow that list down to include the 35 benefits we found most amazing. And, we can’t wait for you to read # 25!<br />
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Honey is nature’s best kept medicine. Your ancestors probably found more value in it than you have ever even considered. But that’s ok, because we’re here to bring all that back! Check out these amazing benefits:<br />
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#1 Cough & Sore Throat. Honey is a phenomenal cough suppressant. In fact, according to Penn State College of Medicine (2012), it was deemed a better option for children’s coughs than any available over-the-counter option! Honey soothes on contact and stimulates saliva, which may be the reason it is so effective in coughs and sore throats.<br />
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#2 Wounds & Burns. In a 2015 issue of Contemporary Nurse, honey was labeled a better burn treatment than the ordinarily prescribed silver. This is because honey has more antibacterial properties. And, it has no toxic effects on skin.<br />
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#3 Arthritis. Manuka honey appears to be useful due to its anti-inflammatory properties. The inflammation experienced in bouts of arthritis is relieved, as is the pain. To experience this benefit, try mixing 2 tablespoons of Manuka honey with 1 teaspoon of ground cinnamon in a cup of warm green tea.<br />
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#4 Insomnia & Fatigue. Honey has been labeled a super-food. Sleep induction occurs with increased levels of tryptophan and serotonin. Honey includes tryptophan. Honey raises the blood sugar, slightly. That rise in insulin, causes tryptophan to enter the brain where it is converted into serotonin. When dark, serotonin converts to melatonin which aids in sleep. Take two tablespoons of honey each night to aid in alleviating your symptoms of insomnia and fatigue.<br />
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#5 Acid Reflux & Heartburn. A mix of apple cider vinegar and honey can help reduce your acid reflux and heartburn troubles. We know it seems counterintuitive, but it is theorized that the cider vinegar and honey mix helps to balance out the pH in the gut. Plus, they are both anti-bacterial agents that can help fight off any bacterial issues that are causing the problems. Try 2 teaspoons each of honey and apple cider vinegar in water or warm tea.<br />
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#6 Seasonal Allergies & Asthma. Eating local honey can act like a localized vaccination against those things in the environment that are triggering your allergies. Try to get honey that has been collected near your home so that the same flowers and weeds will have been utilized in its production.<br />
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#7 Warts & Acne. Apply honey to warts and cover with a Band-Aid. Repeat the process until the warts disappear. The same is true about acne, although Band-Aids are not necessary. Allow the honey to remain on the problem areas for fifteen minutes and then rinse off. Please make sure that you are using all-natural, raw, unprocessed, preferably organic honey.<br />
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#8 Yeast Infections. A piece in Future Microbiology (2014) declared that honey was an effective treatment for yeast infections. If you want to try this out, mix one tablespoon of plain, unsweetened yogurt, with two tablespoons of raw honey. Apply this mixture to the infected area externally and internally. Allow it to remain in place for ten minutes. Wash after application. Consider it a honey douche and look for improvement within a few days, if you use it twice a day as recommended.<br />
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#9 Weight Loss & Poor Metabolism. Honey contains 22 amino acids that can aid in boosting metabolism. And, increased metabolism means decreased fat! Consider drinking lemon juice with a little honey each morning to get your metabolism started on the right foot. Honey can potentially fuel the liver and ease stress hormones to aid in weight loss as well.<br />
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#10 Helps Prevent Cancer and Heart Disease. Honey includes anti-tumor and carcinogen preventing properties. Honey’s natural anti-oxidant capabilities can help eliminate cancer causing free-radicals and improve the functioning of the immune system.<br />
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#11 Energy Booster. Honey naturally provides carbohydrates that provide energy. As such, honey is considered an effective way to improve energy and prevent fatigue. Don’t forget that the glucose in honey is a rapid energy creator and the fructose allows that energy to last. Before you workout, consider taking a spoonful of honey, and if you are feeling drained, spread some on toast or use it in your tea instead of sugar.<br />
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#12 Immune System Builder. Recall that honey has anti-bacterial and anti-oxidant properties. These help improve your digestive tract and can aid in the prevention of diseases. If you really want to help your body ward off infectious issues, try drinking a glass of water with lemon and honey each morning. Warm water is recommended here.<br />
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#13 Memory Booster. Restful sleep and the reduction of metabolic stress contribute to cognitive and memory functions. Honey offers both. At the University Of Babylon’s College of Medicine, a five year study was conducted that concluded honey had the ability to prevent dementia and cognitive decline.<br />
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#14 Face Mask. Honey is terrific for the skin. And, lots of people have been experimenting with its ability to provide a great rejuvenating face mask. Based on your skin type, you’ll have to add either: apple, avocado & egg, or egg, almond oil, and yogurt.<br />
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#15 Reduces Ulcers and Other Gastrointestinal Disorders. An ulcer is a lesion in the lining of the stomach. Imbalances in the digestive fluids are generally to blame. Although many are actually caused by h. pylori, a bacteria found in the gut. One tablespoon of raw honey (preferably Manuka) combined with a ¼ teaspoon of ground cinnamon, has been shown to offer considerable relief when taken daily.<br />
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#16 Lowers Cholesterol. Cholesterol comes in both good and bad forms. Honey is cholesterol free and is believed to be able to help keep cholesterol levels under control. Taking a honey and cinnamon mix regularly could lower the cholesterol in your blood thanks to its anti-oxidant properties.<br />
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#17 Low-libido. Honey is an aphrodisiac. It promotes testosterone in men and aids in estrogen usage in women. In fact, a study showed that three ounces of honey could increase levels of the arousal chemical, nitric oxide. Hippocrates prescribed honey for the purposes of sexual vigor and the induction of ecstasy, all the way back in 500 BC! He recommended that it be used as a sexual stimulant by combining it with pepper and ginger. Definitely something to think about before agreeing to take the little blue pill.<br />
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#18 Anxiety. A 2011 study, published in the Journal of Neurophysiology showed that animals that took larger doses of honey demonstrated significant reduction in anxious behaviors and were in better control of their own bodies. The consumption was a one-time deal. This showed that honey can relieve anxiety as quickly as one dose! That’s great news.<br />
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#19 Athlete’s Foot. Tinea pedis, or athlete’s foot, is a skin disorder and is caused by a parasitic fungus. You can use propolis (a natural bee product) or honey for treatment of this irritating issue. Rub the foot with honey at night and then cover with an old sock. Wash the dried honey off in the morning. Repeat until the problem has been resolved.<br />
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#20 Detoxifying Needs. Lemon and honey water are great detoxification providers. Try drinking a glass of honey and lemon in the morning on an empty stomach. You could also go on a honey water fast if you are really devoted to completing a truly detoxifying procedure<br />
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#21 Eczema & Rosacea. A persistent inflammation of the top layer of skin contributes to the symptomology known as eczema. Basically, the immune system is overreacting. There are three potential methods to deal with the issue:<br />
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•Apple honey and ground cinnamon applied to effected area<br />
•Warm water mixed with half a lime and a teaspoon of honey ingested every morning for several weeks<br />
•A glass of water combined with a teaspoon of honey and two tablespoons of apple cider vinegar taken three times a day, with meals<br />
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#22 Gum Disease. Honey is a great anti-microbial that can effectively treat gum disease even if it sounds counter intuitive to apply sweet stuff to your teeth. Honey can deter the growth of the bacteria that causes dental plague and can ultimately reduce its presence, according to a 2015 study. Manuka honey is the best resource as it has the highest levels of anti-microbials.<br />
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#23 Treats Dandruff & Other Scalp Problems. Crude honey is very powerful. The honey needs to be diluted in water and then rubbed into the scalp, specifically focusing on problem areas. Leave it in for three hours and then rinse it out with warm water. Do this every other day for 2 weeks. A study performing the same procedures revealed complete healing and even a decrease in hair loss.<br />
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#24 Hangovers. The fructose in honey has been shown to speed up the livers ability to oxidize alcohol. This makes honey a confirmed sobering agent with better results than coffee! Mix 15ml of honey with 70ml of all-natural yogurt and 80ml of orange juice for the best hangover relief you’ve ever tasted.<br />
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#25 Stress. Prescription medications are not your only answer for relieving stress. Honey’s nutrients can elicit a calming effect. If you add a decent amount of honey to your breakfast regimen, you might discover that the day’s stress has less of an impact on your emotional well-being.<br />
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#26 Workout Fuel. Honey is believed to have the ability to increase athletic performance. In fact, some people use it as an all-natural energy drink. Because there are only 17 grams of carbs in a tablespoon of honey, its fructose and glucose can act as a short-term source of energy.<br />
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#27 Regulates Blood Sugar. Although it seems highly unlikely that honey, a sugar, can regulate sugar, it is the balance of fructose and glucose that enables this anomaly to occur. The fructose in the honey sends the glucose straight to the liver where it becomes glycogen. This allows the major organs to function at optimal capacity and keeps the glucose out of the blood, which ultimately lowers blood sugar. Honey produces more liver glycogene than any other food based on per gram studies.<br />
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#28 Probiotic. Honey’s therapeutic properties are sometimes viewed as “mysterious.” But, it is the 4 species of Bifidobacterium and 6 species of lactobacilli found in different varieties of honey that contributes to its probiotic capabilities.<br />
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#29 Provides Nutrients. Honey includes an array of vitamins and nutrients in small doses. These vitamins and nutrients include: zinc, phosphorous, potassium, manganese, iron, copper, magnesium, riboflavin, calcium, niacin, and pantothenic acid. If you switch your sugars to honey, you will be getting nutrients with your calories!<br />
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#30 Potentially Prevents Low White Blood Cell Count. During chemotherapy sessions, 40 percent of patients who took therapeutic honey, at two teaspoons daily, relieved their bouts with low blood cell counts (neutropenia). This study was performed by the Mayo Clinic.<br />
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#31 Kills Antibiotic-Resistant Bacteria. Some research performed in doctors’ offices and hospitals has revealed that Honey can kill antibiotic resistant bacteria. Specifically, they found it worked on: Salmonella, E. coli, Pseudomonas aeruginosa, and Staphylococcus aureus.<br />
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#32 Honey for Herpes. Because Honey has been proven to provide great remedies for wounds, it is no wonder that it can assist in healing the sores associated with Herpes. It takes fluid from the wound and the sugar suppresses the growth of microorganisms. And, low levels of hydrogen peroxide are included in honey. Studies have shown that the topical use of honey is actually more effective than the prescription cream.<br />
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#33 Increases Calcium Absorption. When using a calcium supplement, research has shown that ingesting honey can aid in the absorption of the supplemental calcium. In fact, there is a 25% improvement rate when these are taken together. The raffinose, fructose, and glucose found in honey are given the credit for increasing the ability to absorb calcium.<br />
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#34 Increase Hemoglobin Count & Treat Anemia. Thanks to the iron, copper, and manganese found in raw dark honey, hemoglobin synthesis can be aided. Keep in mind that the darker the honey is, the better it is for you. Honey will also add that boost you need when dealing with anemia.<br />
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#35 Hair Conditioner. If you’ll create a mix of honey and olive oil, you will discover honey’s amazing ability to smooth and condition your hair. Plus, this is an all-natural method!<br />
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[source: www.healthymixer.com]Charliehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00177364539498093342noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4709268009452512912.post-72346276000707864682016-11-29T11:10:00.000-07:002016-11-29T11:10:36.925-07:00How To Make An Emergency Rope Horse Halter<div style="background-color: white; border: 0px; clear: both; color: #444444; font-family: "Open Sans", Arial, Verdana; font-size: 16px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-align: center; vertical-align: baseline;">
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<span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;">1. Start tying simple knots at the following
measurement points. Measurements are from knot to knot and do not include the
actual knot. Make sure the knot will stay put, but isn’t too tight as you’ll be
coming back to slip the rope through them later.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;">2. Measure 10″ from your Tie Loop. Attach this
point to the left nose knot. Then go another 10″ and tie into the right nose
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<span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;">3. In order to do a tie into a knot, you
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<span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;">4. After the over the nose piece, things get a
little complicated. Measure out 30″ more of rope and arrange your ropes in the
following pattern so it makes sense. Tie the 30″ into the throat latch knot.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;">5. Measure 10″ and tie into the right cheek
knot.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;">6. Cut the extra rope to match the length of
the poll tie. Then use a match to burn your ends. Most rope halters have the
two strings separate. I burnt mine together for convenience.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;">7. Grab the throat latch and under-nose pieces
and tie a knot with a loop hanging from it. This loop is where you’ll attach
your lead rope.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;">8. At this point, you need to try the halter
on your horse. The measurements above are all generic horse sized and won’t
work perfectly for every horse. Once it’s on your horse, you can determine what
lengths need to change.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;">9. You can see how terribly this fit at this
point. I ended up lengthening the over-the-nose- ropes and shortening the
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<span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;">OPTIONAL STEPS:<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;">10. You can add some braiding to the nose-band
if you want to. Start with 3′ of rope. Find the middle and slip the rope
through one of the nose knots.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;">11. Loop the added rope behind the original
over-the-nose pieces. Then cross them as you bring them through the middle of
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<span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;">12. Repeat the previous step continually until
you reach the knot on the other side of the over-the-nose pieces. Slip the
added rope through that knot and burn together to hold on place. The nose-band
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<span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;">At this point, your rope halter is finished.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;">Make sure to tie it correctly when you put it
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<span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;">DISCLAIMER: Rope halters can exert a lot more
pressure than a normal halter. Do NOT turn a horse out or leave a horse tied
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Charliehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00177364539498093342noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4709268009452512912.post-36536630544816059242016-11-24T12:53:00.001-07:002016-11-24T12:58:35.209-07:00Trapped In A Demonstration? What are your Self-Defense Options?<br />
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<i>[by Michael Wisdom, Senior Contributing Editor, Texas & U.S. Law Shield]</i><br />
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We’ve all seen the news reports of the mob scenes and riots across the country following recent police shootings and now the election. We feel that it is important that you understand your rights should you find yourself unintentionally caught up in such a situation where an angry mob blocks the roadway.</div>
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As a real-life example, we received a call to the emergency hotline from a member who was traveling and found himself and his family confronted by angry rioters in a major city out west. With the threatening mob descending upon his vehicle, the member turned around to make a hasty exit. However, as he was trying to get his family out of harm’s way, one screaming rioter charged toward the member’s car and was struck, landing on the hood before rolling off. Fortunately, the member and his family safely escaped the melee. <br />
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To figure out if the member’s act of running into a rioter was legal, we turned to Texas & U.S. Law Shield Independent Program Attorney Michele Byington with the question: Are you justified in hitting or “running over” someone in this scenario?<br />
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“The answer? It depends!” Byington said. “Don’t you hate that answer?”<br />
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Let’s look at whether an act of running down a rioter would be lawful as a justified act of self-defense. <br />
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To begin the analysis, she said we treat this situation just as we would any other use of deadly force in self-defense. Let’s start with some general concepts, and then analyze how the specifics of the law will apply in these scenarios. The concepts to focus on are imminence, reasonableness, and not being the aggressor. <br />
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<b><u>Imminence</u></b>. Prosecutors love to attack the imminence prong. Does a group of people blocking a roadway pose an imminent threat of death or serious bodily injury to you inside of the vehicle? Blocking a roadway, normally, cannot cause death or serious bodily injury to those inside the vehicle, much less pose an imminent or immediate threat. As a result, using a vehicle to “run them down,” or even to physically push them aside, is unlikely to be justified. However, if there is additional threatening conduct such as the protestors attempting to enter the vehicle, or say, charging toward you with a baseball bat, that is a completely different scenario. If you are placed in reasonable fear of imminent deadly force, you would be legally entitled to use deadly force in self-defense, including the use of your vehicle to neutralize the unlawful deadly force threat. <br />
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<b><u>Reasonableness</u></b>. What would be required to generate a reasonable fear of imminent death or serious bodily injury? The key here is that it doesn’t matter what your personal beliefs are if a jury would not believe that your fear was reasonable under the circumstances. There are extremes where your conduct will almost always be viewed as reasonable, such as attempts to set your car on fire or flip it over. On the other hand, under many circumstances, it will be extremely difficult to convince a jury that you acted reasonably if you use deadly force against protestors. One example would be injuring or attempting to injure a group of peaceful protestors who are merely blocking a roadway. If the protestors attempt, or reasonably appear to attempt, to forcibly enter blockaded vehicles, you will gain a presumption of reasonableness under the laws of many, but not all, states. You will also have a much better argument that you had reasonable grounds to fear an imminent attack with deadly force. Such conduct could include the smashing of windows or attempts to open doors. Also, you do not necessarily need to wait until the protestors have turned violent against your vehicle if you see it happening to someone else. Remember, you must have a reasonable belief from what you are seeing and hearing around you and not merely speculating about what might occur.” <br />
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Byington also noted, “Keep in mind, here in Texas, you may also use deadly force to protect a third party as long as you would be justified in using deadly force to protect yourself in that same situation.<br />
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If you intend to use your vehicle against a rioter, it will almost always constitute the use of deadly force – that is, force capable of causing death or serious bodily injury. Deadly force can be used in self-defense to the extent the force with which you are threatened also constitutes deadly force. In other words, deadly force can be met with deadly force, she said. If you are faced with anything less than deadly force, you will face an uphill battle in arguing that your actions were reasonable. To make matters worse, if you respond to a threat that is non-deadly in nature with unlawful deadly force, it would allow the other person to lawfully respond in kind with deadly force against you.<br />
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<b><u>Not the Aggressor</u></b>. Is the person seeking justification for the use of deadly force in self-defense a victim, or is he the aggressor? State laws may vary, but generally, the defense of justification is not available to the individual who starts the fight and does not stop to convey to the other person their intention to stop the aggression.<br />
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So, how might this apply in a protest or riot situation? Byington noted, “Say you are stuck for an hour in the middle of a protest and decide to ‘nudge’ one of these folks with your vehicle so that you can get out of the traffic snarl. If the otherwise peaceful protestor then becomes violent, and you use deadly force to protect yourself, a prosecutor, judge, or jury could easily argue that you were the initial aggressor. You may lose a number of legal protections, and on top of that, appear like the aggressor during the investigation or trial.<br />
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Suppose you yell out “Sorry! Didn’t mean to bump you, it won’t happen again!” If the other person continues the assault after having been informed of your intention to stop, at that point you may regain the right of self-defense, although the protestor will almost certainly argue that he/she could not hear you due to the noise of the protest.<br />
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<b>A Few Practical Tips</b>:<br />
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So, what should you do if you come across such a mob?<br />
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<b><u>STOP</u></b>. Don’t go any farther. Do whatever is necessary to change direction and get out of the area. If you are alert, hopefully you will see these masses of people far enough in advance so that you can completely avoid the situation, long before being surrounded.<br />
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Remember, you can’t legally run people over just because they are in the road. You may think the safest action to take in a situation like this is to keep moving, which may result in hitting people with your car to get them out of the way. That isn’t legal! It could easily be considered an aggravated assault, or worse! Even if people are illegally blocking the road, you will go to jail. It is that simple. Avoidance is key.<br />
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However, once the rioters attack you or attempt to enter the vehicle, the game changes, and your legal justification kicks in. With your vehicle surrounded so that you can’t escape and attackers trying to burn your car, flip it over, or attempt to drag you out of it, it is reasonable to assume that you will suffer imminent serious bodily injury or death. It is at this point you may use deadly force. In this moment of adrenaline and pure fear, you must keep your common sense. Do not get out and try to shoot your way out of the mob! You will quickly be overtaken and perhaps have your gun stripped from you. Instead, use your vehicle to get out of that situation by driving away from the surrounding rioters.<br />
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An additional point to remember is, should your vehicle come under attack, roll your windows down about half an inch. Experts say it is harder to break a window that is partly down than one that is fully closed. Turn off your ventilation system so you do not draw in any outside air in the event there is tear gas or smoke present. Further, if surrounded and moving slowly, you may want to take off your seat belt to allow a quick exit from the vehicle should it be overturned or set on fire.<br />
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“Once again, it is evident that your best course of action is to avoid these, often, pre-planned demonstrations altogether and drive away quickly should you come upon one,” she said.<br />
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The law is different in every state. For example, Texas has the “Castle Doctrine,” which gives a person the presumption of reasonableness if he or she uses deadly force against a person attempting to enter or entering their vehicle. Byington said, “It is a HUGE legal tool. Unfortunately, other states may not expand their Castle Doctrine to the vehicle [New Jersey]. With that in mind, I hope everyone can stay safe – and also stay legal! – if you find yourself in any protest or riot situation.”<br />
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To help Members in other states, we contacted U.S. Law Shield Independent Program Attorneys to get additional insights. Their comments appear below.<br />
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<b>COLORADO</b><br />
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Independent Program Attorney Doug Richards offered this explanation on Colorado’s the law on self-defense. In the book Colorado Gun Law: Armed And Educated, co-authored by Richards, Stanley Marks, and Christopher Ferrero, Richards points out that “a person is justified in using physical force upon another person in order to defend himself from what he reasonably believes to be the use or imminent use of unlawful physical force by that other person, and he may use a degree of force which he reasonably believes to be necessary for that purpose.<br />
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“Importantly,” Richards adds, “a person is not justified in using any degree of physical force if he provokes the other person into the use of unlawful force with the intent of using that as a justification to cause the other person bodily injury or death.<br />
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Richards also points out that “[D]eadly physical force may be used only if a person reasonably believes that a lesser degree of force is inadequate, and he has reasonable grounds to believe, and does believe, that he or another person is in imminent danger of being killed or of receiving great bodily injury.”<br />
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For more specific information on this and other Colorado gun laws, click the Colorado Gun Law: Armed And Educated book link at the bottom of this post to order your copy.<br />
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VIRGINIA</b><br />
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For the law on self-defense in Virginia, we turned to U.S. Law Shield of Virginia Independent Program Attorneys Mitchell Wells and W. Edward Riley of Riley & Wells. In the upcoming book, Virginia Gun Law: Armed And Educated, co-authored by Riley and Wells, they point out that a person caught in a demonstration that’s turning violent must reasonably fear that they are in imminent danger of suffering serious bodily injury or death to be justified in the use of deadly force. For more specific information on this and other Virginia gun laws, look for the upcoming announcement as to when Virginia Gun Law: Armed And Educated will be published and available.<br />
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<b>OKLAHOMA</b><br />
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Independent Program Attorney Robert Robles added “[T]hat the laws in Oklahoma regarding the use of deadly force in a self-defense situation are pretty well in line with the laws in the neighboring state to the south [Texas] and can be found in the Oklahoma Self-Defense Act, Title 21, Oklahoma Statutes, Section 1290.1, et seq.”<br />
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“In Oklahoma, the law gives the presumption that a person held a reasonable fear of imminent peril of death or great bodily harm and therefore deadly force was necessary, if it is used against an individual who was unlawfully or forcibly in the process of entering or entered into an occupied vehicle; or is attempting to forcibly remove another against his or her will from an occupied vehicle. Deadly force is also presumed to be justified to prevent the commission or attempted commission of forcible felonies including murder, burglary, carjacking, and home invasion robberies,” he said.<br />
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“Furthermore,” Robles added, “if people are present in any place where they have a right to be, they have no duty to retreat and have the right to meet force with force, including deadly force, if they reasonably believe that it is necessary to prevent death or great bodily harm to themselves or another, or to prevent the commission of a forcible felony.”<br />
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For more specific information on this and other Oklahoma gun laws, click the Oklahoma Gun Law: Armed And Educated book link at the bottom of this post to order your copy.<br />
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Independent Program Attorney Deborah Alessi summarized Missouri’s law as, “A person cannot use deadly force upon another person unless he or she reasonably believes that such deadly force is necessary to protect himself, or another against death, serious physical injury, or any forcible felony, and is used against a person who unlawfully enters, remains after unlawfully entering, or attempts to unlawfully enter a vehicle lawfully occupied by such person.”<br />
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Alessi added that “a person does not have the duty to retreat from their occupied vehicle before using deadly force under the circumstances described, and these laws can be found in RSMo Chapter 563 Defense of Justification, Section 563.0031.1.”<br />
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Independent Program Attorney Matt Kilgo expands upon the Texas law to explain how the law of self-defense would apply in Georgia under these circumstances.<br />
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<b><u>1. Innocence</u></b>. Is the person seeking justification for the use of deadly force in self-defense an innocent victim, or is he or she the instigator of the confrontation? In Georgia an individual may not claim as justified a use of force against another when he or she initially provokes the initial force as an excuse to commit an act of force; at any time when committing (or attempting to commit) or fleeing the commission of a felony; or anytime he or she was the initial aggressor in a situation or was engaged in mutual “combat by agreement”, unless or until withdrawing from combat and making that decision known to the other individual. See O.C.G.A. §16-13-21(b). If the other party continues an assault after having been informed of your intention to stop, then you may “reacquire” the right of self-defense.<br />
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<b><u>2. Imminence</u></b>. Does a group of people blocking the roadway pose an imminent threat of death or serious bodily harm to you inside your vehicle? Simply blocking a roadway cannot normally cause death or serious bodily harm to those inside a vehicle. As a result, using one’s vehicle to “run them down,” or even to physically push them aside, is unlikely to be legally justified unless there is some additional threatening conduct. But suppose the mob begins more direct threats or the use of actual force against you? If you are now placed in reasonable fear of an imminent deadly force attack, then you could be legally entitled to use deadly force in self-defense, including the use of your vehicle to neutralize the unlawful deadly force threat. Remember, the use of force is justified in Georgia when a party “reasonably believes that such threat or force is necessary to defend himself or herself or a third person against such other’s imminent use of unlawful force. . . .” Imminence is vitally important, especially when using a weapon as deadly as a car: the threat must be real and immediate.<br />
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<b><u>3. Proportionality</u></b>. Keep in mind, however— should you intend to use your vehicle against anyone— this will almost certainly constitute deadly force, that force “which is intended or likely to cause death or great bodily harm.” Deadly force may only be used to protect yourself or another person when “necessary to prevent death or great bodily injury. . . or to prevent the commission of a forcible felony.” O.C.G.A. §16-3-21(a). Should you respond to a threat that is non-deadly in nature with deadly force (or one that does not constitute a forcible felony, such as murder, rape, armed robbery, or aggravated assault; any felony that contains an element of force), it would allow the other person to respond in kind with deadly force against you. Additionally, you may be the one charged.<br />
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<b><u>4. Reasonableness</u></b>. What action would be required of a mob or any of its members to generate a fear of death or great bodily injury that justifies the use of a weapon like a car in the eyes of police, prosecutors, judges, and juries? If the protestors attempt (or reasonably appear to attempt) to forcibly enter your vehicle or the vehicle of others, this could certainly constitute reasonable grounds to fear an imminent deadly force attack. Such conduct would include the smashing of windows or attempts to force open doors. The same applies to attempts to set vehicles on fire, or to flip vehicles over. Generally, a defender need not necessarily wait until the protestors have turned violent against his particular vehicle: If members of a mob have begun threatening or using deadly force against other blockaded vehicles, it could be considered reasonable to believe your own vehicle is likely to be next — you are, after all, legally entitled to defend yourself not just against the danger already occurring to you but also against the danger that is about to occur, that is imminent. But you must draw a reasonable belief from actual evidence around you, not merely speculate what might happen.<br />
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Kilgo went on to add, “If you find yourself in a mob situation, remember, you can’t just run anyone over with your car. It’s best to just keep moving, which may result in your bumping people out of the way with your car. However, this may be considered battery on your part, which is a crime. You may be arrested if you strike someone with your car, absent a legitimate threat to your life or the life of others. So it’s best to avoid those situations.”<br />
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“Perhaps most importantly,” Kilgo went on to say, “familiarize yourself with Georgia’s laws on the use of force, as well as such important legal concepts as the ‘Castle Doctrine’ and Georgia’s stand your ground law. The law can and does protect you in situations such as this, but you must be aware of what your rights are. While your best course of action is to avoid these often pre-planned demonstrations altogether and drive away quickly should you come upon one, knowing what you may legally do to protect yourself and your family in such a situation is your best protection.”<br />
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Independent Program Attorneys David Katz and James Phillips offered this summary of the law regarding the use of deadly force in Florida.<br />
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“Under Florida Statute Chapter 776, Section 776.012(2),” says Katz, “A person is justified in using or threatening to use deadly force if he or she reasonably believes that using or threatening to use such force is necessary to prevent imminent death or great bodily harm to himself or herself or another or to prevent the imminent commission of a forcible felony.”<br />
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Phillips added, “If you use or threaten to use deadly force in accordance with this subsection, you do not have a duty to retreat and have the right to stand your ground, so long as you are not engaged in a criminal activity and are in a place where you have a right to be.”<br />
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“You are presumed to have held a reasonable fear of imminent peril of death or great bodily harm if the other person was in the process of unlawfully and forcefully entering, or had unlawfully and forcibly entered your occupied vehicle, or if that person had removed or was attempting to remove you against your will from your occupied vehicle,” Katz pointed out.<br />
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According to Independent Program Attorney Justine McShane, the law of self-defense in the Keystone State is similar to the law in Texas, but different in significant ways.<br />
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“The Pennsylvania self-defense statute provides that use of force is ‘justifiable when the actor believes that such force is immediately necessary for the purpose of protecting himself against the use of unlawful force by such other person on the present occasion.’ 18 Pa.C.S. § 505.”</div>
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<i><span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">This is an article on How to Build a Bug-Out Bag in 16 Easy Steps by Nick Oetken posted on SurvivalSullivan.com. The article serves to consider his opinions to double check your efforts and preparation on your own bug outs bags - you have one don't you? </span></i><br />
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<span style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue", Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">http://www.survivalsullivan.com/build-bug-bag-16-steps/</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><b>HOW TO BUILD A BUG OUT BAG IN 16 EASY STEPS</b></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Despite being one of the most popular and well known aspects of prepping, most bug out bags are still very poorly put together. Many times this is because the bags have been pre-made by stores, and are thrown together using items that are low quality and don’t take into account the unique situation of the buyer. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue", Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">The truth is that your bug out bag has to be designed for a unique scenario, and it can only be designed this way if it is put together by you. While it can be a daunting task to select the right backpack to be your bug out bag and then decide which items to put in it, this article will walk you through the 16 different steps you need to follow in order to build an effective bug out bag.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue", Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Before you even buy a backpack to be your bug out bag, you first have to consider what kind of situations your bug out bag is for and any special circumstances that exist.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Step #1: How Long Does It Have to Keep You Alive?</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Obviously your bug out bag has to be big enough to hold the items you need for an estimated amount of time. A good rule of thumb, and one that is repeated multiple times in the survival and prepping community, is for your bug out bag to have enough gear to keep you alive for at least three days (or seventy-two hours). A solid bug out bag, however, should have supplies you can stretch to last you at least five to six days.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue", Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Your planned duration, however, may be different. For example, if you’re planning to live long term out of your bug out bag, it’s going to need to contain more items and ways to create/purify food and water. You’ll need an inch bag for this. If you’re planning your bug out bag to be more of a get home bag or something that can get you from your car to your house, then it may be a little smaller and lighter.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">In the end, your estimated duration is what will most heavily influence the size of your bug out bag and the kinds and quantities of items that you’ll be holding within it.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">The location you are in also heavily influences what goes into your BOB. If you live in colder climates, then things like extra sets of warm clothing, fire starting materials, and shelter building items will take precedence. But if you live in warmer climates, then you’ll need to focus more on things such as water, purification tablets, sunscreen, and sunglasses.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue", Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Things can become tricky if you live in a location with extreme temperatures. For example, the Northwestern United States has very hot summers and very cold winters, and you may be seeking to build a standard bug out bag that you can grab and use no matter what. In this case, your bug out bag will need to keep you safe regardless of the situation you are in.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">In addition to weather and climate, consider geography and terrain. If you live somewhere with lots of rivers and lakes, it would be wise to include a complete fishing kit and waterproof everything, for example.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue", Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Step #3: What Type of Emergencies Could You Face?</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Many preppers recommend assembling different bug out bags for different emergencies, so ask yourself what specific kind of an emergency you have in mind before starting on your bug out bag. For example, are you mostly concerned about an economic collapse, a terrorist attack, or a natural disaster?</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">If you are assembling a bug out bag for an economic collapse, then you would want to include valuable possessions that can be used as bartering items, such as gold and silver, ammunition, and toilet paper. For social unrest, you would want your bug out bag to include things such as first aid/medical kits and defensive weapons. For natural disasters, food, water purification tablets, and a way to cook food would take precedence.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue", Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Step #4: Take Your Health into Account</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue", Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">This one is easily the most overlooked step in preparing a bug out bag. If you, or anybody in your family for that matter, have unique health conditions then you absolutely have to take it into account.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">If you’re in poor shape, then it would be wiser to build a lighter bug out bag. A heavier one would slow you down and cause you to over exert yourself. If a member of your family cannot walk well for long distances (or at all), then you’ll need to either include a stretcher or items to make a stretcher in your bag.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">If you have specific medical conditions that require medical prescriptions, you should include plenty of your medications in your bug out bag as well. Ultimately, medicine may end up proving more valuable than weapons.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">SELECTING THE BUG OUT BAG</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">At this point, you have decided what the purpose of your bug out bag is and have taken all unique conditions related to you and your environment in mind. These factors will be what most heavily influence the type of bug out bag you select.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Many bug out bags will claim to hold the same capacity, but they can’t all hold the same amount or type of gear due to the amount of compartments they have and the design of the bag.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Regardless of your bug out bag’s volume, it should contain MANY compartments of large and small sizes. More compartments not only allow for improved organization; it also means that your bag can hold more gear. In addition, all compartments and the pack itself should be easy to close securely with either Velcro or zippers.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue", Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">If you want your bug out bag to get you through one day, it should have a volume of up to forty liters. A bag to keep you alive for three days will need a capacity of around sixty. A bag made to keep you alive for a week will need at least a ninety-liter capacity.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">You will have to decide between light and heavy, and specifically internal and external frames, for your bug out bag. Between the two, internal frames have a hidden frame located on the inside of the pack. They cannot hold as much weight but they are more flexible and will position most of the weight of the pack on your hip rather than your shoulders. They are more than suitable for the standard three-day bug out bag, and they also permit faster movement through the forest because they don’t have an external frame to get hung up on branches and thorns.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">External frames are stronger and heavier, and as the name suggests the pack is supported by a visible frame on the outside. External frame backpacks are also almost always larger than internal framed bags, meaning you can attach more heavy duty gear such as tents. If you want a ninety-liter or more bug out bag designed to last more than week, the external frame is the better choice.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Finally, and this one should go without saying, your chosen pack MUST absolutely be top quality. Things to check for include waterproof/water resistant materials, the zippers and Velcro all working without mishaps, and thick, sturdy, adjustable straps.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Our next series of steps are going to focus on the fun part of bug out bag building: deciding what to put in it!</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue", Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Water is essential for your survival, but it is also heavy. Regardless of how much you manage to store in your bug out bag, you probably won’t have enough water. For this reason, your bug out bag should always include ways to purify water found in nature, so it is safe to drink.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Purification tablets and portable water filters are your two best options in this case because they are effective, lightweight, and don’t take up too much room. You should also have a small canteen cup and fire starting materials on hand so you can boil water too.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Fire will provide you with warmth, comfort, security, and the ability to cook food. You should have many different types of fire starters in your bug out bag, from matches to lighters to magnesium flint strikers.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">In addition, have emergency fire kindling in your bug out bag so that you can quickly start a fire on the go. The best choice for this is cotton balls that have been soaked in vaseline, but as an alternative, you can carry dryer lint soaked in alcohol and stuffed into a cardboard toilet paper roll or prepare a fire bundle made out of twigs and moss.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Keep everything pertaining to fire in your fire-starting kit in a waterproof container such as a waterproof pouch, an airtight plastic container or a Ziploc bag.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue", Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Shelter is what will protect you from the natural elements in a survival situation. Two person tents are best recommended for this task. In extreme weather conditions, your life can be in danger after just 3-hours of exposure to the elements so good shelter is a priority.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">As an alternative, you can include items that allow you to forge a makeshift shelter. Examples include rope, space blankets, a tarp, and a poncho. In addition, don’t forget to include insulation material, such as trash bags or polyethylene foam.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Step #11: Extra Clothing</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue", Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Rather than including a full change of clothes, just include specific clothing items in your bug out bag: a hat, extra pair of socks, gloves, and a bandana. Keep all your clothes in Ziplocs to avoid getting them wet.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue", Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Additional weapons that also serve as tools, that you would be wise to include are a hatchet/tomahawk, a handsaw, and/or a machete.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue", Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Hand tools such as a multi-tool, screwdrivers, wire cutters, an Allen wrench, hammer and nails, and a pair of pliers are not as essential as the above tools, but they are still worth considering.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Every single one of your bug out bags should have medical items, and you should know how to use them without question. Absolutely include standard first aid equipment such as bandages, gauze pads, aspirin tablets, hand sanitizer, medical gloves, tape, tweezers, and tourniquets, but also remember to keep your personal health in mind. If you have any prescription medications like we talked about before, now is the time to include them. If you have asthma, there should be at least one if not two inhalers in your bag.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">When it comes to putting things in the bug out bag, personal hygiene is what many people often tend to overlook. Nonetheless, it’s still very important and necessary for your health. Keep soap, toothpaste and a tooth brush, chap stick, and a roll of toilet paper in your bag at the bare minimum.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Even though you can last weeks without food, you’ll feel a dramatic drainage of energy if you go just one day without it. For this reason, include compact foods that are high in proteins, carbs, and calories, and that have a high shelf life. Examples include protein bars and freeze dried foods or pemmican.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">In the same way that you need to have a means to procure water and make it safe, you need a way to gather more food as well. Have fishing equipment on hand, in addition to several materials to make traps and snares. Store a small book on edible and medicinal plants in your bag as well as fire starting materials so you can cook any food that you catch or forage.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue", Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Step #16: Navigation and Communication</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">The critical need for maps truly cannot be given enough attention. Have maps in your bug out bag that both show the general area and specific locations, alternative routes and roads. You can easily find these kinds of maps at grocery stores and gas stations. You can include a GPS if you want, but there’s no guarantee that it will always pick up a signal, so at least include maps a backup.</span><br />
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<br />Charliehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00177364539498093342noreply@blogger.com3tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4709268009452512912.post-4648831732589969182016-11-11T01:00:00.000-07:002016-11-24T12:18:51.705-07:00Survival Preparation - Medical Skills: Treating Gun Shot Wounds<iframe allowfullscreen="" frameborder="0" height="320" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/po2iLU4Ur9w" title="YouTube video player" width="430"></iframe>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4709268009452512912.post-26170561476026186012016-11-06T01:00:00.000-06:002016-11-06T01:00:16.814-06:00Bugging Out: Why Americans are giving up citizenship in record numbers<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;"><br /></span>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;">Some of you are considering a pre-collapse Bug Out or a Bug Out just as the collapse appears to be unfolding and heading out of this country. Many people are doing it now to avoid taxes. Consider this article if you are going to do so in order to save money and position yourself in a better position to ride out or survive the collapse. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;">The prospect of mogul Donald Trump sitting in the Oval Office has driven celebrities and common folk alike to contemplate moving to Canada — or any other country that is not America. Actress Lena Dunham is interested. Samuel L. Jackson is considering South Africa. Jon Stewart wants to leave the entire planet. Google reported a spike in searches for “move to Canada” after the Donald swept the Super Tuesday primaries in March. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;">And indeed, government statistics show record numbers of people are renouncing their U.S. citizenship. But it’s not Trump that has persuaded them to go. It’s taxes.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;">The IRS publishes the names of each American who gives up his or her citizenship. The list comes out every three months, and international tax lawyer Andrew Mitchel has tallied them up. In the first quarter of this year, 1,158 people expatriated — more than 10 times the number in the first quarter of 2008, when Mitchel began his count. Last year, a record 4,279 people renounced their citizenship.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;">Expatriation's</span><span style="font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: large;"> have grown steadily since 2008 but began to spike in 2013. That timing undermines the theory that Trump is responsible. (Back then, he was busy suing talk-show host and comedian Bill Maher for calling him the spawn of an orangutan.) But the increase dovetails with the implementation of new federal reporting requirements and penalties for assets held overseas by U.S. citizens.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;">The rules were passed back in 2010 as part of legislation intended to encourage businesses to hire more employees and jump-start the nation’s economic recovery. Attached to the law was a provision called the Foreign Account Tax Compliance Act (FATCA) that was supposed to “detect, deter and discourage” tax evasion through offshore bank accounts. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: large;">The law requires foreign banks to report whether their clients are U.S. citizens. The penalty for not complying is stiff: a 30 percent withholding from the proceeds of the bank's financial transactions in the United States. That has caused plenty of consternation among foreign firms, some of which have reportedly closed accounts belonging to Americans as a result.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;">The regulations also created new filing requirements for individuals with assets overseas and increased the fines for missing a form. The penalty for failing to file is $10,000 per form. The consequences are even steeper for intentionally not filing a document known as the Report of Foreign Bank and Financial Accounts, which could result in a fine of $100,000 or 50 percent of what’s in the bank account — whichever is greater.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;">Mitchel said that many of his clients have been paying taxes in the country where they live now and may not have bothered filing a U.S. return. Most countries in the world expect you to pay taxes only when you live inside their borders. But two nations — the United States and Eritrea — require its citizens to pay taxes on income while living in other countries. And Mitchel said it’s not just the very wealthy who are chafing under the new regulations. Many of his clients are moderate-income households and retirees living overseas who find navigating the morass of requirements more trouble than it is worth.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;">Mitchel described one client who plans to retire soon in Australia, where he will not have to pay any taxes on the pension he has built up after 20 years of work there. But under U.S. tax law, he would be required to file a return and pony up to Uncle Sam.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;">“It’s a very straightforward financial question: Is his U.S. citizenship worth hundreds of thousands of U.S. dollars?” Mitchel asked.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;">Of course, America may be the land of the free, but leaving it isn’t necessarily cheap: Those who renounce their citizenship could be subject to an exit tax on all of their assets around the world, as if they had sold everything on their last day as an American. Even with a nearly $700,000 exemption, the bill can be hefty, Mitchel said.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: large;">The IRS publishes very little data about its former citizens beyond their names, so it’s difficult to tell conclusively whether the new tax laws are the reason that so many Americans have been relinquishing their passports. But the timing of its implementation seems to coincide with the increase in expatriation. And there appears to be widespread recognition that the new reporting requirements have amounted to one giant headache for all involved — including the U.S. government.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;">“That mountain of data not only puts burdens on the individuals trying to comply, but that also puts a large burden on the IRS to go through the data,” said W. Gavin Ekins, a research economist at the nonpartisan Tax Foundation. “The cost of actually finding a dollar of tax evasion may cost us $5 of actually sifting through the data and compliance costs. From an economics point of view, I’m not sure how valuable the system will be. But maybe it really is from a fairness point of view, and people really believe fairness is worth the cost.”</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;">This article came across the Defense News site and it looks like the military is getting smarter about vehicle procurement putting dollars to buy these versatile vehicles. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;">I could not find a picture on thew web about the newest vehicle in the pipeline, called the Maintenance and Cargo Hauler MACH-2/MACH 2XL manufactured by John Deere, however the picture at above is the current John Deere Gator designated as the M-Gator A1 which has performed well overseas carrying cargo up mountains where the air is too thin for helicopters to fly with substantial loads. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;">The M-Gator A1 has a 208 HP Diesel engine that can transport 1650 lbs of gear. The rack in front is actually designated as a litter rack to carry wounded soldiers out, but could easily be used for about anything. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;">I have many hours in a John Deere commercial Gator and can attest to the reliability and utility of these vehicles. Not the answer to every survivalist's needs, but does offer a unique capability. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;"><i>Small, rugged multi-purpose vehicles at the AUSA show are equipped with new features but carry a familiar leaping-deer logo. </i></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;"><i>What you see instead are three tan vehicles shorter than an F-150 pickup that can haul cargo, carry soldiers and maneuver in austere environments. </i></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;"><i>The newest of the vehicles is a Maintenance and Cargo Hauler MACH-2/MACH 2XL , developed in association with International Automated Systems, that can be transported by the V-22 Osprey tiltrotor aircraft. </i></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;"><i>That capability is a new innovation in which the bars over the passenger area reconfigure to sit within that space to keep the vehicle low profile at 60 inches high. </i></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;">Urban Man........</span>Charliehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00177364539498093342noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4709268009452512912.post-73748981703137672302016-10-26T11:09:00.000-06:002016-10-26T11:09:28.940-06:00Importance of Owning Silver<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;"><br /></span>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">This is the message I received from Lear Capital through the American Patriot Daily Net:</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">Let me tell you what JP Morgan Chase’s CEO, Jamie Dimon, said in a letter to his shareholders, “Some things never change - there ‘WILL BE’ another crisis, and its ‘IMPACT’ will be felt throughout financial markets.“ So here we are. The CEO of the country’s largest bank is telling his shareholders - THERE WILL BE another crisis - and to protect shareholder value, they are buying silver by the hundreds of tons.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">Don’t you think it’s time that you consider owning physical silver?</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">$21 an ounce. That’s the all-in production cost it takes the average mine to process one ounce of silver. Right now silver is trading just below that threshold.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">The last time you could purchase silver below its production costs was 2002. Guess who famously bought 30% of the world’s above ground silver supply back then?</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">Warren Buffett. Two years later, he doubled his money. So, JP Morgan Chase & Warren Buffett, two of the most successful investors on the planet, both stocked up on silver at a price below production cost. Buffett bought right before a crisis happened. JP Morgan is buying right before what they think will be another financial crisis. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">Stocks are at record highs. Debt is soaring. Uncertainty in the world is at historic levels. Silver is on sale right now and JP Morgan Chase knows it-just like Warren Buffett knew it in 2002. Now that you know it, will you let this opportunity pass you by?</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">Okay, you don't have to get the free investor kit,.......I won't because I don't need it. I routinely buy silver, both in one ounce rounds and bars, and five ounce bars, plus junk silver coins as well. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">Silver prices have dropped a little from the 2016 high in August and are currently (13 October 2016) sitting at $17.55 an ounce. We're not buying Silver so we can sell and make a few bucks per ounce profit waiting for the high to climb a a little,.....we're buying Silver as a hedge against the collapse where fiat currency won't be worth anything but precious metals will be used in barter. And if this country comes back, maybe we'l have learned our lesson and have a gold based currency. In the this coming election, which appears that the corrupt Hilary Clinton will win, the Market is going to have major issues, major losses and Gold/Silver prices will climb. Don't wait too long now. Practically everyone can afford to buy one or more 1 ounce rounds every payday - just think of it as re-directional spending. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">But just don;t take my word for it, Reagan Budget Director David Stockman warns that the nation will plunge into a recession, even though Hillary Clinton will win the presidential election. "When the stock market stumbles and the economy begins to actually register negative growth, which I think is coming if not next quarter certainly in the first half of next year, there's going to be nothing below and the market is going to go through a massive contraction," said Stockman. "I think it's going to be a very nasty time in the year ahead," he added.</span>Charliehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00177364539498093342noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4709268009452512912.post-81888947818134462472016-09-16T22:06:00.004-06:002016-09-16T22:06:53.732-06:00Secret Seed Storehouse<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: large;"><br />
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If you’re already familiar with the Global Seed Vault and understand the crucial role it might play in the future of humanity, you can think of Cary Fowler’s new book as a beautiful coffee-table ornament — with the bonus of lots of informative, readable text. <br />
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If you’ve never heard of the vault, “Seeds on Ice: Svalbard and the Global Seed Vault”.can be your introduction to an extraordinary, farsighted venture. <br />
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The Global Seed Vault is a vast storehouse carved out of rock and ice on the Norwegian archipelago of Svalbard, far north of the Arctic Circle. In it are half a billion seeds from around the world. <br />
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More important, it contains the traits found within the seeds: the genes that make one crop resistant to pests or enable another survive drought. The vault is meant to safeguard humanity against losing vital food stocks to extinction, natural disaster, nuclear war or climate change. <br />
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Fowler — a native of rural Tennessee who was trained as a sociologist and has worked for decades on behalf of global biodiversity — led the initial effort to create the seed vault and clearly sees this book as a summary of his life’s work. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: large;">Besides the science involved in selecting and preserving seeds, he gives a fascinating account of the creation of the vault itself — selecting Svalbard because it was both geologically and politically stable, and offered year-round underground permafrost that could cheaply keep the seeds frozen; and the decision to design the wedge-shaped part of the vault that protrudes above the ice sheet so that it looked sculptural, a sort of work of art.<br />
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He notes the irony of preserving the future of edible plants in a region where virtually nothing grows. The book is illustrated with hundreds of photographs of the vault and the stunning Arctic environment in which it’s located. <br />
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And that is the only way you’re likely to see the vault, except through binoculars from the airport tower at the nearby town of Longyearbyen. Security is vital to the project, and visitors (except for seed donor organizations and the occasional diplomat or benefactor) are not allowed in.<br />
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<i><span style="color: yellow;"> Urban Man's Comment: Everyone reading this article should have their collection of seeds. I have a robust supply of both non-hybrid and hybrid seeds. I continually buy hybrid seeds at garden and hardware stores, spending just a few bucks at a time and now I have several ammunition cans full of them.<br />
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They will be initially be what I plant at my bug in location and also used for trading material. I would continue to use hybrid seeds at other temporary locations. I am saving the non-hybrid seeds for a final location or suitable site where I can harvest the seeds from these plants - don't want to waste them don't you know.</span></i></span>Charliehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00177364539498093342noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4709268009452512912.post-18382960298247766252016-08-23T10:20:00.001-06:002016-08-23T10:20:31.810-06:00When the Lights Go Out<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: small;">This article came from a mainstream source - The Finance Section of Yahoo. <br /></span><a href="http://finance.yahoo.com/news/lights-inevitable-failure-us-grid-230000502.html"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">http://finance.yahoo.com/news/lights-inevitable-failure-us-grid-230000502.html</span></a><br /></span><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Delta Airlines recently experienced what it called a power outage in its home base of Atlanta, Georgia, causing all the company’s computers to go offline—all of them. This seemingly minor hiccup managed to singlehandedly ground all Delta planes for six hours, stranding passengers for even longer, as Delta scrambled to reshuffle passengers after the Monday debacle. <br /><br />Where Delta blamed its catastrophic systems-wide computer failure vaguely on a loss of power, Georgia Power, their power provider, placed the ball squarely in Delta’s court, saying that “other Georgia Power customers were not affected”, and that they had staff on site to assist Delta.<br /><br />Whether it was a true power outage, or an outage unique to Delta is fairly insignificant. The incident was a single company without power for six measly hours, yet it wreaked much havoc. Which brings to mind (or at least it should) what happens when the lights really go out—everywhere? And just how dependent is the U.S. on single-source power?<br /><br />When you hear about the possible insufficiency, unreliability, or lack of resiliency of the U.S. power grid, your mind might naturally move toward the extreme, perhaps National Geographic’s Doomsday Preppers. Talks about what a U.S. power grid failure could really mean are also often likened to survivalist blogs that speak of building faraday cages and hoarding food, or possibly some riveting blockbuster movie about a well-intentioned government-sponsored genetically altered mosquito that leads to some zombie apocalypse.<br /><br />But in the event of a power grid failure—and we have more than our fair share here in the U.S.—your survivalist savvy may be all for naught.<br /><br />This horror story doesn’t need zombies or genetically altered mosquitos in order to be scary. Using data from the United States Department of Energy, the International Business Times reported in 2014 that the United States suffers more blackouts than any other developed country in the world.<br /><br />Unfortunately, not much has been done since then to alleviate the system’s critical vulnerabilities.<br /><br />In theory, we all understand the wisdom about not putting all our eggs in one basket, as the old-adage goes. Yet the U.S. has done just that with our U.S. power grid. Sadly, this infrastructure is failing, and compared to many other countries, the U.S. is sauntering slowly behind many other more conscientious countries, seemingly unconcerned with its poor showing.<br /></span><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">According to the United States Department of Energy, the American power grid is made up of three smaller grids, known as interconnections, which transport energy all over the country. The Eastern Interconnection provides electricity to states to the east of the Rocky Mountains, while the Western interconnection serves the Rocky Mountain states and those that border the Pacific Ocean.<br /><br />The Texas Interconnected System is the smallest grid in the nation, and serves most of Texas, although small portions of the Lone Star state benefit from the other two grids.<br /><br />And if you’re wondering why Texas gets a grid of its own, according to the Texas Tribune they have their own grid “to avoid dealing with the feds.” Now that’s true survivalist savvy—in theory.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><br /><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: small;">When you look at the layout of the grid above, it’s easy to see that a single grid going offline would disrupt a huge segment of North America.<br /><br />Wait—make that all of North America. <br /><br />To give it to you straight, our national electrical grid works as an interdependent network. This means that the failure of any one part would trigger the borrowing of energy from other areas. Whichever grid attempts to carry the extra load would likely be overtaxed, as the grid is already taxed to near max levels during peak hot or cold seasons. <br /><br />The aftermath of a single grid going down could leave millions of residents without power for days, weeks or longer depending on the scope of the failure. <br /><br />So although on the surface it looks like the U.S. has wisely put its eggs into three separate baskets for safer keeping, the U.S. has in essence, lined up our baskets so that if one were to drop, or if the bottom were to fall out, the eggs from basket #1 would fall into basket #2. Which would break from the load, falling into basket #3—eventually scrambling all the eggs. Sorry, Texas. <br /><br />And sorry for all you out there, likely 300 million of you, who have no idea or have no plans on how to live without power. Or how to live without trips to the local grocery store. Or how to live in a society where most people will ignore social norms and respect for law or even lives. Sorry for you but not everyone can survive the coming collapse. </span></span>Charliehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00177364539498093342noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4709268009452512912.post-80045774555009152562016-08-06T13:14:00.001-06:002016-08-06T13:14:57.154-06:00Purify Water Using Chemical Treatments<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif; font-size: large;"><br /></span><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif; font-size: large;">Water purification tablets are a great back up form of water treatment. They are excellent Bug Out Bags and survival kits because they are light weight and inexpensive. Water purification tablets are also great to store in your vehicle or your bug out location to disinfect water on demand. If the water supply I am drawing from is extremely shady I combine both a filter and the tablets to ensure my safety. Also, be aware that water purification tablets have a shelf life. Check the expiration dates on your tablets and replace any that are expired.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif; font-size: large;"><br /></span><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif; font-size: large;">Water purification can come in tablet or droplet form. The tablet form is better because it is a lighter weight that droplets and easy to use when in a stressful situation.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif; font-size: large;"><br /></span><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif; font-size: large;">Two water born pathogens that commonly found in untreated water- <b><span style="color: lime;">Cryptosporidium and Giardia</span></b>.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif; font-size: large;"><br /></span><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif; font-size: large;"><b><u><span style="color: lime;">Cryptosporidium</span></u></b> is a genus of apicomplexan protozoans that can cause gastrointestinal illness with diarrhea in humans. According to the CDC it is one of the most frequent causes of waterborne disease among humans in the United States. In a disaster situation where government maintained services are effected, it is highly likely that this protozoa parasite will find its way into our water supply.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif; font-size: large;"><br /></span><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif; font-size: large;"><b><u><span style="color: lime;">Giardia</span></u></b> attached to the wall of the small intestines. Giardia is also an infectious protozoa and it is a big deal in emergency preparedness because it can have such a dramatic effect on your health. The symptoms of Giardia, may begin to appear 2 days after infection, include violent diarrhea, excess gas, stomach or abdominal cramps, upset stomach, and nausea. </span><br />
<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif; font-size: large;"><br /></span><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif; font-size: large;">The typical infection within an individual can be slight, resolve without treatment in about 2–6 weeks, although sometimes longer and sometimes the infection is more severe requiring immediate medical attention. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif; font-size: large;"><br /></span><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif; font-size: large;"><br /></span><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif; font-size: large;"><b><u><span style="color: yellow;">Chlorine Dioxide Tablets</span></u></b> (Potable Aqua, Katadyn and Aquamira Brands). Even though the word “chlorine” is in the name, chlorine dioxide is neither iodine nor chlorine. It uses a highly active form of oxygen to purify water so it leaves absolutely zero taste. As a nice bonus the action of chlorine dioxide causes a lot of sediment to drop out of suspension (fall to the bottom) leaving the container of water more clear and further improving flavor. Chlorine dioxide tablets are a good choice for those allergic to iodine, with thyroid problems, or on lithium. Always follow product usage instructions.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif; font-size: large;"><br /></span><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif; font-size: large;"><b><u><span style="color: yellow;">Chlorine NaDCC Tablets</span></u></b> (Potable Aqua, Oasis Plus, Aquatabsand Rothco’s Military “Chlor-Floc“ Brands). NaDCC, also known as sodium dichloroisocyanurate or sodium troclosene, is a form of chlorine used for disinfection. NaDCC tablets are different and improved over the older chlorine based (halazone) tablets. When added to water, NaDCC releases hydrochloric acid which reacts through oxidization with microorganisms and kills them. Many tablets advertise no chlorine after taste. Unopened NaDCC tablets have a shelf life of 3-5 years, if opened they should be discarded after 3 months. Always follow product usage instructions. </span><br />
<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif; font-size: large;"><br /></span><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif; font-size: large;"><b><u><span style="color: yellow;">Iodine Tablets</span></u></b> (Potable Aqua,Coleman, and Coghlans brands). Iodine Tablets use iodine to purify contaminated water. Most iodine purification tablets tend to leave a funny taste to the water and some discoloration, however vitamin C or ascorbic acid can be added after the treatment time to improve the taste and remove the color. This often comes in the form of two bottles with two separate tablets. Iodine water treatment has been proven to be somewhat effective against Giardia and not effective against Crytosporidium. Always follow product usage instructions. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">I believe there are as many preppers planning a Bug In as there are survivalist planing to Bug Out to either a general area or a prepared site. Not a lot of historical content out there to provide us with lessons learned in any case - Bug In or Bug Out, however there are some good fictional stories that could provide us with trains of thought and likely decision points for either. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">My favorite is the Joe Nobody series where Bishop, the main character, and his wife Terri, stay in Houston area suburbs until the security situation and food supplies force their hand and they Bug Out for a remote area in West Texas that Bishop was familiar with - but this site was not prepared, nor did Bishop have caches en-route to assist in travel and survival.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">I am not here to tell people that either Buging In or Buging Out is the best course of action. However I am here to state that both need to be considered and if Bugging In you ought to have the contingency plan to Bug Out. And Bug Out plans needs to be supported,...route plans, caches em-placed en-route (both primary and alternate routes as well). You ought to consider a chart of decision points. There would be decision options based on situational factors. An obvious one would be: "Food critical - two week supply left" - Decision Point: Execute Bug Out Plan. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">If you spend much time reading prepper or survivalist blogs (including this one) you’ve probably heard the standard advice to get out of any city or heavily populated areas when the SHTF.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">This is for good reason and solid advice. There’s no doubt that cities will be dangerous, much more dangerous than areas outside of the city. You can look at Venezuela for proof.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">The problem is over 70% of the US population lives in or close to an urban area. The second problem is not everyone has a place to go if they leave their homes.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Escaping to some homestead or rural acreage to save your butt is your best choice, but the reality is it’s simply not feasible for the majority of the population. Most people, if hardly anyone but the most serious preppers, have a second property set up as a survival location or anything resembling a self-sufficient homestead.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Heck, most people don’t have a second of anything because it takes all they make to afford what they do have!</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">The reality is you have to prep within your means and you can’t live in your head plans of elaborate bug out bunkers, $20,000 bug out vehicles, 20 acre farms, hundreds of lbs of food and water stored at multiple locations, and the like. Truthfully, 97% of preppers will never have any of that.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Should you remove yourself from large population of people then? Absolutely! We’re not saying stay. Get out, and get out at the beginning. But where to go and how to get there is a question and the focus of today’s article.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">If you have that 20 acres of land out in the mountains that’s stockpiled to the brim or can meet up with family or friends in a remote location then do it and don’t look back….</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">These are all great plans…. if you have the money for that second property now or if you have family living on a farm somewhere and the means to reach them.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">But what if you don’t have that luxury? What if you want a better plan…</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">First, let’s consider what your average SHTF city will be like by putting ourselves in one.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">It’s a post collapse situation of your choosing. There may not be any food, water, or electricity depending on what scenario you’re most worried about, but for the sake of argument let’s say there are still bare bones basics such as water and electricity.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">There are random blackouts, the lights rarely work and the water is generally unsanitary and needs to be boiled. Food is rare but can be bought for a very high price and usually includes a fight.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">The city would be under martial law no doubt. What’s left of law and order is currently shoot first and ask questions later. Hospitals and jails are full, and it’s a lot easier to shoot a criminal under martial law than to deal with a situation completely out of control.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">What’s left of the police, fire, and EMS are highly understaffed and ran by the National Guard. Their own families are probably missing or bad off, many have left the city or are at home protecting their families and starving with everyone else. Stress is high and never-ending.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">The situation is dangerous for you. If you don’t starve to death or get killed by indirect fire the next threat is all of the local gangs that have sprang up and also the desperate people looking for essentials. They are looking for food, water, shelter, gold, jewelry and anything else of value that can be used or quickly sold. A backpack of supplies and gear is a clear signal that you should be robbed to these people.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">So how do you survive this until things improve? Head to the woods or hunker down? Hit the rooftops or live in the sewer? hmm…</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Hunkering down is what most will do and if so your journey ends here. Good luck out there….you’ll have to protect your house or apartment and fight for what you have and fight for what you need. If luck is on your side the worst of it will pass you by, and if you’re unlucky it will all fall on your lap with nowhere else to go.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Some will go lone survivor and travel the city, never staying in one place for long and scavenging what they can. This could work but every day is a gamble. Will you open the wrong door today, or will someone find you while you sleep tonight? Every day you’ll roll the dice one more time. Eventually house will win. House always wins.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Like we talked about before, even if you don’t have another house out of the city or some family nearby that you can get to, you still have the woods. You can stay there once you’re set up or you can travel back and forth from your camp to the city for supplies. The woods give you options.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Why the woods and not some place in the city, you ask? After all, your house or just an abandoned building offers much more than the woods at first sight. Shelter, security, who wouldn’t want that?</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">The city has water, food, and other supplies in all these abandoned homes and businesses. You have neighbors and friends to think about after all, and sometimes food comes in and you can fight over some scraps.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">So why leave this SHTF “paradise”?</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">One word: people. People are the real danger of a city. It’s not the buildings or lack of amenities. It’s the guy who wants what you have or the new gang that just set up on your street, or the next riot and the fire that comes with it. The list goes on and on.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">A person may be sweet and kind, but people are bastards. It’s the locust mentality. A single grasshopper is harmless, but put them in a group and they transform into a plague of locusts. Groups of people who have their own plans are dangerous when they get desperate or have free run of a place.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">There are far fewer people in the woods than in a city, obviously. Going to the woods then is safer. Water and food can be found if you have the most basic of wilderness skills. Shelter can be made. Fire and cooking can be had. Life can continue without the danger of mobs and riots, without people.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Sleeping on the roof of a two-story building or on a patio cover will give you all the cover you need inside a city. You would be surprised how few predators think to look up when hunting, including us humans. If you cannot get to a roof or if the weather is bad, try to find the inside of an empty building and if all else fails blend in with the homeless but be wary because in this kind of situation everyone is dangerous.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">You’ll want to be prepared to travel between wooded areas and the streets at least once, and maybe many times if you have to. You’ll need to do this with without drawing attention to yourself. This will mean a unique take on urban “camo”. Wear clothes that make sense for street wear and that are practical in the woods.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Firstly, dress for the season. Nothing says “look at me” more than an over-sized hoodie in the middle of summer, except maybe full camo and high-top boots in the middle of a city.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">A pair of OD green pants, a simple brown t-shirt and a black pullover with a pair of trail shoes is an outfit that works for the street and is good enough for the woods. However this is just the beginning, you really will want the ability to switch to full camo once you’re out of the city.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Keep a thin camo long sleeve shirt with dark gloves and a bandanna in your pack. Remember, you want neutral colors found in nature or natural camo patters only. Once you get into the wooded area take a minute to change.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">The idea is to add a camo pattern over your main layer and cover any exposed skin. Of course you could go full camo here will a pullover set, or even a complete ghillie suit but those options are heavier and hotter, and if someone looked in your bag they would be a dead giveaway. The trade-off is superb camo.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Pick a camo pattern that will match the season and your area. In a wooded area you want to stay concealed as much possible. You might have caches or shelter in those areas, or you might be followed. Being seen comprises the entire area and there’s no happy ending to being found.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Your current house or apartment may remain your primary shelter or you may decide to never go back to the city (which would be my choice because I am prepared now with the gear and supplies I need and wouldn’t need to go back).</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Even if you decide to stay in your house you’ll want a backup location within a couple of hours hike, or possibly a 2-3 day hike (more on this in a minute), from the city in case your house is destroyed or attacked by looters or other threats.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">This location should be within reasonable distance of your house or apartment by foot or bike. It should also have multiple exit and entry points and have a source of water nearby. On the side of high ground is preferable for security.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">When I say it should be within a reasonable distance I mean that you should consider:</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">1.your ability to hike with a loaded pack and how far you can reasonably travel</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">2.how much food and water you can reasonably carry before you’ll run out</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">3.how far most people from the city will tromp through these same woods</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">4.your plans to go back to the city or not</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">If you’re staying in the woods permanently then push yourself and go as far as you can. You may even want to set up a few temporary camps and travel for weeks. If you plan to go back and forth you’ll have to stay closer to the outskirts of the city, but go deep enough that you can’t see the city or be seen by it.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Think about fire at night and the smells of cooking, and the sounds of gunshots and trees falling. You don’t want anyone to see or hear these.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Once you’ve selected a (nearly) perfect area and done a thorough site recon it’s time to build a shelter. There are many guides for building wilderness shelters so I won’t go into incredible detail here. If you’re lucky you packed a lightweight tent, or at least a sleeping bag and a camo/green/brown tarp.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Find a spot that has the most cover year round. Think about sight lines on the ground and above your head. Look for kudzu, vines, and thick brush that will always be there no matter the season.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Once you’ve locate this area, burrow into the ground cover and make your site a part of it. This way you’ll blend in with the terrain. Keep your clearing to a bare minimum and let the natural undergrowth fill in the dead space and sight lines around the shelter.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Find a spot that has the most cover year round. Think about sight lines on the ground and above your head. Look for kudzu, vines, and thick brush that will always be there no matter the season.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Once you’ve locate this area, burrow into the ground cover and make your site a part of it. This way you’ll blend in with the terrain. Keep your clearing to a bare minimum and let the natural undergrowth fill in the dead space and sight lines around the shelter.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Dispose of any left over materials by breaking them down into a small pile and drying them out. Burn them slowly when they are dry enough. A big pile of freshly cut materials means someone is around and will give you away.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Forget about playing Rambo in the woods or I Am Legend in the streets. Urban survival is a skill just as much as wilderness survival. They both have their own rules and if you abide by those rules you’ll be OK, but if you push against nature or man too much you’ll pay the price.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">We all need to cultivate and grow our skills, and sometimes that skill is waking down a busy street like a grey man. You and only you can create a realistic survival strategy for your needs. It’s fun to imagine ourselves with backpack and prybar in hand parkouring around city rooftops like some lone survivor ninja, or busting through roadblocks in a vehicle right out of a movie, gatling gun and all…. but that’s not a plan, it’s fantasy.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Another consideration is your urban survival kit. Do you live in a city or on the outskirts of one but have a bag full of wilderness survival equipment and zero urban gear? If you’re wondering what the different is or what you should include we’ve wrote extensive posts on how to build an urban survival kit and how to create a personalized W.E.B. (Work Emergency Bag).</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">[Source: written by Robert Rickman titled "Escaping A City During SHTF".</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">https://besurvival.com/guides/escaping-city-during-shtf]</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">The Bruder EXP-6 is the go anywhere, do anything, expedition trailer that you most definitely need in your life. If the world is falling apart as fast as the mainstream media says it is, you’d be wise to have one of these extremely rugged units stocked with necessities and hooked up to an equally rugged SUV.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Or you could just pick one up and use it for leisurely weekend getaways. Either way, the EXP-6 is an attractive piece of hardware.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Designed, built, and tested in Australia—the country that’s always trying to kill you—the Bruder EXP-6 is a completely over-built adventure mobile accessory. A four corner independent air suspension allows the trailer to go where others simply cannot by offering superior ground clearance and over 300 mm of suspension travel. It’s capable of supporting up to 11 times its weight of 3,703 lbs, so as long as you’re keeping your payload under 40,733 lbs, you’re good to go.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">On top of the capability to make it to remote destinations, the EXP-6 can also keep you in the lap of luxury while you’re there. Between the queen size bed, flat screen TV, A/C unit, shower, modular vanity and toilet, any environment will instantly be more hospitable thanks to this trailer.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">In fact, if rent gets any higher here in Los Angeles, it’d be worth looking into living in one of these, might even be an upgrade. My apartment doesn’t have a diesel powered ceramic cooktop or Nespresso coffee machine, does yours?</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Having been sealed airtight so no dust, dirt, mud, or toxic chemicals can get inside, and sporting the electronically adjustable air suspension makes the Bruder EXP-6 pretty cool. The narrow body construction that allows it to fit down tight off-road trails and fact that it can ford shallow rivers makes it cooler. But it’s the outdoor kitchen makes it the coolest.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Being able to roll up literally anywhere your vehicle can take you and get to work cooking is the feature that seals the deal for me. Imagine parking on a mountainside or secluded beach, popping open the awning and getting to work in your outdoor kitchen preparing a meal. Once you’ve had your fill, you can un-hitch the EXP-6 and take to the trails for further exploration in whatever 4×4 you piloted up there.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">A Defender like the one pictured would be nice, so would a Toyota Land Cruiser, but the ultimate rig to tow one of these with has to be a Mercedes-Benz G500 4×4². Give me a Bruder EXP-6 behind one of those highlighter yellow monsters and I’m gone.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">3. Pyrodex Rifle and shotgun powder (or preferred brand)</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">5. Large pistol primers</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">6. Wadding material</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">7. Over shot card material</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">8. Lighter and glue stick</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">9. Primer crimp tool or "C" clamp setup with deep well socket</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">10. Primer removal tool</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">11. Powder tamper tool</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">12. Powder and shot measuring tool</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">13. Container for brass shells</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">14. Container to store kit</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">15. 15/64 inch drill bit</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">17. Wad and over shot cutter tool</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">20. Rubber hammer or similar </span><br />
<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">21. Flat piece of wood stock</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"><br /></span><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">1. First use the 15/64 drill bit and drill out the primer hole.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">2. Using a 23/64 drill bit, drill a slight recess in the primer hole deep enough to allow the primer rim to seat flush with the bottom of the shell. See photo above.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">3. Seat the 209 primer like you would a regular 12 gauge shell when reloading.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"><br /></span><b><i><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">Note: Shotgun firing these types of reloads need to be cleaned more often than factory loaded ammo.</span></i></b>Charliehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00177364539498093342noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4709268009452512912.post-1004029036658544562016-06-25T00:00:00.000-06:002016-06-25T00:00:07.488-06:00Reload 209 Shotgun Primers Using Field Expedient Methods<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;">
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<span style="font-family: verdana, sans-serif;"><i>"Urban Man" My survival buddy sent me another post in a series of reloading shotgun ammo. This video shows how to reload the primer as well when you have no primer replacements."</i></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"><br /></span><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">1. Antique hand primer crimp tool</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">2. Wood dowel for powder, wad and shot compressing</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">3. Primer removal tool with socket base (5/8 inch socket)</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">4. Rubber hammer</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">5. Wad cutter tool (for what ever size shell you are loading)</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">6. Flat punch that fits inside primer cup to flatten out dimple</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">7. Flat piece of metal stock</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">8. Flat piece of wood</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">9. Strike anywhere matches</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">10. Powder and shot measuring cups</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">11. Wad material (paper, plastic, wool, etc)</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">12. Over shot card material (cardboard, playing cards, etc)</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">13. 5.5 mm socket (used to remove primer cup)</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">14. Pin or finishing nail used to pound out primer cup.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">15. Lighter or similar flame source</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">16. Glue stick</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">17. Rifle and shotgun powder with container (I used Pyrodex RS)</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">18. Bird shot with container (I used #7 1/2 in the video)</span> <span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"><br /></span><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"><br /></span><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"><br /></span><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">Note: Do not allow the ammo to get wet. Do not jar the ammo around by throwing into an ammo can or something of that nature. Protect the ammo until it is needed. It is best to shoot this ammo from a single shot or double barrel shotgun rather than a pump action. A pump action can be used if you load and fire one round at a time rather than using the pump action.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"><br /></span><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">One drawback from reloading spent primers is the chance that the match head powder or what ever other ignition source was used may not ignite and you get a dude fire.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"><i><span style="color: red;"><b><br /></b></span></i></span><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"><i><span style="color: red;"><b>In the event the primer does not ignite, wait about 60 seconds with the end of the barrel pointed on target in the event there is a cook off. A cook off is when the powder could be smoldering but has not yet ignited. If it ignites and the end of the barrel is pointed toward someone, there may be a chance of an accidental shooting.</b></span></i></span><br />
<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"><br /></span><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">Always inspect the shells for damage and cracks. Do not reuse or shoot damaged ammo. Use safety glasses when loading your ammo and keep open flames away from your powder. </span><br />
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<br />Charliehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00177364539498093342noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4709268009452512912.post-45163600459296716632016-06-18T16:38:00.005-06:002016-06-18T16:38:55.766-06:00Fielding Expedient Ammo Reloading<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"><br /></span>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">There may be a time in ones life when it may become necessary to have to reload ammo in the field, especially in a wilderness survival situation or the collapse of society. </span><br />
<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"><br /></span><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">We are comfortable in knowing that at the moment we have access to ready made store bought ammo. But, what if that luxury was some how taken away? What if there were no stores left or available to purchase our ammo?</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"><br /></span><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">In such as situation, ammo can still be available if one knew how to obtain what was needed to reload their own. Spent ammo shells, especially shotgun shells can be found laying around all over the desert. Primers can be reconditioned and reloaded. Black powder can be homemade. Lead shot can be made from scrape lead.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"><br /></span><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">You really do not need fancy reloading equipment in order to reload ammo in an emergency or self reliant situation.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"><br /></span><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">Learn now to start saving your spent ammo hulls and shells. Set them aside to be reloaded at a later date when the time is needed.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"><br /></span><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">Here are the steps that were covered in the video to reload a 12 gauge shell: <b><i>(if this is the first time a plastic shotgun shell is being used, cut the top crimp fingers off the shell where the crimp line meets the star crimp.)</i></b></span><br />
<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"><br /></span><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">1. Remove primer</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">2. Install a new primer</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">3. Measure powder and add to shell</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">4. Using dowel rod, gently compress the powder in the shell</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">5. Add correct amount of wading (plastic, paper, animal hair, leather, etc.)</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">6. Using dowel rod again, gently compress the wad into the shell</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">7. Add correct amount of shot. (insure that there is enough room at the opening of the shell to add the over-shot card)</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">8. Add over-shot card and compress gently with dowel rod</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">9. Add glue over top of shot card ensuring that the inside walls of the shell receive glue as well</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">10. Immediately add another shot card over the top of the first one and apply gentle pressure to allow glue to spread out</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"><br /></span><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">Note: Do not allow the ammo to get wet. Do not jar the ammo around by throwing into an ammo can or something of that nature. Protect the ammo until it is needed. It is best to shoot this ammo from a single shot or double barrel shotgun rather than a pump action. A pump action can be used if you load and fire one round at a time rather than using the pump action.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"><br /></span><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">Always inspect the shells for damage and cracks. Do not reuse or shoot damaged ammo. Use safety glasses when loading your ammo and keep open flames away from your powder. </span>Charliehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00177364539498093342noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4709268009452512912.post-4857499788722411592016-06-04T18:42:00.000-06:002016-06-04T18:42:02.378-06:00How To Exit A Sinking Car<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">From the site Life'd which say's "Guys like gadgets, whether for fun or for self-preservation. And when tech combines with tactical, it’s just cool. These days, with natural disasters seemingly on the rise and the threat of worldwide terrorism growing, keeping tactical gadgets handy is more than cool. It might be a necessary precaution. What do you carry now? Will it help you in state of emergency? Here are six tactical gadgets engineered for guys who want to be prepared for every day…and for when the pressure is on." </span><br />
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</span> <span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">If Jason Bourne could pick his flashlight, this would be it. It packs military-grade LED technology into an aircraft-grade-aluminum-skinned cylinder. And it throws an astounding amount of light. You might be thinking that you already have a flashlight. But do the U.S. Navy Seals and the U.S. Coast Guard use the kind of flashlight you have? The Shadowhawk X800 can illuminate a field or blanket a work area with 800 lumens of glorious light. It can also blind an attacker. Don’t let its light weight trick you into thinking it’s not durable. Throw it, drive over it—it’ll still work. Drop it in six feet of water—it’ll still work. This tough gadget is also versatile. It comes with a strobe setting if you are stranded and need to signal for help, and you can zoom and focus its LED beam to see far, far away. The 3 AAA batteries give it 1,000 hours of life. That makes it ideal for reliable, abundant light during a prolonged natural disaster or emergency…and for lots of everyday uses. This is standard gear if you want to be prepared.</span><br />
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</span> <span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"><i>UrbanMan's Comment: I prefer the AA flashlights as they run longer than the powerful flashlight that use DL123 or the commonly called 3v surefire batteries. Plus AA rechargeable batteries that can be recharged with a solar panel are common place.</i> </span><br />
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When you attach this coin-size, James Bond-style tracking device to an item, you have a 20,000-times chance of getting it back if you lose it. The accompanying app enlists the help of network TrackR users to locate your lost bag, bike or dog. Last count, there were over 20,000 strong in their Crowd GPS. Of course, you will probably be able to get your wallet or whatever back on your own. The TrackR app will display how far you are from the keys or case you dropped, and it will sound the alarm to help you pinpoint its exact location. If you realize you left your bag after you travel to another location, all other TrackR users in the network are notified, and when one passes your missing article, you’ll get an update sent to your phone. What if you can’t find your phone? Use TrackR to ring it, even if it’s on silent mode, and you’ll find your phone fast. TrackR helps you keep your stuff…especially if you’re a chronic (keys/wallet/bike/car/bag) misplacer.<br />
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<i> UrbanMan's Comment: This sounds useful, but if the internet is down such as in a collapse of the nation, you'll have just a useless little device.</i></span><br />
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This is the baddest lighter on the market since ZIPPO set the bar for badass lighters. It is engineered to make you look cool, and cool you will be wherever you break it out: bar, ball game, backpacking, hunting. In fact, it might be worth becoming a smoker just to use the lighter. (Don’t actually start smoking just to use the lighter.) Forget harmful butane, because that’s not its fuel. Pay no mind to rain because water does not affect it. Don’t worry about blocking the wind, because there is no flame to protect. Get that? There. Is. No. Flame. Just an electric current forming a hot X that ignites anything in its crosshairs. Tactical, practical and flat out cool. You recharge it via a USB and you ignite it by pressing a button. Keep it in your pocket for those times you need fire and want to look cool. Real cool.<br />
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<i> UrbanMan's Comment: Hey, I'm always us for a new fire starter, but it needs to have replaceable batteries. If re-chargeable then a solar panel and cigarette plug adapter; will likely be needed.</i><br />
<b><span style="color: yellow;"><br />4. Shadowhawk Military Tactical Laser</span></b></span><br />
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Another great gadget to have. It’s fun, it’s useful, and it could save your life. Simply speaking, it can help you point to that thing way over there, even half a mile away. Speaking from a safety standpoint, a blast of this beam of light can blind a person. Not recommended for use on friends, but on a would-be attacker or an intruder into your home, your Shadowhawk Military Tactical Laser lets you get all Star Wars on him. ZAP, and he’s on the ground or holding his eyes, letting you go to work on him or just get away. It’s also good in the woods if you ever lose your way. The powerful beam will point Search and Rescue to your exact origin. And on nights when you’re not walking the streets or wandering in the woods, your dog will get a kick out of chasing the laser point on the living room floor.<br /><br /><i>
UrbanMan's Comment: This is a visible laser. A laser is useful for pointing out positions however a visible laser can also point out your position! Remember the old adage about tracer ammunition,....it works both ways. </i><br /><br /><b><span style="color: yellow;">
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This Tactical Headlamp is survival gear at its best. It blasts a massive 1000 lumen beam, enough to light a field, an emergency work area or a basement. With five settings, you can focus the beam to pinpoint targets at a distance of 500 meters! (That’s over 1640 feet…or 546 yards.) The design is the result of multiple attempts at perfection. It seems these guys have nailed it with a 90° pivoting spotlight and a completely water-resistant head unit. The beauty of this equipment, though, and what it makes it a top-tier tactical tool, is the hands-free capabilities it gives you. You never know into what situation you might be forced to work or search in the dark, and being able to freely use both hands could be the difference between success and failure…even in mundane use when there’s no pressure. <br /><br /><i>
UrbanMan's Comment: Head lamps are useful, red and white lights specifically, but how about some battery info? </i><br />
<br /><b><span style="color: yellow;">6. Garmin Tactix GPS Watch</span></b></span><br />
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This watch will not only make you look good, it will let you know when’s a good time to pull the chute. Even if you’re not a skydiver, the Garmin Tactix is gold for any guy who likes to go for a hike or to just explore the unbeaten path once in awhile. You can rely on Garmin’s GPS to get you home if things go awry. There’s even a TracBack feature. If you think you might lose your way, this is like virtual breadcrumbs, guiding you back to your origin along the path which you came. The design of the watch is not only sleek, but functional. The scratch-resistant lens is curved so there’s no reflection preventing you from reading the display. Even with night vision on, you can read the display which gives you real-time information about your surroundings including barometric and compass readings. It won’t, however, tell you when the boss is walking by your cubicle.</span><br />
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UrbanMan's Comment: I don't like GPS's. We have become a nation of people not comfortable with a map and compass. The watch feature is good for synchronizing times, etc., but a $20 timex will work for this. </i><br />
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