Survival & Emergency Preparedness

In Part 3 I add buttons, holes, a hang loop, and start on the pockets. When sewing the body together I used black button and carpet thread...

In Part 2 I’ll show how I cut the blanket and how the capote looked after my first round of sewing. First, I cut/tore the blanket to make ...

One of article of clothing which was developed in the 18th or 19th Century and which is still useful today is the wool blanket capote. It’s ...

Last week I ran across a link to Bulgarian military surplus wool blankets on Keepshooting.com for the low price of $14.95 each, plus S&...

Last night I did an overnighter with a friend and his daughter, outside of Pottstown, in SE PA. We dragged our gear up to the camp using k...

With Winter upon us, I wanted to post a quick review of a few pieces of cold weather clothing that I’ve been using. Duluth Fire Hose Pants...

About a year ago I posted pics of the two antennas I have up on my roof. What I’ve found is that the Ultimax 100 that I’m using for HF is p...

I recently posted about an easy to make alcohol stove. Alcohol stoves are great in that they are cheap to make, easy to use, employ a relat...

As a fan of wool clothing I’ve been on the lookout for a good sweater to add to my wardrobe.  Wool, of course, is great because it still pro...

While cruising the Interwebs I’ve come across a few notewrothy blogs worth perusing by preppers. Mountain Guerilla . This is written by...

I found this video via a link on BushcraftUSA. How To Turn A Beer Can Into The Only Camping Stove You'll Ever Need from Tom Allen o...

In recent posts I’ve discussed single shot shotguns as tools for your survival arsenal. The oldest way of making a multiple shot firearm was...

This afternoon my 9 year old daughter gave me a hand and we made this compost bin. Most of the wood was salvaged from a friend’s old deck th...

I’ve been doing some preliminary research into silencer designs prior to filing my first Form 1, and ran across this article about a small l...

I went camping with friends a couple weekends ago. On the way to the property, we stopped at Cabela’s and I picked up a box of the Herter’s ...

{Army of Darkness} This is my BOOM stick! {/Army of Darness} Inspired by this thread on Arfcom (among others), today I took my old H...

Over on Blog O’Stuff I have two posts ( part one , part two ) showing how I revitalized a century old H&R Model 1900 12 gauge, top break...

This article is worth reading in full: Trapping Feral Pigs and Other Parables of Modern Life by Matt Bracken Professional trappers don...

Over the past few years I’ve read many discussions of the Walmart IMUSA grease pot for use as an inexpensive, lightweight cooking pot while ...

I think this pretty much cements the notion that AR15s are in "common use" per  Heller . 80% AR15 lower receiver at Amazon.com ....