A web search turned up this old article by Grits Gresham about Idaho’s famous back country solitary “Buckskin Bill” (Sylvan Hart) o o o The high bid is currently $110 in the SurvivalBlog Bandwidth Fund benefit Book Auction. Please e-mail your bids before May 30th. Thanks to Kurt and Angie Wilson of Survival Enterprises for sponsoring this fund raiser! o o o A site that tracks the intrinsic (base metal) value of U.S. circulating coinage and circulated silver coinage.
"There is nothing so likely to produce peace as to be well prepared to meet the enemy." – George Washington
Jim: Can you or one of the gang offer some advice? We live in a nicely secluded area, but are all electric. We have a well. Our well man says it is impractical and very costly to install a hand pump on our present well setup. What would be a practical procedure to utilize a small generator to power the water well when/if the power goes down for a week or so, for short term use. Do we need an electrician to hook things up, and exactly what? I realize, long-term, greater expense will be needed, and it is in …
Dear Mr. Rawles: To amplify on some of your points is a recent reply to a reader letter, here is some data; Number 4 [bird] shot is .13 inch in diameter. Number 4 buckshot (BK) is .24 inch in diameter and weighs 20.5 grains. (one pound avoirdupois is equal to 7,000 grains, 437.5 grains is equivalent to one ounce.) OO BK is .33 inch in diameter and weighs 53 grains. We have several levels of power in buckshot loads. Lets look at 12 gauge 2-3/4 and 3 inch shells. 2-3/4 inch standard OO BK has 9 pellets at 1,325 feet …
Mr. Rawles: Concerning an advertiser on your site. I have done business with George over at The Pre-1899 Specialist and have had outstanding results. Without getting into specifics I bought from him and the Post Office managed to damage my order severely. I notified George and as always received a very swift and positive response. All was made right and I couldn’t be more satisfied. All was sent as advertised and in perfect (except for the gorillas at the USPS) working order. The prices were great too. I am looking forward to doing more business with George in the future. …
Mike R. recommended this site about Ancient Turf Homes o o o The high bid is currently $98 in the SurvivalBlog Bandwidth Fund benefit Auction. Please e-mail your bids before May 30th. Thanks to Kurt and Angie Wilson of Survival Enterprises for sponsoring this fund raiser! o o o I just added another 30+ U.S. Army manuals to my mail order catalog. o o o The Bush administration has released its “National Strategy for Pandemic Influenza Implementation Plan“
“The three most important things to look for when searching for a church home are doctrine, doctrine, and doctrine. If your main criteria are ‘programs’ and ‘outreach’ to this or that niche group, then in my opinion you are starting your search the wrong way.” – James Wesley, Rawles
James: I have a reply to SurvivalBlog reader John Z.’s comment on Untapped North American Oil Reserves What many non-geoligist/chemist oil commentators forget (likely are fighting a political and economic panic) when they feel safe in our huge North American reserves is the problem of either extraction or processing. Most of the light sweet crude (easy to extract transport and crack) has already been discovered I do not know of any new light sweets (of any size) in over 10 years. Heavy sour requires different less efficient chemistry in the refining process (much more sulfur) and the USA only has …
Hello Jim, We now know that cats and dogs can contract the [Asian] bird flu from ingesting contaminated/infected meat. What about fish in open ponds with infected ducks and geese contaminating the water? I have not heard anything about it, but wonder what might happen. Food for thought? – Mike in Michigan JWR Replies: Answering that goes far beyond my expertise. Perhaps some of our readers who are doctors (preferably with an epidemiology background) would care to comment.
Jim, I have read a couple of the posts regarding folding knives. As my grandmother once told me, “A man is never fully dressed without a pocket knife.” I own several different knives for several different occasions. Depending on my needs and dress, I can carry a variety of knives from the simple folder dress knife to some big mamba jamba tactical folder that would slice an elephant in half. Right now, I have a Benchmade Mel Pardue folder in my pocket and an Emerson LaGriff around my neck. Some of the other brands I own are Cold Steel, Columbia …
Today is the U.S. National Day of Prayer. o o o There have already been some bids in the auction that just started yesterday for last remaining autographed copy of my novel “Patriots: Surviving the Coming Collapse” from the inventory at Survival Enterprises. The proceeds of the auction will benefit the SurvivalBlog bandwidth fund. The high bid is currently $50. Please e-mail your bids before May 30th. Thanks to Kurt and Angie Wilson of Survival Enterprises for sponsoring this fund raiser! o o o The silver market remains very volatile. Yesterday, there was a huge $1.20 per ounce …
"The last duty of a central banker is to tell the public the truth." – Alan Blinder, Vice Chairman of the Federal Reserve, on the PBS Nightly Business Report, in 1994
Note From JWR: During the month of May, we are auctioning the last remaining new autographed copy of my novel “Patriots: Surviving the Coming Collapse” from the inventory at Survival Enterprises. The proceeds of the auction will benefit the SurvivalBlog bandwidth fund. The names of the bidders (including the winning bidder) will be kept anonymous. The opening is bid is just $5. Please e-mail your bids, in $1 increments. The current bidding will be mentioned in our “Odd’s ‘n Sods” entries. Our special thanks to Kurt and Angie Wilson of Survival Enterprises for sponsoring this contest. BTW, be sure to …
Sir, I cannot speak higher praise than for the Benchmade line of folding knives, specifically those with the Axis Lock mechanism. $100 may seem steep to some for a folding pocket knife, but its one of two tools I use every single day, and potentially might have to trust my life to some day. The only folding blade I’ve found with a lock I trust that much is the axis. The two specific models I favor are the Ares and the AFCK. I have done things with these knives one should probably never attempt with a folder, but they continue …
Jim: Regarding US dependence on oil, and all of our concerns about it, I have done a little research on it. My conclusion is that the liberals inadvertently saved us some reserves by blocking the removal of oil in some of our largest reserves; the US also has 77 percent of the world’s oil shale reserve. This along with the reserves in Canada (the second largest oil reserve in the world) should put the US in good field position for years to come. See: http://www.news10.net/storyfull2.aspx?storyid=17270 http://www.news10.net/video/player2.aspx?aid=27196 http://home.earthlink.net/~oilandyou/ http://www.infoplease.com/ipa/A0872964.html If there is a collapse it won’t be based on the lack of this natural resource. I …