The winner of the most recent SurvivalBlog benefit auction was L.P., with a $280 bid for a fully tested and recently professionally calibrated U.S. government surplus Civil Defense CD V-717 fallout survey meter with remote sensing capability. The meter was donated by Ready Made Resources (one of our first and most loyal advertisers).
A new benefit auction begins today, and ends November 15th. This one is for a used but very scarce autographed copy of the non-fiction book Survival Guns by Mel Tappan. Because Mel led a very private life, he made few public appearances and never sold copies of his books directly from his home address. Consequently, autographed copies of his books are very scarce! This particular copy is dated January 1976 by Mel (a first edition) and inscribed to Dane Andrews, an engineer at CCI/Speer in Lewiston, Idaho, who had provided Mel some technical input for the book. Also enclosed is a handwritten thank you note from Mel Tappan. I was very fortunate to have found this copy by chance in a bin of used gun books several years ago when I was at a gun show in Moscow, Idaho. The opening bid for the auction is just $20. Please submit your bid via e-mail.