Day: September 8, 2011

Notes from JWR:

Today (September 8, 2011), is the last day of Safecastle’s 25% sale on Mountain House freeze-dried long term storage foods in cans (and pouches, too). Place your order before the sale ends! — Today we present another entry for Round 36 of the SurvivalBlog non-fiction writing contest. The prizes for this round include: First Prize: A.) A course certificate from onPoint Tactical. This certificate will be for the prize winner’s choice of three-day civilian courses. (Excluding those restricted for military or government teams.) Three day onPoint courses normally cost $795, and B.) Two cases of Mountain House freeze dried assorted …


Making Your Range Time Real Time — Train as You’ll Fight!, by H.R.

When you go to the range, whether it is in your or a friends backyard, at a local indoor or outdoor range how do you practice?  What do you practice?  Do you just put lead downrange as fast as you can in hopes that it hits the target because people are around and you want to sound like you know what you are doing (this is way more common than you might think)?  There are some things that I would like to put out to everyone that I hope can help you out in your range training. There are many …


Letter Re: An Early Baby Boomer’s Bug Out Bag

Mr. Rawles,  I am a long time reader and prepper, first time letter writer, Army Nurse Corps veteran.  Your ministry has personally blessed my family of six in numerous way. I thank you, your sons and daughters, your late wife (The Memsahib) and you new wife Avalanche Lily for mentoring all of us.  As a registered nurse, I read this latest article with great interest and wanted to add some information regarding the bandages and dressings that were recommended in this letter.  Jen L. wrote “Whenever you go to physical therapy or to donate blood, they give you those bright …


Two Letters Re: CONEX Shipping Containers as Faraday Enclosures?

Mr. Rawles, I was running a detail earlier today when I noticed that we were loading items into an all-steel QUADCON. As we were, I remembered the letter from the other da, asking about the possibility of using a CONEX as a Faraday cage. The dimensions aren’t as big as the 40′ CONEX are, but four of them put together equal the space of a 20′ MILVAN container. The downside to this container is the two openings, one on each end. However, a good solid weld on one side could do the trick. The RF gaskets that you mentioned could …


Economics and Investing:

Over at Dr. Housing Bubble: The California contradiction – Record high unemployment and highest home prices in the nation. Lorimer Wilson: These 100 Analysts Now Say Gold Will Go to $5,000/ oz. – or More! Michael Z. Williamson (SurvivalBlog’s Editor at Large) sent this: Should U.S. Become Biggest Landlord? G.G. sent this: Restaurants want a piece of food stamp pie Marleen from Holland recommended this news from Greece: Pensioners turn back to living off the land Items from The Economatrix: Stocks Fall Again as Europe’s Debt Worries Deepen Oil Tumbles on Fears of Economic Slump Service Firms Grew at Slightly …


Odds ‘n Sods:

K.A.F. liked this piece over at Coffee With a Hermit: Woman crashes into police building with carjacking suspect on her hood    o o o File under Bureaucratic Nincompoops: Feds to assume control of Bastrop County fire; volunteer firemen turned away    o o o IDF general: Likelihood of regional war growing. (Thanks to K.A.F. for the link.)    o o o The folks at Camping Survival have announced a Paracord Giveaway. Describe your favorite paracord project, or list some of your favorite uses for paracord and how you execute them, and you can win a 1,000 foot roll of …


Jim’s Quote of the Day:

“This is the darkest hour before dawn and we should never underestimate monetary authorities’ ability to deal with the adversity.” – Dr. Gideon Gono, Governor of the Reserve Bank of Zimbabwe. (As quoted in 2008, as he orchestrated massive hyperinflation that inevitably brought the value of the Zimbabwean Dollar to zero.)