Day: March 14, 2012

Notes from JWR:

This is the last day of Ready Made Resources’ sale on Mountain House canned freeze dried foods. They are offering 25% off and free shipping. The sale ends at midnight Eastern time, so order soon! — Today we present two more entries for Round 39 of the SurvivalBlog non-fiction writing contest. The prizes for this round include: First Prize: A.) A gift certificate worth $1,000, courtesy of Spec Ops Brand, B.) 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 …


A Parent’s Guide to Surviving School Rampage Shootings, by Greg Ellifritz

I walked into the high school wearing two guns and a bullet resistant vest.  I had a rifle, six spare magazines, and a ballistic helmet stashed close by in my car.  It was Wednesday, April 21, 1999, the day after what had been the worst school shooting in United States history.  Two high school kids had just killed 12 of their fellow students and a teacher at Columbine High School in Colorado.  The television was awash in the news coverage and everyone was scared. Parents, students, and teachers were worried about a copycat shooting in the town where I worked …


Family Planning, Post-TEOTWAWKI, by Lisa F.

Bring to mind one of the post-TEOTWAWKI scenarios you most frequently imagine, be it the after-effects of a worldwide flu pandemic, series of natural disasters, economic collapse, or nuclear war.  Is this a world into which you’d want to bring children?  At least for the short-term aftermath, I bet you wouldn’t.  Not while you may be on the move or actively defending your retreat or community from danger.  However…”birds do it, bees do it, even educated fleas do it”…c’mon, sing along with me and Cole Porter…”let’s do it, let’s fall in love!”  As the song says, love is natural and …


Letter Re: After the Shooting

Dear JWR: In response to Tupreco’s After the Shooting submission in SurvivalBlog, I have two observations to offer:   1: None of the scenarios or situations in that essay reasonably described those I’ve encountered in the aftermath of three separate lethal force incidents. Happily, in two of those, there were multiple witnesses, so the situation was pretty far removed from the Home Alone scenarios so described in Tupreco’s thoughts. That is not to say that they aren’t valid, in some locales; just an observation that in some areas, things may not go nearly as simply as described; in others, the investigatory process …


Two Letters Re: Pat’s Product Review: SIG Sauer P226 MK25

Mr. Rawles,  A couple points of interest regarding Pat’s article on the P226.  I’ve owned a P226 Extreme for over a year now, and I love it.  Pat’s review was dead on in analyzing the gun’s performance.  As for the Mecgar magazines and their apparently magical ability to fit three extra rounds in practically the same space, the trick is in the construction of the follower and length of the spring.  Mecgar played a clever trick on geometry that allows the follower to seat farther down the body of the magazine on top of the fully compressed spring when it’s …


Economics and Investing:

K.P. sent a link to a guest post by Jeff Clarke of Casey Research, over at Zero Hedge: Time to Accumulate Gold and Silver? Uncle Sam’s Teaser Rate: Low interest rates disguise the federal debt bomb. (Thanks to G.G. for the link.) J.K. in Florida sent this: Trade Issues with China Flare Anew Items from The Economatrix: Warning of “Real” Anger at Banks Greek Debt Swap Could Be Short-lived Reprieve Alert From European Investment Banker Handicapping The Collapse


Odds ‘n Sods:

J.K. sent this: Three American Redoubt Cities Top List of America’s Top Micropolitan Areas: Bozeman, Helena and Gillette    o o o And speaking of Bozeman: Urban chickens not causing flap    o o o A bit of bad news: I’ve heard that SI Defense as well as CMMG have both dropped production of their AR-10 variants that could use ubiquitous HK G3 magazines. Oh well, Plan B will be for me to buy a few Rock River LAR-8s. Those are AR-10 variants that can use L1A1 and FAL magazines. That way, I’d have AR-10 magazine commonality with my L1A1s …