Day: October 4, 2013

Notes from JWR:

Today is the birthday of the late Charlton Heston (born in 1923 as John Charles Carter,) a well-known American actor and past president of the NRA. He died April 5, 2008. — Today we present another entry for Round 48 of the SurvivalBlog non-fiction writing contest. The prizes for this round include: First Prize: A.) Gunsite Academy Three Day Course Certificate, good for any one, two, or three course. (A $1,195 value.) 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.) …


Loading Your Own Ammunition, by Ken in Montana

With the current shortage of ammunition and the consequent high prices, it makes more sense now than ever before to learn how to reload your own fired brass casings.  I even suspect that in the future, this may well be the only way for the ordinary citizen to obtain ammunition. It’s not at all difficult, it only requires a little understanding of the process, and the ability to follow directions. This will become very important later, as each caliber requires its own set of powders, charges, primers, and bullets. No one can learn them all, there are millions of potential …


Letter Re: Prepping and a Terminal Cancer Diagnosis

JWR, We’ve been preppers since the late 1970s when we were living in a New Jersey seaside apartment and our long term food was stored under furniture in a 400 square foot apartment.  After that a job relocation to a more rural area enabled us to buy a 35 acre fixer-upper farm where we lived for 16 years and learned how to garden, raise livestock, heat with wood, and become generally self-sufficient.  Then we bought our second rundown farm in upstate New York (we were suckers for fixing up dilapidated farmhouses) and started up a commercial sheep operation on 360 …


Economics and Investing:

Market anxiety: Stocks tank, CDS derivatives spike… Reader H.W. sent: Here’s How Much The Obamacare Penalty Tax Will Cost You… Mike Adams: Continued shutdown, paralyzed politicians reveal just how close the U.S. government is to total collapse We are also warned: McAfee: Exchanges Will Become Target Of Hackers And Identity Thieves The World Over US shutdown worries world media Items from The Economatrix: Government Shutdown: The Next Step In The Collapse Of The Dollar? Detroit Defaults On More Than $600 Million Of ‘Unsecured’ GO Bonds Postal Service Defaults On $5.6 Billion Payment


Odds ‘n Sods:

An early winter? Winter Storm Atlas Forecast: Snow to Impact Montana, Idaho, Colorado, Wyoming, South Dakota, Western Nebraska ?    o o o Reader “MM1” suggested this well-reasoned piece by Ross Gilmore: Living Off The Land: Delusions and Misconceptions About Hunting and Gathering    o o o H.L. was the first of several readers to send this: Fencing coach uses sword to foil robbery    o o o Dr. Koelker, SurvivalBlog’s Medical Editor is offering some more Survival Medicine classes with suturing, casting, minor surgery, office labs, radiation threats, and much more. The dates are: October 18-20 and November 15-17, 2013. …