Day: May 17, 2021

Preparedness Notes for Monday — May 17, 2021

A Reminder: We are running our Jeff Cooper’s Birthday Sale at Elk Creek Company. The sale began on May 10th (Cooper’s birthday) and ends on May 21st, 2021. Our inventory is diminishing, so order soon. This is the time to round out your collection of pre-1899 Federally-exempt guns!  I’ve reduced the prices on more than half of my pre-1899 gun inventory, and nearly all of my replica percussion-fired revolvers. — Today, we present a review by our Redoubtable Field Gear Editor, Pat Cascio.    


CRKT Woods Chogan, by Pat Cascio

There are a lot of tools that are very suitable for survival purposes, as well as for just plain fun, and self-defense. In the past, I’ve mentioned that, in a hand-to-hand combat situation, as much as I love a good fighting knife – I designed several myself – I would prefer a well-made and well-balanced tomahawk (“t-hawk”) of some type. First of all, you will have a much longer reach, to get at your attacker, than you would with a knife. Secondly, there is a lot more “umph” behind a tomahawk that is swung at an attacker, And, of course, …


Recipe of the Week: Bear’s Breakfast Cookies

The following breakfast cookie recipe is from SurvivalBlog reader “Bear”. Bear says: This can hardly even be called a recipe. I like it because it is so easy, pretty healthy, my kids eat it well, it’s good to make ahead and have for grab-and-go in the mornings, and it’s infinitely scale-able and incredibly customizable. It was originally called “Three-Ingredient Cookies” but often around here they turn into four- or five-ingredient, because, well, I’m a rebel. LOL. So:   1) Grab some ripe bananas, either fresh or frozen. I would imagine that rehydrated freeze-dried bananas would also be fine, but have …


Economics & Investing For Preppers

Here are the latest news items and commentary on current economics news, market trends, stocks, investing opportunities, and the precious metals markets. We also cover hedges, derivatives, and obscura. Most of these items are from the “tangibles heavy” contrarian perspective of SurvivalBlog’s Founder and Senior Editor, JWR. Today, we further examine price inflation. Precious Metals: Mike Gleason: Wall Street Roiled By Hot Inflation Data: Is This REALLY “Transitory”? o  o  o Peter Krauth: Silver to $300 Economy & Finance: Inflation Nation: Consumer Prices Jump 4.2 Percent o  o  o At Zero Hedge: US Core Consumer Prices Explode Higher At Fastest …


The Editors’ Quote of the Day:

“The point is, this kind of ideological conditioning is happening everywhere, every day, on the job, among friends, even among families. The pressure to conform is intense, because nothing is more threatening to devoted cultists, or members of totalitarian ideological movements, than those who challenge their fundamental beliefs, confront them with facts, or otherwise demonstrate that their “reality” isn’t reality at all, but, rather, a delusional, paranoid fiction. The key difference between how this works in cults and totalitarian ideological movements is that, usually, a cult is a subcultural group, and thus non-cult-members have the power of the ideology of …