Day: August 20, 2021

Preparedness Notes for Friday — August 20, 2021

August 20th, 1866 is the day that President Andrew Johnson formally declared the Civil War over. — August 20th, 1935 was the birthday of former Congressman Ron Paul.  Dr. Paul is to be commended for fighting the good fight for many years. — Some sad news: Journalist Joe Galloway, chronicler of Vietnam War, dies. — The last day!  Today is the last day of a two-week sale at Elk Creek Company. In honor of gun designer James Paris Lee’s birthday, I’ve set sales prices with discounts from 5% to 25% on nearly all of our inventory. With the recent drop …


Your AR-15 For Hunting Deer, by Behind The Counter

Even a casual reader of SurvivalBlog over the last several years has seen a number of excellent articles on deer hunting. While deer can be a valuable supplement to food storage in more or less normal times, most of these articles have made commonsense arguments that it would be a serious mistake to plan on venison as a staple in a true TEOTWAWKI event. There are some rural parts of the Redoubt where deer may continue to be abundant at least for some time, but in the more populous Midwestern farming states, along the East Coast, and in the South, …


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 look at currency revaluations real and rumored–in Venezuela, Vietnam, and Iraq. (See the Forex & Cryptos section.) Precious Metals: First up, there is this, posted over at Gold-Eagle: UBS is calling for lower levels in gold. o  o  o Afghanistan tensions and gold, here’s what to watch for – MKS PAMP …