SurvivalBlog presents another edition of The Survivalist’s Odds ‘n Sods— a collection of news bits and pieces that are relevant to the modern survivalist and prepper from “JWR [1]”. Our goal is to educate our readers, to help them to recognize emerging threats, and to be better prepared for both disasters and negative societal trends. You can’t mitigate a risk if you haven’t first identified a risk.
Today, a special column with technical specifications, manuals, maps, and assorted how-to resources and references for various prepper gear and prepper-related topics. My advice is to find a waterproof USB stick with at least 16 GB of free space, and then on some quiet 3-day weekend, load it up!
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The Manual for Your Baofeng UV-5R
A user manual for your Baofeng UV-5R [2].
Instruction Manuals Online
Instruction Manuals Online [3]. More than 100,000 manuals — all in one place.
Steve’s Pages — Free Gun Manuals
Steve’s Pages [4] has hundreds of gun manuals (military and civilian) available for free download.
Internet Archive: US Military Manual Collection
The Internet Archive (Archive.org): US Military Manual Collection [5].
JWR’s FAQs
FAQs and Reference Articles by James Wesley, Rawles [6].
Survival Dan’s Site
At SurvivalDan’s Site: Survival Library— The Best 100 PDFs That You Can Download For Free [7].
Seasoned Citizen Prepper’s Library
Free Survival PDFs, Manuals, and Downloads (2021 Update) [8]
Sources for Free Survival and Preparedness Information on the Internet
This 2008 article in the SurvivalBlog archives is still fairly useful: Sources for Free Survival and Preparedness Information on the Internet, by K.L. in Alaska [9].
USGS Maps Download Site
How do I find, download, or order topographic maps? [10]
Some Free Homesteading Books
Homesteadimng Today: What Homesteading Books Have Free Downloads? [11]
More Free Homesteading Books
Fifty Free Farmstead eBooks [12].
The Forgotten Weapons Videos Series
Ian McCollum’s great series of videos: Forgotten Weapons [13].
The Spanish 1893 Mauser
A lengthy and detailed piece, by the folks at C&Rsenal: Small Arms of WWI Primer 143: Spanish Mauser 1893 [14]. The more important distinctions start at the 25:30 mark. It bears mentioning that nearly half of my rifle inventory at Elk Creek Company [15] is of the 1893/94/95 Mauser pattern. It was a brilliant design.
While you are visiting there, check out the many other very informative videos from C&Rsenal.
How to Download a YouTube Video to a Flash Drive
In case you are wondering: Here is how to Download a YouTube Video to a Flash Drive [16].
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You can send your news tips to JWR [1]. (Either via e-mail or via our Contact [17] form.) Thanks!