Day: January 23, 2025

Preparedness Notes for Thursday — January 23, 2025

January 23, 1855 was the birthday of John Moses Browning. He was the brilliant designer of dozens of guns, including the Model 1911 .45 ACP pistol, Browning Automatic Rifle (BAR), the Auto-5 shotgun (pictured with designer, above), and the venerable M2 .50 Caliber Browning Machinegun.  Variants of all four of these are still in production, more than a century later. Today is also the birthday of my #2 Grandson. His coincidental “Browning Birthday” has ensured that he will inherit a disproportionately large portion of my guns that are Browning designs. – JWR — Sales of the new 2005-2024 SurvivalBlog waterproof …


Preparing For The Post-Apocalyptic Economy – Part 1, by 3AD Scout

One of my survival planning assumptions is that regardless of my stored goods and planning, “Murphy” will appear with the proverbial monkey wrench in hand. At some point, my food stores will wear thin and, something will break along with its spares. Amazon and the local Acme hardware will long be a thing of the past. What is a Prepper to do? Well, like everything we do for our future survival, we ponder, plan and prepare for those contingencies. Bartering is probably about as old as the Earth’s soil. Even with all our economic advances through the centuries, bartering is …


The Survivalist’s Odds ‘n Sods

SurvivalBlog presents another edition of The Survivalist’s Odds ‘n Sods. This column is a collection of news bits and pieces that are relevant to the modern survivalist and prepper from JWR. 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. In today’s column, a further examination of Avian Influenza. Bird Flu: 20 Million Dead Chickens in US Reader C.B. sent this: Bird flu kills 20 million chickens in US, driving egg …


The Editors’ Quote of the Day:

“In view of the Constitution, in the eye of the law, there is in this country no superior, dominant, ruling class of citizens. There is no caste here. Our Constitution is colorblind, and neither knows nor tolerates classes among citizens. In respect of civil rights, all citizens are equal before the law. The humblest is the peer of the most powerful.” – John Marshall Harlan, 1896