Category: Note

Homestead Drying Racks is having a Memorial Day sale featuring a 15% discount and shipping at no extra charge on any of their drying racks for the weekend. The Gundersons recently purchased this business from another long time SurvivalBlog advertiser, and they are doing a stand up job. Enter the code memorial15 at checkout to get your savings. o o o Today, we present another entry for Round 58 of the SurvivalBlog non-fiction writing contest. The $12,000+ worth of prizes for this round include: First Prize: A Gunsite Academy Three Day Course Certificate, good for any one, two, or three …

Today is the birthday of weapons designer John Douglas Pedersen, (born 1881, died 1951). o o o Today, we present another entry for Round 58 of the SurvivalBlog non-fiction writing contest. The $12,000+ worth of 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), 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.) Three day onPoint courses normally cost $795, DRD Tactical is providing a 5.56 …

May 20th, 1942 was the birthday of Carlos Hathcock, who was a United States Marine Corps Gunnery Sergeant sniper with a service record of 93 confirmed kills. He died February 23, 1999. o o o Today, we present another entry for Round 58 of the SurvivalBlog non-fiction writing contest. The $12,000+ worth of 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), A course certificate from onPoint Tactical. This certificate will be for the prize winner’s choice of three-day civilian courses. (Excluding those restricted …

Ready Made Resourcesis currently running their 25-40% off Mountain House sale. It’s a good time to stock up! o o o Today, we present another entry for Round 58 of the SurvivalBlog non-fiction writing contest. The $12,000+ worth of 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), 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.) Three day onPoint courses normally cost $795, DRD Tactical …

May 18th, 1825 was the birthday of Daniel B. Wesson (of Smith and Wesson fame). o o o Safecastle has launched a big Mountain House sale called the Road Warrior Bounty Sale. Not only do they have MH discounts of up to 32% with shipping included, but there is a long list of items thrown in for members qualifying purchases, just because they can. Check them out.

On this day in 1769, George Washington launched a legislative salvo at Great Britain’s fiscal and judicial attempts to maintain its control over the American colonies. He brought a package of non-importation resolutions, drafted by George Mason, before the Virginia House of Burgesses. This initiated a chain of events that led to Britain’s House of Lords demanding that men involved in the extra-legal Massachusetts convention of towns be tried in England. Britain’s plan backfired and created an American identity where before there had been none.

SurvivalBlog just successfully weathered our fourth hack attack in the past five years. A reminder, folks: You need to bookmark and/or write down our two prominent dotted quad addresses. Why? Because far greater malice on the Internet might someday be perpetrated by the Hitlery Clintons of the world, who could direct their bureaucratic minions to steal domain names from their rightful owners, all in the name of “fairness”. I can anticipate something far worse than the pranks of a few malicious hackers: That would be a deranged government doing horrible things to our First Amendment rights under color of law, …

Mad Max: Fury Road opens today. It looks very high octane!

With over 30 million turkeys and chickens killed due to Avian Flu and with the disease apparently spreading and driving the cost of meat up, Yoders canned meats are Amish made, high quality, and an excellent way to avoid the whole issue. Get them at Ready Made Resources while they are on sale! o o o Today, we present another entry for Round 58 of the SurvivalBlog non-fiction writing contest. The $12,000+ worth of 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), A …

May 13 is the birthday of firearms engineer Theodor Koch (born 1905, died 1976). Koch, along with Edmund Heckler and Alex Seidel, salvaged tooling from the bombed-out Mauser factory at Oberndorf, and with it founded Heckler und Koch. o o o Safecastle is having a sale on canned butter, chesses, and Ghee right now. Dairy is a necessity in your pantry, and these real dairy products need no refrigeration. While you are there, check out their Katadyn Pocket filters on sale through May. o o o Today, we present another entry for Round 58 of the SurvivalBlog non-fiction writing contest. …

The Freeze Dry Guy is currently having a sale on LRP Western Eggs with Ham Entree, and they only have 100 cases left. Normally $159, it’s on sale for $95. LRP are special freeze dried rations, manufactured in limited numbers and usually only issued to special operation unit members. They are compressed and vacuum packed so they stack nicely in your backpack and allow the maximum amount of food to be carried. They’re great for a bug out bag! o o o Today, we present another entry for Round 58 of the SurvivalBlog non-fiction writing contest. The $12,000+ worth of …

On May 11, 1949, Israel was admitted into the United Nations.

May 10th is the birthday of the late Col. Jeff Cooper (born 1920, died September 25, 2006). May 10th is also the birthday of the late Janis Pinups (born 1925, died 15 June 2007). He was one of the last of the Forest Brothers anti-communist resistance fighters. He came out of hiding, after five decades, to obtain a Latvian passport in 1994, after the collapse of eastern European communism. (He was never issued any communist government identity papers and by necessity lived as a nonexistent ghost during the entire Soviet occupation of Latvia.)

Today, we present another entry for Round 58 of the SurvivalBlog non-fiction writing contest. The $12,000+ worth of 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), 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.) Three day onPoint courses normally cost $795, DRD Tactical is providing a 5.56 NATO QD Billet upper with a hammer forged, chromlined barrel and a hard case to go with …

May 8th is the birthday of missionary and U.S. military intelligence officer John Birch (born 1918, died August 25, 1945). He is considered by many to be the first American casualty of the Cold War. o o o Seed for Security is running a great sale. Their Super Survival Pack is now 20% off. It’s a total of four pounds of survival seeds and two pints of healthful grains, all packaged for long-term storage. Their seed is heirloom, non GMO, and none is hybrid. This offer is for a limited time. o o o Today, we present another entry for …