Category: Note

The 25% to 35% off sale for Mountain House canned long term storage foods at Ready Made Resources will end at midnight on Monday February 18th. Be sure to place your order before this sale ends! — Today we present another entry for Round 45 of the SurvivalBlog non-fiction writing contest. The 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.) B.) A course certificate from onPoint Tactical. This certificate will be for the prize winner’s choice of three-day civilian courses. (Excluding those restricted …

The 25% to 35% off sales for Mountain House canned long term storage foods with free shipping and bonuses will end tonight (Friday, February 15, 2013) at Safecastle and on February 18th at Ready Made Resources. Be sure to place your order before these sales end! — Today we present another entry for Round 45 of the SurvivalBlog non-fiction writing contest. The 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.) B.) A course certificate from onPoint Tactical. This certificate will be for the …

February 14th is the birthday of Medal of Honor recipient Jack Lucas (born 1928, died June 5, 2008). During the Iwo Jima campaign this 17 year-old won the Medal of Honor “for unhesitatingly hurling himself over his comrades upon one grenade and for pulling another one under himself. One of the grenades exploded, and Lucas absorbed the entire blasting force of it with his own body.” PFC Lucas was the youngest Marine ever to receive the Medal of Honor. (He was just just 13 when he forged his mother’s signature, to enlist.) — Now a bit long in the tooth …

The big 25% to 35% off sales for Mountain House canned long term storage foods with free shipping and further bonuses are continuing at both Ready Made Resources and Safecastle. (Both companies are long-time SurvivalBlog advertisers and highly recommended. The overlap in their sales was a coincidence.) Be sure to place your order before these sales end! — Today is the birthday of two notable men: Robert Charles “R.C.” Sproul (born 1939), a well-respected American Calvinist theologian and, General Chuck Yeager (born, 1923), the first man to break the sound barrier. — Today we present another entry for Round 45 …

I’m pleased to report than more than 10,000 copies of the First Revised Edition of Patriots: A Novel of Survival in the Coming Collapse have been sold since its release on November 26, 2012. This is the first time that the book has been printed with a cloth (hardback) binding. I updated the book slightly to remove some temporal incongruities that had built up in the course of previous editions, and added a new introduction. As with the later paperback editions, it includes a glossary and index. — Today we present another two entries for Round 45 of the SurvivalBlog …

Today is the birthday of the late Burt Blumert (born February 11, 1929 in New York City, died March 30, 2009.) He once owned Camino Coin Company. (Coincidentally, so did former congressman Dr. Ron Paul from 1984 to 1996.) I was a Camino customer before the turn of the century. I can remember Burt personally helping me dolly out my first purchase of 100-ounce Engelhard bars. That was back when they cost just $580 each. Those were the days. (The same bars now sell for more than $3,200 each.) — Today’s first feature article is by our Back Country Editor, …

For my readers in the northeast: I hope that you were ready for the big winter storm, which is dumping record snowfall. Please help your neighbors who didn’t plan ahead. — February 10th is the birthday of Zvi “Zvika” Greengold (born 1952), a Centurion tank commander who was one of Israel’s most notable heroes of the Yom Kippur War. He was awarded Israel’s highest decoration, the Medal of Valor. — Today we present another entry for Round 45 of the SurvivalBlog non-fiction writing contest. The prizes for this round include: First Prize: A.) Gunsite Academy Three Day Course Certificate, good …

Today is the birthday of Major George Nonte (Born 1926, died June 30, 1978.) He was a prolific gun writer. I had the privilege of attending ROTC Basic Camp at Fort Knox, Kentucky in the same Company with his daughter Yvette, in 1981. Some of the stories that she told me about her late father were amazing. He was quite a guy. Yvette Nonte went on to a distinguished career in Army Intelligence, retiring as a Colonel. — Today we present another two entries for Round 45 of the SurvivalBlog non-fiction writing contest. The prizes for this round include: First …

Today we present another entry for Round 45 of the SurvivalBlog non-fiction writing contest. The 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.) B.) 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, and C.) Two cases of Mountain House freeze dried assorted entrees in #10 cans, courtesy of Ready Made Resources. (A $350 value.) D.) a $300 …

Today we present another entry for Round 45 of the SurvivalBlog non-fiction writing contest. The 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.) B.) 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, and C.) Two cases of Mountain House freeze dried assorted entrees in #10 cans, courtesy of Ready Made Resources. (A $350 value.) D.) a $300 …

A special note to Wyoming Citizens: Three pending pro-gun bills are in peril: HB103, HB104, and HB105. I heard from a reader: “They have cleared the [Wyoming] house but have  been assigned to two committees on the senate side: Education and Judiciary. These are committees that are have majority members leaning to the left on this issue. We need them to hear loud and clear that these are great landmark bills for the state of Wyoming and this nation.” Please contact your Wyoming House representatives! (This web page provides a way to do so.) — Today we present another entry …

My Rawles Gets You Ready Preparedness Course was out of print for nearly three years, but I’m pleased to report that it is available again, via digital download. Because of the efficiency of digital delivery, it now available at just a fraction of the price that had been charged for the original hard copy binder edition. The course was designed for beginning and intermediate preppers, with this premise: Could you prepare your family for a major disaster, with just one or two trips to your local COSTCO or Sam’s Club store? In the course I describe exactly how to do …

Ready Made Resources begins their bi-annual on sale on Mountain House freeze dried #10 cans, today, Monday February 4th. This is a sale on Mountain House freeze dried foods in #10 cans, discounted the maximum-allowed 25%. Mountain House is allowing an additional 10% discount for select varieties including Diced Chicken, Diced Beef, Ground Beef, Cottage Cheese, Raw Egg Mix-Uncooked, and Scrambled Eggs with Ham and Peppers, for a total of 35% off those items. In addition, since they warehouse most of their inventory, Ready Made Resources is willing to mix and match entrees, so that customers do not have to …

Safecastle has begun their Maximum Mountain House Sale, with every Mountain House freeze dried #10 can listing discounted the maximum-allowed 25%. Beyond that, Mountain House is allowing an additional 10% discount for select varieties including Diced Chicken, Diced Beef, Ground Beef, Cottage Cheese, Raw Egg Mix-Uncooked, and Scrambled Eggs with Ham and Peppers. That’s 35% off those items. — Today we present another two entries for Round 45 of the SurvivalBlog non-fiction writing contest. The 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.) …

This is the birthday of novelist Ayn Rand (born Alisa Zinov’yevna Rosenbaum in 1905), died – March 6, 1982) She is of course remembered for her novel Atlas Shrugged, which is considered a Libertarian classic. While I sharply disagree with her views on religion (since she was an atheist), I admire both her skill as a writer and her ability to articulate some core precepts of human liberty. — Today we present the first entry for Round 45 of the SurvivalBlog non-fiction writing contest. The prizes for this round include: First Prize: A.) Gunsite Academy Three Day Course Certificate, good …