Hooray! The Best of the Blog, Volume 1 is now orderable! Thanks for your patience, folks. This volume covers the first six months of SurvivalBlog posts, from August, 2005 to January, 2006. This period included some of the most important SurvivalBlog posts that spell out all of the crucial steps for family preparedness. Also included in this volume is The SurvivalBlog Glossary. In all, a whopping 295 pages of useful, no-nonsense “how-to” information. Fully indexed! Wire-o bound. (Lays flat for easy reference.) To make it easy to find what you need, the book is organized by subject area, rather than chronologically. Available as a print-on-demand book from Cafe Press. (The same folks that publish Rawles on Retreats and Relocation.) Someday the power grid may be down, but you can still have all the crucial SurvivalBlog material at your fingertips! Order your copy today!
Here is the Table of Contents for The Best of the Blog, Volume 1:
| Introduction | 7 |
| Part 1: The “Worst Case” and the Survival Mindset | 9 |
| Part 2: Retreat Logistics: Beans, Bullets, and Band-Aids | 25 |
| Part 3: Gardening and Livestock | 49 |
| Part 4: Retreat Security and Self Defense | 71 |
| Part 5: Retreat Locales | 105 |
| Part 6: Communications and Monitoring | 111 |
| Part 7: Food Storage and Cooking | 121 |
| Part 8: Fuel Storage | 133 |
| Part 9: Vehicles | 143 |
| Part 10: G.O.O.D. and Bug Out Considerations | 153 |
| Part 11: First Aid, Medical, Sanitation, and Physical Fitness | 163 |
| Part 12: Recent Experiences and Emerging Threats | 187 |
| Part 13: Self-Sufficiency and Home-Based Businesses | 197 |
| Part 14: Investing, Economics, and Barter | 215 |
| Part 15: Gleanings from the Odds ‘n Sods | 235 |
| Appendix A: Sources, Suppliers, and Consultants | 239 |
| Appendix B: References | 241 |
| Appendix C: The SurvivalBlog Glossary | 243 |
| Index | 281 |
Now back to what you were expecting to see in SurvivalBlog today…
The large volume of letters that I’ve received (about half of which are posted below) illustrate that I must have stepped on some toes when I bad-mouthed .223 Remington as a defense rifle cartridge. My apologies if I offended anyone’s sensibilities. (My comment “”I consider an AR-15 equipped with a Beta magazine as the ultimate defense weapon for a retreat under attack by a human wave of palsied, midget, and/or wheelchair-bound looters” was meant to be humorous.) All kidding aside, I stand by my statement that .223 is not a sure man-stopper especially at long range. In contrast, .308 Winchester/7.62mm NATO is a well-proven stopper, from zero meters to out beyond 400. As a survivalist, I strive for versatility in all aspects of my planning, and .308 clearly provides greater versatility than .223. Nuff said.