Notes from JWR:

We’ve finished the judging… The winner of Round 12 of the SurvivalBlog non-fiction writing contest. is “Polar Bear” for his article “Converting Diesel Vehicles to Run on Waste Vegetable Oil”. He gets the top prize–a four day “gray” transferable Front Sight course certificate. These certificates are worth up to $2,000! Our thanks to Front Sight’s director, Naish Piazza, for generously donating the course certificate. Check out the Front Sight web site and take advantage of their great training opportunities.

Second prize goes to Brian in Wyoming for his article “Running Chainsaws on Ethanol”. His prize is is a copy of my “Rawles Gets You Ready” preparedness course, generously donated by Jake Stafford of Arbogast Publishing.

I’m also sending out two honorable mention awards to Dixie for her article “The Refrigerator Box Method for Easy Survival Gardening”, and to Michael G. for his article “A Trip to the Yucatan–Observations of Mayan Primitive Living.” Both of them will be sent an autographed copy of my novel “Patriots: Surviving the Coming Collapse”.

Note to all the prize winners: Send me an e-mail to let me know your snail mail addresses, and your prizes will be mailed to you shortly. Thanks gents, and congratulations!
Today we start Round 13 of the contest. Send your non-fiction articles via e-mail for a chance to win some great prizes!

We are pleased to welcome our newest advertiser, CGW. I’ve been doing business with Rich Saunders for more than five years. He is an outstanding gunsmith with great attention to detail. (He custom built three of the L1A1 rifles that we use here at the ranch. In addition to his gunsmithing services, be sure to check out his great line of optics (including Trijicon), knives, packs, and field gear.