SurvivalBlog.com: Letter Re: A Shortage of Mantles for Aladdin Kerosene Lamps – SurvivalBlog.com

I was trying to buy an Aladdin Loxon Mantle #R-150 for my Aladdin kerosene lamp and found that all suppliers seemed to be out of stock. Even Lehman’s Hardware here in Ohio was out of stock and showing an April delivery. I spent some time searching and found some very expensive ones on eBay but [...]

SurvivalBlog.com: Letter Re: Combination Guns for Hunting?

In reading your article on choosing survival guns I noticed that you have a Savage Model 24F listed. Do you have any experience or opinions on the Valmet 412 ST, with barrels for 12 gauge and .30-06? I want to buy one but did not know if it would be a good choice for putting [...]

SurvivalBlog.com: Letter Re: My Experience in Setting Up a Community Survival Group

In these uncertain times many of us are preparing, some for economic collapse others for a coming pandemic or EMP strike, either natural or man made. Not having the option of relocating to a more ideal area my wife and I decided a few months ago to try to stack the odds in our favor [...]

SurvivalBlog.com: Letter Re: Some Practical Experience in Dehydrating Vegetables

We have been dehydrating foods for a couple of years now and I thought you might like to hear how things went for us.
Green beans are dried down south and are called leather breeches. You can do a Google for recipes. Traditionally you use a sewing needle and sew a string through the green bean [...]

SurvivalBlog.com: Your Post-TEOTWAWKI Diaper Insurance, by K. in Pennsylvania

After watching MacGyver as a kid I was left in a awe of how someone could create a diversion by blowing up an old abandoned shed in the middle of the woods with a propane tank, child’s tricycle, the tire’s inner tube, three ball bearings, and a grinding wheel strategically placed near the shed [...]

Sixbears in the Woods: Travel

When my wife and I decide to go on a trip, we can be out of the house in a matter of hours. That’s if we take the time to do all the things necessary to be away for months at a time. If we decide to go on a weekend trip, we can be [...]

Preppernation: Game Over? conclusion

I’m back and feeling a little better… I had the opportunity to really vent my spleen with a friend last night. We didn’t come up with any global solutions to this DOOM but it helped to actually vocalize my concerns. He didn’t disagree and had nothing in the way of a rebuttal. It appears that [...]

My Road to Freedom: Freezing My A** Off

Freezing my A** off in the land of sunshine. Has to be the coldest and wettest February on record. No place to escape to. Cold and wet all the way to Key West. Yes I am a wimp. I did not move from Michigan to Florida to freeze. I could have done that in Michigan. [...]

TheSurvivalistBlog.net: What You Should Know About Wheat

0ver the past couple of weeks I’ve had several readers ask where I buy wheat for storage and how I grind it for use. Good questions and I’m sure more than a few readers would like to know the answer.
If you’ve been reading this blog for a while you probably already know wheat is a [...]

Accept The Challenge: Why We’re Broke

For any of you that are unclear on why California will most likely be the first state to declare bankruptcy, this should make it crystal clear.
We are somewhere in the neighborhood of $20 billion (with a “B”) in the hole – give or take a billion dollars. We are furloughing workers. We send [...]

« go back — keep looking »