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Blog postNO MATTER HOW MANY GUNS YOU HAVE IN THE HOUSE, WITHOUT A GUN IN-YOUR-HAND WHEN A CRISIS ARISES, YOU’LL BE STRUGGLING TO GET AHEAD OF THE POWER CURVE. Author Josh Tyler / Category Home Defense / Published: Oct 11th, 2017
Jason Ross , the co-author of the military thiller "Black Autumn", had a criminal walk right into his home, while he was there with his friends and family.
Knowing him as a life-long prepper, hunter, and firearms enthusiast, I would've guaranteed I -
Blog postWho could’ve guessed that the cartels would become an army at our gates?
Jeff Kirkham pretty much nailed it three years ago when he sent me a video exposé on the simmering conflict between the Fundamentalist Mormons of Ciudad Juarez and the cartels.
“Dude. This is going to get hairy,” Jeff Kirkham, a 28-year Special Forces vet predicted when he showed me the video. “They’re becoming a military force.”
Jeff spent over eight years, boots on the -
Blog post500 hours Range Shooting Experience vs. 500 hours Gaming Experience [We tested this in real life.]
Here’s the straight dope:
Tim Evancich and Team Very experienced range and dynamic shooters Variety of fitness levels 30 to 65 years old Fighting with a coordinated TEAM OF TEN fellow operator trainees (all experienced shooters.) Sage Ross + two OpFor Thousands of hours video gaming (like any Gen Z punk) 200 hours of paintball experience Extremely fit (youth -
Blog postRaid, Recon and Ambush. They are the three tactical building blocks.
Have you ever trained in any of them? With all your time on the range, have you dedicated any time to actually running your gun against opponents? I hadn’t—having spent most of my training time on the shooting range and in military service.
I travelled from Western Pennsylvania all the way to the hills of Utah to learn to conduct raid missions. It was the most unique form of training I have h -
Blog postIt's the little things that jack up the best laid plans of mice and men. Let's look at a few that experienced preppers know will go from "minor issues" to "major problems."
No problemo, right?
The Four Seasons Bright idea: I’ll supplement my food storage with a burly garden and some chickens.
Crappy reality: Garden food is fresh in ONLY a two month harvest window. Even chickens don’t produce much in the winter.
If you actually garden, y -
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Every ReadyMan Challenge so far features regular guys being thrust into uncommon survival situations while Special Forces guys watch, coach and comment.
This time, we turned the tables.
None of our SOF staff had ever hunted big game. They’d spent their entire adult lives hunting and being hunted overseas by men. Soon they’d find out that hunting big game was a challenge all its own.
We told Jeff Kirkham (28 year Green Beret,) Evan Hafer (15 yea -
Blog postChad Wade, Navy SEAL, Goes Deep With Composting One of the first things you learn in gardening is that your plants don’t simply grow. They require more love than a twenty-five year-old supermodel. Most guys think gardening is just a matter of putting heirloom seeds in the ground and watering them. If only that were true.
In a do-or-die gardening situation, you will struggle for every calorie. Wringing calories out of sun, soil and water is very, very difficult. Producing enough -
Blog postLike you, perhaps, I bought “survival seeds.” Somewhere in my storage closet is a bucket of “heirloom” seeds that I imagined I could use to get my family through a grid-down world.
I’m glad I didn’t have to bet my family on my understanding of survival gardening. It would’ve been a disaster. Here’s how it would’ve gone down.
I would’ve chosen the wrong plants. I hadn’t thought through, at all, which garden veggies produce the most life-sustaining calories. Like every hobby garden -
Blog postHikers, runners, snow shoers. For whatever reason, blisters are their Kryptonite.
We wish we had better news. We wish we could recommend this-or-that shoe or this-or-that sock or foot powder. Alas, there is no anti-Kryponite here. There’s lots of stuff that sometimes helps.
The regrettable truth is: if you hike, run or snow shoe far enough, hard enough, you will eventually get blisters. And, those blisters are going to negatively effect your mobility.
Holding off blist -
Blog postReadyMan Challenge One, Mike Simpson of Phoenix, Arizona showed up with his BugOut bag and his BugOut kit. True to his training and practice, Mike went into the challenge with the exact stuff he’d take into the Apocalypse.
Click to view ReadyMan Challenge One
Part of his kit was ceramic body armor plates and Mike faithfully wore them for two days, going up and down some serious mountain terrain. Ultimately, they “saved his life” in a shooting scenario where a sniper got t -
Blog postAfter almost 30 years as a Green Beret I found that there is one knot that I use 99% of the time to solve the issues common to the wilderness and every day life.
The overhand knot is the king daddy of the knot world for one reason, versatility. The overhand knot can be tied at the end, middle or in a series, depending on your need. It can be used to tie down loads in a truck, hang a hammock or make a securing string on a box guitar string tight. Lets explore some of the different ways -
Blog postThe first goal should be MERE SURVIVAL.
If a survivor can’t cover MERE SURVIVAL, for the full period of devastation, then no number of survival fire starters will matter.
If you or someone you love isn’t ready for MERE SURVIVAL for at least a year of SHTF collapse because they can’t afford to prepare, then the following is the cheapest, easiest way to eat after all else fails.
The KEY is WHEAT. Hands down. Nothing else even comes cl -
Blog postLessons learned from a violent home invasion while abroad. Editor’s note: this is the story of an American pastor and his family, working in a small, peaceful African country when all hell broke loose inside their home.
(by Lad Chapman, ReadyMan, pastor, missionary and entrepreneur.)
"In retrospect, I was the one who created the opportunity for the attack.
One late summer afternoon, after a rigorous HIV prevention mission in a small African county, my family -
Blog postTry to survive outdoors without a knife and you will die. Here are the five fundamental skills of knife mastery. You should spend a lifetime building them.
1. Defense. Don’t say, “I have a gun. Why do I need a knife?”
First, a knife makes you a better gun fighter. Fighting in any discipline radically helps your martial science. The knife teaches body movement and angles, two things that are essential to gunfighting. Movement is the key to winning fights, and the co -
Blog postIn a Bug Out Survival Scenario can a HIPPY defeat a hard-core SURVIVALIST?
We made it into a short TV series. The results rocked our world.
Click Here to Watch the Preview of the Six Episodes
The simulation tested bushcraft, navigation, overland movement, hunting, gathering and combat, spread over two days, fifteen linear miles and six thousand feet of climbing. We threw a Navy SEAL into the mix to serve as judge, trainer and comme -
Blog post10 a.m., Tuesday morning. The lights wink out. The television goes dead. Airplanes fall from the sky. Explosions rumble under your feet. Your beloved son or daughter is 750 miles away at college.
Twenty-four hours later, I bet (if I could turn back time) you would trade me every gun in your collection for a way to talk to your daughter at college and get her home. Maybe you planned a collapse with her and maybe you didn’t. Likely, something will go not-according-to-plan.
Lik -
Blog postIn ReadyMan Challenge Three, where essentially everyone falls to pieces in an apocalypse scenario, it all comes down to morale.
In the reality TV show, The Colony, the contestants willingness to cooperate, rises and falls on the promise of coffee.
In the end, coffee and booze might be the key to keeping a survival community from one another’s throats. Yet coffee doesn’t keep well on the shelf, and it’s grown nowhere in the continental United States. Must we live -
Blog postThe elite OSS of World War II lived by the motto: “Creativity is the greatest, determining factor of success and survival.”
Creativity does more with less.
Creativity solves problems with novel solutions
Creativity doubts the status quo.
We are prepper/survivalists because we bring a healthy dose of skepticism. We don’t believe civilization is as stable as it appears. We don’t believe government and big corporations are always tellin -
Blog post“If it’s good enough for the military, then it’s good enough for a prepper.”
This statement assumes that the U.S. military makes only smart buying decisions, which we all know isn’t true (ACU uniform or black beret anyone?) But, the biggest assumption might be that life as a prepper in the apocalypse will be like life as a soldier in war.
With over 28 years in Special Forces, working in remote locations, I’m here to tell you this isn’t remotely true, and the differences -
Blog postI’m a 28-year Green Beret veteran (8 years boots-on-the-ground just in Afghanistan). My family comes from a manufacturing background.
And, I hate the AR-15.
This sounds like an AA meeting for American veterans, so I better put up a decent argument soon before I’m lynched. Why does the AR suck?
It’s too complex. Any time you have a system that is complex, you have two results: efficiency and fragility.
In the military we are taught that the AR -
Blog postIf you’re banking on “survival seeds,” you’ll be eating dirt burgers and ricochet biscuits. Storing seeds and planting them when times get tough ain’t how growing food works. Not by a long shot.
Square-foot Garden: winter. Hawaii. 1.5 weeks old. Beans, tomatoes, kale, lettuces, squash, zucchini.
If you’re not gardening NOW, then your survival garden will most likely fail, leaving a gaping hole in your family’s meal plan. Here’s why:
Delusion #1: You can p -
Blog postIf we don’t re-buy these preparations every year, we’re flirting with disaster. We might have our "hard preps" handled, but we often forget the stuff that needs to be repurchased and restocked every year. Here are some things that should be on our annual re-buy checklist:
Seeds. Even properly stored, the sprouting rate on seeds drops after one year and then plummets after that. Seeds should be repurchased each year, and not just any seeds. They need to be the varieties an -
Blog postFive Critical Skills—Five Dirty Tricks—Three Hasty Weapons We just read Russell Blake’s post-apocalyptic thriller, Day After Never, Blood Honor. The book describes a world where the cartels and psychos have seized control of America after a Black Swan collapse. We got so pumped up about Blake’s nasty vision of the collapse, that we sent Jeff Kirkham, our 28-year Green Beret martial arts expert, into the fighting gym to hammer out a fight-to-the-death method to destroy a hell-bent murderer. J
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Blog postAmazingly, most people screw up a 911 call. Prepared people don't do that.
You’re driving down the highway and you watch in horror as the car in front of you slams into a sidewall, collides with another car and spirals into a multi-car jumble of injury and death. You immediately stop to render aid, but you first dial 911 so that the ambulance can get there as soon as possible.
ReadyMan interviewed multiple emergency dispatchers and police officers to learn the most -
Blog postWorld War I. The Great Depression. The Collapse of 2008. They were all Black Swans.
EMP attacks, treacherous governments, brutal flus, even sun spots—they all get more Hollywood love than the one type of crisis that has triggered more than half of all collapses: Black Swan Events.
All civilizations end. Every major civilization has eventually imploded. By our calculation, about HALF of all collapses were triggered by weird combinations of long-term stresses plus sudden, unpred -
Blog postOften in history, freak events combine in unfortunate ways to damage or destroy entire societies and economies. Economists call them Black Swan Events and we’re more likely to face a Black Swan than any other collapse.
According to Nassim Nicholas Taleb (a finance professor, writer, and former Wall Street trader, Black Swan Events are always obvious in hindsight but are rarely predicted in advance. Most Black Swans have never been seen before.
The most-recent Bla -
Blog postThere are four “Anti’s” that are essential for survival in a SHTF/TEOTWAWKI scenario and all together, they weigh less than this blog article.
1. Antibiotics – Prior to modern times, infection killed millions in both war and peacetime. Penicillin, the Mac Daddy of antibiotics, was discovered in 1928 but not purified until 1942. The Allies kept it a secret through World War Two.Penicillin has saved millions of lives in the last 70 years. Since its discovery, dozens -
Blog postGuess the percent of your prepper buddies who will lose it. Multiply that number by six. Take the odds of YOU losing it during a collapse and do the same.
For thousands of years, humanity lived under horrid conditions and dealt with immense suffering. The “medical practitioner” who treated mental problems and depression has been around as long as mankind: the priest.
If you don’t believe suffering can bring you and your family down, watch ReadyMan Challenge 3 or the History Ch -
Blog postWe’re getting set to commit suicide by backpack. Thanks to a 2013 study, we now know that those who carry more weight—even when they stick to US Army backback standards—are setting themselves up to die strapped to their Bug Out Bags.
It doesn’t matter how tough you are. It doesn’t matter how mean you are. If your pack weighs more than 30 pounds or 20% of your body weight, whichever is LESS, soft tissue injuries and slow overland movement are probably going to end your bug out att -
Blog postWhy should a watch be EDC when you can tell the time with your cell phone? Dumb question for a prepper, but very few of us wear them... Here's why not wearing a watch is dumber than you may think.
For thousands of years, all the way back to the Sumerians, devices have been used to measure and keep track of time for one simple reason: SURVIVAL.
The pocket watch was mostly developed as a means of navigating water--by using time to determine distance travelled, and therefore l
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