Actually, the title only tells half the story. It’s true that the Sig P238 and the Ruger LCP are great guns for girls, but they’re also great for guys. In fact, I carry one regularly, and I’m not a girl. They both make an excellent choice for concealed carry in your everyday carry bag, your …
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This promises to be quite a detailed article about building a shelter with whatever you have on-hand. There will be video (maybe “videos”)! It’s a lot of ground to cover; we’re going to build a lean-to, an enclosed shelter with framework and evergreen boughs, a shelter improvised from man-made materials, and so on. One thing …
A signaling mirror is a simple, effective means of communication and an indispensable item in your every day carry bag. We’ll review two brands of signal mirror — the Adventure Medical Kits Rescue Flash, and the Ultimate Survival Technologies Star Flash. The Rescue Flash on top, the Star flash on the bottom Why use …
It was a perfect clear sunny day for signal mirrors. We shot the vid, took a ton of pix, and now we’re writing, editing…. and it’s time to leave on a Friday date. Look for “How to Use an Emergency Signal Mirror” this weekend. ~SnoMan
In the previous article on emergency shelters you assessed your need for a shelter based on climate, physical condition, and materials on hand. Now you need to decide where and how to build your shelter. These three factors will help you decide: Location, Situation, and Orientation. Location of your emergency shelter Think of “location” by …
If your plane crashes, your car gets washed away in a mudslide, or your boat sinks and you’re stuck on an unknown coast, your first priority might not be food or water, but an emergency shelter. It depends on the conditions, weather primarily. Of course, the best alternative is to get out of the wilderness …
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By a wide margin, Americans don’t want ObamaCare and never did. It is such a wretched piece of legislation that the government wouldn’t let us read it before it was passed. In fact, it is so bad that our jolly rulers exempted themselves from its requirements. Most people are already pretty clear on why we …
Seven Things About the Government that May Shock You It has been said that if the government is the solution, it was a stupid question. Yet one of the government’s biggest tricks is making people believe they can’t do without it. If you’re one of them, maybe you’re not aware of these seven shocking things …
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Today the government held the first test of the Emergency Alert System, the national warning system that replaced the Emergency Broadcast System. If you could have heard the botched test, it would have sounded just like the EBS tests we’ve heard all our lives, but there is a big difference. The EBS was operated by …
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The taxation tsunami goes on. Remember the minuscule federal budget cuts of fiscal year 2011? They amounted to $38 billion, a mere four days’ worth of spending. (Actually, it was only $352 million, but who’s counting?) Well, whatever savings you thought you’d realize, they’ve found a way to recapture it — a new tax on …