achieving adventure

High Stress may make people do things they normally would not do.

 

Land we looked at over the weekend and the 120ish foot steep decent and subsequent rise:

Home or Personal Protection

* Home Security System and be sure sign is out front

* Have sign out front

* Real Cameras

* If you want to have evidence, use real cameras in the home and around the main entrances.

* False Cameras

* Looks just like the real thing.  Can deter some people.

* Medium to large dog

* Another deterrent

* LED “false” TV

* Light switch automation

* Good door locks

* Buddy Bar Door Jams

* 3M window film

* Tack strips at every entrance

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Defense weaponry

* Firearms (Shotgun and Sidearm)

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Non-lethal weaponry

* Pepper Spray and Mace

* Baseball Bats or Golf Clubs

* Stun Batons

* Mag Lights

* Sling Shots

* Ninja Caltrops

* Specialized Protective Gear

* Small Tactical Flashlight

* Personal Alarms (ones connected to security company)

* Most important: Your Brain

* We can look ahead and train before something happens. Self-Defense classes. Training with your weapons

I am sick AGAIN. Why? I am sick of glyphosates being sprayed all of the time. People, if you MUST kill weeds, use a homemade weed killer like vinegar.

I am sick this time every year.  This always happens when they are spraying the fields around here.  I tell people about how toxic these things are.  Well, here in the heart of cotton, corn, and wheat country, they spray all of the time.

Not only do they all spray this crap on our wonderful GMO foods, but it gets in the air and I get sick.  Because of this, and the fact that I care about my health enough, I will not be posting or podcasting this week.  Sorry… blame Monsanto!

If you have to use a weedkiller, use vinegar people… even though weeds are the way nature prepares soil for more production.

I answer listener feedback and will be discussing Advanced Survival Prepping Research, Mt. Gox Bitcoin News, and Essential Urban Survival Skills.

Email From Alicia about Advanced Survival Prepping Research:

Wants to better direct her attention to finding valuable information.

Rule of 3s for how long you can live in a survival scenario:

3 minutes without breathing (drowning, asphyxiation)

3 hours without shelter in an extreme environment (exposure)

3 days without water (dehydration)

3 weeks without food (starvation)

First, Read my blog and listen to my podcast, and I will always give you the best information… I am kidding.

How to find the best information for you when trying to survive:

First, take a quick look at history.  What disasters have occurred in history?

What problems arose from those disasters?

Next, think about what caused those disasters.

Is there a way to prevent said disaster?

If there is no way to prevent the disaster, is there a way for us to remove or reduce the danger to us?

Back to problems that were a result of disasters.

There is an entire list of disasters to work off of.

Job Loss, House Fire, Tornado, Snow and Ice Storm, Hurricane, Earthquake, Flood, Loss of Water Supply, Power Grid Failure, Pandemics

What are the common problems resulting from each of these disasters?

These are your priority items, wouldn’t you agree?

We want to build resilience in our lives, and in what we do.

Google is a great research tool, but you have to put your thinking cap on and come up with the question… google will usually have your answer, but don’t take all answers at face value, you need to think of your sources agenda (which we ALL have) and credibility.

So the key to your dilemma is critical thinking, one of your most valuable skills for survival, and to find answers.

Ask me, or others, your questions.  That is how I make this better for you.  Otherwise it is just a way for me to discuss my thoughts.

Wants to get more advanced information without looking for the “Super Prepper” or spending a ton of money.

I going to bring this back at first to critical thinking.  A lot of the answers that people seek can be created in their own minds.  All of the advanced strategies that you are looking to learn, were created by someone at your level until they figured out this new skill.

Doesn’t mean I think you have to make your own up by any means.

I don’t know just how advanced you are, and neither does the other guys.  You can only get answers to the questions that you ask.

Most people with real advanced strategies are entrepreneurs with many hours and headaches involved with developing those techniques.

Community groups

I am actually creating one in my area and I think everyone should.

You find people that specialize in different fields, and everyone shares information.

Email from Bao about Mt.Gox Bitcoin News:

Mt Gox is an exchange that was a GAMING company to start with.

They were already struggling and decided to get into Bitcoin.

For a year they had been fighting their own poor decisions.  They were barely hanging on.

 

I tell you the best livestock to have on a homestead, such as raising Chickens, Bees, Goats, Guineas, Ducks, Geese, Quail, Hogs, Sheep, Catfish, Rabbits, and Cattle

Excuse the lack of written information on this weeks post, since All of the information is in the podcast, itself.  I really wanted to make this a printable list so you could take notes.  If you want the notes handed to you, scroll to the bottom of the show notes and go to my survivalist blog post at the bottom.

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I show you one of my favorite primitive skills by explaining how to build a primitive wilderness survival shelter. Lean-to, A Frame, Debris, Hammock, etc.

Housekeeping:

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Discussion:

A-Frame Shelter

Cordage between 2 trees as the brace

A frame as center support

2 A-Frames on each end and tied off at both ends

Poncho, Tarp, Emergency Blanket, Lashing boughs

Lean-To Shelter

Very quick

Usually not very warm

Some may be built for warmth

Ridge Lean to (looks like an L)

Dual Lean to

 

Debris Shelter

A-frame on only one side

other side on ground

cross-members, then boughs of spruce/pine

then boughs of broadleaves, tarp or snow

Hammock Shelter

Great for hot dry climates

Hammocks

Tarps without the holes

Tarps with holes

Cave Style Snowdrift Shelter

Snowdrift, not cornice

rocks or sticks for locating it

Build Entrance

Away from wind

Archway

2-3 ft deep

Transitional area

2-3 feet further in

also dig up now

must keep above 18 in snow over this and den

Den

dome shapped

vent holes

shelves

bedding and drainage

Snow Trench

best on slope

dig trench 4-5 feet deep

Longer than body by a foot

sleeping area

foot above trench bottom

foot of head space in area

Insulation

Pine and Spruce Boughs as bedding

Main loss of heat is through the ground

Snow (tarp)

How to insulate when in a hammock?

Ways to brace your cross-members

lash each cross-member in figure 8

weave through the cross-members… still must lash the end-members

Cordage

Utility rope

Paracord

Vines

Important take aways:

Have a tarp, poncho, emergency blankets, lots of paracord

in snow always use your hands to finish off the snow

angle snow so you dont get dripped on all night

Always insulate on the ground

Clever Survivalist Posts:

* How To Make a Hammock Shelter from a Tarp

* How to Build Debris or One Man Shelter...

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