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This prepping podcast episode is about prepping for beginners. We'll go over what preps to start out with and how to scale for long haul survival.

Lets explore that chances of a world war 3 breaking out and how the conflict between Ukraine and Russia could escalate.

Lets talk about how a war with Russia will impact the power grid in the United States.

In this episode I want to talk about beginner prepping ideas.

When I started prepping it seemed like there was so many things that needed to be done and so little time.

In this episode I talk about some way to get started with prepping.

A generator is a must have tool for short term emergency preparedness. When the power goes out you want to make sure to have a back-up to keep your freezers running and well pumps flowing. This is my Champion generator review. Podcast Listen to this Champion generator review. Generator Benefits Having a generator, better yet a champion generator, can provide a number of benefits and depending on your circumstances, could save you a lot of headaches and money. Here are some reasons why you might want to consider getting a generator: Backup power during outages If you live in an area that is prone to frequent power outages, having a generator can provide peace of mind and keep your home functioning normally during these times. The grid isn't getting any stronger and with every passing day the chances of a power outage increases. Power for remote locations If you have a cabin, RV, or access to a remote location that doesn't have electricity, a generator can provide the power needed to power appliances and other devices. In the event that you need to bug out, bringing a generator with you could increase your odds of survival, provided that the generator doesn't hinder your mobility efforts. Emergency preparedness In the event of a natural disaster or other emergency situation, having a generator can provide essential power for medical equipment, communication devices, freezers, well pumps and other important equipment. There is nothing worse than losing a freezer full of food due to a power outage. Having a generator will save you money and headaches in the long run. The Champion Generator Review When choosing a generator I highly recommend that you look at Champion generators. While some of the components are made outside the U.S., the engineering, design, assembly and support for Champion generators reside right here in the U.S.A. Purpose Before purchasing a Champion generator you'll want to do some planning. What do you plan to use the generator for? Is it for backup power during a blackout, for powering tools on a construction site, or for camping and outdoor activities? The type and size of generator you need will depend on your intended use. As a prepper I am looking for multi-purpose assets, which is why I chose a portable generator instead of a whole house generator. My Champion generator is large enough to power must utilities in the house, freezers, the well pump, lights, battery chargers and coffee machines but it's small enough to be moved around if necessary. Power output considerations The amount of power a generator can produce is measured in watts. You'll need to determine how much power you'll need based on the appliances, tools, or devices you plan to run. Make sure to choose a champion generator that can handle your power needs. Well Pump700 - 800 wattsLights100 watts for 10 LED bulbsFridge & Freezers50 - 180 wattsCoffee Machine500 - 1500 wattsWater Pump (garden)500 - 2000 watts Fuel source Most generators operate on one to two fuel sources. Gasoline, Diesels and LP ( natural gas or propane). You will want to take into consideration the type of fuel that you will have access to and the ability to store. We replaced the gas stove in our cabin with a wood stove so that we can use the 600 gallon propane tank for our champion generator, which happens to support both gasoline and LP. When the gasoline runs out we can run on propane for another two months. Cost and quality I chose a champion generator because it was on sale. It just so happens that Champion makes a high quality generator at an affordable price. It's not budget, but it's not premium either. Our 7500 watt Champion generator cost around $800. My experience I have to say that when I purchased our champion generator I was not expecting to get in touch with tech support on a Sunday. There was a problem with the float bowl and Champion was on the phone in a matter of minutes and had me up and going in no time. We've used our Champion generator a hand-full of times and have had no issues. We purchased the 7500 Watt dual fuel Champion generator and it starts every time. With the 7500 watt version we are able to power or well pump, two freezers, the garden water pump, the coffee machine and a handful of LED light bulbs at the same time. I chose the gasoline version instead of diesel because gasoline is a common household fuel for us. Switching between propane and gasoline is as easy is flipping a switch and you can use a typical propane tank for grilling purposes in a pinch. Generator Power Transfer Switch As for my actual setup in my cabin I also installed a manual power transfer switching system. This system lets you easily switch between the grid and your generator for specific outlets and appliances. In the transfer switch box I wired the outlets to our main freezer, our water well pump, and the kitchen outlets. When a power outage happens I simply wheel my champion generator outside and hook up the main power lead to my power transfer box. I then switch on the power breakers for the outlets or appliances that I wish to power from the champion generator. Champion Generator Review Summary If you are looking for a generator for emergency use I recommend taking a look at Champion generators. I've own and used this Champion generator for over four years and I wouldn't be writing this Champion generator review if I didn't think it would be beneficial to my readers. Get more power than you think you will need. If you think you need 3500 watts, get 5500 watts. List out all the devices and and outline the peak and running wattage of each. The Champion generator that you select should provide starting and running wattage specifications. Champion generators are made in the U.S.A and I have had amazing support from them, even on a Sunday afternoon. Champion generators can be used in a hybrid, whole house setup by using a power transfer switch system. Thanks for reading my Champion generator review. If this was helpful please consider subscribing [1] so that you can get notified when I post new content. For more on Champion generators, please have a look at Champion's official website [2]. [1] https://preppervet.com/subscribe/ [2] https://www.championpowerequipment.com/products/generators/portable-generators/

The camper gets flipped over, trees fall on cars and the entire campground is a mess. All the roads leading in and out are blocked by trees and debris. You make your way to the campground offices where you over hear people talking about the near by town being leveled by the storm. You head back to the campsite and look around the camper for your cell phone. It’s dead and that’s when you notice the red inhalers in the cupboard. You have just realized that your 7 year old daughter doesn’t have her asthma medication and if she has an asthma attack she could suffocate to death. You have 30 minutes. You have 30 minutes to get the medication to your daughter or she dies. What will you do? Imagine for a moment you’re taking your family camping. You reserved your favorite camp site at the far side of your favorite campground and the entire family is looking forward to some time in nature. While you setup camp your wife and 7 year old daughter taker the family car into town to get some groceries. The wife takes a right onto route 30 towards town which is slightly over 2 miles away. About a mile down she crosses the town Bridge which spans about 500 feet of the nearby lake. Another mile and they reach the grocery store which is nestled in the middle of a small village. An ice cream stand across the street has several people waiting in line. The video came hut is bustling from the laughter of kids. Your wife and daughter enter the store. Back at the campground you are unpacking and setting up camp. As you start to level off the pop-up camper you notice the air getting thick, and cold. The wind starts to pick up and you can hear wind chimes from the campground bathrooms across the way. Soon the sky would become dark and the ground would have a noticeable rumble to it. No sooner than you go inside the camper did the storm hit. The camper flips over, trees fall on cars and well, you know the rest. For the last ten years you’ve been working an office job as a software engineer. You sit in a chair most of the day, you have a belly that hangs over your belt and you gasp for air every time you walk up and down a flight of stairs. You have six months of food and water supply, a whole home generator and a sizable arsenal of firearms. You’re ready for anything. You have 30 minutes and it’s 2 miles to the grocery store. So you start heading towards town and feel somewhat panicked as you start to run. If you run a ten minute mile you can make it in twenty minutes. That’s the grey line between jogging and walking fast. As you approach the town bridge you notice that it has collapsed into the lake. Cell phone towers are bent over and there are wires protruding from every direction. You walk into the water and start swimming the 500 foot section to get across. Just one more mile you’re thinking. About half way across the swim you start having chest pains. Your left arm feels like it’s on fire and it feels like someone is sitting on your chest. You gasp for air but it’s not enough. You died 15 minutes into your daughters asthma attack. 15 minutes later she passed away. You only needed to run for two miles. That’s it! Could you run two miles today if you had to? Some people don’t think they need any training. They think that adrenaline will save them. If you think adrenaline is going to somehow save you from heart disease and stroke you’re living in a fantasy world. If you can’t run or jog or 30 minutes you won’t be able to focus during an actual real life crisis. 30 minutes.

In 2022 I set out to find a pistol that I could both conceal carry and use as a primary home defense pistol. Of all the pistols I tested and trained with, the Sig P365 X Macro became my everyday pistol. This is my Sig P365 X Macro review. Some Background In 2022 I really started to focused on pistol training for self defense purposes. After shooting several pistols, some more extensively than others, I still found myself without that “do everything” type of pistol that I was in search of. What I was looking was that “do everything” pistol that can be for conceal carry purposes and so can be relied upon in case the SHTF. My goal was to find that pistol that felt like it belonged. Do you remember how you felt when you met your soulmate? That’s kind of what I am talking about here. A pistol that feels like it’s part of you when you shoot it. Everything come naturally and nothing feels “off”. For me, it’s about being as practical as possible. I’m not a big collector and I haven’t shot hundreds of models of pistols. My reasons for purchasing the Sig P365 X Macro were simple. I needed a pistol I can legitimately carry everyday, a pistol that I could go to battle with if the time every came and a pistol that would perform well. While many shooters are looking for a competitive edge for competition, I’m looking for the competitive edge for self defense and SHTF. While some of the pistols that I trained with in 2022 were amazing firearms, they weren’t that soulmate that I was looking for. Some of them almost made the cut, but in the end the P365 X Macro was it. The P365 X Macro Review This is a prepping website [1] and I generally focus on things that will be assets to my prepping life style. In this P365 X Macro review I am going to talk about what I know and have learned with the P365 X Macro. P365 X Macro: Dimensions and weight The Sig Sauer P365 X Macro is one the most popular pistols to be released in 2022. The pistol is a larger variant of the Sig P365 series sporting a 17 round magazine, stock X-Ray3 sights and an M1913 (picatinny) rail system. Coming in at 6.6 inches long with a height of 5.2 inches tall and a weight of 21.5 ounces, the Sig P365 X Macro sits right between a sub compact and compact pistol size. It’s not small enough to be a true sub compact pistol but it’s also not larger enough to be considered a compact size either. P365 X Macro: Slide and optic cut What is interesting about this pistol is that it has a compensator built into the slide. Sig Sauer claims that this compensator reduces recoil by 20% but I can’t say for sure that this number is accurate. When compared to my Glock 43 I do know for sure that I have much more control when shooting the Sig P365 X Macro. However, at the end of the day I’m only worried about hitting the target during a stressful situation so shooting quarter sized groups isn’t super high on my priority list. One of the featured that drew me to the P365 X Macro is the fact that the slide is pre-cut for an optic but also comes with X-RAY3 Day/Night sights that you can use before you purchase a pistol optic. I ended up going with the Holosun 507K Pistol Optic for my X Macro. Many customers have experienced trouble getting the screws off the optic cover plate and I recommend that you have the gun store loosen them up for you before you leave the store. The screws on my X Macro weren’t in super tight but I’ve read a lot of people having issues. As for co-witnessing with a red-dot on the X Macro, the stock X-Ray3 sights do co-witness just fine in the event your optic stops working or runs out of batter power. P365 X Macro: Trigger configuration In addition to the built in compensator the P365 X Macro also sports a Striker trigger configuration with a flat trigger. The grip has modules to customized the fit for several hand types and the slide is optic ready. P365 X Macro: Grip The P365 X Macro comes with interchangeable modules for the grip. This lets you customized the grip for your individual hand size. I have larger hands and one of the first things I noticed is that my hands fit around the entire grip and there was no need for a magazine extension. After installing the larger grip module the pistol felt super secure, like it belonged in my hands! Another cool feature about the Sig P365 X Macro (and all modern Sigs) is that you can actually replace the entire pistol frame. This means you can fully customized the X Macro making it an entirely customized pistol without having to go through back-ground checks and all those headaches again. As someone who feels most comfortable with a full size pistol grip I can say without a doubt that the P365 X Macro grip with the larger grip module is comparable if not the same. First 500 Rounds I have to say, Sig Sauer [2] did an excellent job with the P365 X Macro. After sighting in the Holosun 507K optic I started putting significant rounds down range. Of the first 500 rounds the first half was shot at paper targets and the second half was shot at steel targets. Being that I was most accurate and proficient with my G19 I was surprised at how much more proficient I was with the P365 X Macro. Suspicious of a “honeymoon period” I decided to hold off on writing this review until I had time to have a good mixture of good shooting days and bad shooting days. After an extended period of time shooting the P365 X Macro I can say that from the very beginning I felt more confident and more proficient that with any of my other firearms. The P365 X Macro just feels like it is part of me, like an attachment of myself, like (I know it sounds corny) a soulmate. The grip, the feel, the weight, the optic, everything about the X Macro just feel right. Summary Overview In summary I would like to point out that after shooting and training with four other pistols throughout the year, the P365 X Macro has become my favorite. I have since sold my P320, G43 and SW1911 because I do not feel need to have more than two personal firearms. This leaves me with the G19 Gen3 and the P365 X Macro. A lot of people get wrapped around brand names and opinion. As a prepper I'm focused on what works and what is going to be a true asset. If a pistol can meet my requirements and perform the way I expect it to perform, brand doesn't matter. One thing that I do like about with the Sig P365 X Macro is the fact that it is made right here in the USA. It's hard finding quality products from the U.S. and it's nice to know that Ssome of the most important tools we'll use as preppers is made here. If this P365 X Macro review was helpful, please consider subscribing [3]. [1] https://preppervet.com [2] https://www.sigsauer.com/p365-xmacro.html [3] https://preppervet.com/subscribe/

Prepping for long haul survival can seem like a daunting challenge. There are endless things that need to be done in order to be completely self sufficient.

In this prepper podcast I talk about how to get into a prepper mindset and how to get started with prepping.

In this episode I explore the idea that we need to be as healthy as possible to truly survive in an SHTF situation. Lets explore a scenario where not being in shape could have devastating consequences.

If you think adrenaline is going to somehow save you from heart disease and stroke you’re living in a fantasy world.