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Pioneer Preps: Improve Your Magnesium Bar
Since 1973, magnesium bar fire starters have been around. A simple, waterproof, arguably unbreakable, fire starter that can get hot enough to light wet tinder. The bar can produce many shavings to make quite a few fires. Here though, is possibly the only downfall to the magnesium bar: making the shavings. It takes awhile and one has to be very careful not to allow all the shavings they have scraped off to scatter to the wind. Can it be done? Of course, I myself have done this many times on my bug out adventures, but it did get me thinking on how one could improve upon the design. Hence I bring you the Improved Magnesium Bar. By Grimm, contributing author to SHTFblog and Survival Cache With a little…
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The Logo Contest Is Officially Over
The new logo/banner has been up for a couple of weeks now and I’ve received some favorable emails and comments about it. There were quite a few good entries and it was a tough decision, but eventually I narrowed it down to three and then finally the winner, which you see along the top of the site. Above is the banner and here’s what I’ll use as the logo: The winner’s name is Kyle and prefers to remain anonymous, but my man, thank you for a great logo and banner! I’ll be sending the GPS unit out shortly and I hope you like it as much as I like the new look. In case you…
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Guest Post From Chef Bear – Cooking With a Dutch Oven
Hey Everybody. Remember our old friend Chef Bear? Well, he’s back! Today’s post is about cooking in a dutch oven. Welcome back Chef Bear! -Jarhead Survivor ———————– Hey folks, hope everyone had a good time during the holidays this year. Probably had tons of good food, cooked in all kinds of ways, smothered with love & served with a smile. My post today is inspired by the all the family gatherings I have enjoyed over the years, and the love of family & food they instilled in me from a very early age. When I was a kid, I remember we would go up to my …
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It’s Winter – Don’t Go Hiking Without Proper Clothing!
It’s winter here in Maine and that means it’s pretty cold out there. As I write this at 9:15 pm on Wednesday evening the temperature outside is 3 degrees F. Not unusual for this time of year. At the top of the fire tower on the summit of Old Speck. About six years ago. I love this time of year! Hiking, snow shoeing, winter camping, ice climbing, skating, sledding with the kids, it’s all part of the winter experience for me. The first time I took Mrs Jarhead on a winter mountain expedition it was -22 F. when we left the bed and breakfast in Western Maine. B&B? I was …
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Guest Post – Buying Physical Gold and Silver Online
Today’s post is from the guys over at JM Bullion.com. They’re a new sponsor and asked if they could write a post for ya’ll about their products. I think the topic is important enough to give them a chance. So here you go! -Jarhead Survivor ——————— Survivalists as a whole are generally advocates of placing some of your wealth into physical gold and silver bullion. The reasons for this are many, namely: Hedging against inflation Storing wealth in case of a fiat currency crisis Accumulating a potential currency for the future The bullet points above have been hashed over countless …
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It’s Winter – Don’t Go Hiking Without Proper Clothing!
It’s winter here in Maine and that means it’s pretty cold out there. As I write this at 9:15 pm on Wednesday evening the temperature outside is 3 degrees F. Not unusual for this time of year. At the top of the fire tower on the summit of Old Speck. About six years ago. I love this time of year! Hiking, snow shoeing, winter camping, ice climbing, skating, sledding with the kids, it’s all part of the winter experience for me. The first time I took Mrs Jarhead on a winter mountain expedition it was -22 F. when we left the bed and breakfast in Western Maine. B&B? I was going to…
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It’s Winter – Don’t Go Hiking Without Proper Clothing!
It’s winter here in Maine and that means it’s pretty cold out there. As I write this at 9:15 pm on Wednesday evening the temperature outside is 3 degrees F. Not unusual for this time of year. At the top of the fire tower on the summit of Old Speck. About six years ago. I love this time of year! Hiking, snow shoeing, winter camping, ice climbing, skating, sledding with the kids, it’s all part of the winter experience for me. The first time I took Mrs Jarhead on a winter mountain expedition it was -22 F. when we left the bed and breakfast in Western Maine. B&B? I was going to hike partway up the mountain and camp, but the missus had …
