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Here's a scenario to get everyone thinking.


It's Friday evening, around 7 PM. The power goes out across your area. Initially, you assume it's a routine outage, but you quickly discover that cellular service is unavailable, internet connections are down, and you have no reliable way to determine how widespread the situation is.

As the hours pass, ...

Happy Birthday, Marines.



I was a little slow on the pictures this year.

They got the color correct on the cake this year.
Scarlet and gold, not red and yellow.

It was delicious.

With ammo being +$650/140 rounds, I'm seriously looking into a Lee .50 press and the prices of components to reload those expensive cartridges I just purchased (after I shoot them first). Anybody here already reload 50 BMG?

We all know of the term SHTF and all think it means the things that Jerry Young describes in his excellent stories or a situation like in Lights Out. It can be that for the nation as a whole. On the personal level it is probably going to happen to all of us on an individual basis. I am 88 years old and it has happened to me several times with various levels of insecurity and cha...

I’d had enough of a borrowed apprentice Wednesday. He was loaned to get some valuable experience for a couple of weeks but now he has a big mess instead. Long story short, he was spouting off nonsense about the L&I book regarding setting a vault and plumbing in some conduit, basically being difficult. When I finally had enough I told him to “take a hike!” He asked, “what tru...