FAT GUYS IN THE WOODS: BLOG SKILL SERIES: Live Capture Box trap

Many of you have asked for more details about the Live Capture Box trap that Bill, Dave, Andrew and I used to catch the Quail.  To my knowledge, this is a trap style that originates in Asia but versions of it exist all over the world.  It’s very unique in that it can be constructed from all natural materials.  Below I detail the trap design as well as the trigger I normally pair with it. It all starts with 2 pieces of cordage and 2 sticks… A length of cordage is tied between the ends of two sticks.  When tied, the length of rope should be a little longer (6 or so inches) than the sticks.  The shape at this point should …

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Survival Medicine Hour: Ebola, Influenza, and More

In this episode of the Doom and Bloom(tm) Survival Medicine Hour, Joe Alton, M.D. and Amy Alton, A.R.N.P. discuss new data about whether Ebola can be caught from the air, the sad state of training and education for U.S. health workers on the disease, and whether race played an issue in the care of Liberian national Thomas Eric Duncan at Dallas Presbyterian. Also, Dr. Bones starts off flu season with some basics… To listen in, click below: https://www.blogtalkradio.com/survivalmedicine/2014/10/20/survival-medicine-hour-ebola-influenza-and-more All the best of health in good times or bad! Joe and Amy Alton Dr. Bones and Nurse Amy

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“I’ll Come To Your Place When SHTF” – No You Won’t

Editor’s Note: This article has been generously contributed by Glen Tate of 299Days.com. Glen is the author of the 10-part series 299 Days, which is inspired by his own life and personal journey. It begins with 299 Days: The Preparation and introduces us to a husband who awakens to the fragility of modern society and embarks on a personal journey that introduces him to a world of self-reliance and liberation.  In the following article Glen covers an issue that is very dear to most preppers – what to do when neighbors, friends and family come knocking. With limited resources available we’re all going to have to make tough decisions. Like many of us, Glen plans on helping those truly in need. But what …

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Notes for Tuesday – October 21, 2014

Release Day for Liberators! My latest novel Liberators: A Novel of the Coming Global Collapse was released today (Tuesday, October 21, 2014) by E.P. Dutton. I hope that you’ll enjoy reading it. It is the longest book in the Patriots novel series, and it ties together many characters from the previous installments. This novel describes both a harrowing and lengthy cross-country journey from the DC Beltway to Idaho, as well as many adventures in western Canada, as the nation suffers two waves of foreign invasion. This novel has an emphasis on intelligence analysis and resistance warfare tactics. In addition to the hardcover edition, there is also an e-book …

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Can Your Food Storage Keep You Alive During a Doomsday?

There has been a lot of talk about of the world ending recently due to the Mayan calendar. The calendar was suppose to abruptly on December, 21st, 2012. Since we all clearly saw nothing happened and we are all living today, there was no doomsday. However, since some people did believe that this was going to happen, some people were smart and stocked up on emergency supplies which honestly is not a bad idea. With the economy collapsing, war raging out of control, diseases spreading, and stronger hurricanes, earthquakes, blizzards, and other storms, becoming a prepper isn’t such a bad idea. A prepper is a person who stores a large amount of food and water inside their home. …

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Breaking Down the Matrix of the New World Order

From Survival and BeyondBy Ed Corcoran The more you start looking into the things that are going on in the world and the less you pay attention to the corporate-controlled “mainstream” media, the more it becomes obvious that there is a movement taking place that’s pushing us towards a global government and the ultimate loss of our individual freedoms, liberties and quality of life. The systems and mechanisms that have been directing the course of our economy, government and society in America are various and sundry, with many seemingly disparate and unrelated branches and platforms. Due to gradual and continuous conditioning and indoctrination, these control mechanisms have not only managed…

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Raccoon Tracks and Sign

Raccoons at the Dunes It was around midnight on the first night of a week of tracking on Oregon’s coastal sand dunes with the Anake Outdoor School, and I was snug as a bug in a rug underneath my small tarp shelter. My dreams of clear fox prints and porcupine sightings were abruptly interrupted by View the full article at NatureSkills.com

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Looking for retreat property?

Looking for some retreat property? Well – check out https://sites.google.com/a/fishlakevalley.biz/mtnpropertyforsale/. Two properties are currently for sale. Here is the lowdown: The first 5 acre offers views and a pure mountain creek with rainbow trout. Brand new 850 sf. cabin shell has decks front and back, windows  loft, doors and a key to unlock the many adventures in area. Cabin can be finished by owner or the seller can complete the cabin, electrical, plumbing, septic, and interior walls. Whatever the new owner wishes to have completed.  The purchase price is only $99K.     The second 5 acre has …

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FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE: Creek Joins WorldNetDaily (WND.COM) as Weekly Survival Commentator

Whether it’s the car breaking down on a deserted stretch of road or the national infrastructure breaking down because of economic disaster, are you prepared to survive when all goes wrong? You don’t have to wait until it’s too late to get ready. Beginning today exclusively on WND’s Diversions page, nationally recognized survival expert Creek Stewart will be bringing a weekly column called “Not if, but when” to help equip you for the worst. “In our daily hustle and bustle, it’s easy not to consider or plan for the ‘what ifs’ in life,” Stewart told WND. “But whether caused by nature or man, real disasters happen to real people on a regular basis. I believe …

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Bread and Circuits

THE big financial story is all the hype and circumstance surrounding the Consumer Electronics Show which opens today in Lost Wages. As you would expect, there’s excellent coverage in places like PC World where a lot of the focus is on 4K TV’s – which are the big screens with about four times as many pixels as the usual 1080p rigs. As you would also expect, the stock market should rally a bit on this, after all, what’s not to love about selling the public more crap, which drives up sales of all kinds of things. But what’s NOT getting a lot of headspace in the media frenzy, is the role of open source in all this. Had an…

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Notes from JWR:

I was shocked to hear that Keith Ratliff, the manager of the video blog FPS Russia was recently found murdered in Carnesville, Georgia. His relatives sound dubious about the reported details. You’ve probably seen some of the very popular YouTube videos featuring Keith’s buddy Kyle Myers demonstrating various exotic weapons. (In the videos, Kyle mimics a Russian accent and uses the stage name Dmitri Potapoff.) FPS Russia is reportedly the third most popular video channel on YouTube. His death comes as very strange news. If it was indeed a robbery (as some claim), then why were so many guns found in the…

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Large Cities All Over America Are Degenerating Into Gang-Infested War Zones

Large U.S. cities that the rest of the world used to look at in envy are now being transformed into gang-infested hellholes with skyrocketing crime rates.  Cities such as Chicago, Detroit, Camden, East St. Louis, New Orleans and Oakland were once bustling with economic activity, but as industry has fled those communities poverty has exploded and so has criminal activity.  Meanwhile, financial problems have caused all of those cities to significantly reduce their police forces.  Sadly, this same pattern is being repeated in hundreds of communities all over the nation.  The mainstream media loves to focus on mass shooters such as Adam Lanza, but the reality is that gang violence is a far greater problem in the United States than mass shooters ever will be…

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Knife Safety Considerations

The knife is a highly versatile tool and your mastery of it is an indispensable skill for survival situations. A knife could be used for a myriad of things in the great outdoors, so in this topic we are going to teach you some basic knife safety skills to prevent accidents from happening to you and others. For starters you need to be aware that most knives have two critical parts, which are the sharp razor’s edge and the point. Rule number one keep all the sharp edges and the point, away from you and other people. Never point a knife at anyone, nor engage in horseplay when holding a knife. Following this rule at all …

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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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5 Lessons From the Panic of 2012

From Survival and BeyondTEOTWAWKI   Blog The gun control madness has been frustrating for most of us, but I think there are some helpful observations we can extrapolate from the whole mess. This time around, we’re seeing panic buying of guns, magazines and ammunition. Now, extend that to the initial hours/days after a wide scale collapse scenario, when you have people running out and buying anything and everything under the sun. Food. Water. Batteries. Tools. Camping gear. Everything. Using the current panic buying environment as a case study, here are a few things you can expect to see: #1. Have what you need on hand: Pretty self explanatory. You don’t want to…

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Raccoon Tracks and Sign

Raccoons at the Dunes It was around midnight on the first night of a week of tracking on Oregon’s coastal sand dunes with the Anake Outdoor School, and I was snug as a bug in a rug underneath my small tarp shelter. My dreams of clear fox prints and porcupine sightings were abruptly interrupted by View the full article at NatureSkills.com

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MSO Minutemen….Are you one?

Minuteman, Concord Mass. What is a Minuteman? “Minuteman” –  Minutemen were members of teams from Massachusetts that were well-prepared militia companies of select men from the American colonial partisan militia during the American Revolutionary War. They provided a highly mobile, rapidly deployed force that allowed the colonies to respond immediately to war threats, hence the name. – Via https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Minutemen The notion of the Minuteman has always intrigued me. When I was 6 or 7 years old my father took me to Concord, Massachusetts and we visited the statue pictured above. I walked across the Old North Bridge, which marks the location where British soldiers were met by the Minutemen of Concord and neighboring towns. The British retreated. We that…

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FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE: Creek Joins WorldNetDaily (WND.COM) as Weekly Survival Commentator

Whether it’s the car breaking down on a deserted stretch of road or the national infrastructure breaking down because of economic disaster, are you prepared to survive when all goes wrong? You don’t have to wait until it’s too late to get ready. Beginning today exclusively on WND’s Diversions page, nationally recognized survival expert Creek Stewart will be bringing a weekly column called “Not if, but when” to help equip you for the worst. “In our daily hustle and bustle, it’s easy not to consider or plan for the ‘what ifs’ in life,” Stewart told WND. “But whether caused by nature or man, real disasters happen to real people on a regular basis. I believe with all…

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Busy at the WH HR Office

You talk about overtime, there’s so much shuffling going on in Washington it’s like Musical Chairs has gone mainstream. For one, Chuck Hagel is headed for the SecDef job. The nomination of Hagel may be tougher than the John Kerry nomination, although here lately, we’re hearing the Swift Boat noises starting up again. But Kerry is getting support from key republicorps, so slam dunk deal there. Then there’s John Brennan who’s to be the next CIA Director. And this morning SecState Clinton is back on the job. No Benghazi hearings to attend? Why, ain’t that a coincidence. But seriously – here’s a dandy question about the WH HR operation: You know how in small companies, the feds insist on proof of citizenship, …

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Outrage: Bank Of America Freezes Funds of Licensed Online Gun Dealer: “We Believe You Should Not Be Selling Guns On The Internet”

Legal gun ownership in America is under attack on all sides. From pending bans that would restrict the sale, transfer and possession of certain weapons, to outright calls for repeal of the Second Amendment, we are entering an unprecedented era in American history. So much so, that not only is the government now coming after your right to bear arms, but private sector businesses are following suit. One of the country’s largest financial institutions, the ironically named Bank of America, has now taken it upon themselves to decide what is or is not a lawful business practice. The following alert was posted on the Facebook page of licensed firearms…

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Notes from JWR:

I just noticed that we are rapidly approaching the threshold of 50 million unique visits to SurvivalBlog. There are also now about 2,650 other sites linking to SurvivalBlog. (These are called "Inbound" links.) And our overall rank is around #5,200 in the U.S. (out of the 20 million+ web sites), which is by far the highest of any preparedness blog. Thanks for spreading the word, folks! — This is the birthday of Bent Faurschou-Hviid (born 1921, died October 18, 1944.) "The Flame" was a red-haired Danish resistance fighter in the Holger Danske Group during World War II. His exploits were dramatized in the movie Flame and Citron. — Do you have a favorite attributed quote that would be of interest to SurvivalBlog readers? If so, please send it…

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