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1/24/26 New York Post coverage indicates that Pretti was shot multiple times after he was disarmed. Yes, if Minnesota did what they should and turned over convicted felon illegal aliens when released, this would not have happened. Yes, coming to a protest armed, even lawfully armed, is a bad idea. It is just barely possible that officers who shot Pretti saw the gun and opened fire not realizing it was another officer who had the gun. It still is pretty tragic.
Of course, that was the goal of these interferences with ICE: provoke violence and death so we stop asking about the $9 billion welfare fraud.
We're getting a little ice, but the ground is not frozen, so it is not sticking. The power is on, so we are warm and have light. I've talked to all my kids and they are okay. We are weathering the storm.
The weather radar has lots of pretty colors.
We're hanging in there. This too will pass later today.
SB 2 has been introduced in the South Dakota legislature. It removes silencers from the list of "controlled weapons" in the state statutes. This bill effectively removes state regulation of silencers, but not federal regulation. From sdlegislature.gov:
An Act to provide that a firearm silencer is not a controlled weapon.
The Bill removes silencers from the definition of "Controlled weapon". The definition is Section 1. § 22-1-2 (8).
The bill creates a new definition which removes silencers. Here is how the new definition would read:
(8) "Controlled weapon" includes machine gun and short shotgun as those terms are defined in subdivisions (17), (23), and (46)
of this section but does not include a firearm silencer;
As you can see, South Dakota does not include short barreled rifles in their definition of "controlled weapons". The definition of what a silencer is still exists in Section 1.§22-1-2 (17).
(17) "Firearm silencer," any instrument, attachment, weapon or appliance for causing the firing of any gun, revolver, pistol, or other firearm to be silent, or intended to lessen or muffle the noise of the firing of any such weapon;
Because silencers are removed from the list of "controlled weapons", they would no longer be banned from possession by most of the people in South Dakota. In effect, the law removes the state ban on the possession of silencers for everyone who may legally posses firearms in South Dakota. In the current law, an exemption exists for people who have a federal tax stamp for a particular silencer. The ban on short barreled rifles has already been removed from the statute.
For whatever reason, the bill keeps short barreled shotguns on the list of "controlled weapons".
Senate Bill 2 still has a long way to go to be enacted into law, even though it has a very strong start. The bill has 18 Senators as sponsors: Crabtree (prime), Blanc, Carley, Davis, Deibert, Grove, Howard, Hulse, Jensen (Kevin), Miskimins, Nelson, Pischke, Reed, Rohl, Voight, Voita, Wipf, and Zikmund . It has 29 Representatives as sponsors: Peterson (Drew) (prime), Aylward, Bahmuller, Baxter, Emery, Fosness, Goodwin, Hughes, Jordan, Jorgenson, Kull, Moore, Mortenson, Mulder, Novstrup, Overweg, Pourier, Reimer, Reisch, Rice, Roe, Schaefbauer, Schwans, Shorma, Shubeck, Sjaarda, Van Diepen, Walburg, and Weems.
There are 35 senators in the South Dakota legislature and 70 representatives. Bill 2 already has a majority of Senators as sponsors, but needs seven more representatives to have a majority of representatives as sponsors.
Governor Larry Rhoden has already said he supports the effort to deregulate suppressors in South Dakota.
The Big Beautiful Bill removed the $200 tax from the Federal National Firearms Act for silencers, short barreled rifles, short barreled shotguns, and any other weapons (aow). States need to remove state impediments to owning these weapons. The weapons should be presumptively protected by the Second Amendment. Removing the potential for state prosecution is prudent. The Supreme Court may remove these items from the NFA in the near future. Until then, removing state laws prevents the prosecution by state agencies for possession of these items. Federal law enforcement is spread thin. Without the aid of state agencies, the potential to be prosecuted for lack of a federal tax stamp becomes very small.
Arizona introduced a similar bill, SB 1014, in 2024. It was vetoed by Governor Katie Hobbs (D). Governor Hobbs holds the record for the most vetos by an Arizona governor in one session:
In her first term as governor, Hobbs set the record for the most vetoes by an Arizona governor in a single legislative session, vetoing more than 100 bills passed by the Republican-controlled legislature.[15][16]
Governor Hobbs is up for re-election in 2027.
The odds are SB2 will become law in South Dakota in 2026. It may take some time.
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Upon their arrival, JSO said officers found the victim, identified as a man in his late-30s, inside of a vehicle in front of a home.
"The initial investigation revealed three masked armed suspects entered the victim's residence and attempted to rob the victim," Johnson told First Coast News. "The suspects began firing at the victim and the victim returned fire striking one of the suspects."
Johnson said the suspect who was struck crawled out of the residence and was found in the front yard of the home when officers arrived. Both the victim and suspect who was shot were taken by to a local hospital in stable condition, according to Johnson.
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On January 25, 1840 an American naval expedition under Charles Wilkes was the first to identify Antarctica as a new continent. — January 25, 1915: Transcontinental telephone service officially inaugurated when Alexander Graham Bell in New York City called thomas Watson in San Francisco, California during the Panama-Pacific International Exposition. — SurvivalBlog Writing Contest Today we present another entry for Round 122 of the SurvivalBlog non-fiction writing contest. The prizes for this round include: First Prize: A Gunsite Academy Three-Day Course Certificate. This can be used for any of their one, two, or three-day course (a $1,095 value), A Peak …
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Editor’s Introductory Note: This analysis was published by our friend Hub Moolman on January 20th, 2026. There is a wide range of opinion amongst precious metals market analysts on where the top might be for silver, in the current cycle. I personally expect to see a top somewhere between $125 and $195 per ounce. The bull market will probably be stopped by the combined force of legislation, executive orders, central bank intervention, and radically increased margin requirements by the metals exchanges. Presently, Asian silver buyers are unperturbed by the recent COMEX and LBMA trading rules changes. But when it comes, …
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The latest meme created by JWR: Meme Text: On January 1st, 2026, American shooters added a new category of “ARMS” to their collections: Abundantly Repurposed Mag-Lite Suppressors News Link: New Year Buying Surge Shows 2026 Could Be The Year Of Suppressors. Notes From JWR: Do you have a meme idea? Just e-mail me the concept, and I’ll try to assemble it. And if it is posted then I’ll give you credit. Thanks! Permission to repost memes that I’ve created is granted, provided that credit to SurvivalBlog.com is included.
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“Stand fast therefore in the liberty wherewith Christ hath made us free, and be not entangled again with the yoke of bondage. Behold, I Paul say unto you, that if ye be circumcised, Christ shall profit you nothing. For I testify again to every man that is circumcised, that he is a debtor to do the whole law. Christ is become of no effect unto you, whosoever of you are justified by the law; ye are fallen from grace. For we through the Spirit wait for the hope of righteousness by faith. For in Jesus Christ neither circumcision availeth any …
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1/22/26 New York Post article by my friend John Lott:
Countless news stories have amplified fears that under Trump, federal Immigration and Customs Enforcement agents are wildly violating basic rights.
NPR, to cite just one example, recently claimed that “many” American citizens “have been mistaken” for illegal immigrants, and that there’s “a long history of immigration agencies not having a good track record.”
But the numbers tell a very different story about how ICE is doing under Trump.
Let’s set the baseline: Between the president’s Jan. 20, 2025, inauguration and the end of November, Trump’s administration arrested an extraordinary total of 595,000 illegal aliens and deported 605,000.
The 170 ICE-detained US citizens cited in Stanage’s diatribe included about 130 arrested for interfering with or assaulting officers, according to the left-leaning ProPublica — justifiable under any reading of the law.
Only about 40 or so of those who were detained claimed to be US citizens accidentally or erroneously arrested by ICE, and just half of those people were held for more than a day; most were released in a few hours.
Any error is serious, but 40 mistakes out of 595,000 arrests amounts to an error rate of just 0.0067% — roughly one wrongful detention for every 14,925 arrests.
Compare that with the final two years of President Barack Obama’s administration.
In fiscal years 2015 and 2016, ICE recorded 263 mistaken arrests, 54 mistaken detentions (book-ins), and four mistaken removals.
During those two years, ICE made a mere 239,645 arrests, meaning the 54 mistaken detentions alone produced an Obama error rate of 0.0225% — about one mistake for every 4,444 arrests.
Overall, the error rate under Obama was 3.36 times higher than under Trump.
Unfortunately, there’s no comparable public data for other past administrations, or the rest of the Obama years.
As further evidence of ICE’s irresponsibility, Stanage charged that “32 people died in ICE custody last year.”
That claim, however, misleads without context; the numbers only make sense when compared across administrations.
During the course of Obama’s two terms, from 2009 to 2017, 56 individuals died in ICE custody.
That administration didn’t publish clear detention totals, but the closest available figures show about 498,646 detentions and deportations over five fiscal years, an average of roughly 99,729 per year.
If that annual rate held throughout the entire administration, ICE processed about 797,834 individuals.
Under that estimate, 56 deaths translates into a rate of 0.007% — roughly one death for every 14,314 detainees.
By comparison, the rate last year under Trump was slightly lower: 0.0054%, or one death for every 18,594 detainees.
Both those figures are substantially below the average death rate for the detainee age group.
Stanage’s rant omitted one key data point: the number of Americans accidentally deported.
The reason for him not doing so is straightforward — none occurred.
That’s right, for all the tumult and fury, ICE under Trump made no erroneous deportations through November.
By contrast, ICE under Obama deported two US citizens in fiscal year 2015, and two more in fiscal year 2016.
We shot our January monthly match at the clubhouse today. Yes, there is a winter storm coming, but it ain't hare yet. We decided to have some fun.
We had eleven (11) shooters this morning, not a bad turnout when you figure the weather.
The worst of it is supposed to roll in here later today, mainly in the form of ice and sleet, not so much snow. Many of the churches are closed tomorrow, and the news is saying that the state will close the Interstate (I-49) later today, mainly because so much of it is elevated across Alexandria.
Belle and I are hunkered down, with everything we need to ride this thing out.
In 1998, Wisconsin concluded the lengthy process to amend the state constitution to add an amendment protecting the right to keep and bear arms. The amendment passed by a super majority, 74% to 26%. The amendment is straightforward.
The people have the right to keep and bear arms for security, defense, hunting, recreation or any other lawful purpose.
The amendment was codified into the Wisconsin state constitution as section 25 of Article I. Court cases challenging Wisconsin law which infringed on rights protected by sections 25 started fairly quickly.
In July of 2003, the Wisconsin Supreme Court found the state ban on the carry of concealed weapons to be presumptively legal, in State v. Cole. They stated a Constitutional amendment is still subject to "reasonable regulation". The court essentially neutered the right to keep and bear arms as a significant protection of peoples' rights. The court had a nominally conservative majority. The case was heard five years before the Heller decision in 2008. Cole was an ugly case with the defendant a convicted drug dealer.
In June of 2016, another case was being heard in Kenosha, Wisconsin. This case also challenged state law. In this case the defendant was squeaky clean. The case was, in essence a prequel to the famous Kyle Rittenhouse case in 2021. The prosecutor was the infamous Thomas Binger, same as for Rittenhouse. The judge was none other than now famous Honorable Bruce Schroeder. The case was clear cut. Guy Smith had a revolver in his truck for his protection. Thomas Binger prosecuted the case up to the point it was going to trial. Judge Schroeder was the judge in the case. Judge Schroeder correctly ruled against a motion by the prosecution, before the trial. Binger dropped all charges, then refused to give Guy Smith his revolver back.
Wisconsin Republicans have filed an amendment to change the wording of Section 25. The wording is meant to strengthen the amendment and place it beyond the court's power to render it impotent. The changed language would read thus:
[Article I] Section 25. The people have the inalienable right to keep and bear arms which right shall never be infringed. The right of the people to keep and bear arms is a fundamental individual right, and any restriction on that right shall be subject to strict scrutiny.
The action, AJR112, has not been voted on at this time. There is an identical resolution in the Senate, SJR105. If the resolution passes the Assembly and the Senate, it then has to pass again, after an election. If it passes the second time, it will go to the people in the form of a referendum during the next election. If the referendum passes, the amendment becomes part of the state constitution. The governor is not required to sign any off on any of this process.
If the amendment is passed by two legislatures, it will pass as a referendum. The Second Amendment is popular in Wisconsin, and among states in general. No referendum establishing or strengthening the right to arms has failed a state wide referendum, to the knowledge of this correspondent. Such actions have failed in state legislatures, but not as referendums. Such referendums typically pass with super majorities. The Wisconsin Senate has 18 Republicans and 15 members of the Democratic Party. The state Assembly has 54 Republicans and 45 members of the Democratic Party.
AJR112 has 12 sponsors. SJR105, the Senate version, has four sponsors. The legislation was introduced on October 30, 2025.
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Sheriff Bill Rogers said the girl, whose name has not been released, was killed when someone opened fire on the Old Stake home just before 1 a.m.
The girl, who was 16, was killed in her bed. Family members returned fire, Rogers said, but the shooters have not been identified. The shooting occurred at 2013 Old Stake Road, roughly three miles from the town of Chadbourn.
“It’s heartbreaking,” Rogers said.
The suspected robber pulled a gun on a man who was eating at a taco truck. That man then pulled out his own gun and shot the robber multiple times.
The robbery suspect, identified as a 26-year-old man, died at the hospital.
Police say the other man drove off after the shooting, and they're now looking for him.
On January 24, 1616, Dutch mariners Jacob Le Maire and Willem Schouten were the first Europeans to discover Le Maire Strait, Tierra del Fuego, and then go on and round Cape Horn. — January 24, 1890: The world’s oldest wooden sculpture, the Shigir Idol, was discovered in a peat bog near Kaltay, Middle Urals. It was later radiocarbon dated to 12,500 years old. — SurvivalBlog Writing Contest Today we present another entry for Round 122 of the SurvivalBlog non-fiction writing contest. The prizes for this round include: First Prize: A Gunsite Academy Three-Day Course Certificate. This can be used for …
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(Continued from Part 1. This concludes the article.) To give a vivid image of what it is still like here, the next smaller village over where my girl grew up still has a single electrical wire held up by bamboo poles with a 3W LED bulb dangling off every 100m (330 ft) or so for street lights, and house wiring running off that same single wire. But the sand roads were concreted over a few years ago, so there is improvement happening. As you can imagine in the tropics solar power works great, in dry season we have full batteries …
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To be prepared for a crisis, every Prepper must establish goals and make both long-term and short-term plans. In this column, the SurvivalBlog editors review their week’s prep activities and planned prep activities for the coming week. These range from healthcare and gear purchases to gardening, ranch improvements, bug-out bag fine-tuning, and food storage. This is something akin to our Retreat Owner Profiles, but written incrementally and in detail, throughout the year. We always welcome you to share your own successes and wisdom in your e-mailed letters. We post many of those — or excerpts thereof — in the Odds …
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“These are the words of the covenant, which the Lord commanded Moses to make with the children of Israel in the land of Moab, beside the covenant which he made with them in Horeb. And Moses called unto all Israel, and said unto them, Ye have seen all that the Lord did before your eyes in the land of Egypt unto Pharaoh, and unto all his servants, and unto all his land; The great temptations which thine eyes have seen, the signs, and those great miracles: Yet the Lord hath not given you an heart to perceive, and eyes to …
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The last day of SHOT Show, what can we find before we all head home?! Here are some more of the new and interesting things happening at SHOT 2026!
SHOT Show 2026 is almost over! Tom Marshall takes us on a video tour of some of the coolest new things we found this year.The big news this weekend is the winter storm that is going to hit us over the weekend. Yesterday there were lines at gas pumps and propane filling stations. From all accounts, we are going to be on the southern edge of the storm, so how bad it may get is a matter of which weather app you are using.
The temps are all predicted to get into the mid-to-lower teens, so the temps will be there. The question is how much precipitation we are going to get, and in what form. Snow, sleet, freezing rain are all in the mix.
I think we are ready, though one never really knows. The gas cans are full, the generator is ready, the propane tanks are filled. Now it's just a matter of how closely the reality matches the forecast.
We will see.
- I did not know that: Indiana has a statutory 12,000 mile limit on the total amount of highway INDOT is allowed to maintain. This has odd side effects.
- Deepfakes are doing serious epistemic damage. What do? (Related.)
- No, the green smoke you see the feds using in Minneapolis is not a chemical agent. It's not even from the older HC style smoke grenades that give off hexachloroethane as a byproduct (those are white smoke grenades and HC ones aren't used as much anymore.) They're just plain old green smoke grenades from DefTec. But people have been conditioned by comic books, TV, Hollywood, and video games to associate green clouds with poison, so...
The KelTec PR57 has been designed from the start as a dedicated concealed carry pistol for self defense. It has a combination of old and new features, with KelTec characteristically starting fresh in its pursuit of excellence at a lower price point. AmmoLand covered the pistol at the Shot Show last year. The PR57 appears to have been selling well.
What potential for accuracy does the PR57 have? On the Internet, answers have been sparse. Some reviewers note it is easy to make hits on 100 yard targets with the pistol and an optical sight. The rotary system looks conducive to accuracy.
This correspondent watched sales and purchased a KelTec PR57 a little below the suggested retail price of $399 at KYGUNCO. In addition, a Viridian RFX11 1x16 Green Dot optical sight, four additional stripper clips, and an outside the waistband paddle holster by Rounded Gear were ordered directly from KelTec. The accessories cost about $240 with shipping and handling.
The average of 10 measurements on a Lyman Digital Trigger Pull Gage was 3.8 lbs. After a short take up, no stacking was detected. There is about 5/8 inch of travel before let-off. It is like a very light double action revolver trigger. The KelTec achieves this because the hammer is partly cocked by the slide. The trigger completes the cocking action and then releases. It is a 1 and 1/2 action. It is smooth, but takes practice to obtain the best accuracy. The safety is the long trigger pull.
With factory sights and a rest, five five shot groups at 25 yards averaged 2.65 inches. The groups were plagued with flyers. One four shot group was 7/8 of an inch. The pistol could shoot better than the aging eyes of the shooter. The pistol shot about 3 1/2 inches high at 25 yards.
Typical 25 yard group from rest with open sights.
The Viridian optical sight was mounted. Five five shot groups were fired from a rest while sighting in the PR57. At 25 yards the average group, center to center, was 2.01 inches. Five five shot groups, fired at 100 yards averaged 7.6 inches from a rest. There was considerable vertical stringing, which was attributed to an unsatisfactory rest. 23 of the 25 shots fit into an 5 x 8 inch box at 100 yards. The shots were fired deliberately, about a minute per shot.
With a hasty rest position, using a portable bench as support for the hands, five shots were fired at 100 yds at about 3 second intervals. An almost centered group of 9.5 inches was the result. One shot is in the black.
The rest used for the initial testing seemed to contribute to vertical stringing. After a Caldwell Pistolero rest was ordered and received, another test group was fired at 25 yards. There was wind from the left at about 10 mph. The result was a 5 shot group of 1.15 inches at 25 yards.
The inherent accuracy of the PR57 is excellent, far exceeding ordinary requirements of a carry pistol. The trigger has a long but smooth pull. The stock sights on the example shot high, but the front sight can be replaced. Eventually someone will offer replacement front sights of various heights. The sample tested requires another .026 inches of front sight to be 3/4 inches high at 25 yards. A file could be used to make the final adjustment. It is a flat shooting pistol. With the Viridian optic, the dot is .3 inches higher than the rear sight. Adjusted to a half inch high at 25 yards it is .78 inches high at 50 yards and 1.4 inches low at 100 yards. Aim dead on out to 100 yards. At 150 yards the trajectory is 8 inches low. Consistent hits on man sized target are possible with this pistol to 150 yards. With a hasty rest, hits at 50, 75 or 100 yards are not difficult.
Five rounds were tested for velocity with a Garmin XERO C1 Pro radar chronograph. All ammunition used in the testing was Fiocchi Range Dynamics 40 grain FMJ bulk pack. The velocities were: 1625.4 feet per second (fps), 1607.6 fps, 1613.6 fps, 1628.5 fps, and 1621.9 fps. This gives an average of 1619.4 fps, and 233 ft-lbs of energy at the muzzle. This is about half the energy of hot 9mm load, twice the energy of an average .32 acp load, and 1.5 times the energy of most .380 ACP loads.
Accuracy is a function of ammunition, the pistol, and the shooting platform. The Fiocchi loads in this PR57 have much better accuracy than most shooters are able to use. An optical sight improves practical accuracy for aging eyes.
After carrying the PR57 for more than a month, it is easy to get used to. The texture of the grip can be abrasive to bare skin. This correspondent looks forward to a holster with better security, for open carry. Loaded with 21 rounds, the PR57 weighs 19 ounces, 11 ounces less than a Glock loaded with 17 rounds of 9mm. Recoil is much less than a Glock 17, more than a .22 LR from a Colt Woodsman. There is considerable flash and bang, which may be positive for most self defense situations.
21 rounds is enough for most situations. It is more than most revolvers with two reloads. If you carry another 20 rounds in stripper clips, they are less bulky than many single magazines. Reloading with a 10 round stripper clip is about as fast as reloading a revolver with a speed loader.
The stripper clips for the PR57 must be loaded from the top on the right side. The rounds can be pushed into the fixed magazine with either thumb, but the pistol is held differently with the right or left hand.
KelTec has achieved a remarkable result. A carry pistol with a 21 round capacity, lighter than most pocket pistols, compact, simple to use, easily concealable, more powerful than a .380. Accuracy is nearly as good as dedicated target pistols. With an optical sight installed, long range hits are easily achieved.
Reliability was good when using the stripper clips to load the pistol. If loading a single round at a time, be sure the cartridges are pushed all the way to the rear of the magazine. During the first 45 rounds of break-in two failure to feed malfunctions were experienced. This correspondent believes the cartridges, loaded singly, were not properly pushed to the rear of the magazine. No further malfunctions were experienced.
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Moshe Borukh, 35, heard commotion around the window of his Jamaica Estates home around 2:40 a.m., after getting a drink of water, and discovered a thief was inside while his wife and three young kids were asleep, he recalled to The Post.
Borukh, who took his gun with him to check out the noise, “locked eyes” with the burglar and drew his Sig Sauer P365.
“I always take the gun with me, because who knows. Then I hear actual window breaking, the glass breaking. Something’s going on. I come downstairs, point the gun at him, and I’m like, ‘I have a gun. Don’t move,'” he said of the harrowing moment.
After seeing Borukh, the invader quickly scurried out the window and abandoned the botched burglary.
“It was probably one of the scariest moments of my life. You know, I was prepared for it, just because I have a family. I have to protect my castle, and so by any means necessary,” Borukh said.
When police arrived, they located the victim, who they eventually identified as Tayden Dixon from Washington Park, Illinois. Dixon was found near the entrance of a residence with a gunshot wound. Officers and EMS provided attempted to provide medical aid, but Dixon passed away from his injuries. He was 18.
People in the home reported hearing loud banging and screaming outside, according to investigators. One of the residents, a 38-year-old woman, went downstairs to see what was going on. She found her 17-year-old niece involved in a fight on the front porch with another person whose face was covered by a hood.
Police said the woman was worried for her niece’s safety and believed she was in immediate danger. The woman opened the front door and fired a shot at the aggressor.
It was later determined the person shot was the niece’s own brother and the woman’s nephew.
Knowledge to make your life better. If you have some free time, check out some of these links this weekend. The Pros And Cons Of Red Dot Sights On Pistols » Concealed Carry Inc For those of you considering the transition to red dots. Are You Part of the EDC 1%? – […]On January 23, 1643 the New Model Army led by Thomas Fairfax attacked the royalist garrison and captured Leeds for the Parliamentarians in the English Civil War. — January 23, 1812: A magnitude 7.8 earthquake shook New Madrid, Missouri. — Today is a the birthday of Larry Dean Olsen. (January 23, 1939 — December 26, 2018.) He was born in Wendell, Idaho, on January 23, 1939, to parents Dean and Lola Olsen and he grew up in Jerome, Idaho. Larry was widely recognized as the father of modern primitive survival education. He was the author of the international bestseller “Outdoor …
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Have you ever thought about going off-grid in the tropics? No? Well, me neither, yet that’s where I find myself. First up, though I have had food stores and access to water as a habit for over a decade I have only been living (mostly) off-grid for a year. So I’m not very experienced and still learning the ropes. But I thought my experiences here might be a curiosity and possibly be interesting reading for others. I originally moved to Thailand to work in the action film industry, 21 years ago. Since then I saw that the country started modernising, …
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In Economics & Investing Media of the Week we feature photos, charts, graphs, maps, video links, and news items of interest to preppers. The thumbnail below is click-expandable. Economics & Investing Links of Interest As reported by the leftist Washington Post: How tech billionaires spurred an exodus from California. Spot silver broke out again to $94.77 per Troy ounce on Monday morning. By Tuesday afternoon, it was at $95.57. And just after Thursday’s Comex market close, it touched $99.64. This morning, it was $100.41, in Asian trading. That was another all-time high. Gold was at $4,968.70. (Another all-time high.) A …
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“The Tea Party is simply a loose description of local activism driven by Americans who want smaller government and more self-reliance. That sounds like what the Founding Fathers had in mind, does it not?” – Bill O’Reilly
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