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The Buckmaster - SHTF Survival Knife on Roids

July 14th, 2008 · 6 Comments

Question: How is a SHTF Samurai supposed to play Rambo without a beefy ass survival knife?
Answer: He (or she) isn’t.
My Buckmaster story:
When I was a kid, it must’ve been like 1985 or so, I went with my father to an Army Navy store in Bar Harbor, Maine (side note to tourists: visit Bar Harbor, spend […]

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The Many Uses of Tarps for TEOTWAWKI

April 18th, 2008 · 8 Comments

Before I begin today’s post, a few of you e-mailed me about my recent non-post Saturdays to say how Saturday’s just aren’t the same without a post, about how you wander about the day lost and looking for direction thirsting for your daily SHTFblog doom, love, and gloom . . . okay, so only one […]

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How to Paint Your Rifle Digital Camouflage

April 17th, 2008 · 15 Comments

So you want to paint your rifle camouflage. I painted mine 2 years ago and this is how I did it. The information in this post could also apply to equipment you may want to paint. Chances are high you’ll have paint left over anyway.
The idea to paint my rifle came from a local gun […]

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Tags: Equipment · Guns, Guns, Guns

Survival Scanners for SHTF . . . Scanning

April 14th, 2008 · 8 Comments

So I gave you a post on CB Radios for SHTF communication, now lets discuss scanners. These things are rippin’! The Ranger Man’s keep holds an old Bearcat scanner that my father gave me. While I don’t use it often (or even have it plugged in), if SHTF this item would be supah sweet. Picture […]

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Build a Tinfoil Hat for Brain Protection

March 27th, 2008 · 7 Comments

*Ranger Man looks to the left, to the right, and whispers*
“Shhhh! They’re listening.”
Who?
The aliens, of course, the Illuminati,
George Bush, and Richard Simmons.
Not only are they listening, they’re reading our minds. Quick - don’t think! Don’t process these words in your head until  you’ve secured your dome. Protect yourself from the brain scans. How? A tinfoil […]

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Tags: Equipment · Miscellaneous

CB Radios for SHTF Communications? That’s a Big 10-4.

March 25th, 2008 · 14 Comments

So the idea for this post originally came from this post by Kaiser von Texas. I started typing a comment on his post, but my comment kept getting longer and longer to the point at which I said to myself, “Shit, self. You’d might as well turn this into a post.” So I did - […]

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Tags: Equipment