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Start sourcing your own local supply chain. Hutterite colonies are a good place to start, but you will need others too. drop your suggestions for others in here. Let's see if we can build out our lists.
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There is a ton of content online about Bug-Out-Bags. And I don't get it, because the majority of the stuff that we see is not for bugging out nor is it for getting home. So what is the point?
A real bag should answer three questions immediately:
From where? (home, vehicle, workplace, backcountry, urban)
To where? (home, rally point, cabin, border, shelter)
Under what conditions? (time, weather, injury, pursuit, chaos).
If it can't, your bag is not mission specific (AND IT NEEDS TO BE!!!) it's just a collection of stuff with a cool name.
A true bug out bag is designed to help you bug out when where you are is no longer safe or viable. Therefore, it should have everything you need to get started somewhere else. If it doesn't it's just a pack with a bunch of stuff.
Start with building a Get-Home-Bag that will help you get from where you likely will be (work, school, etc...), when the world around you goes sideways, back to your house where your family and your supplies are.
The 2 most important skills to teach family members who venture into the wilderness: #1 Controlling bleeding. You're right to say I already said #1 was fire. But Fire and Bleeding Control are both top priority. If there's no bleeding fire is the most important thing. If there is bleeding THAT is the most important thing. #2 will be discussed next.
The 2 most important skills to teach family members who venture into the wilderness: #1; Lighting a fire. A fire needs three things in order to occur (or continue). Take away any one of them and the fire goes out. The most basic principle is "Start small". Get a small ball of fluff going. Then get a tiny twig going and add another few tiny twigs to it and get slightly larger twigs and keep doing that in tiny increments until you're putting logs on it. You can use matches, a lighter, a ferro rod, flint and steel to get your initial heat source to start the combustion process.
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What are the most important skills to teach family members who venture into the wilderness? One post on each to follow.
Latest video. This one is on the @MAXPEDITION Typhoon backpack as a daily carry bag. I think the pack gets a bum wrap. Here's why I think it's a great bag and how to use it despite some shortcomings.
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This is a highly capable little fanny pack survival kit. If you've got any questions, shoot 'em over. Otherwise, feel free to use this as inspiration for your own.
Be well everyone, and Happy New Year!!!
Great Functional Radio For Preparedness workshop at Alberta Outdoor Adventure Expo, yesterday. Terrific turnout and some awesome questions. Thank you to all who attended.
Wow. What a great video. Not only for preparedness for those of us that go camping with our families but also for anybody whoever bases a decision on hearsay, circumstantial evidence/data or their own opinion that is based on a. VERY limited experience (one persons worth).
Well-worth the watch!!!!
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Another great video by reliable prepper this time on blackouts and long-term power outages. Really starting to dig this guy's videos.
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This is a phenomenal reality check for anyone who thinks of bugging out as their emergency plan. There is a reason that bugging out is number four in my four pillar emergency preparedness system.
There's a lot of good stuff in this video.
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As I'm sure you've gathered I've stopped doing two regular posts everyday and moved to doing them when the moment strikes and I have something to say.
Today is compasses. I just bought a new Suunto mc2 global. My favorite compass because of ease of use and accuracy. The price point is nice too because I can get a solid compass that I can do everything I need to do with it for a hundred bucks give or take.
But in setting the declination on the new compass I realized that it's been many years since I did that to any of my compasses. In those years, the declination for where I am has changed fairly significantly. So it's a good reminder, and I have now adjusted all of my compasses for the current year, to do that annually as declination changes through time.
So if you haven't done it for a while pull out all of your compasses do some research and figure out what your current declination is for your area or for where you're going to be using the compass. Then set that on all of your compasses so that when you take a bearing and follow it you're going in the right direction. After all, that IS the point of a compass!!!
