Posted on 11/10/2012 4:51:46 PM PST by Kartographer
Some good stuff at link!
(Excerpt) Read more at pakalertpress.com ...
Better yet, the Boy Scout Field Book.
Prepper bookmark
For Later
Oh, yay. Slit trenches downhill and downstream (and one hopes, upwind) of the cook fire.
Good skills to know. Sucks to have to rely on them.
/johnny
Write down the make and model of your gun, and the caliber or shell size (12 gauge, .223, etc.) and take it to the local gun shop or a sporting goods store with someone that knows what they are doing and they’ll set you up. Probably all you need is the caliber - but the make/model might be helpful.
Once you get it figured out, every time you are near a Walmart you buy another box of ammunition. If your shotgun is to be used for self defense and not bird hunting, buy buckshot. Oh - with the shotguns some take 3-inch shells and shorter (2-2/3”??) and some just take the shorter. So look for that too. Although the gun store can probably figure it out by the make/model.
Or - just bring the guns to a gun shop (but probably not a sports store or Walmart!!) in their cases and let them figure it out.
Wonderful, thank you! I really need to buy more ink and paper and print while I can.
Better and more extensive field and pioneering skills than presented in the Scout Handbook. In fact, I still use many of the skills presented in my 40 year old copy with a fair frequency. If you’re reading fascinating titles like ‘Care of the Dead’ or other apocalyptic best sellers given on this thread, you might consider sound self-reliance topics known by rural people and good scouts since dirt was invented.
Don't care much about books unless they have useful data. My reading ranges from late 1600s to early 1900s, English (modern and archaic) and Latin. Some French.
Actually doing the mountain man thing for over a year gave me a clue about sorting fact from fiction. It's a hard life. Really hard.
/johnny
ditto
Yup, there’s a reason we don’t live that way.
As a prepper, I’m always amazed how seldom anybody includes a long-term supply of progressive strength reading glasses in their list of preps. Nobody I know will be able to take advantage of a damn thing on all those downloads once their reading glasses - which seem to have a half-life of about a month, in the best of times - get lost or broken or irredeemably scratched.
Heck, can’t even see the front sight on my pistol without them.
They sell them by the dozens for about $1-2 each on EBay. Stock up! They’ll make great barter items for old coots as well.
LOL! Well put!
By the way, which do you find more useful in daily life:
- the mountain man skill sets themselves, or
- the self-confidence and mental attitude created by having them?
Skillsets are important...
/johnny
My son’s troop leader asked when they were going to get me on a camping trip. I said “when it says Holiday Inn”.
Another time they asked us what role we would like to have in the camping portion of the scouts....
“Waving goodbye”
Those are most useful.
I had a slip/fall in the mountains, wound up losing a spleen and a kidney, broke 3 ribs (one thoractic puncture) and C-5. It was a blizzard, so that snow and wind thing sorta gave me frostbite and hypothermia.
2 weeks in ICU and trauma care, 17 units of whole blood and a year of working it out did wonders for bouncing back.
But I'm not quite up to my pre-injury typing speed. Fingers don't work quite correctly. I'm down to 55 wpm.
I miss my kidney. Spleen and I never talked much anyway. I suppose I should miss my mind, but that doesn't seem to matter... I really miss my typing skills.
/johnny
“My son’s troop leader asked when they were going to get me on a camping trip. I said “when it says Holiday Inn”.
Another time they asked us what role we would like to have in the camping portion of the scouts....
“Waving goodbye””
I am so glad you said that. You and I will be comfortable and they can go get bug eaten/dirty/hot and miserable and enjoy the hell out of it.
Thanks for your reply.
Down to 55 wpm? Heck, I’m a two finger Charlie. There are days when I don’t even think at 55 wpm.
Based on the extent of your injuries, sounds like you were lucky just to survive the fall. I’m assuming you were with a group when it happened. How long before you were able to be evacuated to a medical facility?
Excellent Book.... I still have mine from when I was a scout in the 60’s
Point well taken!
Grinding them without a currently useful pair might be a challenge, though.
You had to mention glasses. I had cataract surgery on both eyes from April of this year until the end of June. Takes forever to get both done. The thing is, they permanently “set” both eyes. One is set for far distance and it only sees that. The other one is set for medium distance and it only sees that.
That means you CAN'T READ JACK unless you have glasses. Neither eye can read. That just blew my mind because I am reading all day. As a result, I have FOUR PAIR OF READING GLASSES. Two are prescription and two are from the drug store. One from the drug store is a tiny pair in a hard case in my purse. If I broke my glasses while in my car, I couldn't read anything and I might have to do that to get back home. I wear one pair of the prescription, have another prescription pair for backup and another drug store one for backup. FOUR PAIR.
Preppers need to be able to see - BUY GLASSES.
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