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Learner's Corner - Words & Phrases to Know
  Concentration Camp Martial Law Bill of Rights       
  Quarantine Tyranny Rebellion
  Preparedness Collapse Self-sufficient
  Police State Secret Police Disaster
  Famine Looting Self Defense
  Surveillance Sheeple Gun Control
  
  
Comments Section
I think this will become a permanent section on the website as I keep finding more stuff to say concerning disaster preparedness planning.
 
Mar. 14, 2010
Finding reasonably prices ammunition
- Over the last couple of months I have had a really hard time finding .45 ACP pistol ammo. There seems to be a major shortage just about everywhere I look. Of course there are vendors on-line you can buy from, but the cost + shipping combined drives the prices through the roof, I've been seeing at least $20 per box (or much higher) for 50 rounds of the .45 FMJ. This really sucks since I shoot a lot but don't reload my own as yet, still working on that skill. As an easy alternative, I called around and located 6 or 7 Wal-Marts that sometimes have ammo, but while talking to the sporting goods sales people, even Wal-Mart has spotty deliveries. My suggestion would be to make a list (including phone numbers) of the stores near you, call them 2 or 3 times a week to see if they have or expect a delivery of ammo, then hot-foot it over and pick you favorite caliber up before it disappears. To buy ammo over the internet, here are a couple of links that might help find the best prices. Ammo Engine and Current Ammunition Deals  Just some ideas.
 
 
Vendor Products & Services

 

The Family Baker

 
 
Getting Started 101

The links below are what I think are the "first basics" and have listed them here.

  General Supply List Becoming Self-Sufficient for 6 Months LDS Preparedness Manual Water Treatment
  Base Camp Trail Stove Stocking Food Homemade Berkey Water Filter Medical Emergencies
  Poison Response Center Bug-Out-Bag List Stay at Home or Leave? Rehydration Solution
  Food Coop Directory Food Recalls & Alerts Pet Safety During A Disaster How to Stop a Runaway Car
 
 
New Links & Documents
  Build a Solar Still Pet Care & Emergencies Survival Center Lists Survival Kits
 
 
Cooking & Recipes
  Alternate Cooking Methods Animals for Food Dutch Ovens Emergency Bread
  Emergency Food For Babies Essential Nutrient Sources Expedient Cooking Fireless Cooker
  Freezer Bag Meals Grains and Legumes Improvised Grain Mill Making an Oil Press
  Preparation of Dairy Products Render Animal Fat Solar Cooking 1  2 Thermos Bottle Cooking
  Cast Iron Cookware Cheese Making Colorado Food Products Database Food Coop Directory
  Grandpappy's Basic Recipes Homemade Instant Foods Making Cheese 1  2 Recipe Goldmine
  Recipes Using Canned & Dried Foods Windshield Shade Solar Cooker
  
  
  Fire Craft & Stoves
  Base Camp Trail Stove Brush Fungus Stove Bucket Stove Coal Extenders
  Fighting Fires Fire by Bow Drill Fire by Can Fire by Flint, Steel and Battery
  Fire Safety and Extinguishers Making Charcoal Plumber's Stove Rocket Stove
  Tinder Fungus
  Backpacking Stove Fuels Making an Outdoor Oven
  
  
Food Storage & Safety
  1 Year Food Supply For 1 Adult Dehydrating Food Food-Borne Illnesses Food Safety
  Food Storage and Rodents Food Storage in the Home Mylar Bag Sealing Methods Pantry Pests
  Poisonous Plants Solar Food Drying Stocking Food Stocking for Small Spaces
  Storage of Wheat
  Food Product Dating Food Recalls & Alerts Home Food Canning Home Food Preservation
  Preserving Fish Preserving Meat
 
 
Gardening & Seed Saving
  Backyard Green House Cultivating Vegetables Growing Wheat by Hand Plant Identification
  Gardening Tips Growing Mushrooms Seed Savers Exchange
 
 
Power, Light & Heat
  Candle Making   DynaGlo Kerosene Heater Emergency Home Heating Heat, Light and Power
  Toyoset Kerosene Heater   What if the Electricity Goes Off? Winter Power Failure
  Alternative Energy Kerosene Fuel Kerosene Heaters Oil Lamps
  Power Outage Tips Soda Can Solar Heater Solar Heat Air Panel Solar Projects
  Window Solar Heater
 
 
Water & Sanitation
  Build a Hand Pump Emergency Disinfection Getting Started Storing Water Homemade Berkey Water Filter
  Priming the Berkey Filter Rainwater Harvesting Slow Sand Filters Sanitation
  Water Treatment Solar Water Heater
  Berkey Water Filter Operations - V Coffee Filters & Alum Find Water & Make It Safe Homemade Water Filter - V
  Shock Chlorinate a Well Solar Still Swimming Pool Volume Calculations Water Purification - V
  Water Supplies During Pandemic Wilkes University Water Testing
  
 
Weapons & Ammunition
  1911 .45 Pistol Field Stripping AK47 Rifle Field Stripping Alternate Gun Cleaning Solvent & Oil AR15 Rifle Field Stripping
  Beretta 92 Field Stripping Booby Traps and Area Defense Browning 22 Semi-Auto Colt AR15
  Colt Revolvers Dan Wesson 1911 DPMS AR15 Glock Armorers Manual
  Marlin 60 Field Stripping Mossberg 500 Shotgun Stripping Mossberg 535 Ruger 10/22 Rifle Field Stripping
  Ruger 44 Carbine Ruger Blackhawk Ruger Mini 14 Field Stripping Ruger Mini-30
  Russian M44 Carbine Shotgun Home Defense SKS Rifle Field Stripping Smith & Wesson Revolvers
  Taurus PT1911 Thompson .45 'Tommy Gun' Vector AK47 Winchester 1895 Lever Action
  2 Point Sling Installation - V AK47 Rifle Cleaning 1  2  3  4  5  6 - V Ammo Engine Beretta 92 Field Stripping - V
  Current Ammunition Deals Glock Field Stripping - V Gun Directory - Reviews & Specs Lubing a Pistol - V
  M1 Garand Field Stripping - V Marlin 60 Field Stripping - V Mossberg 500 Field Stripping - V Remington 870 Disassembly - V
  Remington 870 Reassembly - V Revolver Cleaning - V Ruger Mini-14 Field Stripping 1 2 - V Shotgun Barrel Cleaning - V
  SKS Field Stripping 1  2 - V Why Your 1911 Pistol Won't Work
 
 
Military Manuals & Training
  Ambush and Counter Ambush Booby Traps Civil Disturbances Close Combat
  Combat Care and Wound Treatment Combat Skills Combat Training with Pistols Combatives  1  2  3  4  5  6  7
  Counter Guerrilla Operations Desert Operations Environmental Injuries Explosives and Demolitions
  Eye, Ear and Nose Injuries Field Craft Generators  1  2  3  4  5  6 Grenades and Pyrotechnic Signals
  Intravenous Infusions Light Anti-Armor Weapons Map Reading and Land Navigation Mountaineering - Advanced
  Mountaineering - Basic NBC Agent Field Behavior NBC Decontamination NBC Protection  1  2  3  4  5  6
  Patient Care Procedures Physical Fitness  1  2  3  4  5  6  7  8 Physical Fitness  9  10  11  12  13 Physical Security
  Preventive Medicine Ranger Handbook Rifle Marksmanship 1  2  3  4 Rigging  1  2  3  4  5  6
  Rodent Control Sewage Treatment  1  2  3  4  5  6 Sniper Training Survival Manual
  Terrain Analysis Treating NBC Agent Casualties Treating Fractures in the Field USMC Common Skills  1  2
  USMC Field Antenna Handbook USMC Summer Survival Manual USMC Winter Survival Manual Visual Signals
 
 
Medical & Flu Treatment
  Bird Flu Diagnosis & Hygiene Cholera Community Mitigation Emergency Childbirth
  Face Masks Flu Home Treatment Herbal Formulas Home Remedies
  Isolation Planning Mass Casualty Planning and Burial Mgmt of Bodies During Disaster Medical Emergencies
  Medical Kit (Supply List) Pandemic Flu Citizens Guide QUARANTINE Sign Rabies
  Safe Burial Practices Survival Medicine Wilderness Medical Kit
  Treating Sunstroke Treating Hypothermia Health Encyclopedia Poison Response Center
  Ankle Sprain & Break - V Apply a Pressure Bandage - V Bird Flu Book Blisters - V
  Burn Injuries - V Carbon Monoxide Poisoning - V CDC Patient Home Care Guidance Choking Victims - V
  CPR Rescue Breaths - V Dog Bites - V First Aid Books & Supplies Food Poisoning - V
  Fractured Hand - V Frostbite - V Head Injuries - V Heat Exhaustion - V
  Medical Books Rehydration Solution Shock - V Snake Bites - V
  Spider Bites - V Stinging Insects - V Use a Tourniquet - V Veterinary Medical Books
  
  
Planning & Resource Documents
  All Hazard Preparedness Becoming Self-Sufficient for 6 Months Complete Book of Self Sufficiency Dangerous Animals
  Disaster Handbook Earthquake Preparation Emergency Preparedness Manual EMP Threat
  Family Emergency Handbook Family Emergency Plan Template Family Pandemic Reaction Plan FEMA - Are You Ready?
  Flood Preparations General Supply List In Home Hurricane Sheltering Last Minute Preparations
  LDS Preparedness Manual Prep for People with Disabilities Shortwave Radio 1  2 Social Distancing & Readiness
  Surviving in the City
  100 Items to Disappear First Basic Necessities for Survival Basic Rules of Survival Bush Craft Books
  Depression, Famine, World War III Evacuation List Guide for Business & Industry Health Map
  Helping Children After A Disaster Home Security Information Manmade Disasters Maps US & Canada (Directory)
  Most Overlooked Items for Survival National Hurricane Center National Weather Hazards Map Online Conversions
  Pet Safety During A Disaster Pets and Livestock Stay at Home or Leave? Survival Books
  Ten Items Every Car Should Have Three Most Important Survival Items Weather Service Radar Wild Dogs
 
 
General DIY Projects & Skills
  Blacksmithing Compact Survival Kit Knife Sharpening Knot Tying
  Making Soap Plumbing Raising Rabbits Signaling and Direction Finding
  Strengthening Exterior Doors Survival Shelters  1  2 Tanning Hides Wood Gas Generator
  Bee Keeping Build It Solar Composting Direction Finding and Navigation
  Escape a Submerged Car Fish Gill Nets Handy Homemade Farm Devices How to Stop a Runaway Car
  Making Dog Food Making Laundry Soap Pest Control Raising Chickens
  Rodent Control Scouting Homemade Equipment Surviving a Car Fire Weapons & Tools
  
 
Other Preparedness Sites & Blogs
  ABC
  Alpha Rubicon Survival Backwoods Home Bush Craft USA
  
  DEF
  David Lee's Big List Earth Boppin Emergency Preparation Forum End Times Report
  FEMA Guide to Preparedness Flu Trackers Flu Wiki Forum
 
  GHI
  Get Pandemic Ready Grandpappy's Homesteading Today Hunting PA
 
  JKL
  Ludlow Survivors Group - UK
 
  MNO
  Millennium Ark Mother Earth News Mrs. Survival Forum Mutually Assured Survival
  New American Truth Northwest Firearms
 
  PQR
  Pandemic Flu Information Forum PEP-C Plan for Pandemic Prepared Society
  Preparedness Pro Provident Living Ready Colorado Ron's Primitive Skills
 
  STU
  Scrap Yard Knives Snare-Trap-Survive Steve Quayle Prep Tips Students Prep America
  Survival Podcast Survivalist Boards TEOTWAWKIAIFF The Survival Mom
  The Tree of Liberty Urban Bunker Urbanevasion
  
  VWXYZ
  Watch Man's Cry Wildwood Survival
  
 
US Preparedness Networks
  Alabama Alaska Arizona Arkansas
  California Colorado Connecticut Delaware
  Florida Georgia Hawaii Idaho
  Illinois Indiana Iowa Kansas
  Kentucky Louisiana Maine Maryland
  Massachusetts Michigan Minnesota Mississippi
  Missouri Montana Nebraska Nevada
  New Hampshire New Jersey New Mexico New York
  North Carolina North Dakota Ohio Oklahoma
  Oregon Pennsylvania Rhode Island South Carolina
  South Dakota Tennessee Texas Utah
  Vermont Virginia Washington West Virginia
  Wisconsin Wyoming American Preppers Network
 
 
Canadian Preparedness Networks
  Canadian Preppers Network Alberta British Columbia Manitoba
  New Brunswick Newfoundland & Labrador Northwest Territories Nova Scotia
  Nunavut Ontario Prince Edward Island Quebec
  Saskatchewan Yukon Territory
  
 
Survival Equipment
These are equipment items that may be of interest to you. I do not sell or endorse any of these things, they are simply displayed here for your knowledge. All can be found on the internet (where I located them) so you can compare pricing yourself. I'll put in my 2c worth of comments later if I own any of these items
30 Ammo Can

Good for ammo, fishing gear or first-aid storage. I have several pre-packed
.50 Ammo Can

Bigger size, great for hand tools or food. Also keep several on hand. About $12
Aluminum Sulfate

I have LOTS of this stuff for drinking water treatment from the grocery store
Ammo Organizers

Keep my pistol & revolver ammo in these. dry storage and sorted by caliber
12v Car Cooler

Don't have this, not sure if it's worth the price just to have cold drinks in the car
12v Cell Phone Charger

A gadget worth it's weight in gold! Keeps the cell phone nicely charged on the run
Camping Air Mattress

I don't have anything like this so no comments about it
Fire Extinguishers

A bunch of these around my house and vehicles. Cheap at Wal-Marts
Black & Decker Charge-It
Best $75 I ever spent. Stays in my truck all times. Has a tire inflator built-in
Backpack Stove 

An excellent little stove that uses camping or unleaded gasoline. Paid $40 for mine
Battery Charger

Works as long as the power is on. Have one to charge the AA batteries
Buck 110 Folding Knife

I like these knives so much I bought 7 of them. In my BOB, vehicles and medical kits
Bug Wipes

Works and in handy little packets. Small enough to keep one in my wallet.
Liquid Paraffin Candle

Also works well. Some call them a '100 hour' candle, never burnt one that long
C Clamps

Have a dozen of these in various sizes. Handy
Above Ground Cot

2 of these for camping or for 'guests' arriving with children, kids love them
CO & Smoke Detectors

A MUST have in every home. At least a couple if burning kerosene heaters
Collapsible Water Jug

Comes in 2 sized, 5 and 2.5 gallon. The 5 gal is too heavy. I have the 2.5 gal
Compact Road Atlas

Not cheap, at least for the ones I found. A full size atlas does the job as well
Compass

A vital item if hiking and in BOBs, know how to use it. Different prices & quality
Free Condiments

FREE condiments for spicing up food. Get a few extra from fast food places
DC Electrical Inverter

Emergency Strobe Light

Bought 1, worked for about 10 minutes then quit. Tossed it into the trash
Telescopic Fishing Pole

Cute idea but not really practical. A homemade fishing gear kit works well
Fix Flat - Tire Inflator

Fixed Blade Knife

Windup LED Flashlight

Flint Fire Starter

Folding Bicycle

Folding Pocket Saw

Folding Toothbrush

Freeze Dried Food

Eye Glass Repair Kit

Chemical Glow Sticks

Grain Grinder

Handheld  FM Radio

Hand Sanitizer

Vacuum Bag Sealer

Fuel  Additive

Hobo Eating Utensil

Gun Solvent & Lube

Wasp Spray

Inflatable Pillow

Insect Sting Lotion

LED MagLight Converter

MRE Chemical Heaters

MREs

Pocket Multi-tool

Keychain Can Opener

Pepper Spray

Plastic Ties

Folding Binoculars

Pocket Magnifying Glass

Windup Radio

Block & Tackle

Rope Saw

Sewing Kit

Knife Sharpening Stone

Shoe Laces

Signaling Mirror

Snake Bite Kit

Folding Solar Panel

Space Blanket

Gas Fuel Stabilizer

Water-Bob Container

Filtering Water Bottle

Emergency Water Pouch

Filtering Water Straw

Wide-mouth Thermos

Window Security Bars

 
 
 

Celtic Music Videos

This part of my website has nothing to do whatsoever with survival or preparedness, I put these links to my favorite music videos simply because I enjoy them. Feel free to ignore this section if you wish, or enjoy it; whichever pleases you. 
  Erin Go Bragh The Celts The Voice Ailein Duinn
  The Foggy Dew Alba an Aigh The Piper's Welcome Air an Tràigh
  Celtic Moarning Mick McGuire Sit Down Highland Cathedral Ho Na Ribeannan
  Lost Song The River Sings Flower of Scotland Boadicea
  March of the King of Laois Follow Me Up To Carlow Ghosts of Culloden Moor Blood of Cu Chulainn
  Cànan Nan Gàidheal The Dragon's Breath Culloden Stonewall
  Michael Collins Braveheart Theme Mairean nan cuiread Gleanntáin Ghlas' Ghaoth Dobhair
  An Drochaid Chluiteac Hector the Hero - Flower of Scotland Skye Boat Song Marie's Wedding
  Oró, Sé do Bheatha 'Bhaile Celtic Fiddle Smaointe Will You Go Lassie Go
  Sí do Mhaimeo í Left in Peace Cry of the Celts Celtic Dueling Fiddles
  Amhrán na bhFiann Donald Where's Your Troosers? Taste o' Auld an' Noo Bonnie Banks O' Loch Lomond
  Siúil A Rún March of The Cameron Men Oh Mo Dhuthaich The Irish Washerwoman