Survival and Emergency Preparedness

I have tried some of the highly touted survival knives – most are overbuilt, over hyped, over weight, over priced and underwhelming when it comes to performance and are easily put to shame by a cheap machete. Few of the survival experts that sell these knives seem to actually use them all that much ...

I use my multitools everyday. The first one that I EDC'd was a full size Swisstool back in 1998, soon followed by a original Wave (lighter and had one hand opening knife blades), followed by a “new” wave whenever that one came out. I had a couple of gerbers before the swisstool, but I never found th...

If you carry a one hand opening knife, the Victorinox Spirit is a good multitool to carry, nice and slim and not too heavy. The old Leatherman Blast is pretty good also (similar to the Rebar but with scissors instead of the serrated blade).

Alkalines suck. Get some energizer AA L91 utimate lithiums and a set of eneloop AA to C spacers. L91's will last as long as alkaline C's, weigh less, cost about the same, have a 20 year self life and they don't leak.

I usually break out the multimeter a couple times a year and check and recharge all of my NiMH and Li-ion batteries as needed. Nearly all are stored inside lights and other devices so that they are always ready to go. Most battery testers work on Voltage, so I figure I'm good with testing with a mul...

I guess I couldn't decide on which cell to standardize on, so I made some adapters to run 'em all.

I'm guessing the neighbors are, for the most part, a bunch of rich, privileged progressives and had the same protesters marching past their homes. I'm sure many of them stayed inside, locked the doors, got their guns and called the police (that they want disbanded or defunded) and demanded that they...

She got close enough for the protesters to slap the pistol out of her hand. It seemed like the pink polo guy with the AR sensed the potential danger of her being so far away from him and so close to the crowd that he wrapped the sling around his arm and shouldered the rifle like he was getting ready...

OK it seems that the protesters came in through two gates, one they pried open, the other looked undamaged (maybe opened from inside after protesters beached other gate?). Video shows the woman walking right up to the protesters on the sidewalk pointing her pistol at them with her finger on the trig...

Nice!

I think the Savage's proprietary .303 round probably cost them some sales back in the day. I would guess that it must not be easy to find .303 Savage ammo today.