Survival and Emergency Preparedness

For me the long term solution has always been to reload my own ammo. I've narrowed my calibers down to just few in handguns and rifles and I load each of those calibers except 32 ACP, 380ACP and 22lr. I've been hoarding reloading components for 30 years so I have pretty good stock of everything on h...

My bedroom pistol is a Glock 17L and the choice was pretty simple for me. My wife doesn't shoot much and she shoots her Glock 9mm pistols more than any other pistol and she's pretty proficient with it. Among 9mm Glock pistols she can shoot the longer 17L better and faster than any other model. The W...

When driving a cross-draw holster worn on the belt on weak side work really well. It's comfortable and fast. When I was young and driving a low sportster I used to carry a J frame revolver in a ankle holster as it gave me easy and quick access while driving in a reclining seat. Some people use shoul...

Typically around April we stock enough food stuff for my family for 30+ days during hurricane season. I count on what we have in refrigerator/freezer for 5 days and rest is cans, dry, freeze dried and MRE. More importantly we keep enough water for 30+ days (100+ gallons). In August or September we c...

I have a pair of the original Leatherman tool from 1994.
It has gotten me out of couple of mechanical problems in last 25 years. I'm sure some of the new ones work better and have more features but my Leatherman works for my purpose.

I guess I'm getting caught up in all these bad news and maybe a little paranoid too. We just back from 800 miles road trip with family which we do several times a year. I normally take my S&W lightweight J frame in my pocket (5 rounds of 38 Special +P) and a Glock 19 with spare mag in the glove ...

I reloaded 5k rounds of 9mm about 2 months ago so I have enough practice ammo for a while. Next I'm going to reload 5k of 45 ACP then 38special/357mag. I don't think there will be any ammo to be had at reasonable price for a while. Last week I had a guy who wanted to by a box of Remington 22lr bulk ...

We don't keep food at the farm house to reduce mice, but are taking some freeze dried food in containers to provide us a place if we need to go to that is out of town, I only keep can food and bottled water at the hunting camp because of mice too. I've had mice chew into freeze dried food packets a...

I love all my Sig pistols...except one. My P220 and P226 were among first DA/SA pistols I acquired and I like them a lot. I shoot them better than any other DA/SA pistol. They do recoil more compared to other similar pistols but it doesn't bother me and doesn't slow me down much. Mine have all been ...

All fighting long gun should have a sling and light.
Everything else is just good to have or it's just extra weight.