Lighting Up Your Bug Out Bag

summer backpacking gear

Today’s typical bug out bags can weigh between forty and seventy pounds. For many of us that’s just to much weight to haul. Happily, significant backpack weight reduction is possible without giving up the necessities, and even some of the comforts. For our growing population of aging, and with our often sedimentary lifestyles, walking for … Read more

When We Need to Prep for Economic Hardship

By Harriet, Editor At Large – SeasonedCitizenPrepper.com As I look back over my own life and through the generations as far as our family is concerned, I think our biggest risk is not a collapse of the power grid, nor TEOTWAWKI, but financial hardship due to loss of employment, loss of a working partner, changing … Read more

Do I need a dump pouch?

I recently completed my second tactical response class in the past 3 months or so and came away with a revelation: magazine dump pouches can get people killed. If you are not familiar the idea of their use it is to have a place to stash empty(or partially empty) magazines rather than dropping them on … Read more