Category: Survival & Preparedness

The Panhandle Rancher visits once again…..SHTF life on a prairie ranch

Print PDF   Much has been written about hiding your retreat far off road and deep in the woods. I own and operate a working Texas ranch located 25 miles from the nearest small city of 2,000 souls. Off the beaten path and rural the setting may be but the surrounding mostly flat prairie poses [...]

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Thursday May 3rd, 2012 in guest post, Survival & Preparedness | 5 Comments »

Health and preparedness……..

Print PDF Over the past few months I have been taking health and exercise much more seriously.  Sylvester Stallone wrote a fitness book several years ago and in it he made a statement – Once you hit age 40 it is decision time. After age 40 things can go downhill pretty fast. I am 42. In a survival [...]

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Controversy at ModernSurvivalOnline……

Print PDF I recently published a guest post that had several people upset and a few telling me they will never read the site again. Basically – people were uncomfortable with what the author wrote in one way or another. My response? Too bad. I am not trying to be harsh and I certainly do [...]

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Tuesday May 1st, 2012 in Survival & Preparedness | 34 Comments »

A few random thoughts……

Print PDF Hello everyone and thanks for stopping by…… Things have been very busy around the MSOnline “offices”. The 4th Guest Post Contest just wrapped up and winners will be announced within a few days. Like always some great thought provoking entries were published and some controversial ones as well. The variety of subjects represented [...]

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Tuesday May 1st, 2012 in Survival & Preparedness | 8 Comments »

Guest Post: The Importance of a Fire Kit and Knowing How to Use it.

Print PDF  by John Taylor The ability to make a fire I think is an assumed skill that many people think they have and in turn decide that there is not skill work needed. Packing a lighter, some waterproof matches, and maybe a Ferro rod and some sure fire tabs is what some consider adequate [...]

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Monday April 30th, 2012 in guest post, Survival & Preparedness | 1 Comment »

Guest Post:Why I Prepare…….from KM

Print PDF   Why I Prepare…   I know what it’s like to be helpless.  In August, 1992 at the age of twenty-two, I found myself in the battle of my life.  Having been diagnosed with a rare form of childhood cancer called Embryonal Rhabdomyosarcoma, I felt like my life was in the hands of [...]

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Sunday April 29th, 2012 in guest post, Survival & Preparedness | 5 Comments »

Guest Post: Why I prepare…….from Beckie

Print PDF   by Beckie Barnhart     Gee someone other than my family is posting this question to me, why do I prepare?  With the Internet allowing access to so much information and news, things start to jump out at you, devastating weather, sun spots, planet x, polar shifts, earthquakes, volcanoes and the ring [...]

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Friday April 27th, 2012 in guest post, Survival & Preparedness | 1 Comment »

Guest Post: Why I Prepare………by Sally

Print PDF  by Sally Decker                   The lifestyle choice to prep was not one I accepted willingly, I came kicking and screaming into this life.   It began when I watched the mess that Katrina had left behind.  People with no food or water, waiting for the government to come save them from their own lack [...]

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Thursday April 26th, 2012 in guest post, Survival & Preparedness | 1 Comment »

Guest Post: Preparation – Will You Make the Cut?

Print PDF by Dakota D. Ellis The world has never been a place of one hundred percent bliss. However, it is apparent that the world is becoming an increasingly difficult place to inhabit peacefully. With such things as the excessive climb in gas prices, the national debt, the tyranny in Libya, and the more current crisis [...]

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Wednesday April 25th, 2012 in guest post, Survival & Preparedness | 2 Comments »

Being away from home when the SHTF……

Print PDF As I write this I am sitting in a hotel room approx 160 miles from home. I considered the question – “What if the SHTF while I was away from home?” There are more questions going through my mind. – What could the SHTF event be? – Would phone lines or email still [...]

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Friday April 20th, 2012 in bugging out, Survival & Preparedness | 15 Comments »

Guest Post: How much water is enough?

Print PDF by Tom Sciacca If you like food as much as I do, it’s hard to imagine that our body can actually go weeks without food. It wouldn’t be fun, of course, but it can be done. But without water, our bodies can get into serious trouble quickly – just a matter of days [...]

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Monday April 16th, 2012 in guest post, Survival & Preparedness, Water | 2 Comments »

Feeling like doing some reading?

Print PDF I have been loading up my Kindle Fire with several books and ebooks. Although I struggle finding the time to read all of them, I often browse chapters for specific info. I am currently reading Without Rule of Law by Joe Nobody. I will review it once complete but so far it is [...]

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