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Coat Pocket Survival
What’s in your coat pocket? By Jim Jones One of my mantras is “ It’s not what you have, It’s what you have with you” Consider a “Coat Pocket Survival Kit” There are all kinds of “survival kits” There...
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Cold Rain – Natures Most Deadly Combination
By Jim Jones, EMT/CHCM Cold Rain, Natures Most Deadly Combination While I seldom cancel any kind of “survival” training program because of weather, cold rain is an exception. Winter and late fall...
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Machetes In Your Preps
Written By: James C. Jones I have always considered the machete to be a jungle survival tool. They are generally seen being used to hack trails through tropical rain forests and jungles. Most North...
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Ten Principles of Survival
Written By: James C. Jones EMT/CHCM Each of the “principles” discussed here have been covered in more detail in past issues of the American Survivor and/or in my lectures over the past 20-plus years....
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Urban Survival Tools
Pry bar for urban survival Surviving in an urban or suburban environment requires some tools that are not required or are less critical in the rural regions or wilderness . There are a lot more blind...
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Smoke Bombs For Survival
There are times in an emergency where being very visible is good and other times when being invisible are a must. In both cases smoke bombs can be a real lifesaver. A few small colored (red, yellow)...
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Fire or No Fire?
Written By: Jim Jones, EMT/CHCM The very definition of ‘survival” is someone starting a fire without matches. What survival class goes without a fire starting class? So to suggest that a fire is not...
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American Blackout Review
American Blackout National Geographic Special Reviewed I very seldom watch any survival related programs. While they are occasional informative their scenarios and actions tend to range from the...
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Survival Shotgun
We hear a lot about the handguns and the rifles that are recommended for home defense and survival, but the shotgun is often overlooked. The shotgun, may in fact be the best and most versatile survival...
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TimberTote ™ A Self Consuming Rocket Stove
By James C. Jones, EMT/CHCM I have reviewed a lot of different rocket stoves recently, including the BioLite ™ and the Kelly Kettle ™ The principle for all of these is that by creating a draft up a...
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Rocket Stoves Compared
On a recent winter camp outing we had the opportunity to test three different types of “rocket stoves” under winter cold and wet conditions. Rocket stoves offer big advantages over campfires and...
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The Gun Buyback Conspiracy
Bounty Hunters Are After Your Guns Actually, I don’t believe in “conspiracies” because the world and life is just too complex and unpredictable for any complex “plan” to workout as the conspirators...
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The Bunker and Hunker Mentality
By James C. Jones, EMT/CHCM I have been openly advocating and teaching survival preparedness for over four decades. I have been on national television, radio and publications. All of my...
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SMOKE BOMBS IN YOUR SURVIVAL PACK
Survival Smoke There are times in an emergency where being very visible is good and other times when being invisible is a must. In both cases smoke bombs can be a real lifesaver. A few small colored...
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SURVIVAL PREPAREDNESS EXPOS
The number and variety of Emergency Preparedness Expositions and Conferences has exploded in recent years. While there are scores of such events that are well known and advertised, there are hundreds...
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Make Your Own Freeze Dried Foods AT HOME!
At a recent preparedness expo I observed a demonstration of an “in home” freeze drying machine. Up until now, freeze-drying has been the one food preservation option not available to most preppers....
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Greatlakes Area Preparedness Expos
A busy Live Free booth at the Birch Run Expo PREPAREDNESS EXPOS Preparedness Expos large and small help to build the growing preparedness and self-reliance movement. You Live Free organization is...
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NOW HACKERS CAN SEND SWAT THROUGH YOUR DOOR!
The police chief of a large Midwestern town is awakened at 2:40 AM by the local 911 dispatcher. She reports that a caller from a home in town stated that she and her children were being held hostage...
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FUN & LEARNING at CAMP INDEPENDENCE
Camp Independence Endures! Camp Independence 2015 was conducted at Tippecanoe River State Park near Winamac Indiana on May 16th 2015. This event has been held for over 47-years, making it America’s...
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Lock Picks in Your Survival Pack
Picking Locks as a Survival Skill By James C. Jones EMT/CHCM Certainly we all regard lock picking as a rather nefarious activity used by criminals and spies, but under true, live-or-die survival...
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