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How to Build an Earthen Oven - Jas Townsend and Son Cooking Series - YouTube
Uploaded on Dec 5, 2011
Wood-fired earthen ovens are easily documented all the way back (and likely even before) the ancient Romans. Likewise, they are easily documented in archaeological evidence and first-hand accounts from the 18th Century. We show you how easy it is to build one. We've been amazed with how well earthen ovens work, so much so that some of us here at Jas. http://jas-townsend.com built one at home. This episode deals strictly with the oven's construction. In next week's video, we will show you how to bake bread in an earthen oven. We will also use the oven in future videos, comparing results with those that can be achieved by baking in a cast iron Dutch oven. Stay tuned!
Make sure to check out the companion blog to this series at Savoring the Past | Savoring history's repast. Discovering flavors not lost but forgotten and our website - http://jas-townsend.com
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Make and Use an Earthen Oven in 24 hours - 18th Century Cooking Series S2E7 - YouTube
Published on Apr 9, 2012
How to make a simple earthen oven out of the least quantity of inexpensive materials in the shortest amount of time. Go from bare ground to a bake loaf of bread in less than 24 hours.
Make sure to check out the companion blog to this series at Savoring the Past | Savoring history's repast. Discovering flavors not lost but forgotten and our website - http://jas-townsend.com
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Earth Oven Part 1 of 2 - YouTube
Uploaded on Dec 26, 2011
Part 1 of 2, describing how to build a Kiko Denzer-style earth oven out of mud. Part 1 includes step-by-step instructions on mud mix, foundation, base insulation, and oven floor.
The songs, "Steep Side of the Hill" and "Gentle Maiden/Star of the County Down", by White Water, a family stringband from upper Michigan, are from the album, "Steep Side of the Hill." Used by permission.
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Earth Oven Part 2 of 2 - YouTube
Uploaded on Dec 26, 2011
Part 2 of 2, describing how to build a Kiko Denzer-style earth oven out of mud. Part 2 includes step-by-step instructions on oven dome, thermal walls, insulation wall, and plaster.
The songs, "Big Sandy River/Nancy, " "Kitchen Girl," and "Western Country/Rock the Cradle Joe" by White Water, a family stringband from upper Michigan, are from the album, "Steep Side of the Hill." Used by permission.
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Contact: superiorhomestead@gmail.com
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Detailed How to Build an Authentic Pompeii Pizza Oven, Part 1 of 4 - YouTube
Published on Jun 6, 2012
Keynote tutorial (1 of 4) on How to Build an Authentic Outdoor Pompeii (Pompei) Brick Dome Pizza Oven; start-to-finish, all aspects of pizza oven construction will be covered!
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Detailed How to Build an Authentic Pompeii Pizza Oven, Part 2 of 4 ~ Building the DOME! - YouTube
Published on Jul 12, 2012
BUILDING A PIZZA OVEN DOME! Keynote tutorial (2 of 4) on How to Build an Authentic Outdoor Pompeii (Pompei) Brick Dome Pizza Oven. In this part I will show you how to BUILD THE DOME and set the chimney. In Part 3 we will insulate and stucco the dome. See Part 1 for instructions on how to build a solid base for the oven that will last for generations and give your property more value. Thanks for watching and please 'like' if you like my tutorial. To see some of my other building projects, visit my website at www.energysmartNH.com
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Detailed How to Build an Authentic Pompeii Pizza Oven, Part 3 of 4 ~ Insulate & Stucco the DOME! - YouTube
Published on Nov 30, 2012
Keynote tutorial (3 of 4) on How to Build an Authentic Outdoor Pompeii (Pompei) Brick Dome Pizza Oven. In this part I will show you how to INSULATE & STUCCO THE DOME. In Part 4 we will lay down a patio around the pizza oven. See Parts 1, 2, and 3 for instructions on how to build a solid base and construct the dome for the oven that will last for generations and give your property more value. In addition, the food we cook is awesome!! Thanks for watching and please 'like' if you like my tutorial. To see some of my other building projects, visit my website: www.energysmartNH.com
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BrickWood Ovens - How to Build a Wood Fired Pizza Oven Base- Step 1 of 2 - YouTube
Uploaded on Nov 4, 2011
In step-by-step video directions, BrickWood Ovens show's you how to build a BrickWood Ovens pizza oven base. BrickWood Ovens is the ultimate DIY pizza oven as we take the guess work out of building a brick oven. Designed for minimal cutting and little waste, the BrickWood Oven is the LOW COST alternative to high-priced brick ovens! If you want a brick oven, or plan on building a wood fired oven - you must watch this video! Save Time.. Save Money.. Build your own brick oven and save thousands!
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BrickWood Ovens - How to Build a Wood Fired Pizza Oven- Step 2 of 2 - YouTube
Uploaded on Nov 5, 2011
BrickWood Ovens step-by-step video directions on how to build wood fired pizza oven. BrickWood Ovens is the ultimate DIY pizza oven as we take the guess work out of building a brick oven. Designed for minimal cutting and little waste, the BrickWood Ovens is the LOW COST alternative to high-priced brick ovens! If you want a brick oven, or plan on building a wood fired oven - you must watch this video! Save Time.. Save Money.. Build your own brick oven and save thousands!
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Baking in the Wood Oven - YouTube
Uploaded on Nov 28, 2008
A short film about a day in the life of our wood-fired bread oven. This version is higher quality and the audio has been fixed.
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How to Build an Earth Oven
http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_YMvN6r_IjF...y2008_+049.jpg Do you remember your teachers asking you on the first week of school what you did for your summer vacation? Well, if I were still in school, this would have been a story to amaze my teacher and classmates.
My friend, TH, is an amazing baker and cook. She is also very wise in the ways of crafts and organizing activities that bring diverse people together.
Her great ambition has been to build and use a wood-fired oven in her own backyard. TH is not someone who merely dreams big -- she builds! She did her homework and found a book by Kiko Denzer called Build Your Own Earth Oven. She also found a website showing a group of masons who built an oven of the type she wanted using Kiko Denzer's model. Here is another website I found of a group of Australian gardeners built a similar oven.
Then she and her dad cooked up a scheme to build a test model in his backyard as a practice version. Her two teenage sons helped their grandad build the test oven. This was very wise since they notice a water-seepage problem because the test oven had no drain. So, they knew they had to make drainage holes in TH's oven.
TH's Dad drew plans up for brick foundations to be built in her backyard over the course of several summer weeks with the help of his grandsons. Then, the next step was to create the inner oven wall, made entirely of cobb, that is, clay from a local source, plus sand, mixed with straw.
And that's where I come into the "Earth Oven Project 2008," because TH invited me and a group of her friends and neighbors to be a part of the oven's creation.
It was an extremely hot (mid 90s F) day in mid-July, but not so humid as Maryland suburbs can be in this season. When I arrived on the scene, the boys were mixing cobb, as the English settlers to North America called it. Cobb is the blend of clay, sand, and straw that forms the bricks to create the earth oven.
http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_YMvN6r_IjF...y2008_+042.jpg Here's an image of the boys pounding it out by foot and testing its moisture content.
While the boys were mixing cobb, it was up to the rest of us to prepare the igloo-shaped sand mound around which the inner oven insulation would be formed.
http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_YMvN6r_IjF..._+018_oven.jpg After we made the sand mound (notice the brace we used to prevent sand from rolling off the edge), we covered the sand with wet newspaper, rather like you would a form for papier maché. By the time all hands had covered the sand mound with newspaper, TH's husband G had laid out a delicious spread for a hardy lunch. I had brought the beer and cider and there were copious amounts of herbal infusions and lemonade available for thirsty workers.
The next phase was to cover the entire sand mound with cobb bricks, so we spent the remainder of the afternoon doing just that. A shady yard and a bit of breeze go a long way to making summer's heat bearable. So does telling stories, laughter, and watching the boys rough-housing. We generally had a merry time at it, despite the heat.
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http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_YMvN6r_IjF...y2008_+037.jpg Finally, about 5:00 p.m. we neared the home stretch. Only a tiny hole a the top of the insulation layer remained.
http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_YMvN6r_IjF...y2008_+074.jpg It takes something very interesting indeed to get me out on a 90-degree day, but this project was well worth it. I can remember with fondness mushing mudpies in my hands, but this is the most ambitious "mudpie" experiment I have witnessed. It's also very like molding a clay pot on a grand scale. The end result is larger than any typical potter might attempt on her/his own. The very social aspect of building something like the earth oven as part of a group, including several families, several generations is not unlike our pioneer ancestors did when a house frame or community barn needed to be built.
The outer layer of insulation and the final brick housing for TH's oven will be constructed by her, her family and friends next weekend.
I look forward to coming over to her house someday soon to enjoy wood-fired bread or pizza baked in her backyard.
Pull of the Tides: How to Build an Earth Oven
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Cornbread: 18th Century Breads, Part 3. Cooking with Jas. Townsend and Son S2E14 - YouTube
Published on May 29, 2012
As the population in western Europe exploded during the latter half of the 1700's, wheat became an important export commodity for the mid-Atlantic colonies. It was a natural progression for "Indian corn," a grain native to the Americas, to fill the dietary gap for colonists. This was especially true for the rural folk and labor classes. Next week's episode in our "Cooking with Jas. Townsend & Son: 18th-Century Breads" video series will look at the history of cornbread in the American Colonies. We'll also show how to make an authentic "Common Loaf" of unleavened cornbread as well as "johnny cakes" that you can take along on your next journey.
Make sure to check out the companion blog to this series at Savoring the Past | Savoring history's repast. Discovering flavors not lost but forgotten and our website - http://jas-townsend.com
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No-Knead French Bread: 18th Century Breads, Part 7. Cooking with Jas. Townsend and Son S2E18 - YouTube
Published on Jul 9, 2012
No-Knead bread has been around for hundreds of years. In this episode we make an 18th century No-Knead bread which they called in the time period "French Bread". It is an easy and very tasty bread, we hope you give it a try. See our website at http://jas-townsend.com and our 18th century cooking blog at http://savoringthepast.net
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"A Pound of Meat" 18th Century Cooking Series - YouTube
Uploaded on Jan 23, 2012
This instalment complements the previous video "Privations of an 18th Century Soldier." It examines a number of historical references and considers how soldiers of the time prepared their meat rations when supplies and equipment were scarce or unavailable. It also looks at the important role salt played in not only the preservation of meat but also in the strategies of war. Make sure to check out the companion blog to this series at Savoring the Past | Savoring history's repast. Discovering flavors not lost but forgotten and our website - http://jas-townsend.com
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38 Survival Downloads and Handbooks – Pioneering, SHTF, Engineering, Urban Gardening, Defense, and More
NOVEMBER 10, 2012
FIELD MANUALS & MILITARY HANDBOOKS (.PDF FORMAT)
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*New* > Internment and Resettlement Operations FM 3-39.40
Psychological Operations (PsyOps) AFDD 2-5-3
CBR Shelters ETL 1110-3-498
Map Reading & Navigation FM 3-25-26
Terrain, Maps, and Direction
Nuclear, Biological & Chemical (NBC) Field Handbook FM 3-7
Nuclear, Biological & Chemical (NBC) Protection FM 34
Military Chemical & Biological Agents and Compounds FM 3-9
Counterinsurgency Operations FMI 3-07.22
Survival, Evasion, Resistance & Escape (SERE) AR350-30
US Army Ranger Handbook
Combined Arms Operations in Urban Terrains (Urban Combat) FM3-06
Expeditionary Maneuver Warware
MEDICAL AND FIRST-AID
Where There is No Doctor
*Hesperian Health now requires a click-through before downloading their books. You can simply click, “No Thanks” and have access to the entire .pdf book or sign up for future updates.
Where There is No Dentist - Excellent, must-read!
*See above for download instructions
Combat Lifesaver Course – Student Self-Study IS0871
TECHNOLOGY, ELECTRONICS, AND ENGINEERING
Scout Engineering
Pedal Power
Convert Gasoline Engines to Run on Alcohol, 2008
Complete Manual of Pirate Radio
Antennas for Receiving and Transmitting, 2004
EMERGENCY PREPAREDNESS, COLLAPSE, SURVIVAL, & POST-SHTF
Preparedness Capability Checklist – Minimum and Extended Levels
Long Term Survival Guide: Improvised Towers
Long Term Survival Guide: Scrounging Metal and Survival Blacksmithing
US Army Field Manual – Management of Dead Bodies
URBAN GARDENING, FARMING, HOMESTEADING, PIONEERING, & BUSHCRAFT
The Construction of Secret Hiding Places
Raised Bed Garden Book.pdf
Guide to Canning.pdf
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Pioneering, 1962
Poisonous Snakes and Lizards
Poisonous Plants
Dangerous Insects and Arachnids
Solar Distillation – Meeting Small Scale Water Demands, 1970
Simple Methods for the Treatment of Drinking Water
Fishing Knots
Ten Best Traps
Ultimate Guide to Wilderness Living
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20 Perennial Vegetables to Plant Once and Enjoy Forever!
Gardening, Vegetable & Fruit
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Small Foot Print Family shares 20 perennial vegetables and fruits to plant once and enjoy on ongoing harvest without replanting.
Having plants that return on their own again and again for years to come… is like planting money.
You pay once for seeds, bulbs, roots and harvest the 1st crop … every crop after that is considered free food.
Click here to read article: Perennial Vegetables: Years of Bounty | Small Footprint Family
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Nettle Cordage Tutorial Project
Emergency Preparedness, Primitive Skills
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The Bushcraft blog shares a nettle cordage tutorial project takes you step by step from finding the nettle plant to making it into a useful tool of survival.
If by chance you found yourself in the woods with little supplies, this is a method to produce cordage that is an important element in creating other projects that can help you survive.
Click here to read this article: Nature's Secret Larder - Nettle Cordage Tutorial
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Could it be your Soil pH levels are off?
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Greensax shares on their blog how to do a simple soil test to see if your soil is alkaline or acidic for the type of plant you want to grow. Different plants respond and flourish in either type of soil.
Soil is measured on a pH scale, which runs from 0 (pure acid) to 14 (pure alkaline). The neutral point is 7 and the numbers increase or decrease geometrically – thus a pH of 5 is 10 times more acid than a pH of 6.
Click here to read the article: Why some flowers grow and some don’t… Could it be your pH levels are off kilter? | Powergreen Blog
Here is a quick test
Take 2 pint glass mason jars and fill each jar halfway with soil.
In the 1st jar :add 1/4 cup vinegar – is there a reaction ? Your soil is extremely alkaline.
In the 2nd jar: add 1/4 cup of water and 2 tablespoons of baking soda – is there a reaction ? Your soil is extremely acidic.
Most soil is more neutrally balanced – a few points either way so you may not see anything.
* The best way to improve all types of soil is to add Organic Matter…compost, rotted aged manure and such. Dig deeply and turn the soil to add oxygen.
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Indoor Laundry Rack From A Repurposed Playpen Or Crib
DIY Projects, Home, Off Grid
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Nw Edible website has so much more to offer than just recipes. I love when people think outside of the box and create useful tools from recycled materials that can be considered an off the grid ( non electricity ) project as well. By showing us ways to repurpose an item, it keeps items out of a landfill. This project is a winner on so may levels.
P.S – Old baby cribs are great garden trellis as well.
Click here: http://www.nwedible.com/2012/04/wall-moutned-clothes-drying-rack-perfected.html
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How to Hide Your Money Where the Bankers Won’t Find It
P. Henry
March 27th, 2013
The Prepper Journal
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Unless you have been on vacation the past few days or out of touch with the never ending news media we live in you have seen or heard about the event in Cyprus. For those who haven’t heard, the short story is that the IMF has pushed for a “wealth tax” in Cyprus which would involve taking money directly out of the bank accounts of the people. That’s right, stealing in broad daylight with no apologies whatsoever. The IMF is saying that the people of Cyprus need to pay back the bankers who stole and lost their money. This is done with the threat of being kicked out of the Euro zone if they refuse. Make no mistake, this is a trial run and they will be coming for money in your accounts very soon.
So, what can you do about it? Can you put your money in stocks? What about investments like property or fancy cars? My opinion is that nothing is safe. If your money is out of your reach and stored in any type of financial institution it can be stolen. Before I go any further let me state what should be obvious to most of you.
Warning #1: Whatever you do with your money, you do at your own risk.
Now, that being said, where would you put your money if you can’t stick it in the bank? Well, first let me address why we put money into the banks in the first place. It used to be that our money was safe in the bank and for the privilege of letting banks hold on to our money and invest it we were paid back in interest. Over time, neither of these two reasons is valid anymore. You will not see any return on a traditional checking or saving account and as recent events like the MF Global scandal prove, your money can be taken and there is nothing you can do about it.
I recommend you keep only enough money in the bank that you need to operate your daily finances, cover checks and your normal Debit Card purchases. Any savings should be “stored” somewhere else if you don’t want to be like the people of Cyprus who flocked to empty ATM machines and were faced with a bank holiday for 4 days. Just imagine going to your bank and they tell you that you are unable to get any of YOUR money out for 4 days. Where do you put this money? Great question and it will really depend on how much you have, where you live, how liquid you need it to be and your resources. All of this falls under the umbrella of how afraid you are that something like this could happen to you and your tolerance for risk.
Warning #2: Just because you hide money doesn’t mean someone else can’t find it.
There are a ton of options for hiding things and they are only limited to your creativity. If you are going to hide money, I would take extra precautions. Especially, if you plan on seeing this money again someday. For ideas, here are a few:
Secret compartment in everyday items:
There are a myriad of places and containers that can be made to look like normal everyday items. There is a Scribd.com post with plenty of photos and ideas. My personal favorite is the VHS tape hideout. I can see this holding a few hundred dollars if you play it right. There is another article (one of many) that illustrates good hiding places on Urlesque.com. Another idea I have heard of is to hide bills in the contents of old bank statements, junk mail for home refinance, etc. Anything that looks like junk will be overlooked most likely, but remember… You don’t want to throw this away when you are cleaning up one day.
In the walls of your home:
This approach takes a little more carpentry skills and will leave a bigger mark when you go to find your money. Do you hide it all in one spot? No, so there is more work involved in this approach and you want to make sure your handiwork isn’t easy to spot. If you have never dry walled, it may take a little practice.
In the attic:
Hands down the easiest place to store your money. Unfortunately, this is also a logical place to look. If you are going to hide your money up in the attic, spread it out so that if your stash is found, they might not find all of it.
In the basement:
If you have exposed ceiling joists, you can hide money between the insulation and the floor above. For a little extra level of difficulty, you should hide the money above plumbing or HVAC ducting to make it doubly hard to get to.
Buried in the yard:
I like this idea, but the nagging fear is that someone will see me digging a hole and go dig up my money in the middle of the night while I lie in bed. You can combine this with a garden or yard fixture project where you are out digging anyway to avoid suspicion. Or, break out the new pair of night vision goggles you have been dying to try, get up at 4 am and dig your hole in the pitch black night when you have no moon. Imagine you are breaking out of prison for extra motivation.
Hidden in a secret cache in a remote location:
I talked about using the game of Geocaching to teach you how to find hidden caches. You can also use this to find a good hiding spot somewhere near (but not too near) your home. Make the place you are hiding money very well hidden so that nobody will stumble across it accidentally. I would recommend midway up a hill because you never know when a flood will come and buried several feet underground.
Warning #3: Just because you hide your money doesn’t mean you will be able to get to it when you need it.
Again, use your best judgment with these ideas. Having your money safe from bankers does you no good if it gets washed away or found by hikers out exploring. Worse, if your house burns down and all of your cash is in the attic. Take appropriate precautions with everything but consider an alternate place to store your money. You may need it soon and not have the ability to go get it from your bank.
This article has been generously contributed by The Prepper Journal
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The Reality of Combat: “Everything That You Have Prepared and Stored for SHTF Will Be Pushed to the Limit”
Mac Slavo
March 27th, 2013
SHTFplan.com
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Editor’s Note: Do you want to know what it’s really like? If so, then the best place to acquire first hand information about what you’ll experience when the world as we know it collapses is from combat veterans and people who have been through the worst of what humanity has to offer.
In 2011 Selco of SHTF School shared A Survival Q & A: Living Through SHTF In the Middle of A War Zone with our readers and it opened our eyes to how difficult a situation each of us will face when law & order, as well as human decency, break down.
Selco lived it during the Balkan war, which spanned from 1992 to 1995.
In the following article, Selco delves even further, detailing real life scenarios, training tactics and other key information that will undoubtedly help save your life should the streets of America turn into a war zone. Pay attention because this no idealized collapse scenario – it’s reality.
When SHTF nobody told me how hard is gonna be and what things I will have to do to survive, there was no training or simulations, through most of the stuff I was going for the first time in my life, and I was hoping it is only temporary situation, it is not going to last for whole year.
Few events opened my eyes, and somehow make me survivor right at the beginning, and I can say I have luck to understand in very early stage how hard it is, and what it takes.
During one of the first bigger events of killing in the streets, I was out together with my friend who also was a medical professional.
Fire from machine guns was on people who were standing in front of the main city bread factory, and people started to scream and run over each other.
My first impulse was to run to nearest cover but my friend got down to help some lady, so I stayed one meter next to him.
I was confused about my decision and not sure to stay with him or run. Bullets from machine gun hit him over his legs, and I saw how his knee cap exploded, it looked like some bad movie special effect.
He just looked at his legs, then at me, in silence. Even that was just seconds moments like this feel very long.
I took him by the hands and drag him some 20 or 30 meters to safety. Only there I saw that he was missing his leg under the knee. It stayed with dead lady on the street.
And only then he started to scream.
I used belt to stop bleeding, ambulance still worked in that period. He went to hospital and then evacuated from the city. He survived but never came back.
Lessons learned?
In moments of chaos always listen to your instincts and do not hesitate. Especially if you are involved in situation when someone is shooting at you with high caliber machine gun. Just accept that people will die, and you have to survive. To help others is great thing, to survive is even better, also I realized that human being is so fragile and easy to destroy.
Later I learned some things about weapons and how to use them, so I realize that more firepower does not necessary mean more dangerous and better chance to kill.
Owning a weapon is just absolutely necessary in preparing for a survival scenario, even more in urban survival. You just need to go and get as close as you can to the real stuff while you are doing the preparing and training for the SHTF, so it makes sense to go out and check your preps, to check your gear and yourself.
For example pair of boots that you bought and store for bad days will not be used for walking only, it will be use for running, squatting, jumping, in mud, junk, blood, guts maybe or just running trough a shallow river.
Everything that you have prepared and stored for SHTF will be pushed to the limits.
One thing is to go out into woods nearby and do recording of your weapon testing on some beer bottles with your friends, and after that concluding that particular gun or rifle is best for SHTF, and that you are dangerous dude because your accuracy rules. Some people gonna put that clip on you tube and go home convinced that they are ready and prepared.
In reality you do not know if you are prepared.
A lot of survival stores that sell things sell idea of buy this and you are safe. No you are not. Also you learn more about real urban survival scenario in my survival course and this helps you to mentally be better prepared but real deal when SHTF always comes as surprise.
When time comes again it gonna hit everyone like a hammer. Good news is that when you know you will get hit like that you can recover fast and use your skills, knowledge and preps to make best out of situation.
Using weapon in real life, in real survival situation is something absolutely different from shooting bear bottles, and if you could do some real training that is realistic that would be maybe going to camping with trash bag as a tent, being on camping for 10 days with 10 small cans of food, and 10 liters of water, walking every day for 10 km.
And then on 11th day run few kilometers and then shoot and see how accurate you are when your body is wasting away.
And still the most important thing is missing. While you are shooting at the beer bottles they do not shoot back at you in order to kill you.
During some of the first battles in city I was moving trough the building behind a guy, we both had rifles. He was sweeping the rooms and shooting, it was the closest urban combat as it can be. In the moment when he run out of ammo he used his rifle as something between spear and bat.
Now someone could say why he did not just switch to pistol? He did not have one, also he did not have time to look for ammo. But there I learned how it is useful to have folded stock of rifle when shooting and moving in very confined spaces.
Also I learned that rifle with pretty sharp parts at the barrel can be very handy. He stabbed guy to the cheek, ripping his face down and finishing him on ground.
One of the biggest misconception at the people who do not have fighting experience is what they need to practice.
It is all about pressure. You need to learn:
1. What your weapon can take
In terms of kicking, throwing, how often and when will it malfunction, and what the most common malfunctions are, and how to fix it, of course how to fix it in middle of fight. If you find yourself in the middle of fighting, and your weapon “jams” do not be as we called “zblesavljen” or in English is probably looking like idiot.
I have seen that: guy is shooting and in the middle of fighting his weapon jammed, and he surprisingly look at the weapon in a “what the f#ck?” state. And of course in two seconds he ends up dead.
You absolutely need to know how to manage small weapon jams without looking at the weapon, you need to look at the target while you are “repairing” weapon (clearing the bullet, switching to other magazine etc.)
Other option would be to MOVE immediately when your weapon jams, move to cover in same second, or to dropping it on ground, or on your back, and switching to your other weapon. But you need to learn to do all of above without thinking. You need to train that this becomes automatic.
Small things like how quickly you can put your rifle on your back and a switch to pistol can be difference between life and death, if you somehow “trip” yourself while you are trying to put rifle on your back in order to take pistol you can end up dead.
2. What you can take
Remember this: while you are shooting at the bad guys, those bad guys will be SHOOTING AT YOU TOO.
So shooting at the beer bottles in the woods with your buddies will not really do all the training you need. I am doing it often, but it just not covering everything.
Fighting and surviving combat means constant moving and outsmarting the guys on the other side, you gonna need to run, squat, throw yourself in the ditch, lay down in all kinds of sh!t and shoot at the same time, and probably fix your rifle from jams, or switch to another weapon.
Do some basic weapon training and learn about line of sight and how to get out off it.
Very great percentage of shooting is done without aiming, just spraying bullets.
It makes sense to do some airsoft or paintball in the woods to check how constant moving change whole game, and what kind of moving makes sense in order to survive gunfight.
For example how often you shoot from your weapon with both hands, dominant and not dominant?
In urban fighting you will need switch weapon around very often (moving through the apartments, rooms, around the corners etc.). When you are shooting behind corner, and you are having rifle in your right hand and corner is on your left side it make sense to transfer weapon to left hand. otherwise it is dangerous to stick your left part of body out in order to shoot form right hand.
For all you who have some military experience this all is basic stuff, but I have seen many guys who were killed in stupid ways.
Real gunfight is dynamic thing. Adrenaline is weird thing too, so people can do tremendous things while adrenaline is pumping, but also with lack of training and common sense guy can do tremendously stupid things. I have seen man who was pointing to something and he stood up from the cover, and got shot.
3. How to train yourself
Training is the key. You can not do anything else today except to train very hard.
You can not experience real stuff today of course, but you can take it as close to real stuff as you can. Go out with your friends and think about all possible scenarios. But think about worst case scenarios. SHTF is not gonna wait for nice and sunny weather, you gonna be maybe hungry, dirty. Maybe have to give up your shelter and food storage on second day of SHTF.
Or you gonna be forced to use other weapon that you are not used to. Maybe you gonna be forced to hide for hours hidden under a pile of rubble and then you are gonna be forced to jump out and “kill” ten beer bottles. Sounds like fun? This is why resilience and mental strength is so important.
Maybe you are gonna be cold and thirsty and in the middle of the battle. One thing is sure – very rarely it goes the way that you planned. So just be ready for many options and do not panic when things go other way. Want to get some funny sounding advice?
Get good at suffering while still being able to work towards a goal.
4. What weapon, caliber, stopping power etc?
It is very hard question (that I get asked a lot). But think about fact that everything today is about mainstream and commercial. And somehow it is more about what other people say is good and not necessarily about what you need and what is good for YOU.
You and your hand kill, weapon is only tool. I have seen fight when man with knife is killing the guy with rifle. He had mastered fighting with knife and had will to kill. Other guy had a rifle only, and he ends up dead. I also seen more than once people shot with rifle bullets still fighting, running for good amount of time. Some of them were not even aware that they are wounded before someone else pointed that out to them.
What I am trying to say, do not expect miracles if you own weapon that is at the moment most popular, having great stopping power, cool reviews. It is about practicing , weapon mastering and correct bullets placement.
I said bullets for a reason, I have seen many things, but I did not see someone survive multiple shots in correct place at the body. Have weapon that is best for your case, and achieve perfection in using it. Do not expect that people will fly back if you shoot them with one bullet from some widely popular weapon and caliber (not talking about shotguns).
So I am not gonna tell you what is the best weapon because what works for me maybe does not work for you or others.
Having a weapon that is too rare, too good or too bad does not make too much sense for me. Do not find yourself in situation when you lose your weapon and pick someone else and then find out that you do not have clue about it, because your weapon was special and rare.
Just have what everyone else around you has, because of gun parts, ammo and you look like everyone else.
Your weapon is only tool to survive, be ready to lose it if you need to lose it, and pick some other from the ground in the middle of fight.
I knew a guy who did some scary stuff with rusty shortened M48. He was old and poor looking dude, he played that part good, until he would take out this old gun from under his coat and rob and kill people. Simple strategy but it worked for him. So look around and think what works for you.
If you have experienced combat or heard what matters from veterans please share in comments.
About the Author: Surviving one year in a city surrounded by the enemy army and cut off from the rest of the world. I’m Selco and have been through this SHTF school I never wanted to attend during the Balkan wars 1992 – 1995.
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