Survival Sunday - PREP Edition - Granite Grok

Survival Sunday – PREP Edition

First, I am merely an “enlightened amateur”.  Please vet & check on your own.  Caveat emptor.  Consider these to be priming the pump for your own investigations.  I know this is a long post; I am attempting to put out a lot of information as a resource.  Read or skip sections depending on your interests.

Second, I fear spicy time is very close, but even a month of food, water, etc., puts you well ahead of most of the sheeple.  IMHO, set your minimum sights on a three-month period.

Third, two things will be critical for having the best chance of making it through:

  1. Mentality: first and foremost in survival is having a flexible mentality and cultivating the ability to adapt. Vanity has no place in survival.
  2. Develop a meatspace network of people that are likeminded: cultivate your community ties and build alliances with neighbors (note: don’t babble about the Jab or globalists or depopulation, or start pointing political fingers when doing this)… and remember, the first rule of PREP CLUB is that there is no prep club.

And please follow both me, Nitzakhon, on Gab… as well as my blog host Granite Grok and also on Telegram Tommy Robinson Official plus his Urban Scoop site.  And don’t forget posts sometimes get cloned on American Reveille as well, which is a good site to check out in general.

FYI, here’s a link to the last Survival Sunday SITREP (from a week ago; missed this Thursday from having no time).

 

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The US is collapsing…More evidence our government does not care about American citizens.

 

 

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Top of the fold:

All these illegals coming in.

Shared post – Incoming Disease — Serious Diseases… (locals.com)

Gonna be bad.

 

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Oddments – random thoughts on prepping:

None this week.  Got to buy more seeds and more fertilizer.  Not for this year, but in anticipation of a scorched-earth situation next year.

 

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Prepper Site URLS:

Most have daily articles; revisit daily.  Please recommend others in the comments.

Ask a Prepper, how to prepare, survive and thrive, latest news

Mother Earth News

The Organic Prepper Home – The Organic Prepper

SurvivalBlog.com – The Daily Web Log for Prepared Individuals Living in Uncertain Times.

SHTF Blog – Modern Survival

Survival World – Everything You Need To Know to Survive

Homestead Survival Site – How to Live Off The Grid in Comfort and Style

Urban Survival Site | How to Survive a Disaster in the City

Mind4Survival – Survival and Preparedness

Gray Wolf survival

Sustainable Living (sustainablelivingideas.com)

The Classic Survivalist – Surviving in a Modern World

Primal Survivor – Practical and sensible prepping advice

Em Off-grid – We & Our Off The Grid Life – Em OffGrid

Resource for Practical, Daily Prepping Skills for SHTF & Survival (geekprepper.com)

And three aggregate sites listing their top favorite sites & links too:

TOP 50 SURVIVAL & PREPPER BLOGS

The 50 Best Survival Blogs

Prepper Website – Preparedness • Survival • Alternative News

Specific, one-up articles:

Throw It Out! – Ask a Prepper

I found a few cans of fruit salad that were actually bulging.  Then again, I don’t like the stuff, and neither does anyone else.  So why did I buy it??

Related to Spicy Time:

 

Learn 10 Advanced Bushcraft & Survival Skills!

 

 

How to Find Water in the Wilderness | The Art of Manliness

Critical!  Related:

How Long Can You Store Water Before It Becomes Unsafe To Drink? – Ask a Prepper

 

10 Military Stealth Survival Skills!

 

 

Other escape / evade videos (links only):

How to escape from pursuers in the woods (an evasion skill-building game) – YouTube

Which Materials can hide you from THERMAL DEVICES? – YouTube

Thermal Camouflage Part 1: Setting the Stage – YouTube

Avoiding detection from your enemies. Mountain Recce (visible, IR, Thermal) – YouTube

INFANTRYMAN’S GUIDE: Individual camouflage techniques & field discipline – YouTube

How Army Snipers Create Camouflage Ghillie Suits For Combat | Boot Camp | Insider Business – YouTube

Camo Face Paint – How to Apply Correctly – YouTube

I’m strictly amateur hour, but I’ve taught my kids that the human eye looks for OUTLINE, CONTRAST, and MOVEMENT.

 

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20 Wilderness Survival Tips!

 

 

More videos (links only).

20 Bushcraft Tips: Heavy Rain & Wet Weather Conditions – YouTube

10 Bushcraft Axe Skills in 10 Minutes – YouTube

Learn 10 Beginner Bushcraft & Survival Skills! – YouTube

Learn 10 Advanced Bushcraft & Survival Skills! – YouTube

Make Fire Even in the Wettest Weather WITHOUT a Match! Friction FIRE! – YouTube

10 More Military Wilderness Survival Skills in 10 Minutes! Vol. 3 – YouTube

How to Make A Survival Bow | 1 Hour Build – YouTube

Question: Is it worth creating a separate Bushcraft section?

 

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Short of years and untold wealth, you cannot possibly be fully prepared for everything (I have to keep reminding myself of that).  But even some preparations, ideally at least 90 days of food, water / water purification, etc., puts you head and shoulders in front of the vast majority of the sheeple who will be in jaw-gaping astonishment when the SHTF.  The only relevant questions are:

  1. When does it start?
  2. How bad will it get?
  3. How long will it last?
  4. What will the aftermath look like?

 

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I have a FORAGING group on Gab.  I will check 2-3 times a week to see if people have asked to join.

Foraging: One-up articles

4 Ways to Eat Maple Seeds – wikiHow

Young maple leaves are also edible from what I read.

10 Types Of Seaweed And How To Eat Them (tastingtable.com)

I like sea lettuce.  And kelp’s also good as an addition to compost for the iodine.  More:

Edible Seaweed: 8 Edible Seaweeds to Cook With (finedininglovers.com)

Foraging (permanent feature):

Foraging (practicalselfreliance.com)

Wild Harvests (arcadianabe.blogspot.com)

Southern Appalachian Herbs

Books (permanent feature):

Feasting Free on Wild Edibles (old but good)

The Lost Ways (much more than just foraging)

The Forager’s Guide to Wild Foods

THE COMPLETE GUIDE TO EDIBLE WILD PLANTS FOR BEGINNERS

 

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Shortages (broadly):

Inflation causes deflation. Wait – what?

I’ve seen things.  Deflated things.  And sometimes it’s really subtle in terms of the decrease – but it’s there.

Biden’s America: Guy Who Works 30 Hours A Week Sees Big Shortage Of Penicillin

Wait until the power goes out at the hospital.

 

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Gardening, Food Storage, Animals, Food Preservation, Health, and Related:

How to Plant Date Seeds (with Pictures) – wikiHow

If you live in a climate that works.

15+ Wild Edibles You Should Can This Spring – Ask a Prepper

Combines with foraging (see above).

Rapid-fire on having multiple different kinds of animals – chickens and more:

Raising Farm Animals Together: What Works And What Doesn’t! – Family Farm Livestock

Interactions with other animals | Chicken Wiki | Fandom

Keeping Chickens & Ducks Together (chickenkeepingsecrets.com)

Compatible Livestock: Which Animals Go Together? (backyardhomesteadhq.com)

What Are the Best Animals to Keep With Chickens? – Know Your Chickens

Farming Other Animals with Free-Range Chickens – dummies

Links on old-time food storage (permanent feature):

Thanks to the Canning and Preserving group on Gab, I now have these links:

Preserving foods by drying | How to dry foods safely (uada.edu)

USDA-Complete-Guide-to-Home-Canning-2015-revision.pdf (healthycanning.com)

Canning | SDSU Extension (sdstate.edu)

Food Preservation– Canning | Consumer Food Safety | Washington State University (wsu.edu)

Canning Timer & Checklist App | OSU Extension Catalog | Oregon State University

National Center for Home Food Preservation (uga.edu)

Canning Recipes | Ball® Mason Jars (ballmasonjars.com)

Topical Books (also permanent):

Charcuterie: The Craft of Salting, Smoking & Curing

Salumi: The Craft of Italian Dry Curing

A Guide to Canning, Freezing, Curing & Smoking Meat, Fish & Game

The Prepper’s Canning Guide

Pickled Pantry

Fermented Vegetables

Hydroponics and Greenhouse Gardening: 3-in-1 Gardening Book to Grow Vegetables, Herbs, and Fruit All-Year-Round

Hydroponics for Beginners: The Complete Guide to Hydroponic Gardening, Designing and Building Inexpensive DIY Hydroponic Systems…

The Aquaponics Guidebook: Combining Aquaculture and Hydroponics Combining Aquaculture and Hydroponics

 

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Self-defense (broad)

 

Kent Hovind – Gun Control Genocide (Mirrored)

 

 

Doubling Your Pistol’s Effective Range – Mason Dixon Survivalist Association (wordpress.com)

On braces.

 

ATF At Your Door? NEVER Do This Or You’ll Regret It…

 

 

And two related videos, links only:

The BIGGEST Legal Trap For Gun Owners EVER?! – YouTube

Carry Concealed? Know THIS Rule (The 21-Foot Rule/Reactionary Gap) – YouTube

 

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Hunting & Fishing:

The Best Place to Set Up For Turkey Hunting | Pyramyd Air Blog

I had a friend who was an enormous turkey hunter.  Said the birds were enormously shrewd.

 

Do you know when you have a “BITE”? (Fishing Tips for Beginners)

 

 

Also:

How To “Feel” Fish When They Strike – YouTube

This is always my problem.  I take my kids deep-sea fishing and, routinely, think I feel nibbling, try to set, nothing gets hooked… but my bait is gone.

 

HOW TO BUILD NATURAL GROUND BLINDS FOR HUNTING!

 

Also:

Why You Should Hunt From a Ground Blind – Deer Hunting – YouTube

Bushcraft Deer Hunting Blind (Quick And Simple) – YouTube

And I remember reading that you hit the jackpot with a deer, but lots of people will be going for deer.  So:

 

5 Survival Traps and Snares that WORK! – Primitive Traps

 

 

Also (link only):

BEST Primitive Meat Gathering Trap – YouTube

 

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Concluding thoughts if I’m moved to comment:

From the host of my former blog home prior to here, Liberty’s Torch, comes this proposal.

A Proposed Federal Law: “Any sitting legislator, whether at the federal, state, or local level, who is found by a jury of private citizens to have voted for an infringement or abridgement of a Constitutionally guaranteed right shall be hanged by the neck until dead.”

I’m in!

 

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Things They Want To Learn

 

 

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Palate cleansers:

 

 

There’s good in this world, and it’s worth fighting for.

 

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Please check out my MEMES collections; last one here.  Mockery, ridicule, and the wrapping of uncomfortable truths inside humor can penetrate the cognitive shields of normies far more effectively – IMHO – than dry facts and figures.

 

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