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9 Firearms Every Prepper Needs.
In 2012 I was sitting in a small classroom in Doswell, Virginia at a Prepper show that I was both attending and speaking at. At the front of the classroom stood a man that was small in stature but just MASSIVE in presence. His name was Dave Jones and he called himself The NBC Guy. This man was about to change my outlook on preparedness in a number of ways.
I sat at a table with about 12 other people and watched as he laid out information about nuclear, biological and chemical threats, as this was his expertise. Then he asks a group of people a simple question about tactics and guns. This group seemed to be intent on knowing the best way to deal with another group should there be aggression.
Dave gave an example and then asked the most important question of the day. “In the Army we have something known as acceptable casualties. People may die during our mission,” He looked the group over, “Which one of you is an acceptable casualty?”
In that moment I went from thinking of guns as something everyone in my world should have so we could fight our way to victory in the post-apocalyptic world. When you consider which our your family members is an acceptable casualty you realize that a firefight and heavy use of firearms is the wrong goal set.
All that said, preppers gotta have some guns, right? The question is, which ones and what are we using them for?
Air Guns
PUMP PELLET RIFLE
A pellet gun is certainly not as cool as a CZ Scorpion. However, you are gonna get much more use out of a pump pellet gun than you will some kind of fancy 9mm fed carbine. It’s just the nature of life. You might use a pellet or bb gun for something every single week.
This could be to keep birds and squirrels out of your garden, foxes out of the coop, or it might be to put squirrels and rabbits on the dinner table. Its way better to learn how to kill with an air gun because you can buy 500 pellets for around 8 bucks!
They certainly have their limitations, but air guns can be a lot of fun and very effective for the things that real preppers do each day.
Common Calibers
Preppers need weapons that can be easily repaired with common parts and easy to find ammo for. Sure, you might have all your ammo stored up already, but it is still important that your armory be made up of weapons that use all the most common calibers on the market.
This is also important for a survival group. If your weapons are common caliber, then there is a good chance that other members of your group are carrying weapons that fire the same ammunition and might even have some of the same parts.
.22LR
.22LR
The .22LR is a utility round. It is the cheapest ammo on the market and if you can shoot then you can take down 4 legged and 2 legged animals. I recommend having two separate guns that both take .22LR.
.22 Pistol
.22 PISTOL
If you are on a homestead or managing any kind of land I think having a .22LR on your hip at all times is very practical. This gun is great for harvesting animals that you raised for meat. The gun is also great to pull out if you run into something like a dangerous snake or an ornery coyote around the property.
Iron Sights Rifle (Savage)
Iron Sights Rifle (Savage)
For hunting small game and dealing with shots that require accuracy at a distance, I really like a .22 rifle that is outfitted with nothing more than iron sights. I don’t know about you, but I do not take shots at things that are so far away I need a scope.
I put Savage brand above because these guns are very cheap and go on sale. I shoot a 30-06 from Savage and a .22 rifle. Both are great and have saved me hundreds of dollars.
9mm
9mm-pistol
In my opinion your everyday carry pistol should be 9mm. I have carried full size 9mm semi-automatic firearms and also subcompact 9mm like the M&P Shield or the SCCY. I like to shoot full size pistols over the subcompacts any day of the week.
Still, there is something nice about putting a pistol on your hip that you barely notice. I am currently carrying the SCCY CPX 2 which weighs less than 1lb and is just over 5 inches in length. It’s a 10+1 capacity magazine which is a lot of 9mm for such a small gun.
If you plan on taking your preparedness with you then you should consider carrying a 9mm pistol. It’s a powerful round and even small 9mm pistols carry enough ammo and pack enough punch to take care of an imminent threat.
12 Gauge
12-GAUGE SHOTGUN
You are always going to be able to find 12 gauge ammo. If a person has only one gun in the home in most cases it is a 12 gauge shotgun. The 12 gauge shotgun is a sporting gun, it’s used to hunt or shoot clay pigeons.
The 12 gauge shotgun is also an incredible home defense weapon because of how a bird shot or buckshot spreads the shot out. This means hitting a target in the dark of night is easier if you are shooting a spray of bird shot down the hallway.
The other thing about the 12 gauge shotgun is that it is incredibly affordable! You can get a tactical shotgun or a simple pump shotgun for around $300!
5.56
5.56 AR-15
The caliber that feeds the maligned AR platform is not only a very popular round but the AR platform itself is the most popular semiautomatic rifle in the nation. When it comes to finding ammo and parts, if you can strip the parts from an AR15 then you will be able to sustain this platform for a long time using spare parts.
While the semiautomatic tactical rifle appears mostly in pictures and even videos of preppers. The truth of the matter is that you will use this weapon the least of all! If you are homesteading, hunting, and raising animals, you will use the above-mentioned weapons much more often than the AR15 chambered in 5.56.
Hunting Rifle
30.06 RIFLE
After common calibers I think it is good for a prepper to invest in a serious hunting rifle. When I say serious I don’t mean serious in price but in caliber. I think you should have a rifle that kicks a serious round out for killing big game.
As I mentioned the 30-06 is my choice but you may prefer something like the .308. This is all about preference but every prepper should have at least one high powered hunting rifle that can hit an animal at a distance and put that animal down quick.
Inject Fantasy
MPX 9mm PCC
There has to be a little fun in all this prepping for the end of the world, right? The weapons we mentioned above mostly have practical uses. However, there are some guns out there that are just fun. They are the guns more suited for something like a zombie apocalypse of a video game.
A friend of mine was bent on owning his own CZ Scorpion. This is a weapon that fires 9mm and will not be what you reach for during hunting season or even to put down the hogs. The .22 pistol is a much cheaper and easier option.
Still, if you aspire to build your own prepper armory then you might want your own MPX 9mm PCC. Maybe you want that wild looking Kris Vector. Maybe you’re after something crazy from Keltec. They are always putting out innovative guns.
Now, you should at least have a few of the common calibers above before you go buying a R50 that holds 50 rounds of 5.7x28mm but if you want something as fun as this, too. It’s all up to you! I would make room for at least 2 fun guns in the prepper armory.
Airsoft
AIRSOFT RIFLE
You might be wondering why I have airsoft on this list. What good is an airsoft gun in an apocalypse?
About 2 years ago my son came to me and said he wanted to shoot airsoft. I knew very little about it. The only experience I had was in paintball. We started bringing these airsoft guns into the home and as I began to understand these weapons I realized they are an invaluable training option.
These weapons do not have recoil like a real firearm, but they do emulate the firearms you use, they have magazines that look and feel like the ones you use. They will fit in a chest rig just like your PMAGs or even in a pocket or backpack.
The cost of ammunition is unbeatable. You can buy 10,000 airsoft BBs for about $30. You can spend an entire afternoon unloading on each other in full kit and getting better without going broke.
Frankly, you can run and gun with an airsoft and shoot at dynamic living targets that are shooting back at you. You can practice reloading, managing cover and aiming while you are gasping for air. If you have groups of people, then you can practice force on force with tactics and really shoot each other!
Conclusion
Stop worrying about sticking a gun in the hands of everyone in your household. Remember, bullets go both ways, and we have to be very careful with our families. Do you really want everyone ready to pick up an AR at a moment’s notice and head for a window? This is not the best way to keep your family safe.
That said, there are some firearms that every prepper should have. These firearms are more utility than they are self-defense. That doesn’t make them any less a gun. It is just that for the longest time preppers had a very narrow view of what your firearm should be used for.
Once you have bought your utility guns you should also get yourself something fun for the armory. When you are at the range it is nice to pull something fun out and let it rip downrange.
Trust me on the air rifles and even the airsoft. You can get a lot done with that air rifle and there are few ways you can train with gear similar to your own, like you can with airsoft.
If you are going to go SPECOPS on some bad guys then you should know how long you can run, crawl, duck, cover with all your gear on while being shot at and returning fire. Airsoft is the cheapest and best way to make that happen.
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TRADITIONAL “KNUP” HATS of the Khasi people from Meghalaya, India 🇮🇳
These large, unusually shaped hats made of bamboo and palm leaves are very practical, lightweight, and waterproof.
They protect farmers from heavy rain and sun, allowing them to work in the fields with their hands free.
The Khasi people make them using natural materials available in their surroundings.
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Broadway Tower is a folly on Broadway Hill in the English county of Worcestershire.
The "Saxon" tower was the brainchild of Capability Brown and designed by James Wyatt in 1794 in the form of a castle, and built for Lady Coventry in 1798–99. The tower was built on a beacon hill, where beacons were lit on special occasions.
Lady Coventry wondered whether a beacon on this hill could be seen from her house in Worcester — about 22 miles (35 km) away — and sponsored the construction of the folly to find out. Indeed, the beacon could be seen clearly.
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The famous Mount Vesuvius volcano erupted in 1944.
Mount Vesuvius is known for its deadly eruption in 79 AD that buried the Roman cities of Pompeii and Herculaneum.
Vesuvius erupted many times in the centuries that followed. The last major eruption hit during World War II in 1944. It was the worst eruption since 1872.
The volcano rained down rocks the size of basketballs on nearby villages and sent out a stream of lava. People in the area had already survived more than four years of war and hardship and were now facing a dangerous threat.
The 1944 eruption complicated the Allied invasion of Italy, which had started the year before. At this point the Allies had already occupied large parts of italy including the area around Mount Vesuvius.
Allied forces evacuated residents and took care of thousands of refugees because the Italian government was in chaos after the invasion and could not support its own civilians.
Despite the war’s confusion, the Allies managed the disaster well and kept the situation from getting worse.
Many American military planes parked at a nearby airfield were destroyed by the volcano, although no Allied soldiers were lost.
In total, 26 civilians perished and 12,000 people were displaced.
Sources:
Ronk, Liz. “Mount Vesuvius: Photos From the Volcano’s Last Great Eruption, 1944.” LIFE.
Pratt, Sara E. “Benchmarks: March 17, 1944: The Most Recent Eruption of Mount Vesuvius.” Earth Magazine, March 15, 2016.
The Editors of Encyclopaedia Britannica. “Vesuvius.” Encyclopaedia Britannica.
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"Throwback to when we literally hung up our own billboard for the first album. That was Jac Holzman’s idea at Elektra Records. Bold and a little crazy, just like us."
- John Densmore
Aleister Crowley knew how to make a name for himself.
At one point, it was ‘the Beast 666’, at another, Frater Perdurabo of the Outer Order of the Golden Dawn.
Later he ran with ‘the wickedest man in the world’.
In life, the press damned him as a Satanist, and the poet WB Yeats, fellow in an esoteric order, called him ‘indescribably mad’.
He stands among the crowd on the Beatles’ Sergeant Pepper album cover, famed more for his esoteric ritual sex and drug use than for any of his poetry, philosophy or religious writings. And in mountaineering, his name is often little more than a footnote.
But Crowley was a visionary climber for his time.
Never a man to obey convention, his adventures took him onto terrain that few had ventured over before.
Abroad, he was among the early adopters of guideless climbing in the Alps and was a member of the first expeditions to make attempts on K2 and Kanchenjunga – two of the highest mountains in the world. At home, he put up routes on cliffs that most of his peers deemed unclimbable.
He also appears to have been a hard man to like. His feud with the Alpine Club was lifelong and he found few friends in the climbing world.
It can be hard to parse the truth of his life. He was much maligned and at the same time, some of his claims, with himself as the only witness, can be hard to substantiate. “Do what thou wilt” was the core tenet of his religion, Thelema, and that he very much appeared to do.
Edward Alexander Crowley was born on 12 October 1875, entering the world smack in the middle of Queen Victoria’s reign, an era of family values, respectable appearances and staid morality.
He was born to fundamentalist Christian parents and, every day after breakfast, delivered a chapter from the Bible. Though the family didn’t celebrate Christmas or permit toys, the first ten years of his life appeared to be happy enough and he described his father as “my hero and my friend.”
On one occasion, taking a walk through the fields near home, his father warned him away from a clump of nettles with the challenge, “Will you take my word for it or would you rather learn by experience?” Crowley plunged right into the stingers.
The turning point in his life, to a ‘boyhood from hell’, came young. Aged 11, he woke from a nightmare about his father’s death only to learn, later that day, that he had died of tongue cancer. He had lost his hero and gained an inheritance the equivalent of £2 million.
After this, he didn’t just lose his faith, he interrogated it. No longer fearful of sin, he went in pursuit of it. In 1892, he was taken up to the Isle of Skye on holiday with his mother and introduced to the mountains in perhaps the most thrilling way possible – on the Black Cuillin, a ridge of volcanic rock that looks like something from Dante’s Inferno.
One of his first peaks was the precipitous, coffee-table-sized summit of Sgurr nan Gillean. Over the next few years he would go in and out of schools, have bouts of ill health, discover the pleasures of sex and catch “the clap from a Glasgow prostitute.” And amidst all this he pursued a new and thrilling fascination: climbing.
Aleister Crowley led two major Himalayan expeditions: the 1902 K2 attempt and the 1905 Kangchenjunga attempt. The K2 expedition was largely a failure due to severe weather and illness, but Crowley correctly identified the Abruzzi Spur as the most viable route. The Kangchenjunga expedition was also unsuccessful, ending in a tragedy where four members of his team died in an avalanche, leading to controversy and ending his mountaineering career.
Aleister Crowley died in poverty and relative obscurity on December 1, 1947, at the age of 72.
He passed away in a boarding house in Hastings, England, from chronic bronchitis, aggravated by pleurisy and myocardial degeneration.
He had been a chronic heroin user, after first being prescribed morphine for his asthma and bronchitis many years earlier
Source: Live For The Outdoors
Pictures: K2 Expedition 1902: (from left to right) Wessely, Eckenstein, Jacot-Guillarmod, Crowley, Pfannl, Knowles.
Crowley apparently enjoying the icy waters of a pool on the Baltoro Glacier during his K2 expedition. ©Wikimedia Commons
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Proof of walk this morning with Amigo and Cypher to watch the kitboarders at Bulabog Beach.
Maison Hannon, Brussels, Belgium
Alexandra Road Estate is a social housing complex designed by Neave Brown and built between 1972 and 1978.
Its long, stepped concrete terraces are one of the most distinctive examples of British modernist planning.
The estate features a fully pedestrian spine, south-facing dwellings, generous private terraces, and a layout that also functions as an acoustic barrier to the railway line.
In 1993 it became one of the first modern social housing projects in the UK to be granted Grade II listed status.
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