Wetterlings Bushman Axe By Les Stroud (Video)

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This is the best all-around backpacking axe that I have yet seen. It splits and cross-cuts. It hammers.
The extended beard makes it outstanding for fine cutting tasks and feather sticks.

@Amazon.com: Wetterlings Bushman Axe by Les Stroud One Size

@Amazon.com: Wetterlings Les Stroud / WoodlandPRO Firewood Cutters Kit

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Bahco Laplander Vs. Silky Pocketboy: Battle Of The Bushcraft Saws (Video)

@Amazon.com: Bahco 396-LAP Laplander Folding Saw, 7-1/2 -Inch Blade, 7 TPI

Somehow Amazon does not provide a product link to the Silky.

If you want to buy a Silky click on the Bahco and then insert the Silky description below:

@Amazon.com: Silky Folding Landscaping Hand Saw POCKETBOY 170 Medium Teeth 340-17

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Cold Steel 3V SRK Fixed 6-Inch Blade Knife

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Survival & Rescue operations demand a versatile knife able to withstand the most extreme conditions. Simply put, the Cold Steel SRK (Survival Rescue Knife) was designed specifically with this in mind. A popular knife with Military and Tactical Law Enforcement Personnel, the SRK is the standard issue knife of the Navy SEALS for their BUDS – or Basic Underwater Demolition training – the SRK has proved its worth time and time again in the most demanding environments. Whatever the mission, we’re confident that the SRK is the knife for you!

Excellent survival knife, but if you want to use your knife only for hunting, then the Master Hunter is probably the best choice out there:

Cold Steel 36CC 3V Master Hunter Fixed Blade Knife ($99.80)

http://www.coldsteel.com/3v-master-hunter.html ($199.99)

If this really is a 3V SRK, then this is a bargain (that is hard to believe, but then the Master Hunter also looks incredibly cheap. Am I missing something?):

@Amazon.com: Cold Steel 3V SRK Fixed 6-Inch Blade Knife ($128.05)

http://www.coldsteel.com/3v-srk.html ($254.99)

Sadly, unlike the Gerber LMF II ($78.21), the 3V SRK is not equipped with a pointed buttcap that is made of stainless steel, but I still prefer the 3V SRK.

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How I built my ultimate 25 pound bug out bag

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Former Counterintelligence Special Agent, US Army Chief Warrant Officer, and Combat Veteran. I grew up in the woods and spent a lifetime in various environments from deserts to jungles to politically-sensitive urban environments, and I’m here to tell you what I know.

How I built my ultimate 25 pound bug out bag

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Which Items Will Disappear First During A Major National Emergency?

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Which Items Will Disappear First During A Major National Emergency?:

One day in the not too distant future, a major emergency will strike this nation, and that will set off a round of hoarding unlike anything we have ever seen before.  Just think about what happens when a big winter storm or a hurricane is about to hit one of our major cities – inevitably store shelves are stripped bare of bread, milk, snow shovels, etc.  Even though winter storms and hurricanes are just temporary hurdles to overcome, they still cause many people to go into panic mode.  So what is going to happen when we have a real crisis on our hands?

We can get some clues about which items will disappear first during a major national emergency by taking a look at where such a scenario is already playing out.  One recent survey found that over 80 percent of all basic foodstuffs are currently unavailable in Venezuela, and about half the country can no longer provide three meals a day for their families.  Thankfully, some stores still have a few things that they are able to offer, but other key items are completely gone.  The following comes from USA Today

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25 Forgotten Survival Lessons You Need to Know – ‘Skills That Could Save Your Life’

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25 FORGOTTEN SURVIVAL LESSONS FROM THE PIONEERS WORTH FINDING AND LEARNING:

This article was originally written and published at BioPrepper.com.

Editor’s Comment: If doing it the hard way has any benefit, it means actually learning something. Experience is the best teacher; the modern world is filled with pseudo-experiences produced only through the electronic screen. But do it a few times in real life, and you’ll understood the pros and cons of each method, and learn to actually do things for yourself, instead of just transferring all your wealth and energy to a system of government that minimizes your value as a human.

By the way, if a critical mass of people reconnected with these kind of skills, or retook to self-sustaining, self-reliant ways, the power of the corrupt system would dwindle, and new associations would form… for a number of reasons, these are skills that could save your life.

25 Forgotten Survival Lessons From The Pioneers Worth Finding And Learning

by Bioprepper

Pioneer life has a special meaning in America. In less than 300 years, civilization spread across a vast continental wilderness.

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5 Must Haves For Your Next Winter Road Trip

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By Lee Flynn (Freelance writer and expert in emergency food preparedness and food storage)

Winter comes with treacherous road conditions. Snow, sleet, and freezing rain can quickly cause road conditions to deteriorate.

While none of us like to think that it will happen to us, we should always be prepared for the worst case scenario.

In addition to making sure that your gas tank is always half full there are five must have supplies that should always be kept in your during the winter.

1) Emergency Flares

Whether you slip off the road and down an embankment or come to a halt on the shoulder of the road, it is always important to let other drivers know that you are there.

Emergency flares are small and can be easily stored in the glove compartment or trunk of your car.

An emergency flare lets other drivers know that you are in trouble.

Emergency personnel often use these flares at the sites of accidents and other emergencies to illuminate the area creating a zone of safety.

Other drivers on the road will immediately know upon seeing a flare that the other driver as an emergency.

Flashers on your car may only indicate to another driver that you have stopped and not that you need assistance.

2) Warm Clothes/Blankets

Warm clothes and blankets are especially important during the winter months.

If your vehicle becomes disabled, you will have no source of heat.

Your only way to stay warm will be by layering on extra clothes and blankets.

Blankets made out of thick material such as fleece fabric can also be used to block any areas where cold air may be entering the car.

You should always make sure to group together with other occupants.

Use extra blankets to block off a section of the vehicle if possible and huddle together.

The more people that are huddled together the more you can use each other’s body heat to try and stay warm beneath your layers.

3) Water & Snacks

Hopefully, you will never break down or have an accident during the winter and if you do it will be on a frequently traveled road, where you are soon to be discovered quickly.

However, just in case, you need to make sure that you have an extra supply of bottled water and a few snacks, such as crackers.

You should always keep at least three days’ worth of food and water in your car.

Winter emergency food stashes could ensure that you keep your strength up and keep hydrated for when rescue comes.

These items can be stored under your seats or in the trunk of the car.

4) Cell Phone Charger

Your cell phone will be your only means of communication until help arrives.

You need to make sure that you have a dependable cell phone charger and should keep your phone plugged in and at full power while driving.

This way if your vehicle stops and the battery is dead you will have a full battery on your phone to contact help.

Cell phone chargers are small and easy to store. They will plug into your car’s cigarette lighter or USB port.

5) First Aid Kit

First Aid Kits are handy to have in the car no matter what the season.

You should ensure that at a minimum your kit contains hand sanitizer, bandages or gauze, antibiotic ointment, pain killers (such as Tylenol), a first aid manual, alcohol swabs, tweezers, scissors, and a packet of tissues.

These kits can be purchased from local stores or on the internet easily.

If help cannot get to you quickly, they could prove to be very helpful.

You should always keep your first aid kit within easy reaching distance.

The glove compartment or under the seat is an excellent place to store these kits.

Just remember it is always better to hope for the best, but plan for the worse and be prepared.

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Community Preparations For Catastrophic Events

Community Preparations For Catastrophic Events:

This article was written by Tom Chatham and originally published at Project Chesapeake

Many people now feel that pending trouble is in the air. They may not know what or why but they can feel it deep in their bones. For these people the urge to prepare for potential problems is now incorporated into their everyday lives. When something far reaching and catastrophic happens the ability of groups and communities to pull together is one way to deal with the aftermath and work through the problems to remain safe and healthy.

When something happens that may prevent outside help from reaching you, it is necessary to have the infrastructure and supplies to help yourself until the situation stabilizes. For the group or community there are certain actions that can be taken beforehand to insure the group can sustain themselves for the duration.

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Best Practices For Wintertime Seed Storage

Seed to Seed: Seed Saving and Growing Techniques for Vegetable Gardeners

By Lee Flynn (Freelance writer and expert in emergency food preparedness and food storage)

As the gardener savors the last of the autumn harvest, collecting seeds for next year’s garden should be a priority as well. Seeds can typically be collected and stored for one year while maintaining high levels of germination. Under ideal conditions, many seeds can be stored for much longer. Moisture, light and temperature are all important factors to consider when storing seeds.

Choose open-pollinated seeds

Seeds from hybridized plants will typically not develop into plants that are true to form. When a plant is cross-pollinated, it may take on characteristics from both parent plants, and desirable aspects of the hybridized plant may be lost. The gardener should save only open-pollinated varieties of seed, which are also known as heirloom varieties. Open-pollinated varieties of seed will stay true to form, despite different types of pollination.

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Economic Crisis: How You Can Prepare Over The Next Six Months

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Economic Crisis: How You Can Prepare Over The Next Six Months (Alt-Market, Sep 9, 2015):

I wouldn’t say that it is “never too late” to prepare for potential disaster because, obviously, the numerous economic and social catastrophes of the past have proven otherwise. There simply comes a point in time in which the ignorant and presumptive are indeed officially screwed. I will say that we have not quite come to that point yet here in the U.S., but the window of opportunity for preparation is growing very narrow.

As expected, U.S. stocks are now revealing the underlying instability of our economy, which has been festering for several years.  Extreme volatility not seen since 2008/2009 has returned, sometimes with 1000 point fluctuations positive and negative in the span of only a couple days.  Current market tremors are beginning to resemble the EKG of a patient suffering a heart attack.

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Why Preppers Need to Focus on Local Food for Self-Reliance

H/t reader squodgy:

“Might be worthwhile getting a stock of seeds of favourite vegetables, or even doubling up the stock and keeping half in the refridgerator in case…..”


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And collect the seeds of edible weeds and medicinal plants growing all around you, like nettles (Urtica dioica), bishop’s goutweed (Aegopodium podagraria), dandelion, chickweed, gallant soldier (Galinsoga parviflora), buckhorn (Plantago lanceolata) etc.

Books on edible weeds/wild plants and herbal medicine are essential.

A manual (wheatgrass) juicer will prove to be very helpful to extract all those nutrients from wheatgrass, barleygrass and the above mentioned herbs, when there will be no electricity and no supermarkets during bad times.

This juicer is for the good times … 🙂

Building A Shelter In The Woods Using Only Dirt, Trees And Rocks (Video)


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I built this hut in the bush using naturally occurring materials and primitive tools. The hut is 2m wide and 2m long, the side walls are 1m high and the ridge line (highest point) is 2m high giving a roof angle of 45 degrees. A bed was built inside and it takes up a little less than half the hut. The tools used were a stone hand axe to chop wood, fire sticks to make fire, a digging stick for digging and clay pots to carry water. The materials used in the hut were wood for the frame, vine and lawyer cane for lashings and mud for daubing. Broad leaves were initially used as thatch which worked well for about four months before starting to rot. The roof was then covered with sheets of paper bark which proved to be a better roofing material. An external fireplace and chimney were also built to reduce smoke inside. The hut is a small yet comfortable shelter and provides room to store tools and materials out of the weather. The whole hut took 9 months from start to finish. But it only took 30 days of actual work (I abandoned it for a few months before adding bark roof, chimney and extra daub ).

Preparedness Critics Are History’s Cannon Fodder

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Preparedness Critics Are History’s Cannon Fodder (Alt-Market, July 8, 2015):

The world is entering a kind of no man’s land, in between the realms of insane denial and utterly obvious crisis. Europe is now destabilizing amid the Greek soap opera (an event that I predicted in January would occur in 2015); China’s stock market bubble is bursting; and the U.S. dollar’s world reserve status is about to be decimated by the global shift toward the International Monetary Fund’s basket currency reserve system. I’m afraid I’m going to have to say this because I don’t know if anyone else will admit it: Alternative economic analysts were right, and the mainstream choir was either terribly wrong or disgustingly dishonest. However, as most of us in the liberty movement are well aware, being right is not necessarily a solution to disaster.

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This Is What a Real-Life Economic Collapse Looks Like

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This Is What a Real-Life Economic Collapse Looks Like (The Organic Prepper, Jan 27, 2015):

Did you ever think about what your life would be like if the stores were closed? I’m not talking about a post-apocalyptic Mad Max scenario or a winter storm that clears the shelves. I’m talking about a long-term disruption of services caused by an economic collapse.

What if you couldn’t run to Wal-Mart to get soap?  What if the grocery store had supplies so limited that they were rationed out to people in such small amounts that the food you got was not enough to meet your needs? What if there were no diapers for your baby or aspirin to cure a headache?

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89 Tips That Will Help You Prepare For The Coming Economic Depression

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89 Tips That Will Help You Prepare For The Coming Economic Depression (Economic Collapse, Jan 13, 2015):

What do we need to do in order to prepare for the coming economic collapse?  Are there practical steps that we can take right now that will help us and our families survive the economic depression that is approaching?  As the publisher of The Economic Collapse Blog, I get asked these kinds of questions a lot.  Once people become convinced that an economic collapse is coming, they want to know what they should do.  And so in this article I am going to share some key pieces of advice from some of the top experts in the entire country.  If you are not convinced that economic disaster is on the way, this article might not be for you.  Instead, I would encourage you to go to my website where you will find more than 1,200 articles that set out the case for the coming economic collapse in excruciating detail.  For those of you that are interested in getting prepared, I apologize in advance for the outline format of this article.  To examine each of these points in detail would take an entire book.  In fact, I am the co-author of a book that will soon be published that discusses many of these things in great depth.  But you don’t have to wait for a book to get prepared.  Mostly, it comes down to common sense.  In this article, I share 89 common sense tips that will help you get prepared for the coming economic depression.  Hopefully a lot of people will find these to be very helpful.

This first set of tips are 11 things that I strongly encourage my readers to do…

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Fear we are returning to a time in history where it is a common occurrence to fight for one’s life?

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Fear we are returning to a time in history where it is a common occurrence to fight for one’s life? (ZeroHedge, May 10, 2012):

“There are going to be situations where people are going to go without assistance. That’s just the facts of life.” – Los Angeles Police Chief Daryl Gates

So, you are a successful trader, speculator, investor, money manager, and is typical, have little patience. Something has been bothering you. You have been reading Zero Hedge long enough that you are now absolutely convinced that TEOTWAWKI is indeed nigh, and it could well be quite violent. You have also decided that you want to do something to prepare, beyond getting short the equity markets and going long gold and silver coins, but you do not know what to do, exactly. The HELP function on your Bloomberg terminal is, unsurprisingly, not helpful. A quick review of the government and Red Cross emergency preparedness websites tells you nothing about guns. This is problematic, as you fear that we all might be returning to a time in history where it is a common occurrence to fight for one’s life, and you know that we usually do that in today’s day and age with guns, or a knife close in.

What to do?

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Here’s Why Real Preppers Should Be Prepared To Defend Themselves: The ‘Spartan Survival’ Doomsday Preppers: ‘We Are Your Worst Nightmare And We Are Coming …’

In my opinion the media is using every chance to give preppers a bad image and the Spartan Survival group is no exception.

“By failing to prepare, you are preparing to fail.”
-Benjamin Franklin

People like the Spartan Survival ‘preppers’ are one of many reasons why this blog’s name is ‘Infinite Unknown’.

How stupid would it be to tell people to stock up food, water, survival gear and have physical gold and silver outside the banking system and give away my name & address?

People like James Wesley Rawles have turned their home into a deadly fortress for invaders…

Former US Army Intelligence Officer James Wesley Rawles: America Will Experience Weimar-Style Hyperinflation – ‘People Have No Idea What COLLAPSE Might Look Like’ (Video)

Interview With Former US Army Intelligence Officer And Bestselling Author James Wesley Rawles: Global Economic Collapse – Gun Confiscation – How To Survive The End Of The World – If The Power Grid Goes Down We Are In A Massive Die Off Situation Where Literally More Than 50% Of The Population Of The Country Could Die In Just One Winter (Video)

… and they all know exactly why they had to do this.

I like to have the advantage of being totally anonymous. You will not find photos or anything about me on the internet.

And I have all thought that through before I created ‘Infinite Unknown’.

For those that still think I am a paid disinformer I want to say to you, that there are many people on the interenet that have a nice biography and some of what they are posting also makes sense, but they are bought and paid for.

Not one disinformer out there is keeping his identity secret to my knowledge ( … because it wouldn’t make any sense).

But let’s just assume for one moment that I could be bought and paid for.

Take a close look at what I’ve posted on I. U. and tell me what kind of interest group would be willing to pay me?????

Those who still wonder why I want to be anonymous (and not give away my name & address), here is one of many reasons why …


Tyler Smith of Doomsday Preppers: Apex Predator or Apex Punk? (The Organic Prepper, Nov 14, 2013):

If there was ever a case study on why preppers should be prepared to defend their supplies, the upcoming episode of National Geographic’s Doomsday Preppers would provide a perfect example.

“We’re not in it to stockpile. We’re in it to take what you have and there’s nothing you can do to stop us,” Tyler Smith says. “We are your worst nightmare, and we are coming.”

Smith, 29, is the leader of Spartan Survival. The group has more than 80 dues-paying members. Smith founded the organization in 2005 to train and prepare others on survivalism.

On Tuesday night, Smith’s story will be told on the National Geographic Channel survivalist TV show “Doomsday Preppers.” (source)

So, not only would someone with supplies need to worry about everyday commonplace looters, they would need to be concerned about Smith and his band of merry marauders, whose survival plan seems to hinge on overwhelming force against those who have spent years gathering supplies and planning for a secure and peaceful existence.

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What To Expect During The Next Stage Of Collapse

What To Expect During The Next Stage Of Collapse (Alt-Market, Aug 29, 2013):

For years now at Alt-Market (and Neithercorp.us) I have carefully outlined the most likely path of collapse to take place within the U.S., and a vital part of that analysis included economic destabilization caused by a loss of the dollar’s world reserve status and petro-status.  I have also always made clear that this fiscal crisis event would not occur in the midst of a political vacuum.  The central banks and international financiers that created our ongoing and developing disaster are NOT going to allow the destruction of the American economy, the dollar, or global markets without a cover event designed to hide their culpability.  They need something big.  Something so big that the average citizen is overwhelmed with fear and confusion.  A smoke and mirrors magic trick so raw and soul shattering it leaves the very population of the Earth mesmerized and helpless to understand the root of the nightmare before them.  The elites need a fabricated Apocalypse.

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Those That Are Not Preparing For The Coming Economic Depression Are Going To Bitterly Regret It

Those That Are Not Preparing For The Coming Economic Depression Are Going To Bitterly Regret It (Economic Collapse, Aug 18, 2013):

The next great economic crisis is rapidly approaching, and most people are going to be totally blindsided by it.  Even though the warning signs are glaringly obvious, most Americans continue to believe that our “leaders” know what they are doing and that everything will be just fine.  But what will happen when the next great financial crash happens and trillions of dollars of “paper wealth” disappear into thin air?  What will happen when the coming credit crunch causes economic activity to dramatically slow down and millions upon millions of people lose their jobs?  This shouldn’t sound far-fetched to you.  Remember, this is exactly the kind of thing that we saw back in 2008, and the next great financial crisis is likely going to be significantly worse.  Our economy is in far worse shape than it was back in 2008, and government dependence is now at an all-time high even though most Americans are still enjoying debt-fueled false prosperity.  We are living in the largest debt bubble in the history of the planet, and when it bursts we are going to experience a crippling “adjustment” to our standard of loving.  Some people understand this and are busy preparing for what is ahead.  It has been estimated that there are approximately 3 million “preppers” in the United States, and that number is growing all the time.  Unfortunately, most Americans are not preparing for the coming economic depression and they are going to bitterly regret it.

So what does preparing for the coming economic depression look like?

Well, it doesn’t have to be complicated.  Most of the things that you should do are just common sense.

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