All posts by Lester Beltran
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Turn Your Basement into a Bunker: Use Your Belongings for Survival
The average basement in a single-family detached home can easily be modified for all sorts of purposes. In the event of a tornado or similar...
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Backyard Garden ‘Cash Crops’: Make Money with a Home Garden
There’s not a thing wrong with growing beautiful flowers and donating them to senior citizens on your block. But for people who want to make...
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The Big Bang: How to Profit by Investing in Guns and Ammunition
One of the most exciting new wrinkles in the investing world is the weapons and ammunition sector. The beauty of this strategy is in its...
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The Trump Effect
Dear Fellow Survivalist, I think everyone in the country has been wondering what Donald Trump’s presidency is going to be like. The fact the he’s...
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Best Practices: Storing Long-term Foods and Necessities
For all kinds of reasons, Americans are finally catching on to an idea that is common in Europe, Asia and many other areas: Families need...
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What Difference Does the Election Make to Your Survival Planning?
Dear Fellow Survivalist; With the elections finally upon us, I’m sure you’re asking yourself what they will mean for your ultimate survival. I know I...
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What’s Different About Prepping for an EMP?
Dear Fellow Survivalist; With the first presidential debate behind us, we can finally breathe a sigh of relief and look to the future. Unfortunately, that...
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Personal Protective Equipment for Biological and Chemical Threats
Dear Fellow Survivalist; Greetings. With all the myriad of potential disasters we face every day, it’s difficult to be ready for everything. Besides the logistical...
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Turning Your Neighborhood into a Survival Team
Dear Fellow Survivalist; One of the difficult questions we are all faced with, as preppers and survivalists, is whether or not we help those around...
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3 Bug Out Mistakes that Can get you Killed
Dear Fellow Survivalist; One of the biggest questions facing any of us is the one about where we are going to go to ground and...
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What are You Going to do First?
Dear Fellow Survivalist; I want to ask you a question… that is, what are you going to do first, when a disaster strikes? This is...
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19 Things Even the Best Survivalists Forget to Put in Their BOB
I don’t care how experienced you are, you’re not perfect. I guess that’s the sum total of the wisdom I’ve managed to gather in over...
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The Right Survival Tools in Your BOB
Dear Fellow Survivalist; I’ve seen a lot of different people’s ideas about bug out bags through the years. It seems everyone has their own idea...
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Practical Fire Starting
Dear Fellow Survivalist; I must confess, I have to laugh at myself from time to time. Like everyone else in the survival community, I tend...
