My friend James Smith the “Covert Prepper” of The Prepper Podcast just told me about a gun giveaway they are having this month.  You ought to check it out.

The contest was a success, and several fine comments were made, but the time is up, and so I closed comments and asked my “and the winner is” plugin to spit out two random names.

And the Winner Is…. Continue reading →

SHTFschool.com has been generous enough to allow me to giveaway two Selco one year in hell courses to the readers of this blog.

This is a great course that I reviewed some time ago.  I really liked how Selco talked about the signs of the coming collapse, the initial stages, and how he and his group survived.  This course gave me lots of new things to think about and I appreciated hearing from someone that had actual life experience surviving the type of collapse many preppers foresee. Continue reading →

First Prize Aaron

For free or cheap ways to strengthen your home.

Second Prize Dryadwoods

First: How to reuse electrical/appliances copper cables in order to make some “generator” with the help of some magnet

- Second: how to make ammo without any store bought materials – (great idea, but every resource I have on homemade primers is dangerous and/or illegal – and the rest impractical – but I think it is a neat idea to research)

Third Prize to otakop67

For hygiene in a survival situation (though he gets points for the McGyver icon)

Since this is a DIY prepper website I wanted to tell you about another great DIY website.  Instructables.com is a very interesting site, and while there is a lot that does not apply to preppers, if you are willing to look, you can find an inordinate amount of stuff that is.

Not only that, but you participate, they have contests where you can win tools and prepper supplies.  I have won a solar/battery/inverter kit among other things.

That leads me to the contest.  By winning several small contests I keep getting free membership codes for the premium side of the free website. Continue reading →