Wednesday, March 30, 2011
well is it.
if it walks like a duck and sounds like a duck is it a duck? Kinda how i feel about "preppers"....if you prep like a survivalist and act like a survivalist...............
Monday, April 12, 2010
Tuesday, November 10, 2009
Hot and sweaty
A lot of us have these dreams, or expectations of what an Event may be like. Some are dedicated zombie, MZB ,aliens invading. While others are into the collapse of our society as we know it, some natural disasters . The main thing involved with any Event is that your gonna be sweating. The reason why , you ask. Your gonna have to actually WORK. That's right, work for your food and to stay alive.
We all have the gear, (i hope) the preps, and the skills. But are you physically able to keep up. While this isn't meant to say if your disabled you should go belly up and say your last words, but you shouldn't give up. Ive noticed a lot over the last few years of dealing with new "survivalist" at camp outs i have been to . I've been amazed by the lack of physical stamina they have. While i am not the perfect example of what a in shape man should be. I do train and work out to stay at my current or better levels. I guess that's why i have this to get off my chest.
If you fail to get in better shape now do not expect to have it easy during a pro longed event or short stressful one. For example. When was the last time you had to chop wood? I'm talking more than one campfire worth! How bout carrying that load back and forth? Have dreams of hitting the woods and living like an Indian? How much do you walk each day with minimal water and food?There is so much more to it than strapping on a LBV or a loin cloth and charging into the unknown to take on mother nature or a platoon of russians that parachuted into your school yard.
Being prepared isn't just about how much preps you've put away. Nor how much you know about rubbing sticks together to make fire, or the amount of ammo you have. These things will not help you if you can not physically meet what an Event can dish out. You must plan and prep ahead. You must start getting in better physical shape now. Not after an event. If you fail to do so you will endanger yourself and the others with you!
GET OFF THAT COUCH.
You gotta get in shape. Round is not a shape no matter how you try sweeten up the doughnuts! I started 1 year ago. Hardly able to run a complete ,mile. Hell i was lucky to run, not jog a 1/4 mile with out huffing and puffing. Now i run a 9 min mile, and am 45 lbs lighter ! I didnt get this way sitting on the web ,sucking down soda and pop tarts talking about how i was gonna take over a state park with my 5 other buddies from xyz.com as my BOL!
For me that was backpacking. I used to pack a lot when i was younger. But as you get old sometimes you slack off. I wanted to get back in shape. I didn't want to be slow, and fall out in front of my buddies when packing, and had a goal of one day doing part of the AT. To do this i walked each AM. It was a 1.4 mile loop. After a few weeks of doing this i added my pack to my back with 10 extra lbs than normal. Its a slow progression. Soon i was walking with or with out my load the same distance just as fast! I know what i am doing is working, because Ive seen others first hand that look physically as if they could run circles around me. Yet after 4 miles of humping their packs were about to fall out. It wasnt that they could not do it physcially . It was mostly due to lack of gear use and knowing thier limits.
You better think twice if that's your dream, running to the hills.
You plan on using that BOB. You better get to using it. Same goes with any gear. You have a dedicated BOL, better start prepping it NOW. Same goes with your body. Being in shape is all nice and all. But there is better reasons. For one it will not be as stressful come an event. Think back to my chopping wood example! You haven't done anything to physically prepare for that. But you need the wood. I know everyone has worked out at some time. Wanna guess how sore your gonna be. After an event there wont be any " i have to rest" time. Cut wood in the AM,maybe more in the PM, tend to your crops/animals or protect your AO( patrol ,watch etc) Can you handle that in your current physical shape? If you can my hats off for being ready. But the majority will not or cant handle that stress upon their bodies. It wont just being sore, you'll become more mentally exhausted and wore out. You then become a liability to your safety and those around you.
So prep now, not just with beans and bullets but with your body. Getting in shape is free, and you already have the body,, there shouldn't be any excuse, unless your just plain lazy!
E.S
**Thanks ES for the reminder to get out there and do it...D69A
www.flasurvival.com
flasurvival@hotmail.com
***
A lot of us have these dreams, or expectations of what an Event may be like. Some are dedicated zombie, MZB ,aliens invading. While others are into the collapse of our society as we know it, some natural disasters . The main thing involved with any Event is that your gonna be sweating. The reason why , you ask. Your gonna have to actually WORK. That's right, work for your food and to stay alive.
We all have the gear, (i hope) the preps, and the skills. But are you physically able to keep up. While this isn't meant to say if your disabled you should go belly up and say your last words, but you shouldn't give up. Ive noticed a lot over the last few years of dealing with new "survivalist" at camp outs i have been to . I've been amazed by the lack of physical stamina they have. While i am not the perfect example of what a in shape man should be. I do train and work out to stay at my current or better levels. I guess that's why i have this to get off my chest.
If you fail to get in better shape now do not expect to have it easy during a pro longed event or short stressful one. For example. When was the last time you had to chop wood? I'm talking more than one campfire worth! How bout carrying that load back and forth? Have dreams of hitting the woods and living like an Indian? How much do you walk each day with minimal water and food?There is so much more to it than strapping on a LBV or a loin cloth and charging into the unknown to take on mother nature or a platoon of russians that parachuted into your school yard.
Being prepared isn't just about how much preps you've put away. Nor how much you know about rubbing sticks together to make fire, or the amount of ammo you have. These things will not help you if you can not physically meet what an Event can dish out. You must plan and prep ahead. You must start getting in better physical shape now. Not after an event. If you fail to do so you will endanger yourself and the others with you!
GET OFF THAT COUCH.
You gotta get in shape. Round is not a shape no matter how you try sweeten up the doughnuts! I started 1 year ago. Hardly able to run a complete ,mile. Hell i was lucky to run, not jog a 1/4 mile with out huffing and puffing. Now i run a 9 min mile, and am 45 lbs lighter ! I didnt get this way sitting on the web ,sucking down soda and pop tarts talking about how i was gonna take over a state park with my 5 other buddies from xyz.com as my BOL!
For me that was backpacking. I used to pack a lot when i was younger. But as you get old sometimes you slack off. I wanted to get back in shape. I didn't want to be slow, and fall out in front of my buddies when packing, and had a goal of one day doing part of the AT. To do this i walked each AM. It was a 1.4 mile loop. After a few weeks of doing this i added my pack to my back with 10 extra lbs than normal. Its a slow progression. Soon i was walking with or with out my load the same distance just as fast! I know what i am doing is working, because Ive seen others first hand that look physically as if they could run circles around me. Yet after 4 miles of humping their packs were about to fall out. It wasnt that they could not do it physcially . It was mostly due to lack of gear use and knowing thier limits.
You better think twice if that's your dream, running to the hills.
You plan on using that BOB. You better get to using it. Same goes with any gear. You have a dedicated BOL, better start prepping it NOW. Same goes with your body. Being in shape is all nice and all. But there is better reasons. For one it will not be as stressful come an event. Think back to my chopping wood example! You haven't done anything to physically prepare for that. But you need the wood. I know everyone has worked out at some time. Wanna guess how sore your gonna be. After an event there wont be any " i have to rest" time. Cut wood in the AM,maybe more in the PM, tend to your crops/animals or protect your AO( patrol ,watch etc) Can you handle that in your current physical shape? If you can my hats off for being ready. But the majority will not or cant handle that stress upon their bodies. It wont just being sore, you'll become more mentally exhausted and wore out. You then become a liability to your safety and those around you.
So prep now, not just with beans and bullets but with your body. Getting in shape is free, and you already have the body,, there shouldn't be any excuse, unless your just plain lazy!
E.S
**Thanks ES for the reminder to get out there and do it...D69A
www.flasurvival.com
flasurvival@hotmail.com
***
Tuesday, October 27, 2009
Survivalist- EWWWWyyy icky
** This entry is brought to us from Wes H. from Vt. Thank you Wes.
Like our other blogs feel free to comment or add an entry. Send them to flasurvival@hotmail.com
and we will post them for you.
Bob **
"survivalist" the naughty word
How many times have you heard this or very similar said about anyone who prepares, or owns weapons. Think, hard. The news for one, anything more than 50 rnds of 22lr is considered an Arsenal these days. Have you ever thought why? Since the early 90's there's been a big crunch on the "survivalist" movement. It is no wonder we are at times considered " outcast" on the fringe of society, or as that paranoid guy outside town. Our lifestyle is not accepted like it once was, IF it ever was. Then the 90's rolled around.........
The wall fell, and with it millions of dreams of standing on a burning BMP waving a rifle screaming wolverines!!!! This is also the time when our society went into crack down mode. BAN it all , its for the children was the rally cry. Anything that was not rounded at the edges and soft got banned or restricted. Along with that the media and .Gov went on a witch hunt. We have all heard the names of the places they killed and torched, and i wont go into all that. But look what it did to the word,lifestyle and people who are,were called "survivalist".
In a nut shell they all got crammed in with the naughty word of the year "militia". If you were a white American, had camo clothing and a rifle that shot more than one round. You were looked at as some "freak" militia skin head nazi of sorts. I remember days that if i wore camo on the streets or black boots that's what you got labeled. Even if you had a Pearl Jam shirt and flannel on at the same time ! That dark cloud has hung over "survivalist" for the last 10+ years.
Till now...
After 9/11 Americans went on the more friendly approach to being a survivalist. They were " prepared" with preparedness plans, kits and bags. Items and views we as "survivalist" already knew about and owned. They never did news articles and daily write ups in papers on HOW to become prepared back in 1991, did they? Oh but wait. Now we have hurricanes, tidal waves, fires. FEMA and Homeland sec. are household names. EOC, almost everyone in Fla knows that one!
Now we have kits on sale at home depot,wal mart .On line course's, Committees at businesses, support groups, course's on how to be prepared, pamphlets handed out by local the and state governments.It's funny if you really look at it all. It's hip to be prepared now days isn't it! Your not a freak any more. your just prepared for that hurricane, that's not a BOB it's our hurricane box. That 357 that's for "protection" look at "NOLA" you'll hear. While i really like how we as a country are opening our eyes and wanting, or at least trying to be prepared. We are preparing for things we can not change or have any control over.
What i want to see if for us as Americans is to prepare for what we can change or at least prepare to go through what we have FAILED to change in our governments and society.
While "survivalist" may still be a taboo word, at least now we can hide under the "prepared" slogan everyone else is these days when we emerge from our bunkers wearing our camo !
Wes H.
Like our other blogs feel free to comment or add an entry. Send them to flasurvival@hotmail.com
and we will post them for you.
Bob **
"survivalist" the naughty word
How many times have you heard this or very similar said about anyone who prepares, or owns weapons. Think, hard. The news for one, anything more than 50 rnds of 22lr is considered an Arsenal these days. Have you ever thought why? Since the early 90's there's been a big crunch on the "survivalist" movement. It is no wonder we are at times considered " outcast" on the fringe of society, or as that paranoid guy outside town. Our lifestyle is not accepted like it once was, IF it ever was. Then the 90's rolled around.........
The wall fell, and with it millions of dreams of standing on a burning BMP waving a rifle screaming wolverines!!!! This is also the time when our society went into crack down mode. BAN it all , its for the children was the rally cry. Anything that was not rounded at the edges and soft got banned or restricted. Along with that the media and .Gov went on a witch hunt. We have all heard the names of the places they killed and torched, and i wont go into all that. But look what it did to the word,lifestyle and people who are,were called "survivalist".
In a nut shell they all got crammed in with the naughty word of the year "militia". If you were a white American, had camo clothing and a rifle that shot more than one round. You were looked at as some "freak" militia skin head nazi of sorts. I remember days that if i wore camo on the streets or black boots that's what you got labeled. Even if you had a Pearl Jam shirt and flannel on at the same time ! That dark cloud has hung over "survivalist" for the last 10+ years.
Till now...
After 9/11 Americans went on the more friendly approach to being a survivalist. They were " prepared" with preparedness plans, kits and bags. Items and views we as "survivalist" already knew about and owned. They never did news articles and daily write ups in papers on HOW to become prepared back in 1991, did they? Oh but wait. Now we have hurricanes, tidal waves, fires. FEMA and Homeland sec. are household names. EOC, almost everyone in Fla knows that one!
Now we have kits on sale at home depot,wal mart .On line course's, Committees at businesses, support groups, course's on how to be prepared, pamphlets handed out by local the and state governments.It's funny if you really look at it all. It's hip to be prepared now days isn't it! Your not a freak any more. your just prepared for that hurricane, that's not a BOB it's our hurricane box. That 357 that's for "protection" look at "NOLA" you'll hear. While i really like how we as a country are opening our eyes and wanting, or at least trying to be prepared. We are preparing for things we can not change or have any control over.
What i want to see if for us as Americans is to prepare for what we can change or at least prepare to go through what we have FAILED to change in our governments and society.
While "survivalist" may still be a taboo word, at least now we can hide under the "prepared" slogan everyone else is these days when we emerge from our bunkers wearing our camo !
Wes H.
Saturday, October 24, 2009
Friday, October 23, 2009
Reality man does it freaking suck
Before i get started-
This blog was started as a way for me to vent. My views do not reflect the views/ideas of PAW productions or any of their affiliates! They are my own and no one else's.
Now that we got that out of the way.
Reality, freaking blows the big one dont it.
Recently i have immersed my self back into the realm of the Internet. By this i mean, that i signed up on a BUNCH of smaller "survival" forums across the web. What made me do this you may ask. Well i was bored one day pretty much and wanted to see how things go on in a smaller more "communal" setting. Plus i wanted to get out of the " big city" of large 100K plus member forums for that "small town" feel ! LOL.
Man, what a mistake for the most part . Oh this is where i tell some of you that if you are on a small forum some of this may not sit well with you if your guilty of it!
The crap you gotta deal with on these smaller forums is insane. It is like lord of flies on an internet level. Someone will post about how great it is to use old lead based paint cans they found in their granddads basement to store baby formula , and as soon as someone points out that it may not be a great idea, the poster will get pissed, tell his buddy who is the mod ,who then runs off to the site owner !
Then WHAM your driven from the tribe, chased down a washout while being yelled at, until some one picks up a rock and the rest of the pissed off pogues stone you and any other people they perceive as a threat to their ego to death. Meanwhile everyone sits around and just watches it happen like a bunch of "littleun's " afraid that they may be next.
THAT is the reality of small forums. BUt not all of them.
Granted i am on some that are VERY well maintained and the members are both productive,helpful and will honestly put for a conceded effort to help a person out both online and off line.
The rest, well lets just say that they have a pig head covered in flies stuck on a pole near a cave that drives them to stupidity!
Well the web is not reality. Not in my eyes. Sorry but some screen name typing about this and that is not real. That's just some guy typing away. Until i meet that person face to face i do nothing more than respect their views ,IF they are sane or I write them off as some fat loser hiding from his wife ,95% of the time it ends up being the latter. Hell write me off, ya know what they say about opinions! But i am not to keen on someone spewing out BS like store your rice in garbage bags for your LTS.
So anyway, now we have these small forums.
The good the bad and the posers. cue the music someone please.
Because sometime in while on one of these forums your going to see a thread called "meet and greet" or "camp out" or gathering. Like a cheap house of horrors or magic show your about to blend fantasy and reality into a mushy sticky mass of what the hell did you just get yourself into .You do end up wishing you were really on that island running away from rocks and spears ,hoping you dont catch a rock in the back of the head like piggy and can hide out till helps arrives like jack !
I suggest if you have not gone to a meet or camp out on any forum. Go. You will be shocked. Amazed and even awed by what you may see. Now, that's not to say it will be bad. I have been to events that i had a BLAST at , met some awesome people and walked away learning more in 2-3 days than i ever had hanging out arguing with some just a has been on the web.
Other times though , I've slept with one eye open, with my pistol in my hand waiting for daylight to creep over the tree's so i could get the hell outta there, to literally BUG OUT !
That has only happened ONCE so far out of several dozen meets/camp outs i have attended over the years.
Maybe I was just not on the same level as these survivalist at that camp. After all their FAQ or about us page did say that they were serious survivalist! Maybe i was not serious enough? I tried my best, i slept on the ground under one of my tarps in the cold and rain, i wore my GHB all weekend, participated in all of the events. Even ones that the owner himself did not do. Like some survival death race 5000 where you had to do push ups and sit ups and walk farther than 10 ft.
I dawned on me later as me and only 1 other person were attempting to make fire from a bow drill ,while 15 other well "rounded" folks milled about. I just was not as hardcore as these online survivalist. Later i walked around amazed , no..awe struck at tents that would make a GP large look small. Air beds that could hold the harem of a sultan and still have room to romp. Grills and gas cook stoves that would make Emril Lagasse jealous. Right then i realized that i was no where near the skill level of these people.....i my friends had fallen into the gold mine of online survivalist and i wasnt gonna let this networking chance pass me by.
I was in heaven from that point on.
I learned that there was running water only 20 yards from my bivy ( why did i even pack that hiker pro filter ), hell there was a HOT shower as well. I even learned that if i was to walk the 30 yards back to my truck..well maybe 50 yards as i was parked behind some Pt cruisers and mini vans . That i had to only drive 5 minutes down the road to a store and get fresh milk, more beer and late night munchies!
I sat down under my tarp. Thinking to myself what have i been doing all these years. I could have left my GHB and BOB at home, slept a good nights sleep on a king sized airbed and enjoyed a cooler full of steaks and several cold one's by the camp fire.
Reality hit me then, and boy did it hit me hard. Right then, slumped under my tarp, in the cold I knew the only way i would ever be considered a serious survivalist was to sell all my gear and purchase a RV!
This blog was started as a way for me to vent. My views do not reflect the views/ideas of PAW productions or any of their affiliates! They are my own and no one else's.
Now that we got that out of the way.
Reality, freaking blows the big one dont it.
Recently i have immersed my self back into the realm of the Internet. By this i mean, that i signed up on a BUNCH of smaller "survival" forums across the web. What made me do this you may ask. Well i was bored one day pretty much and wanted to see how things go on in a smaller more "communal" setting. Plus i wanted to get out of the " big city" of large 100K plus member forums for that "small town" feel ! LOL.
Man, what a mistake for the most part . Oh this is where i tell some of you that if you are on a small forum some of this may not sit well with you if your guilty of it!
The crap you gotta deal with on these smaller forums is insane. It is like lord of flies on an internet level. Someone will post about how great it is to use old lead based paint cans they found in their granddads basement to store baby formula , and as soon as someone points out that it may not be a great idea, the poster will get pissed, tell his buddy who is the mod ,who then runs off to the site owner !
Then WHAM your driven from the tribe, chased down a washout while being yelled at, until some one picks up a rock and the rest of the pissed off pogues stone you and any other people they perceive as a threat to their ego to death. Meanwhile everyone sits around and just watches it happen like a bunch of "littleun's " afraid that they may be next.
THAT is the reality of small forums. BUt not all of them.
Granted i am on some that are VERY well maintained and the members are both productive,helpful and will honestly put for a conceded effort to help a person out both online and off line.
The rest, well lets just say that they have a pig head covered in flies stuck on a pole near a cave that drives them to stupidity!
Well the web is not reality. Not in my eyes. Sorry but some screen name typing about this and that is not real. That's just some guy typing away. Until i meet that person face to face i do nothing more than respect their views ,IF they are sane or I write them off as some fat loser hiding from his wife ,95% of the time it ends up being the latter. Hell write me off, ya know what they say about opinions! But i am not to keen on someone spewing out BS like store your rice in garbage bags for your LTS.
So anyway, now we have these small forums.
The good the bad and the posers. cue the music someone please.
Because sometime in while on one of these forums your going to see a thread called "meet and greet" or "camp out" or gathering. Like a cheap house of horrors or magic show your about to blend fantasy and reality into a mushy sticky mass of what the hell did you just get yourself into .You do end up wishing you were really on that island running away from rocks and spears ,hoping you dont catch a rock in the back of the head like piggy and can hide out till helps arrives like jack !
I suggest if you have not gone to a meet or camp out on any forum. Go. You will be shocked. Amazed and even awed by what you may see. Now, that's not to say it will be bad. I have been to events that i had a BLAST at , met some awesome people and walked away learning more in 2-3 days than i ever had hanging out arguing with some just a has been on the web.
Other times though , I've slept with one eye open, with my pistol in my hand waiting for daylight to creep over the tree's so i could get the hell outta there, to literally BUG OUT !
That has only happened ONCE so far out of several dozen meets/camp outs i have attended over the years.
Maybe I was just not on the same level as these survivalist at that camp. After all their FAQ or about us page did say that they were serious survivalist! Maybe i was not serious enough? I tried my best, i slept on the ground under one of my tarps in the cold and rain, i wore my GHB all weekend, participated in all of the events. Even ones that the owner himself did not do. Like some survival death race 5000 where you had to do push ups and sit ups and walk farther than 10 ft.
I dawned on me later as me and only 1 other person were attempting to make fire from a bow drill ,while 15 other well "rounded" folks milled about. I just was not as hardcore as these online survivalist. Later i walked around amazed , no..awe struck at tents that would make a GP large look small. Air beds that could hold the harem of a sultan and still have room to romp. Grills and gas cook stoves that would make Emril Lagasse jealous. Right then i realized that i was no where near the skill level of these people.....i my friends had fallen into the gold mine of online survivalist and i wasnt gonna let this networking chance pass me by.
I was in heaven from that point on.
I learned that there was running water only 20 yards from my bivy ( why did i even pack that hiker pro filter ), hell there was a HOT shower as well. I even learned that if i was to walk the 30 yards back to my truck..well maybe 50 yards as i was parked behind some Pt cruisers and mini vans . That i had to only drive 5 minutes down the road to a store and get fresh milk, more beer and late night munchies!
I sat down under my tarp. Thinking to myself what have i been doing all these years. I could have left my GHB and BOB at home, slept a good nights sleep on a king sized airbed and enjoyed a cooler full of steaks and several cold one's by the camp fire.
Reality hit me then, and boy did it hit me hard. Right then, slumped under my tarp, in the cold I knew the only way i would ever be considered a serious survivalist was to sell all my gear and purchase a RV!
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