Gone for a minute back for more

After dealing with some personal stuff I'm back to blogging, of course I won't be blogging every week but when relevant things happen to me. That being said I plan to practice serious skills and provide great experiences and information on my attempts and survival for a young college student.

Zombie Survival Shotgun: The Art of Manliness

The awesome blog Artofmanliness.com has an interesting article on building a survival shotgun, survivalcache.com has a similar 8 part survival shotgun article that shows how to build one from the ground up but this article adds some pretty interesting and cool accessories to the shotgun. Check it out.

How to Make a Survival Shotgun | The Art of Manliness:

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First Week Back: 4 College Survival Tips

So the beauty of summer is over and you back to the grindstone, college. Well it sucks having classes but its also a great time for clubs, friends and parties (everyone loves the parties) so what now, go off and be crazy, no its time to prepare for the struggle that is having fun and graduating at the same time, oh and sleep, maybe.

So here are some real quick tips to help you survive this nightmare:

1. Come Ready: For the love of God, show up with at least pen and paper, and not a half used post-it note that already has your class schedule and breakfast on it. Also don't come prepared to write the next Harry Potter series in class, a simple legal pad will get the job done.
2. Don't Get Lost: It happens every time, especially if your a freshman, you're looking for a class and your sure you have the right classroom....you have the wrong classroom, you panic, "Oh crap, Oh crap, 2 min to get to my class, where the hell is it!!!!!" this can all be made so much easier if you just leave 15 min early and don't be afraid to ask for directions. Maybe you can get a number in the process. 
3. Don't Sweat the Books: All the administration and people paid to make you think they know about college will tell you that if you don't have your books by the first day of class a giant bird like creature will whisk you off and devour your internal organs or something like that. Screw them, the truth is you should wait til at least first day of classes to see if you really need the books, if you need the latest addition and if you can find it at Library for free, yes I said FREE.
4. Use the Syllabus: I know for most of you will use your syllabus as the new lining for your backpack to cushion your laptop, or it may just be online. Well take it from a person who has missed more due dates then he cares to remember (which might have something to due with it) don't just discard them to the Jansport abyss. Most of them have a schedule of everything that's going to happen in the class; use that, really do it. Make a schedule in your phone or computer, I assume you have one since you're reading this, and add all the important dates for your classes. It will be a live saver. 

It's not a lot but these tips can really lighten the load of the first two weeks, oh and have fun, your in college don't forget that. Survive or Die.

New Semester New Blog: Return of the Survival Student

Hey guys.....my bad. My apologize to all those people out there who have been waiting for me to make post on my blog, I admit I was working on personal issues and getting my life together, no excuse to drop off the planet. The good news is I'm back and ready to bring you the intense heart throbbing action of surviving in school and the world, I sweating just thinking about it. Weekly updates will return along with plenty of awesome and useful junk. Stay tuned, Survive or Die.

Random trek: Trip through the local wilderness

The opening of 90% of horror movies.

So this Sunday I felt that with all my talk of survival in the woods I really haven't spent much time there. I decided to man up and just head out to the unknown. The Unknown was of course the local woods near my school, its actually some kind of environmental area, whats important is that it gave me a chance to see if I was man enough to last one day in the woods. I was running on bare essentials some simple energy bars and water, my knife (S&W Rescue Knife), compass, matches and some dyer lint, small first aid kit, and the clothes on my back.

It was a simple trip into the woods, I just needed to get out there and see what it was all about, find out if I would have a fighting chance or just be up shit creek. I found out that I'm not all talk, and I still have a ways to go. Using some of my survival knowledge I was hot on the trail of some deer which are pretty common around here.

Fresh footprint from a white tail deer.

It had rained recently so tracking by footprints wasn't to hard but 1 wouldn't be enough I kept on the hunt.

Shows me that it wasn't just a single deer.

I came across several more as I ventured in deeper into the brush, traveling off the beaten path lead me to a stream and more evidence of these elusive deer. (I should make note that 1. I wasn't actually hunting deer 2. tracking them wasn't my only intention in going into the woods.)

Yeah...thats deer poop.

and......

I think I was on the right trail.

Of course I took a moment from that to find something that I could eat in an emergency that I didn't have to catch, we all know where this is going, I'm about to have a Bear Grylls' moment.

Also found some ant hills, not much I could do with that though.

Beetle, the other other white meat.

Yeah, after walking around a bit further I came across a downed tree trunk, I noticed this one had tiny holes in it, so without really thinking about it I started smashing it open with my crappy Walmart boots (note to self, next big purchase, proper boots) until it cracked open to reveal among other bugs, to huge beetles. I was surprised that I had made a good call on that, of course I didn't eat them because I'm not being followed by a camera crew somewhere in South America, but if I had to, there they were. I kept moving after this, still off the main path and got some great use out of my knife clearing some thorns from my path. I also came across some large mushroom and other plants I couldn't identify. I am working on learning plants that are of use but I at least took a pic of the 'shroom. 

This looks a little less psychedelic and a little more deadly.

I had been in the woods for a few hours now, I decided to check out a small clearing and find some wood to try and construct a fire. I failed at the fire epically but in the clearing across a gully I found my little family of deer I was tracking, oddly they really didn't notice me (more likely they were use to humans) but as they ran along I did notice that if I was hunting these guys, purely for survival of course, I would be within easy kill range with most kinds of firearms (including high caliber pistol or bow & arrow). 

All in all, it was a nice experience and I learned some stuff like, I suck at making real fires, need better boots, need a real bag and I need to learn to recognize local plants at least. But I found out I'm not a survival failure and that I wouldn't be the first to go down when the SHTF. Its a Good feeling.

Random Thoughts: Women + Survival Savvy= Extremely Attractive

       Lately I've been watching a lot of YouTube videos, majority of them about survival techniques(Ex: fishings, reviewing editable plants)  and extensive reviews on supplies. (Ex: knives, surplus tools, and storage)  While watching hours upon hours videos I stumble on this one YouTube site called PeakSurvival.  Like all the other outdoor survival YouTube channels PeakSurvival has the basic and advance outdoor tips and reviews on equipment.  But unlike the other hundreds of channels with guys doing the talking this one caught my attention because it's a woman doing the reviews and giving the outdoor guides.

        Selica is the female instructor at Peak Survival that is giving her time for the YouTube videos. The first thing that drew me in was her voice; her ability to describe everything with such great clarity and shes attractive too (not that that matters but is a plus). After watching about a dozen of their videos I realized how assuring it felt when watching a woman talk about issues that are discussed by men.  For some reason I had trust in her reviews of the tools.  When she did do reviews she also demonstrates those tools out in the wilderness and she doesn't look like she was a novice who couldn't handle the equipment. I actually purchased some of my supplies based off of her positive and negative reviews. 

           A woman who knows an amazing amount of knowledge about surviving in the wilderness I find very attractive.  It seems hard to find women who have the same passion of wilderness survival techniques.

  Please check there website www.peaksurvival.us and watch their YouTube channel would like your thoughts?

Post Written by Guest Author: Moe

New Favorite Survival Show: Wild Within

The Travel channel has a new series that I have been watching and I have to say its an informative and entertaining show. The show I am speaking of is titled The Wild Within. The show follows outdoorsman/survivalist and pretty skilled cook Steve Rinella as he travels to global locations to connect with the wild and hunt and gather food which he prepares for his family & friends at the end of each episode. The really amazing thing about this show is that you actually see him out hunting (and butchering) his prey in the wild with different cultures in every episode. The wealth of knowledge from this show is amazing and it pulls the watcher in to the hunter lifestyle, something most of us need/should learn how to do properly. By showing the difficulty, heritage and just plain awesomeness of hunting the viewers leave with a greater interest and respect for hunting. I know that this show inspires me to go hunting and become proficient at it.

Here I have a slideshow to his episode in Canada. Click Here

Happy St. Patrick's Day Everyone

Everyone go ing enjoy St. Patty's and remember to be safe tonight and not drive drunk...other then that, show your GREEN!!!!

Bombing of Libya

It has been confirmed that we will be bombing Libya, the time is to be determined but it has been confirmed.
I am posting a link with live updates on the situation. I will comment on this and other news after receiving more information.

Libya Air Strike

Prayers go out to Japan.....

In the Mist of their crisis, let us pray for those people in Japan right now, after the devastation of the 8.9 tsunami that hit the country. Your in our prayers....

Random Thoughts, by Molech Wiles

Moe here is a follower and a good friend of mine, he's also just getting into the survival mindset and is a student. He currently commutes to his school in and has his own thoughts he wants to share so I will be posting some of his guest post here. Along as things we'll do together on the blog. So let get a peak into his mind.

   My extensive preparation for the end of the world, is it being cautious or is it just being paranoid?

      Written by Molech W.

 As a full-time college student with a full-time job, premature preparation, and micro-managing everything in my life has become a very important norm.  But is getting ready for the inevitable apocalypse, may it be Google or Apple activating SkyNet, the outbreak of a mutating contingent that turns everyone instead of me (cause I was prepared) into brain eating zombies, or the devalue of the American dollar to nothing (doesn't seem as exciting as the last two) make me crazy.  I'm from the generation that was raised on television, comics and Internet.  If I wasn't watching four mutant turtles and their creepy looking old rat kung fu teacher fight off evil, or five teenagers wearing spandex defending their small town Angel Grove from aliens, I was watching James Camren movies about killer robots. It was soon enough that I was eventually going to start preparing for those scenarios.  Now I know reanimated corpse that never get tired, run like cheetahs, and groan for human flesh are just not possible. But in the dark depths of my brain there's that inner naive child that believes that in the near future, anything is possible. Am I just a sane cautious individual, or a paranoid schizo-manic who needs to be thrown in a mental institution.

Any thoughts,

We're Back, and with Free & New Stuff

After an unforeseen break from blogging I'm back and have a few new updates:

• First I will be starting my fitness page and will be tracking my progress as well as supply fitness info to you the readers.

• Second, I have a link to an article from survivalcache.com that has the LDS Preparedness Manual, its a free download and it has everything you could ever ask for in living off the land.

• Finally, I will be back at the blog including some guest post I've been meaning to post so stay tuned. 

Pure Awesome

Saw this and just had to post it, just goes to show you what some store bought RC parts and some cheap Fireworks can do. Who wouldn't want a couple of these when the SHTF. Check it out:

Page Addition

I will be adding a separate page that will be focused on my progress to loose weight along with activities geared towards conditioning my self for survival, so stay in tuned for that.

Goals

So as this is my first time really doing my own blog I plan to try and have a weekly post along with updates on other interesting post. I plan to give advice on school and share my progress and opinions on survival one of my favorite things to learn about.

Intro: Preparing for the End

Survival, our most basic human instinct, though all of us have this will to live few of us actually channel this desire.  To plan to survive is much more difficult then following our instincts but there are people out there who are determined to be prepared. Not just for TEOTWAWKI (The End of the World as We Know it) but for everything from minor mayhem to Semester Finals. See I'm a student; the chaos that I hope to survive includes school and societal collapse and in these trying times I think it is paramount to be ready. I know being young I lack some of the experience of seasoned survivalist but I have that drive to learn, and I've spent enough time in College to learn some tricks for making it out alive. So that's my goal, to learn and share the skills needed to survive disaster while sharing my skills to survive school.