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Butch Erskine
May 14, 20193 min read
Choosing a Leader
In most cases, people survive better in numbers. The groups who survive normally assign a leader to the group. The leader of the group...
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Butch Erskine
May 13, 20194 min read
How Prepared Are You? Take the test
Find Out How Prepared You Are for Emergencies Through This Checklist When getting started with emergency preparedness, a lot of people...
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Butch Erskine
May 13, 20197 min read
How to read a topographical map
Bill White - Bioprepper.com 5 February 2019 Most of us are used to using road maps, but there are a lot of people who have never had to...
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Butch Erskine
May 11, 20195 min read
Play How You Will Fight
How to train for a worst-case disaster Ever hear the words "you should train how you would fight? Yep, both mind and body conditioning...
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Butch Erskine
May 10, 20198 min read
Floods and Flash Flooding
At one time we always thought of spring as being flood season. But lately, if you watch the national weather and news at all, Mother...
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Butch Erskine
May 8, 20190 min read
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Butch Erskine
May 6, 20199 min read
The Five D's of Securing Your Home and Property
In the Preparedness 101 Class we talk about building a security-in-depth plan for your home or location you are staying. Often times...
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Butch Erskine
May 3, 20198 min read
A Survivors Story - Hurricane Michael
I wanted to share this survivors story with you. Much of what the author writes will probably sound familiar in our own personal...
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Butch Erskine
May 3, 20196 min read
Mental Exercises - 1, 2, 1, 2, 1, 2, 1, 2
In my former life I spent many days, weeks and often months, on foreign soil doing my job in the military. Most often I flew in and out...
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Butch Erskine
May 2, 20195 min read
Bags, Bags and More Bags - What Say You
One who delves in to the topic of Preparedness probably hears lots of chatter about a bag. A GHB or Get Home Bag; a EOD bag or End of...
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Butch Erskine
Apr 30, 20193 min read
Venezuela - What Would You Do?
Sometimes I forget I am retired from the military because I constantly apply the internal brain process asking "what would I do now" to...
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Butch Erskine
Apr 28, 20191 min read
How Would You Answer This Question?
Recently I was conversing with a mid-aged lady who was new to preparedness. I had just finished talking about our Hope For Survival book...
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Butch Erskine
Apr 27, 201911 min read
What is Mesh-Netting
During recent training classes in NC and AL we discussed an alternative to cell phone texting and communications via cell towers. I...
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Butch Erskine
Apr 25, 201912 min read
Tactics and Decision Making In A Self-Defense Situation
From Preppers Will: Almost all shooting school instructors teach that the conditioned reflex is supreme in a self-defense situation. In...
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Butch Erskine
Apr 24, 20194 min read
When the Crap Hits the Pan
Gastrointestinal issues in a crisis - what will you do when the crap hits the pan? On a regular day, in regular times, popping a couple...
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Butch Erskine
Apr 24, 20194 min read
Some Uses for Pine Resin
Survival Uses for Pine Resin Pine resin or pitch is the secretion from pine trees caused by cuts in the tree trunk or from broken limbs....
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Butch Erskine
Apr 22, 20196 min read
You must decide, "Will you or won't you"
In my recent book, "Hope For Survival" one of the topics I discussed is "what I think I will do" when confronted with feeding the...
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Butch Erskine
Apr 22, 20196 min read
Have you ever asked yourself, "How prepared are you?"
Have you ever conducted your own exercise to determine how Prepared you are for potential disasters and emergencies? It is easy to say...
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Butch Erskine
Apr 20, 20199 min read
Post Disasters - First 72 hours are critical. Are you ready?
The introduction to my classes includes a discussion on "mindset" and not being a part of the "90%" who are not prepared. We discuss the...
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Butch Erskine
Apr 19, 20198 min read
Point Firing In A Close-Quarters Battle to Save Your Life
April 8, 2019, David Andrew Brown - Prepper's Will Combat and self-defense shooting with the one-handgun falls under the heading of...
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