A lot of instability is ongoing in the world today. I suspect America is about to be at the heart and center of that instability.
It’s all by design and working as intended.
Prepare now while you can. Faith, guns, ammo, food, family, tribe.
Hamas Raping and Killing Women — Darien Gap is WIDE OPEN FOR BUSINESS
Meanwhile uncategorized Arabs flow through Darien every hour. Including “Palestinians” I personally encounter. Jews and others have nowhere to run because not tossing out vaxxing-and other self-destructive… pic.twitter.com/JSkDpZJFLe
— Michael Yon: Callsign BIG HONEY 6 (@Michael_Yon) October 8, 2023
Mad props and respect to him. I used to be on the power lifting team in college and still work out to this day, albeit at a greatly reduced intensity because of age. But I certainly can’t do this.
Police say a man who allegedly pistol-whipped an employee at a dollar store during an armed robbery in Fort Lauderdale, Florida, last week is in jail thanks to the actions of an armed good Samaritan.
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A man approached him and asked to be let into the store, claiming he had left his phone inside, police said.
According to authorities, the man, who was identified as 20-year-old Nicolas Richard Lee Deas, did not leave his phone in the store but intended to rob it — which police say he did.
Police said Deas, who was allegedly carrying a stolen handgun, had an accomplice, and both of them entered the store together.
Per officers, Deas ordered the employee to the store’s safe at gunpoint and told him, “Give me the money or I will kill you.”
The employee complied with the order and offered up $1,200 from the safe. Police said he was pistol-whipped multiple times in the back, neck and arm.
The commotion was apparently loud enough that it roused the attention of a business owner who was in close proximity.
The man, who was armed, ran toward the situation, entered the store and drew his gun on Deas, police said.
No shots were fired, but the good Samaritan, whose name has not been released, held the suspect at gunpoint until officers could come and make an arrest – which they did.
According to the report, the clerk was closing the store. This is perfect timing for a robbery, and makes the request suspicious. The clerk should always have a firearm and he (or she) should have unholstered it at that very moment. The decision to allow the boy back into the store was an error. I’ll venture that it won’t be made again.
It’s a shame this kid wasn’t put out of our misery because the OT requirement that he be either executed or made a slave to the offended until all debts were repaid in multiples, won’t be followed. Instead, the state will put him inside a cage with other hardened criminals, pretend they have the power to rehabilitate him, and pay for his housing, food and medical care for several decades.
Some of us have feral animals to deal with in survival situations, some have two-legged threats, and some have both.
63-year-old man suffering traumatic injuries was rescued from the north rim of the Grand Canyon on Friday evening after the group he was hiking with left him behind.
According to a Facebook post by the Mohave County Sheriff’s Office, they received an emergency call from a man using an Apple device through satellite connection at around 6 p.m. on September 15. Search and rescue then deployed via helicopter to the man’s given location at Kanab Creek, but had to land about a quarter mile away due to the difficult terrain and dark conditions.
“It was fortunate that the helicopter was able to rescue this injured hiker, as it would have taken an extended period of time for ground crews to reach his location.”
The rescue crew then proceeded through the creek on foot and located the man, finding him alone having fallen and suffered a shoulder injury that required emergency medical attention. The team was able to stabilize the hiker and transport him via helicopter to a hospital in Flagstaff.
The Sheriff’s Office reports that they don’t know exactly what time the original call was made, but they learned that the injury had occurred four hours prior to the call, at 2 p.m. that day, when the man was hiking with four other friends. Once he contacted authorities, the group, who were reportedly several days into a week-long backpacking trip, left him alone and continued with their hike – something rescuers warn hikers never to do.
Here is the Facebook post from the Mohave County Sheriffs Office Search and Rescue. The commenters are hard on the so-called friends, but not sufficiently hard. I’m going to be harder.
They are no friends of his. In fact, he had a better chance of being assisted by a stranger than friends like that. Man is made in God’s image. Whether your hike is ruined or not, you stay with injured people. Period.
Oh, I realize that there may be extenuating circumstances like someone who believes he can help better by stabilizing the patient and then going for help if there is no communication. But there should have been communication. You don’t go into the Bush without comms (i.e., a satellite uplink). And in fact the call for help was sent that way. They just abandoned him to whatever would befall him.
Had he perished, it wouldn’t be a stretch for me to see them indicted for homicide. Said another way, if this had happened with my party, I might have sent other men for help and stayed with the patient (with the absolutely necessary med kit I carry, including Quikclot, tourniquets, medicines, gauze, etc.) and water, and ensured that the man was lifted out to safety. It would have been my ministry to that man. And God would have been watching me the entire time. I would hear about it in eternity.
That man needs to find other people to hang with. Those are dangerous men to be around. They are the sort of people who take you out into the bush and let you get injured, and then leave you behind to fend off animals, seek out your own water, medicate yourself, and try to effect triage if necessary.
Listen to this. After the call for help, they didn’t even leave him with the Apple device they used to call for help. They just left him there in the dark. What a bunch of jerks.
Folks, no trip is worth leaving a man behind to perish. Don’t leave men on the trail. Don’t walk off from them, even if they’re slower, even if they fall behind, even if you don’t like them. They could get injured and you wouldn’t know because you’re down trail frolicking along your stupid, merry way.
Don’t … leave … men … behind! If you’re part of a party, stay with the party. It’s the right and honorable thing to do.
A Grand Canyon hiker has died while attempting to hike rim-to-rim in a single day at the national park.
Ranjith Varma — a 55-year-old man from Manassas, Virginia — was attempting to hike from the Grand Canyon’s south rim to the north rim in a single day on Saturday when the Grand Canyon Regional Communications Center received an emergency call at approximately 1:55 p.m. of a “hiker in distress” on the North Kaibab Trail, about one mile south of Cottonwood Campround, according to a statement released by the National Park Service (NPS) on Monday.
“For the hearty souls who are willing to work for it – less than one percent of the Grand Canyon’s five million annual visitors – the real magic lies below the rim,” the National Parks Foundation says on their website. “On this epic Grand Canyon hike, you’ll leave from the North Kaibab Trail on the North Rim, challenging your personal limits as you descend 14.3 miles and 6,000 feet to the bottom of the canyon before connecting with the Bright Angel Trail and climbing 4,500 feet and 9.6 miles back out again to the South Rim.”
That’s 23.9 miles and 10,500 feet of elevation change in a single day for a 55-year old man. I’m not sure I could have done that at 22 years old on a cool day. He was trying to do this on a hot day.
My bet is that he died from Rhabdomyolysis (rhabdo), which is a breakdown of skeletal muscle tissue that has to be processed by your kidneys. We’ve seen this before.
What was supposed to be a short walk last fall turned into a lot more. Lost or misdirected depends on which one of us you ask, but either way it was a long slog through a thick swamp. It was below zero earlier that morning in Maine but had warmed up, and I was overdressed. I had pounded through my one bottle of water pretty fast. I had no trouble finding more, but remembered that the stream I was following originated in an active beaver dam. Beavers carry giardia. I’ve had it before and I never want it again. I was very thirsty by the time I got back to the truck and more interested in water than hunting. You can be sure I had a way to make water safe in my backpack the next day.
Hunters have two concerns: camp water and field water. Camp water must be safe to drink, wash dishes, brush your teeth and even make coffee. Hunters in the field also need an easy and lightweight way to make water safe to drink day to day. No water supply, no matter how remote, is safe to drink.
Be cautious about water that guides or other people insist is “safe.” They may have developed an immunity to the impurities in the water.
This is certainly true. I once worked at a Christian camp in the mountains of S.C., and our water was fed from a spring but stored in a concrete block house that had to be contaminated with various sorts of microorganisms. Working the entire summer there brought immunity to whatever contaminants were in the water. By contrast, campers sometimes had stomach illnesses for the first few days of their stay, and sometimes the entire week.
I also passed an AT through-hiker on the trail once and asked him what he does for water. He said, “When I see water I face-plant in it and drink as much as I can.” He hadn’t had any problems, and this encounter happened in Virginia.
It’s always best to pre-filter any water to remove the chunks and debris. Coffee filters work great for this. T-shirts are okay, but dirty underwear is a poor choice.
Large debris and turbidity must be removed.
In Camp
• Boiling: Perhaps the best known and easiest way to deal with contaminated water is boiling the water. Boiling will kill bacteria and other disease-causing microorganisms. At high elevations, though, the boiling point of water drops. To be 100 percent sure, boil for at least 10 minutes at sea level and add 10 more minutes for every 1,000 feet of elevation.
• Chemicals: Water purification chemicals are usually either iodine- or chlorine-based. But most are not 100 percent effective against giardia and cryptosporidium. They are best used in conjunction with a filter.
One of the best and least expensive chemicals you can use to purify drinking water is regular, unscented 5 percent to 8.25 percent household bleach. Mix one-half teaspoon of bleach per 5 gallons of clear water. If the water is cloudy, double the bleach. A slightly stronger mix, 1 tablespoon of bleach per 1 gallon of water, is great to disinfect dishes and cooking areas.
Aquatabs tablets are used all over the world to kill off waterborne germs, but they are chlorine-based and alone may not be effective against giardia.
Potable Aqua iodine tablets are the iodine-based treatment. Because iodine tastes awful, the kit comes with two bottles of tablets; the second has ascorbic acid to remove the taste. It’s not a good idea to ingest this much iodine in your water long-term, but for a few days or weeks it’s fine.
• Filters: Filters are the best choice for safe drinking water for hunters. A gravity fed, high-capacity filter will work at making safe water all day if it is tended well. These work well for a camp-based operation where water can be filtered into a large holding tank or a clean 5-gallon jug.
In the Field
The key here is to carry something lightweight and portable in a backpack or pocket to treat the water you find as you hunt. There are three choices:
• Chemicals: The two-part system used by Aquamira Water Treatment Drops uses chlorine dioxide, which is what municipal water systems have used for years. The company says it will kill off giardia and cryptosporidium, making this a good choice for hunters. As with any chemical treatment, it takes time to work. I once used Aquamira Water Treatment Drops while packing out a sheep in the mountains of Yukon. I was thirsty and my companions were impatient, so I drank it too soon, before it had time to act, and wound up with a stomach bug.
• Ultraviolet Purification: Ultraviolet (UV) light works on DNA and prevents microbes from reproducing. (I wonder if we can use it on Congress?) Without reproduction, the microbes become far less dangerous.
Water treated with UV still contains microbes. They remain present in the water, but their means for reproduction are turned off, so the water is safe to drink.
UV works best with clear water so pre-filtering is a good idea. The UV light must be able to penetrate the water. The upside is UV adds nothing to the water for you to ingest. Also, the amount of water it can handle is almost limitless because as long as the unit remains working you will never run out.
Steripen is the best-known company for consumer UV water treatment. I carry one of the company’s rechargeable units in my backpack when hunting as it weighs almost nothing. It’s also a good choice for travel in Third World situations where I sterilize the hotel water before drinking it.
• Filtration: Portable filters are designed for backpackers, hunters and other people on the move. They are relatively light and fit easily in a backpack and are available at most outdoor stores. If you are in a North American wilderness situation or even in most rural locations, water that is filtered is pretty safe to drink.
I have three water filters. One is a larger pump filter for quantity, the next size down is a Sawyer squeeze, and the smallest one is a Life Straw.
In the early morning hours of Tuesday, July 11, a black bear attacked a man who was working as a sheep herder in the San Juan National Forest of southwestern Colorado, about 23 miles northeast of Durango. According to a Colorado Parks & Wildlife (CPW) press release issued yesterday evening, the man survived and was treated for head wounds and other severe lacerations. The bear was tracked down and killed by a federal agent less than 24 hours after the attack.
The 35-year-old herder was working for a permit holder of a sheep grazing allotment in the nearly 500,000-acre Weminuche Wilderness Area when the bear attacked him. It bit him on the head and left additional wounds on his left arm and hand, CPW said. It also left deep cuts on his left hip and scratches on his back.
The herder told CPW agents that he was awoken by the sounds of the bear preying on his sheep around 1 a.m. He fired a .30-30 rifle in response to the attack before the bruin charged and mauled him. “This is an unfortunate incident and we are thankful the victim was able to contact help to get emergency services deployed and that he was able to be extracted to receive necessary medical care,” CPW Area Wildlife Manager Adrian Archuleta said in the press release.
In the aftermath of the attack, the man managed to crawl to his tent and call his cousin for help. An airlift was summoned to the scene, and he was transported to the Mercy Regional Medical Center in Durango.
See F&S for the rest of the story.
I’m assuming that he missed with his .30-30. I would think that round would easily put down most black bears.
It’s good that he had the means to call for help – that area is rugged and is several hours from cell phone connectivity.
When I was there we all three carried firearms, and I carried a 1911 with a 10-round magazine and 22# spring with 450 SMC cartridges (230 gr. at 1130 FPS), along with additional ammunition and magazines.
I also carried a satellite texting phone capable of reaching 911. Any rescue out of where we were would have required a helicopter because the hike for foot-borne rescuers would have been two or more days. This is extremely rugged terrain and isolated area, and the sheep herder is blessed to be alive.
A few remarks of my own. First of all, it seems like every company now, in order to compete, has to offer a 1000 lumen flashlight. Whether one needs that or not is a different story. Inside a home for regular tasks, it’s blinding. But blinding would be a good thing for a home invader, so there’s that going for it.
Second, weight matters. In front of me I have two lights, one a very old SureFire, model 6P using two 123 Batteries, and the other a very high lumen Streamlight, ProTac HL3, using three 123 batteries.
For weight shavers and gram counters, it matters which one you choose if you’re hiking 10 miles up 3- or 4-thousand feet in two days. Grams turn into Kg, Kg converts to more water you have to carry to stay hydrated, and on the vicious cycle goes. Carrying more weight because it means more lumens is not a good decision for hikers and backpackers who care about weight.
Third, I won’t have a flashlight that is rechargeable-only. In grid-down, whether more extended or simply for a few days because of storms, that matters more to me than anything else. It can be rechargeable, only as long as it can take batteries too.
Fourth, some of these considerations are malleable depending upon whether you intend on carrying a weapon-mounted light.
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