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    I'm sure all the FMs have been mentioned but if it's been awhile flip through them.
    I want to point out the Knife Bible and the Pocket Reference, lots of good, practical info in them.
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    Quote Originally Posted by sproc View Post
    I second the recommendations above for Patiots and One Second After. After that I'd go with:

    Lucifer's Hammer

    The Road (worst case scenario, not a fun read, but still good)

    Day by Day Armageddon (not as informative as the others, but still a fun, quick read)
    I really liked Lucifer's Hammer

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    Wrong thread.
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    I have really been enjoying the Day After Never series by Russel Blake. Its more of an adventure with lots of good info to chew on thrown through it...
    https://amzn.to/37RPUd3

    I'd like to talk to talk to a vet who has fought on horses... Curious about a few things the book entails. Good story line that is hard to put down...

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    I love Stan Deyo

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    I said it before & Ill say it again...ONE SECOND AFTER.
    There are a couple scenes in that book that still sicken me many years after reading it in one sitting.
    The obedient always think of themselves as virtuous rather than the cowards they really are.

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    One Second book is a really good one. Your right about a couple scenes in the book. Tears me up.
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    Quote Originally Posted by interstate3704 View Post
    Dare to Prepare is a nonfiction how to book for almost everything you can imagine. Not cheap but worth the money.
    It's a good pepper's Bible of sorts, a guideline, not a novel or fun read per se. Not sure I would trust it as a how-to manual though.

    I've got a couple of editions so I've followed her for awhile and even tried the LDS Avow forum. She is off, IMHO, on a lot of her weights to caloric intake ratios on various food items and she is behind the times on energy solutions post shtf. She's also sorely lacking in the defense and security aspects of a post SHTF scenario and pretty much everything else in there can be found online or learned OJT. (Not to mention the need for so many more subjects to be covered, in-depth, as to make such a volume almost impossible to publish in one book ... but she wastes a lot of space on things that might be better filled with other things.)

    Still, the book is a good starter primer and she did try to update some important things, to some degree, in the latest 2018 edition ... which went to press in late 2017 after being updated mostly in 2016-17 so ... there's that. It's already four (or more) years behind the times in terms of firearms, foods, first aid, etc.

    Most importantly, to me at least, she almost completely avoided some seriously important aspects of post shtf survival and prepping in advance of such a scenario from a fiduciary financial standpoint. Not to mention dealing with various social and regional (human to human related) issues, dangers and sticky wickets.

    Common sense and a genetic predisposition to prepare, (an inborn survival mentality), as well as interaction on forums such as this one and a drive and willingness to get it done ... those are things that will get you further than investing $30 or more on that particular book.

    On the other hand One Second After has lit a fire under more friends of mine (I always buy cheap copies at used book stores when I see them and give them out as gifts to friends and family) than did my decades of asking them, sometimes almost begging them, to prepare before now.

    One Second After, combined with our current social situation, has awakened a lot of people ... also illustrated by gun sales. (The ammo shortage caused by both demand and Covid-19 make it interesting - ammo is the new precious metal IMHO) Between gun sales and previous toilet paper shortages (lol) prepping has finally gone mainstream. That's a good thing for us actually.

    One Second After (while I have some major issues with that book having raised my family camping in and around the Black Mountain area and along the Blue Ridge Parkway) was well-timed and is the standard, at the moment anyway, for prodding people into prepping.

    Dare to Prepare might definitely be considered, for now at least, a good resource for those just now getting into the game .... a starter's shopping list if you will, but a poor how-to manual.

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