Preparedness Notes for Saturday — April 2, 2022

Today
is
the
birthday
of
Sergei
Ivanovich
Mosin
(Apr
2,
1849
–
February
8,
1902)
was
a
Russian
military
officer,
engineer,
and
a
co-designer
of
the
Mosin-Nagant
rifle. 
These
rifles
have
been
spotted
in
use
in
the
current
Ukraine
war.

This
is
the
birthday
of
Émile
François
Zola,
a
novelist
and
essayist.
He
is
most
often
remembered
as
the
author
of

“J’accuse”
(I
Accuse!),
his
lengthy
open
letter
to
President
Félix
Faure,
which
accused
the
French
government
of
anti-semitism.

—

You
might
have
noticed
that
our
primary
server
was
down
for
several
hours
yesterday.
(Friday,
April
1st,
2022.) 
There
is
no
cause
for
alarm.
It
wasn’t
a
hacker
or
a
solar
flare
that
was
to
blame.
Nay,
it
was
just
a
power
company
excavator
that
was
digging
in

the
wrong
place 
—
and
severed
a
very
expensive
fiberoptic
cable.

—

SurvivalBlog
Writing
Contest

Today
we
present
another
entry
for
Round
99
of
the

SurvivalBlog
non-fiction
writing
contest.
The
prizes
for
this
round
include:

First
Prize:

1. The
   photovoltaic
   power
   specialists
   at
   
   Quantum
   Harvest
   LLC 
   are
   
   providing
   a
   store-wide
   10%
   off
   coupon.
   Depending
   on
   the
   model
   chosen,
   this
   could
   be
   worth
   more
   than
   $2000.
2. A
   
   Gunsite
   Academy
   Three
   Day
   Course
   Certificate.
   This
   can
   be
   used
   for
   
   any
   of
   their
   one,
   two,
   or
   three-day
   course
   (a
   $1,095
   value),
3. A
   course
   certificate
   from
   
   onPoint
   Tactical
   for
   the
   prize
   winner’s
   
   choice
   of
   three-day
   civilian
   courses,
   excluding
   those
   restricted
   for
   military
   or
   government
   teams.
   Three-day
   onPoint
   courses
   normally
   cost
   $795,
4. 
   Two
   cases
   of
   Mountain
   House
   freeze-dried
   assorted
   entrees
   in
   #10
   cans,
   courtesy
   of
   
   Ready
   Made
   Resources
   (a
   $350
   value),
5. 
   A
   $250
   gift
   certificate
   good
   for
   any
   product
   from
   
   Sunflower
   Ammo,
6. 
   American
   Gunsmithing
   Institute
   (AGI)
   is
   providing
   a
   $300
   
   certificate
   good
   towards
   any
   of
   their
   DVD
   training
   courses.
7. Two
   sets
   of
   
   The
   Civil
   Defense
   Manual,
   (in
   two
   volumes)
   —
   a
   $193
   value
   —
   kindly
   donated
   by
   the
   author,
   Jack
   Lawson.

Second
Prize:

1. A
   
   Front
   Sight
   Lifetime
   Diamond
   Membership,
   providing
   lifetime
   free
   training
   at
   
   any
   Front
   Sight
   Nevada
   course,
   with
   no
   limit
   on
   repeating
   classes.
   This
   prize
   is
   courtesy
   of
   a
   SurvivalBlog
   reader
   who
   prefers
   to
   be
   anonymous.
2. A
   SIRT
   STIC
   AR-15/M4
   Laser
   Training
   Package,
   courtesy
   of
   
   Next
   Level
   Training,
   that
   has
   a
   combined
   retail
   value
   of
   $679
3. 
   Two
   1,000-foot
   spools
   of
   full
   mil-spec
   U.S.-made
   750
   paracord
   (in-stock
   colors
   only)
   from
   
   www.TOUGHGRID.com
   (a
   $240
   value).
4. 
   Two
   Super
   Survival
   Pack
   seed
   collections,
   a
   $150
   value,
   courtesy
   of
   
   Seed
   for
   Security,
   LLC,
5. A
   transferable
   $150
   FRN
   purchase
   credit
   from
   
   Elk
   Creek
   Company,
   toward
   the
   purchase
   of
   any
   pre-1899
   antique
   gun.
   There
   is
   
   no
   paperwork
   required
   for
   delivery
   of
   pre-1899
   guns
   into
   most
   states,
   making
   them
   the
   last
   bastion
   of
   firearms
   purchasing
   privacy!

Third
Prize:

1. 
   Three
   sets
   each
   of
   made-in-USA
   regular
   and
   wide-mouth
   
   reusable
   canning
   lids.
   (This
   is
   a
   total
   of
   300
   lids
   and
   600
   gaskets.)
   This
   prize
   is
   courtesy
   of
   
   Harvest
   Guard (a
   $270
   value)
2. A
   
   Royal
   Berkey
   water
   filter,
   courtesy
   of
   
   Directive
   21
   (a
   $275
   value),
3. A
   transferable
   $100
   FRN
   purchase
   credit
   from
   
   Elk
   Creek
   Company,
   toward
   the
   purchase
   of
   any
   pre-1899
   antique
   gun.

—

More
than

$725,000
worth
of
prizes
have
been
awarded
since
we
started
running
this
contest.
Round
100
begins
on
Monday,
so
get
busy
writing
and

e-mail
us
your
entry.
Remember
that
there
is
a

1,500-word
minimum,
and
that
articles
on
practical
“how-to”
skills
for
survival
have
an
advantage
in
the
judging.

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