Any of you tactical gear junkies going? If so, look for the ITS Tactical Crew and say hi, you might end up with a killer ITS poker chip.

We will also be doing a bunch of reviews with daily updates, photos, videos etc.

Here is some info for ya:

SHOT Show 2011

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So you are part of the ITS Team. Glad to know you. Love the new site design, there is always so much informative info there. Have been thinking of getting one of your logo patches, such a nice design. SHOT is in Vegas this year so it is a bit of a stretch for me, but I have been prodding our TD to stow away in his luggage for one of the closer shows. Good luck, hope the event is productive for you guys. Keep up the good work, and keep your head down.

Yes, I'm one of the editors and forum moderators. I go by CENTCOMSurvivor and Eric S. If your a Crew Leader stop in the forum and say hi.

Also thanks for the input on the new site design. Bryan (the owner) spent all of his Christmas holiday updating the website. It should be easier to navigate and find older articles. The member dashboard has all the member discounts, videos, and other info right in one spot.

Eric S.

crap i think that site may just take up a bunch of my time.....

i have recently became interested in the urban survival movement that's going on, like man vs wild stuff but for the city, how to make things from resources laying around an abandoned apartment building, long term survival
like once you have evaded the problem and secured a safe zone sort of survival.

got any recommendations for that sort of reading?

i recommend learning everything on this poster and how to do it right
(the poster is a joke but not far off on some of the information.)


i was a boy scout when i was a child and grew up taking various survival courses, i'm not an alarmist either, i just believe that every human being should be able to provide for themselves in the event of being lost stranded or all of this that we have built goes away, at first i started thinking that wilderness survival was the only thing really needed but that later changed as i got older and my world got bigger.

i have come realize that getting lost in the woods is one thing but surviving a massive political/economic shift or national disaster is another all together.
Maybe it's just getting older and seeing how much we rely on government and infrastructure to keep us alive, not to sound crazy but what if that all went away? where would i be then?

i think it's very important to know this sort of stuff, like making soap and how to grow food and sustain yourself, after all we are but mere beast living in a world of fragile decadence that we have created for ourselves and will most likely topple ourselves, i don't think the worlds going to end, but if it does i know how to survive.....lol

rant over and sorry for that little tirade, i just think far too many people are complacent on too many levels.


good dam it talking about this sort of thing makes me feel like a nut job, lol

I think The Survival Podcast is just what you are looking for. Jack puts out some great information on a wide range of "survival" topics.

Check it out and let me know what you think. If you call in or email make sure to tell him you found him through ITS Tactical.

www.thesurvivalpodcast.com

~Eric S.

cheers.

Amazon.com: The Dangerous Book for Boys (9780061243585): Conn Iggulden, Hal Iggulden: Books

Amazon.com: The Boys' Book Of Survival (How To Survive Anything, Anywhere) (9780545085366): Scholastic: Books

I like the ITS site. Really good stuff. I too am of the personal responsibility mind set, social, economic, and moral catagories.
I do some training a few times a year and have a small close network of friends that are like minded.
I have health and life insurance for just in case, now I am working on the health and life assurance for that case.

that stuff looks rather juvenile and pretty much the basics, what i'm talking about is more like what they do on tv shows like the colony and though i don't really like him but "stuck with hackett" , i really thought this link on the ITS site was amazing
http://doreen.mkbmemorial.com/NF/dakins.pdf


i'll call it mc gyver engineering, like in the colony where they made the wind turbine and rendered pig fat for fuel and soap and such.

i already learned mountain,beach,desert and arctic survival from being out and doing it and the various classes i took growing up, i'm not afraid of being out in the woods for weeks and surviving, i'm more afraid of other people and trying to build useful tools like a home made welder from a car battery, some wire and a steel rod.
and things like this
Cool Home Brewed Equipment

also this is something that's pretty cool
Zombie Squad • View topic - Making Penicillin (Part 3) - - With (lotsa) visuals!

things like that, not things like how to avoid a cougar attack and stupid thinks like setting up camp above recent water lines, basic survival stuff, i want the next evolution of that sort of survival, the problem is though it seems that were this stuff is talked about is on sites called "2012 surviving the end" and fear monger.org and such and is filled with wacko's, i'd just like the information
A) because it's cool stuff, i dig mechanics/building/making things
B) never hurts to know how to whip some of this stuff up in a bind, like the welder i learned when i was a kid and needed to fix my bicycle, dad showed me that one....

anyways thanks for the links guys and let me know if you can think of any other non-alarmist sites out there that are into this sort of thing.

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Oh dear, if you think you are going to make it surviving in the urban sprawl you are mistaken unless you live in a missile silo.

Id love to make it but I will be doing some deployment preps for the rest of the month. I was fortunate to go to Warrior Expo last year and its nice to look on the cutting edge.

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~Eric S.

I am going to send our training director out to find you guys. Does ITS have its own booth or y'all just there.

couldn't agree more if i lived in a major city but i don't.

i live in the country where i don't have to deal with 1000's of people,(i friggn' hate people as a mass) my town has a population of 2K far from urban but still plenty of materials for structures,weapons,whatever you need,as well as resources and land for crops.

all i'm saying is a vast majority of people will be heading for the woods, and a vast majority of people cannot and will not survive there, if you see another person chances they will be hostile to some extent, in the woods your only protection is natural land features and what you can chop and carry with you. in a rural population/community your chances are much high imo, as in a small town as mine is, where everyone knows everyone the chances of some sort of society and/or social structure surviving is much higher, and places like this will most likely be the center of trade and migration routes.

i like how most people think that lone wolf is the way to go, good luck with that one, that chances of making it that way are very very slim, you'd have a better chance at being a pro-athlete in todays world, and much like a pro athletes everyone thinks that they are good enough to be one.

i just used mc gyver as a way of saying making things from items that where not intended for that use.

if your in the military you can surely appreciate the improvisation and adaption from such a mind set, i mean isn't that what they teach you in basic, how is mc gyver'ing wind power,welders and electric fences any different then most of the things you guys do in the teamwork development course, yeah sure you learn teamwork but you also learn ingenuity...

meh, like i was saying i haven't been able to find any good information on this sort of thing as everyone is either thinking the only thing that will save them is guns and supplies, when the fact is supplies run out and guns fire bullets which also run out,

someone needs to write a book called,

so you've survived the fallout, now what?
how to make surviving after the holocaust livable.
or something to that extent.

i agree any city will be a waste land, nothing good will come from it,diseases from the dead, tainted water, no land, and who knows what else environmental and societal..... i'd almost say any town or city over 5-10k would be a bad place to be depending on density.

i guess my question should have been, so what's after survival?

No booth, the Crew is there "reporting" on the show. They will have dark gray ITS Mechanics Shirts on.
Make sure your guy talks Bryan (the owner) into buying a 4Runner, I almost have him convinced! haha.
Here is a pic of Bryan having fun:

Here's Bryan got choked out by the Gunny! #SHOTshow ^MP by CENTCOM_Survivor, on Flickr