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Improving Your Survival Kit

Improving Your Survival Kit

Improving Your Survival Kit by Gary Benton article copyright I’m always visiting survival web sites, looking at lists of survival kit items, weeding out what I think I need and what I don’t really need. Some sites offer premade survival kits, which might be okay for home use, but I hardly need a 300 pound […]

I Have Been Drafted

I Have Been Drafted

I Have Been Drafted by Gary Benton article copyright In 1971, I was having some problems deciding on what to do with the remainder of my life. I knew it was only a matter of time before I was drafted into the Viet Nam war. I decided, with no little help from the draft, that […]

Standing On Your Own Two Feet

Standing On Your Own Two Feet

Standing On Your Own Two Feet by Gary Benton article copyright I had only been in the arctic bush for three days, but as I looked down at my feet, I was shocked. The skin was white and looked like I had been in the bathtub for hours, the skin was that wrinkled. I knew […]

Willy Eugenes Pet Bull

Willy Eugenes Pet Bull

Willy Eugenes Pet Bull by Gary Benton article copyright “Ya know, there just ain’t much a redneck doesn’t know something about!” My Uncle Andy said as he picked up his coffee cup and took a good swig of the thick hot liquid. We were all seated at the big booth in Uncle Andy’s restaurant having […]

Camping Is Fun With Kids

Camping Is Fun With Kids

Camping Is Fun With Kids by Gary Benton article copyright One of the best ways of getting a child involved with your outdoor activities it to have them involved from an early age. My children started camping as infants, but that may be too early for some children, and parents. When I take an older […]

Highway to Hell

Highway to Hell

Highway to Hell by Gary Benton article copyright Bubba moved from the living room to the rocking chair he had on the patio next to his mobile home. As he placed his ice-cold beer on the fifty-fire gallon drum, cut in half at his garage, so he had two, and looked around the barnyard. Nothing […]

Experience Counts

Experience Counts

Experience Counts by Gary Benton article copyright I can remember, a few years back, a very interesting camping trip I went on with two of my friends. We were living in New Mexico and planned to take a few days and head north, into the mountains around Taos. The weather was great, and we had […]

Deducted by a UFO’s

Deducted by a UFO’s

Deducted by a UFO’s by Gary Benton article copyright It was 1966 and Bubba, who was fifteen, was offered a job cutting grass for a dollar an hour. He figured it would take five hours to do the job and maybe three gallons of gas. Since gas was going for 29 cents a gallon, it […]

The Whine List

The Whine List

The Whine List by Gary Benton article copyright It was Bubba’s birthday and since it was close to the holidays I decided to kill two birds with one stone and take my boy out to eat. We live just a little over a hundred miles from Saint Louis, so I decided, that was where I […]

How to Pick a Good Survival Knife

How to Pick a Good Survival Knife

How to Pick a Good Survival Knife by Gary Benton article copyright Which is Best, a Military Surplus or Commercial Design? One aspect survival that many of us never look at very closely is where we buy our equipment for outdoor use or the purpose of our gear. Granted, most of the outdoor stuff offered […]