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Every day I bring you an item on Amazon that I personally use or has been purchased by many members of the audience and I have researched enough to recommend.
Today’s TSP Amazon Item of the day is the Mad Bull Propane Adapter for Gas Blow Back Airsoft Guns. If you shoot and train with Gas Blow Back Airsoft guns (and you should) then you simply can not afford to NOT have one of these adapters. They pay for themselves so fast it is insane.
There are a lot of cheaper adapters but this one is what I always look for, maximum value to cost ratio. What good is a cheap plastic adapter that fails in a year or less, buy those over and over, or one of these and never need to buy one again. Which of those options makes more sense to you?
Consider the following a one pound cylinder of propane at Walmart is about 6 bucks, I have seen twin packs for under 10 dollars all the time. You can get them anywhere and again it is about 5-6 dollars a pound.
Contrast this with “Green Gas”, at about 21 dollars a pound. That is a savings of 75%! Not to mention most of us must order it online and off line specialty stores often charge even more if you have one near you. But wait, propane is yucky stuff and “green gas” is all green and good for the earth right? NOPE! Green Gas is NOTHING but propane with silicone oil and odor modifiers in it, so it doesn’t smell like well, grill gas.
That is where these wonderful Mad Bull Propane Adapters come in. All you do is screw one onto the top of a 1 pound propane cylinder (due the cost of shipping get this at a local store). Spray a bit of silicon oil into the fitting for that purpose, charge your mags, fire away. Just a tiny bit of silicone is needed to ensure your gun operates well and functions properly.
In general I add a bit about every 4 pistol magazines. Below I included two youtube videos that show how this product works, its features and how to use it. I personally own two airsoft gas blow back pistols I train and shoot with. First is a WE Tech 1911 and the second a WE Tech Sig 228. These are very similar to my two primary carry guns.
Airsoft allows me to shoot as much as I want, in my own back yard, with a gun that 100% functions like what I carry and use for personal defense, I can do it for pennies a week by the way.
Let me ask you, how much range time do most of you really get? When you go to your range can your draw and fire? Can you double tap? Can you shoot and move? Can you engage multiple targets at multiple distances? Can you utilize cover and shoot from behind it? Can you set up scenarios?
If you answered yes to all of those AWESOME, and I used to as well, when I lived in rural Arkansas, my range was my back yard and I could do anything I felt like in the bounds of safety and sanity. Today when I go to a range I am impeded by costs, set hours, a distance to drive and rules (for obvious reasons) that make me answer the first question with not enough and the rest with no.
I was a fan of cheap spring single cock airsoft guns for a long time, I still am for training brand new shooters and for deliberate practice. For the price most are amazingly accurate and quite powerful. But they are a limited training tool that simply will not function like a real firearm. But to get started shooting, man they are great.
CO2 fed versions get expensive fast, there is no self fill option with them. But get yourself a Mad Bull Propane Adapter and some .2 grain biodegradable airsoft pellets and the gun or guns of your choice, and you can shoot for very little money. These guns are also very accurate at any reasonable distance for true defensive hand gun training.
You can shoot and move, practice reloads, holster and un-holser, and above all have the time and money to do it often enough to stay sharp so those skills are honed if you ever need them.
Lastly the biggest reason, is, it is fun as hell to do! Finish dinner, want something to amuse yourself, set up some targets and practice for 20 minutes, listen to some music and chat with buddy while you do it to boot! Have a friend of relative on the fence about guns, what a safe fun way to teach them about them in you own backyard or even in a basement on a cold or rainy day.
I personally feel that airsoft is the most underutilized training tool among shooters today. It is not just something for kids to pay games with on the weekends. The training can be as tough or as fun as you want to make it. Think it is unrealistic for a 1911 single stack to hold 13 rounds, well, put 8 in your mags, and get training!
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Here are a couple of good Youtube Videos about today’s item of the day.
Amanda is the world’s first freelancer to be paid directly by blockchain — in this case, the DASH blockchain. DASH is an up-and-coming competitor to Bitcoin which has been delivering practical solutions to painful cryptocurrency problems since it launched in January 2014.
Amanda is the head writer/anchor for Dash’s YouTube presence: a series called DASH: Detailed. She has also written cryptocurrency analysis pieces for Bitcoin Magazine, CoinTelegraph, and Finance Magnates.
Join Amanda and I Today as we Discuss…
What exactly is DASH
What makes DASH more than just another “alt coin”
What is it going to take to get “mass adoption” of cryptocurrency
What will it mean if DASH or any crypto reaches mass adoption
If DASH is headed in the right direction why aren’t others emulating it
The new “grandmother friendly” version of DASH and when it is coming
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Every day I bring you an item on Amazon that I personally use or has been purchased by many members of the audience and I have researched enough to recommend.
Today’s TSP Amazon Item of the day is the Zicome Set of 4 Basting Brushes. Simple little item but these are the best thing out there in value and quality I can find. I really enjoy cooking that is no secret and one of the great tricks to add flavor to food it is dry season and grill it, then baste it right at the end.
Now let me tell you silicone is the way to go here. Unlike nylon or natural fibers it won’t burn on the grill when you hit it by accident. The problem is every single silicon brush I have ever found is a multi piece arrangement. The silicone head and bristles are in one way or another attached to the handle in a way in which they can be removed.
So you know what happens over time, the head gets loose and starts falling off. So when I found these I knew I had found the solution to this issue. These are formed from a single piece of silicone, so the head can’t fall off.
While we are on this subject let me give you one of my go to bastes for lighter fair like say chicken wings or quail or something like that.
Put all this into a jar, put the lid on the jar and shake the heck out of it. The mustard in this is an emulsifier. In that capacity it will allow you to blend all the ingredients and they won’t separate including the oil. If you do have any problem with separation, squirt in a bit more mustard and shake again until you don’t. Since I am not looking for a lot of mustard flavor in this I use as little as is needed to get the job done.
Brush this on to your meat in the last few minutes of your cooking. To guild the lily a bit then sprinkle toasted sesame seeds on the sticking coating after you take it off the grill.
So for making this and other great bastes and not ending up with your brush head in the coals, check out the Zicome Set of 4 Basting Brushes today.
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In the spring and early summer talk a walk in the garden section of any big store or even typical smaller plant nurseries. Mostly you see peppers, tomatoes, squash, cucumbers and a few other veggies and herbs.
There are so many other options though and many are tougher than our stand alone favorites. Fore instance so many people love growing tomatoes but in many areas they are plagued by early and late blight. You can usually get a decent yield and then you hit a wall, well why not grow tomatillos instead. They make fantastic salsa, are great grilled and are pretty much immune to most disease and pests.
Today we walk though 12 such options for your garden and in most of the country there is still time to get these guys up and running for your fall planting.
Join Us Today To Discuss these 12 Overlooked Garden Edibles…
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Every day I bring you an item on Amazon that I personally use or has been purchased by many members of the audience and I have researched enough to recommend.
In the photo above you can see these items on my personal key chain. I just checked my Amazon order history and are you ready for this, I got these items and put them on my key chain on August 5th, 2012. So yea they hold up!
First on the firestarter, I have always preferred ferrocerium rods to about any other option. These are commonly called ferro rods probably because ferrocerium is hard to say and harder to spell. These things just work, even wet they throw hot sparks that will light any good tinder and get you a flame.
I chose the Aurora Fire Starter by Solo Scientific because it has a screw on cover with a built in striker. When closed on the chain it make a reasonable impact weapon as well, functioning like a small kubaton.
But you need tinder and that is were the Ultimate Survival Technologies Aluminum 0.5 BASE Case comes in. I simply have mine stuffed with cotton balls with a dab of vaseline on the top of them. To make a fire I fray some cotton and then put some vaseline on some as well, this gets a good fire going almost anywhere you can find decent fuel wood.
Perhaps you already have a EDC fire making solution, but unless you have one that involves a ferro rod I recommend adding one. To me they are by far the best best for reliable fire starting in just about any situation. The fact that I have been carrying these items for almost 5 years now says something about their durability and reliability.
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Today on The Survival Podcast I take your calls on being stupid, cryptocurrency, rabbits, surplus gear, driverless vehicles, shooting skills, rodent control, dangerous situations and more.
Remember to be on a show like this one just pick up your phone and call 866-65-THINK.
The best way to improve your chances of being on the air is ask your question or make your point up front, then provide details.
Also please do your best to call from a quiet area with a good connection and speak up so you can be well heard.
While I can’t put all calls on the air but I do my best to get as many of them on as I can.
Join Me Today As I Respond to Your Calls and Discuss…
Another lesson in stupidity from a facebook post
Who exactly are the miners in Bitcoin
What will it take to get crypto to “flow like a currency”
More school stupidity from a listener
How to clean a rabbit
Thoughts on wearing surplus gear and stolen valor concerns
Texas clears the way for driverless vehicles
How should you judge or benchmark your shooting skills
Are cats actually effective in rat control and what are their limitations
A look back at the George Zimmerman – Trayvon Martin case
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Every day I bring you an item on Amazon that I personally use or has been purchased by many members of the audience and I have researched enough to recommend.
Today’s TSP Amazon Item of the day is the Komelon USA Tape Measure. These are available in 12-Foot, 16-Foot and 25-Foot lengths. I had three requests in the past month to do a tape measure for item of the day so I guess it is about time I give up the goods on the one I like best.
Let me start off with something, I have had very expensive tape measures break and by break I mean come unraveled and once that happens, just accept your fate and throw it away. It usually happens when someone is “helping” and jerks the thing hard past the end of its reach (for which there is no good reason) and blammo it is toast.
So I stopped in my quest for a tape that would never break, because additionally I don’t know what it is but there are three things I lose more than anything else. They are in order sharpie markers, tape measures and nail clippers. I just don’t get it, I am talking not leaving a room or a garage, having just had it in my hand and fing GONE LIKE A FART IN THE WIND. Sometimes they show up, a day, week or month later, sometimes they are gone forever.
I tend not to believe in the super natural but if their are gnomes or some such shit that steals things, they must adore pens, tape measures and nail clippers.
So I set out a couple years ago to find a tape I could buy 2-4 of at a time, keep some in a drawer so when I lost one I just had another one. Funny thing though, I have misplaced these but I have yet to break one. I am going to call it luck but when I got sick of losing tapes and tried to find a low cost reliable one this was the first one I tried.
Now here is what got me to give them a look, other than a lot of positive reviews it was a feature called “power lock”. Now most tapes work like this, you run the tape out and then engage the lock. You disengage the lock to retract it. “Power Lock” is the reverse, it is sort of always on, when you run out the tape it locks so it will not retract but you can just keep running it out until you have enough to measure what you are working on.
When I thought about this, my first thought was, “why the hell would you make a tape the old way in the first place”? Seriously have you ever run out a tape and thought, man I am so happy that it didn’t self lock? Have you ever run out a tape and not needed to lock it, or at least hold it with finger tension so you could use it to well, measure something? Or have you ever thought, man when I lock that thing I am so glad you have to unlock it to pull more tape out of the holder? I mean a bird or a frog or something might just grab it and pull it out and mess me up!
In the end it seems completely backwards to have tapes lock the way they always have. If you have used tapes your entire life it does take a day or two to stop reaching for the lock and inadvertently unlocking it, but once you get used to it you will never and I mean never want anything else.
Once again these are available in 12-Foot, 16-Foot and 25-Foot lengths. Personally I see little utility for 16 foot tape measures and I instead have standardized on keeping a 12 foot and 25 foot tapes around.
My rational is as follows. The 12 foot tape is compact and caries easily on a belt or in a pocket. Because it is so small I tend to put it in my pocket when working and hence the gnomes that steal my stuff are less likely to find it. I find that a 12 foot tape with be enough for 90% of my daily project work, cutting lumber, measuring pipes, doing estimates etc.
For everything else I go grab my 25 footer that lives in a place in my pantry that the gnomes have yet to find, I use it and I put it back. Take that you thieving little gnomes!
In all seriousness I have never had a 25 foot tape in my hand and said man I wish this was 9 feet shorter! So here is what I recommend, pick up two pack of the 12-Foot, tapes for only 15.71, that way you will have a spare if the gnomes get one of them! Then pick up at least one 25-Foot one and keep it in your tool box or some other gnome safe location.
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Today its Friday so it’s time for expert council show. To ask a question for a show like this, just send an email to me at jack at thesurvivalpodcast.com with “TSPC Expert” in the subject line.
Today the expert council answers questions on farming, business, food allergies, thyroid issues, installing automotive lighting, insect pests, investing, cryptocurrency and more.
In the body of your email first tell me the council member your question is for. Second ask your question concisely in one to two sentences maximum. Third any and all details after that. This is the formula to give you the best chance of getting on the air.
I do what I can to get as many of your questions as possible on the air but can’t always get to all of them. Our council is made of a wide variety of experts in everything from the tactical to the practical and everything in between.
To get more information on our Expert Council visit our “Meet the Expert Council Page” to learn more about them and their specific areas of expertise.
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Grazing land from brambles into pasture – Darby Simpson
Pricing a niche product in a rural market – Nicole Sauce
Dealing with food allergies – Gary Collins
Considerations when thyroid issues run in your family – Doc Bones
Installing a light bar the right way – Charles The Humble Mechanic
Dealing with ambrosia beetles – Nick Ferguson
Three common 401K questions – John Pugliano
Jack on Crypto with special guest Appearance by Vin Armani
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Every day I bring you an item on Amazon that I personally use or has been purchased by many members of the audience and I have researched enough to recommend.
Today’s TSP Amazon Item of the day is two sources to get growing a plant called Bloody Dock, also known as “Blood Veined Sorrel”. I first learned about this plant in doing research for pond plants that are edible. While sold as a pond plant it is more accurate to say that Bloody Dock needs fertile and moist soil and can be grown in a pond on the edges as well.
Your choices to get started with this plant amount to slow and cheap or fast and expensive. I went the expensive route but I am now going to also go the cheap route with seed and try to make a ton of plants that way too.
The expensive option it to buy well started plants you can get them from a seller called Florida Aquatic Nursery Here. `
Side Note – You may really want to check out Ohio Heirloom Seeds full line up of stuff, they have some really cool hard to get things. And check out the other offerings from Florida Aquatic Nursery as well, again cool stuff you just don’t find everyday.
Okay so back to Bloody Dock and why I love this plant, well because it hits my big four.
Hard to Kill
Tastes Good
Perennial
Looks Good
What else can you ask for? So when I got my 4 plants they looked great, I planted them and by that evening I was pretty angry, they all looked dead. The leaves just went flat. The next day a few perked back up, I cut the other leaves off, kept them moist and in shade. By the end of that week they were going full on again. Today about a month later, this is what they look like!
That one plant will produce well over a dozen divisions in early fall making the 20 dollar price tag easier to swallow. But I like this stuff so much I am going to get some seeds and see how they go, because I would like to plant a ton of this stuff in the margins around my ponds. Mind you ducks and geese (and I am betting chickens) think this stuff is wonderful, so make sure to provide critter protection for it.
So should you go with seeds or plants? The choice is yours really, my understanding is propagation from seed is about as easy as seep propagation gets. I am thinking at 20 bucks a plant I may end up with a nice little cash flow from digging them up around my pond and selling them to our egg customers at half price, 10 bucks a pop!
Using this plant as food is easy as well. You can use it raw in salads or gently sauteed like spinach or any other green. While this stuff is good eating like many greens it is a bit sharp on its own, but blend it with a few others and it is just amazing.
It is a spreading perennial so making more plants is easy, dig up a well established plant, separate it into smaller parts (divisions) and replant. Even if it looks bad, new growth will soon pop up. Note that this is best done in spring or early fall after the high heat is done for the year. But you can do this in summer too, the key is do it in pots, and keep it in shade until the shock passes.
Again this stuff is tough to kill, what it needs though is constant moisture, which is why it is so great as a pond plant but it will do great in a well watered garden, on a shady edge that gets morning sun, etc.
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Today on The Survival Podcast I take your calls on cryptocurrency, home security, pasture establishment, surplus gear, government and more.
