Christian caveman: Prepping in the End Times

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Introduction: Christian Caveman's Advice for Readers of This Website (Article 1)

So I did a segment on a self sufficiency podcast late last year when one of the members of that podcast and telegram group killed themselves. I was sad as I talked to the guy before, and he was a kind man who had gotten screwed over by his wife as she was cheating on him.

I thought about what I did step by step and how it brought me to where I am today, and how I could word this to atheists that listen to the podcast as there are many who weren't Christians and even Freemasons (who I've argued with on the telegram channel, which is another story). I wanted to bring even these godless people to God in the most direct way without them realizing it.

Just as I did prior to recording that podcast segment, I asked God to help me write this and be as coherent and truthful as possible. Praise be to Lord Jesus Christ and the Father. Amen.

Some of this stuff I have gotten from other philosophies, even from such philosophers as Nietzche. Even though he and the other writers are wrong in their view, it gave me certain ideas and I re-weaponized it into Christianity and my relationship with God. I will explain.

1. This society offers nothing to you. Absolutely nothing. You must "do battle against the dragon" as Nietzche put it and create your own purpose. Despite how wrong he was in many of his writings, I still learned from this syphilis-ridden incel a valuable lesson.

The story of the camel, the lion and the baby resonated with me as I realized that I had many false ideas, presumptions and desires put into me by the satanic system that was running the world. I know Nietzche was referencing the Christian order when he wrote that, but it's ironic (And God loves irony) how now the godless world he envisioned coming true has now allowed me to use his words to help me realize the ultimate Truth, which was God.

I had wanted to fight in a war that was a proxy for globalist Satanists, and even after leaving the military and getting a degree in Arabic, I wanted to work for the CIA. I often thought to myself,

"They are the good guys, I mean look at Tom Clancy's Splinter Cell and James Bond! Being a professional spy and assassin is cool! It's for the good of the country!!"

It was all predictive programming.

You as a man need to realize that Satan implants these false ideas in EVERYONE. The only way you are going to root these out is by accepting the truth, which is the Lord, as he is literally the truth. This means having to put aside things you used to idolize and being honest with yourself.

What I used to value and what I value now are completely different. I was lucky that despite being a hateful atheist, I still valued the truth (except Christianity, as I was driven from the church due to a pedophile priest being caught. In my hatred of the Catholic Church, it blinded me towards God). As a man, under the guidance of God, you need to form your own values and purpose.

I don't mean "Do as thou wilt" as the Satanists and occultists in the media/ government love to subliminally imprint on the masses. What I mean is you need to do what God designed you to do.

For instance, I have always been interested in survival, combat, shooting and being sneaky ever since my first memory as a small boy. I know, it sounds weird, but I have always been attracted to rogues, scouts and rangers in fantasy. There is a freedom in being able to surreptitiously travel in the wild and hide from enemies; it is essentially a force multiplier for a warrior. Being able to live off the land and be independent has always appealed to me.

When I became an adult and got sucked into the special operations mindset when I served as a recon marine, it became warped, almost like a dark inversion of my true purpose. I wanted to be a CIA assassin and murderer, to lie, cheat and steal legally and indulge in these dark fantasies. I wanted to be some "JSOC Jedi". In essence, I developed a dark persona from this inversion because I believed the satanic government's lies of this world.

I now believe that my true purpose is to be a modern hunter-gatherer. There are men who brave the woods and fields and streams to collect their dinner, sometimes illegally. I found a book called "Walk with the Wildman" shortly after converting that changed my views forever on what I wanted to do after I converted to God.

The traits of freedom, self sufficiency, surreptitiousness and self mastery are the traits of our ancestors living with nature and God in a time forgotten. My further investigation into game laws, how bullshit they are and how the government uses them to control people and their food, further convinced me this was the right path.

You as a man need to figure out what your purpose is. You can only figure this out with God.

You may very well believe in an inversion of your true self, and not even know it.

2. You need to learn real stuff. Do not get sucked into entertainment and pleasure.

I have always liked video games like most millennial men. It is a vice. I've spent hundreds of hours playing games in my life.  I also love watching YouTube, which can be a huge time sink. It can, however,  also be a useful tool to learn new skills and information.

When I was suicidal and depressed, drinking my life away watching brain-washing movies and playing stupid games, I felt lost. I couldn't see beauty in anything, and I had no idea what I wanted to do after leaving college. My grades weren't good enough for the CIA, and I felt like a loser. I thought about how I should have gotten a STEM degree and have gotten into tech to get a high paying job. I messed up my relationship with the only woman I ever loved because I lusted for other women. I was getting fat from the beer, and I was suffering such crippling depression I couldn't leave the bed except to get more beer and whiskey. It was like I was in a dark abyss and I couldn't find an escape.

When you get to this point as a man, you absolutely need to get over this self-pity. It will destroy you, physically, and spiritually. You will get fat like I did. You will start getting health problems, your psyche will be open to demonic attack and your dreams may be full of these nightmares like mine were.

The only thing that is going to save you is discipline, and a carefully developed iron will, which can only come from God. Don't be like me and go at it from a round-a-bout way as an atheist until I finally realized it was God helping me, but go straight to the source and repent your heart out and talk to God. You need to be, sorry for my language, absofuckinglutely RUTHLESS with yourself. You need to observe yourself as a third party, and admit how much of a weak man you really are. How you can't commit to anything, how you make excuses for everything, how women see right through your ego, and how much you hate this false self that suffocates your real divine soul that God intends to give you.

You are living through one of the most hellish times in known history. We don't have Nephilim rampaging and eating us like our ancestors [at least not yet! - added by Witness 2] but we ARE living in a literal matrix of mind control and possibly the coming of Lord Jesus Christ. God chose you to live in this period of history for a reason. Isn't that exciting? He knows you can handle this. The God of Abraham KNOWS you can handle all this. What other validation do you need?

What are you going to do about it? Are you gonna fall into despair and numb yourself? You going to be a limp-dick reject that wallows in how unfair it was that you don't have everything you deserve or how you have been wronged? No.

This is a test. God is testing you. So it's time to man up and prepare for war.

There is a term I like from this podcast, he calls it Uncertainism. He describes it as a state of mind of being unable to be sure of the truth of anything. Our history, who we really are as humans, what is really going on in the government and the elites, our future, what will happen to us and our kids: Everything. This modern Uncertainism is driving people mad with anxiety and depression, and they don't know how to cope.

Well the only way you are going to cope with all of this is if you become charmed with false ideologies, become a psychopath, or you turn to God. That's it.

Drugs and booze aren't going to make things better, becoming a Nazi/constitutionalist/Trump/BLM/antifa useful idiot isn't going to help and killing your way out of this mess won't help either. The enemy has total control over everything. Because this was supposed to happen. But if your blinders are on, you can't see this.

Start learning real skills and knowledge. Learn how to become self sufficient like the men of the Bible. Learn God's creations, learn plants, animals, how to find them, eat them, how to make things yourself. Build your strength, learn weapons. Think about your death daily, think about how dying for God is the ultimate honor. You will begin to not fear death, and the enemy will have nothing to threaten you with.

The warrior's way is not unique to the pagans. God has his own warriors, in fact, they are the greatest warriors ever known. Because they don't fight for themselves. They are a living sacrifice that will give their lives for God's innocent children and people. That level of bravery is, in my humble opinion, one of the most noble callings for a man, besides spreading the word of God and the good news. And you don't have to be prior military or police to be one.

Learn the Bible, pray, get close to God. Learn Stoicism and even learn about other philosophies.

Christians may or may not agree with me on this. But I came to God when I saw similar patterns between pagan religions, satanic philosophies like Communism and the occult. I saw how even these evil people believed in a Creator and God. The modern church doesn't talk about this, which is a tragedy. Being able to piece together how everything is related and how it's working against you will strengthen your faith, or even bring you to it like it did me. Maybe that's why they don't talk about it.

Finally, try to achieve a state of contemplative prayer and meditation. While you are going about your day, contemplate your relationship with God, your life, how far you have come, what you need to learn and work on. Try not to numb yourself. It's ok to relax and have some entertainment to recuperate. But don't overdo it. I think we all suffer from this as everything is oversaturated, and its hard to avoid the temptation. But I promise if you do this, you WILL see improvements and your life will get better.

Thank you for reading this. Remember, God has a plan for you. Its all on you to fulfill it. Don't be weak.

God bless you all.

For this short essay, I am going to list a few basic skills to work on for the days ahead. If you are in a country that doesn’t allow certain types of gear like traps, or guns, then figure out the next best thing you can obtain. I highly recommend researching the history of your people and area, and how they survived before industrialization. For example, If you are an Arab, research the Bedouin. If you are a Mexican, research your cowboys and wranglers. If you are an American or westerner, the trapper is your best bet. No matter where you are, you can find information on how your ancestors lived. Combine this information with training you can find for free on YouTube and the internet while you still can. They are going to shut off or control the internet in some way in the future, as they have already admitted to this at the WEF and other globalist conferences. Books are king. 

You need to develop the mindset of the modern hunter-gatherer. They are planning to starve us out, so start training yourself to look for food everywhere as well as practicing fasting for survival. You can only save so much food before it goes bad, and having a retreat full of food doesn’t guarantee survival. You could very well have your homestead raided or burned down by starving people or gangs. Having the skills to give yourself food and medicine means you can remain mobile and avoid evil people, as well as help people in need. There will be many innocents who will need the truth and salvation of The Lord, and it doesn’t do them any favors if you are dead or too weak to help them get it. The sheer scale of our global system collapsing in on itself will induce levels of misery one cannot imagine. The time to get ready is now.

Physical fitness

The first thing you need to work on is getting in shape. While its fun to deadlift 500 pounds, get a six pack or bulging biceps from the gym, this wont be applicable to our mission. We are going for endurance. Imagine long hikes and walks, carrying a load or backpack with your gear. Imagine climbing things, foraging things, running from the enemy, sprinting from cover to cover while slinging lead to protect your family and friends. Absolute strength is useful, but you need endurance to last in the field. I have personal experience with this from being a recon marine. I was too big and heavy from lifting weights and my running suffered as a result. You need a balanced level of fitness.   If you are out of shape, I highly recommend looking into progressive calisthenics. Books like Convict Conditioning and the Youtube channel Al Kavadlo will be all you need to get started for strength. The premise of this type of training is starting with easier body weight exercises and building up to harder and harder movements such as one-arm pullups, squats and pushups. The reason why I recommend this type of training is that it requires no equipment except something to hang on to (I used a tree branch in a park for awhile) and you can do it anywhere. In case you do have to live on the run or you are banned from society, you will always have an option to train. This, combined with running, sprints and hiking with a pack will give you all the fitness ability you need. I no longer go to the gym anymore and train just about every day. 

Foraging and Herbalism

This is self explanatory. I started learning foraging a little over a year ago. In almost every environment you can find edible plants near you, especially in the US. Find 2-3 field guides to take with you to verify what you are looking for. Look up Youtubers. There are many channels that have hundreds of videos. The fastest way I learned foraging was through using YouTube and scanner apps on my phone like PictureThis. Those apps are accurate a large percentage of the time, but you still need to check your books before eating plants. They greatly accelerate learning and save time instead of flipping through pages in your books trying to get an initial ID. I went on walks before work, and paid attention to sidewalks, parks, roads and other places and made it a game to see how many I can recognize. You will be very surprised at how fast you can learn to identify plants. I believe this is an innate feature God put into us, as he made us to have dominion over animals and the Earth. When I walk anywhere now, I see food everywhere. People will think you are kooky, but you are honing a vital skill. Many of these plants have medicinal properties as well. You are better off starting to just learn to identify them before getting into wildcrafting(making foods and medicine). If you are in the US, I highly recommend all the books from Sam Thayer, especially his new field guide. It is “The one foraging book to rule them all”, as there is nothing like it on the market. Compared to old manuals that have 200-300 plants, it has 675 plants with superb photos and unique info. He is the leading expert on foraging in America.  

Trapping

Notice I didn’t list hunting next. That is because trapping is superior to hunting for getting food, especially with steel traps and aircraft cable snares. Traps are silent, do not require years of experience like hunting, can work 24/7 for you without getting tired and can be extremely effective if you find the right runs and game trails. You can also trap fish, turtles, birds and pretty much any animal that exists. The key terrain feature that you want to find to be as effective as possible is water. Any creeks, rivers, lakes, and the ocean will attract animals. Look for the trails and runs leading to these bodies of water.  

When food becomes scarce, everyone will be heading to rural areas to shoot any food they can find. Animals will stop foraging during the day and become paranoid. Traps will allow you to catch these animals at night. It will also be safer for you as you only need to make your sets and hide, whereas if you hunt you risk crossing other humans. The hunting you do will primarily be opportunistic when foraging or setting traps.

Also, bushcraft traps are worthless. Deadfalls take too much time and energy, and you will have a hard time building them and hiding them. Homemade snares from rope or cordage are simply not strong enough for many species. This video explains this well.  The number one resource on trapping that I recommend is the YouTube channel TheMeatTrapper. He provides outstanding tutorials on the different types of traps to use, snaring, how to make snares, how to catch land and water animals and much more. He has a Patreon that is also highly worth it, with a treasure trove of knowledge that you won’t find anywhere else. Newt Sterlings book Survival Snaring is a must read as well. 

First Aid

I am not a medical expert. However, I still have multiple medkits and books for reference. Two books I have that I recommend is Where There is No Doctor, and Where There is No Dentist. Learn TCCC from the various books that can be bought online. I also recommend getting as many herbal remedies and healing books as you can. Medicine will eventually be hard to come by, so learning how to make our own will be critical. Get fish antibiotics for emergencies while you still can. Check the labels and make sure there are no other ingredients but the antibiotic. Here is a website you can learn more from here.  

Weapons

If you cannot buy a gun, I recommend getting a crossbow or bow. A takedown crossbow or bow will allow you to travel with it in a pack with no one knowing. Survival Archery Systems makes excellent bows for this purpose; I have three of their models. Beware, though, a bow requires a significant amount of practice to become effective. Crossbows do not require as much practice; however they are heavier than bows. While I do not have one, I have heard good things about the Excalibur Micro 340 TD.

Slingshots can be made out of almost any material imaginable. I recommend flat bands, over the top configuration with .44 lead ammo being the best ammo. Tube bands suck in my opinion. .50 steel ball bearings can be used for practice, but watch out for ricochets. They can be used to stealthily hunt small game around towns and cities. This is a skill you can practice now even if you don’t live in the country. Make sure to bring small plastic bags and a knife so that you can gut your prize after your kill so that it doesn’t spoil. The PPMG+ is my favorite slingshot. Air rifles are a fantastic option as well for hunting. The Benjamin Marauder pistol can be setup into a folding carbine with the right mods, is silent and hits hard. It is a bit expensive however.

I recommend stacking .22 ammo, and getting a takedown .22 rifle. AR-7s are cheap, surprisingly accurate, and very light weight. The storing of all of its parts in the stock is very convenient. It also uses magazines, which allows for quick follow-on shots. .22 ammo itself is lightweight and can kill deer with the right shot placement.   12 gauge shotguns are useful for their versatility and can be used for self defense to taking down every kind of game imaginable. They have a huge variety of ammo. They are generally more accessible and common due to being legal in most countries.

If you are in America or any country that has accessibility to them, you absolutely need a semi automatic fighting rifle. Pick whatever works for you. I have a preference for the AR-15 platform. However, I believe a good pistol is more important than a rifle. Walking around with a rifle when things get bad except during straight SHTF scenarios could be a death sentence. Gangs, militias, the military, hungry people and more will be taking control all over the country when it gets bad enough. Dressing like a wannabe special forces operator will be a quick way to get shot or kidnapped. You want to blend in and look like you have nothing of value. I highly recommend reading the book “The SHTF Anthology-Survival Lessons of the Balkan Wars”. This book changed my perception on many things and what to expect. I will send a PDF version to the Two Witnesses to share. (Here you go!)

Practice with your weapons often. Dry fire your firearms. Practice reloads and sighting in. Practice different shooting positions. I highly recommend the book The Reluctant Partisan by a former Special Forces sergeant named John Mosby. That book is the bible for guerilla operations and how to prepare for it. His other books are fantastic as well. 

Conclusion

This is just a brief introduction to what you can be working on. I know some of you probably feel the same uncertainty and uneasiness that I feel for the future. The best we can do is pray and prepare ourselves the best we can. A majority of us aren’t homesteaders, but that is still no excuse not to learn as many skills as you can on your off-time. Trust me, I know how comfy it is to doom scroll on 4chan or the internet and get depressed about the current situation.  It is still a waste of energy and time. Use that anger and fear to push yourself to train and turn those emotions into confidence and resolution.

Take small steps when learning these skills, and use that confidence when you succeed to move on to more advanced steps. Branch out and learn more skills when you grow competent. You eat an elephant one plate at a time. Try to get some greens from the park, catch some fish, shoot some squirrels or pigeons. Get as much experience as you can in the outdoors. Do hikes and practice identifying plants along the trail. Go camping, learn to set up a tent, make a fire. Look for game trails on your hikes and practice reading tracks that you see. Make it a goal to try and get more and more of the food you eat from the wild. When the stores start drying up you already know where to find food. For instance, in my area I know where I can harvest a ton of garlic mustard, wild onions, dandelions, autumn olives, cat tails, mulberries, and blackberries.

I am always scouting for food. Walk around with a light backpack with some snares or a few traps, and some foraging gear like a sharp pair of scissors, a folding shovel, cloth bags, and some plastic bags and a field manual. You will have fun doing this, and will feel closer to God eating the food He made for us!  Unlike the baby boomers who lived decadently through the most prosperous time in known human history, we will be the generation that will endure modern horrors that our ancestors could never imagine. This is our destiny. Embrace this struggle, realize God has given you a great opportunity to suffer like His Son did, and celebrate the coming end-days.   

Books and resources:  

Subsistence - A guide for the modern hunter-gatherer 

Walk With The Wildman Volumes 1-3 

Sam Thayer Foragers Harvest Series 

The Reluctant Partisan

TheMeatTrapper-Youtube

Survival Snaring(highly recommended)

Urban Fox

Camping and Woodcraft

Indian Herbalogy Of North America

The Earthwise Herbal Volume 1 and 2

Judes Herbal Home Remedies

A Modern Herbal Volume 1 and 2

Edible Wild Plants

How to Eat In The Woods

Free Food and Medicine Edible Plant Guide

The Modern Herbal Dispensatory 

The Herbal Medicine Makers Handbook

Where There is No Doctor

Where There is No Dentist

The New Buckshots Complete Survival Trapping Guide(highly recommended)

Grid Down: Reality Bites (Fictional series meant as an entertaining survival manual. Loads of good tips you can use.)

Stealth Hunting (Article 3)

What I'm about to share is completely hypothetical. If you decide to get into this game, it's all on you if you are sloppy and get caught. We are in serious times, and skills that we are going to need in the future can only be practiced with subterfuge. View yourself as a secret agent of God; mastering the skills of the meat poacher for the greater good. You might very well have someone dependent on you to feed them and keep them alive in the near future.

Mindset

To get everyone into the proper mindset, I am going to share the first page from one of the greatest poaching manuals ever created:

The Walk with the Wildman series:

"Most people don't know the true meaning of the word 'poacher'".

They think a poacher is the guy they hear about on the news who shoots a trophy deer and takes only the head leaving the rest to rot, or the guy who kills a bear taking only the gallbladder and claws. These guys aren't true poachers; they're what I call slob hunters. They're what the media would like to have us believe are poachers, but poachers they are not.

The true poacher is a meat hunter, a man of the woods, fields and rivers. He knows and respects the game he hunts. He takes the time to learn the ways of the wild creatures and all that surrounds them. He sees the natural world as a giant classroom and tries to learn all the lessons hidden within it.

The true poacher will be able to interpret what he sees, hears, or smells in the woods, whether it be a track in the mud, the scolding of a jay, or the smell of a beaver along the riverbank.

The true poacher is a highly skilled hunter; his level of skill is much higher than the "sportsmen" because the true poacher is hunting for his dinner. If the "sportsmen" comes home empty handed it's no big deal, he'll go to the nearest market for his food. The poacher on the other hand depends on his skills to feed himself and his family, therefore takes his job much more seriously.

The true poacher maintains a much higher level of awareness than the sport hunter because he knows not only is he the hunter but is also the hunted."

In my humble opinion, this is the proper survival mindset to adopt in today's world. You are a remnant, a survivor of God's Kingdom awaiting His Son's return in this satanic cyberpunk dystopia. The government is proven to be trying to murder its people in as many ways possible, such as the vaccines, 5G, and poisoned food. Eventually the famines are going to come. How will you respond? It doesn't matter if you don't have land, live in the city or aren't a homesteader. Master the ways of the meat poacher and you can keep yourself and your loved ones fed. Even if you are obese or disabled, traps can be used to sustain you. In fact, the number one tool commercial and subsistence poachers use in Africa is the lowly snare. I will cover more on trapping and snaring in future articles.

I wanted to give a deeper tutorial today on stealth hunting in urban environments.

Tools

The Benjamin Marauder pistol is the best air rifle for poaching in my opinion. If you can't afford it, get a Crossman Drifter or similar model. If you add a folding stock (Buckrail has folding stocks for the Drifter and Marauder) to it with a decent scope - it is a superbly accurate little carbine for clean headshots. It also accepts a suppressor(TKO Airguns) that makes it whisper quiet, but makes it longer. You can keep it on you and screw it on quick in case you need it for certain situations such as taking a shot in bushes next to people. It's still a quiet gun without the suppressor. Use pointed pellets for game like squirrels and rabbits, and rounded pellets for birds like ducks, pigeons, and crows. Go for body shots with the birds if you can't hit their heads. For game like rabbits and squirrels its best to use headshots. You can still kill them with a front torso shot, but they will die a painful death, which is not preferable as it loads the meat with adrenaline. If you have a marauder or an air gun with magazines, keep 3 or so magazines of rounded and pointed so that they can swap on the move in case you encounter different species.

The advantage of a gun like this compared to air rifles of older times is that it can be put in a small backpack and retrieved at a moment's notice. This level of stealth will allow you to hunt places poachers of old could never dream of. You can also get a trench coat or larger coat and wear it around your neck with a sling or rope in cold weather. You can open the coat, take your shot, put it back in your coat, and collect your prize.

Get a pack that allows fast access, preferably with an inner pocket or radio pouch large enough to hold the gun as a holster. Make sure the pack has spare space for game. Don't get a super huge pack for urban hunting as it would be suspicious for a guy to be carrying an expedition pack in a park. Get something big enough to hold your air rifle and the space equivalent of about 4-8 rabbits.

If you practice with a slingshot, it will be an excellent addition to your air rifle. Have the slingshot in a fanny pouch or in your pocket in a money pouch with a small bag of .44 lead ammo as a silent, surreptitious lose range dispatcher. You will be able to hunt right next to people in parks, cities or golf courses and they will have no idea. It allows you to take shots in open areas that can't allow you to be seen with a gun. I was able to kill a squirrel at a park with a headshot moments before being walked up on by a  pair of nice old ladies that I proceeded to wave at and smile. They had no clue I had just killed a squirrel. I acted like I was taking a water break waiting for them to walk by before proceeding to gut my squirrel.

Slingshots are extremely quiet, and allow for follow-up shots most of the time if you miss, as the animal has no idea what happened. I would only hunt to around 15 yards however, as velocity drops off quickly and it's hard to be accurate enough for a headshot beyond that. With birds just body shot them.

I recommend the .50 flatbands and .44 lead ball ammo. A design like the PPMG+ is great for our applications.

Tactics and my spiritual take

The best time to hunt is during sunrise and sunset. I personally like the early morning more and I find more game during that time and way less people are about than in the evening. Take walks to scout for game often. Pay attention to the roads when driving. Parks, golf courses, wood lots, and neighborhoods are good spots to find game. Wildman said it best in his books that the best spots for game are always the most restricted places. Pay attention to squirrel nests, rabbit runs, where pigeons sleep, where ducks swim, etc. Then make a game plan and come back later. Make sure to bring gallon or long bread plastic bags to hold your meat after you gut them. 

Get a sharp pocket knife to gut your kill immediately. ALWAYS DO THIS IN COVER. Don't EVER do this in the open! Make sure to pay attention constantly. Don't get in your head and day dream or think about anything else before going on a trip like this. You need to get in the mindset that you are on a search and destroy mission, and if you are complacent for an instant you will die. You will hone an incredible level of awareness that most people never develop. Always be scanning in front of you, behind you, and to the side of you. Walk slowly and pay attention. Use your ears and nose. Don't daydream about how annoying your girlfriend or boyfriend is, how you can't wait to play Fortnite, or how the Democrats are "going after" Trump again for the thousandth time. None of that crap matters. You will live in the moment, and you will feel closer to God while doing this.

Yes, I am saying poaching will make you closer to God.

Always pray before doing this. You will feel much better and at ease.

You are completely at His mercy when doing this. It's scary when attempting this, and depending on your mental fortitude, you might be excited or anxious when getting your first kill. Or both. You see life and death happen in an instant, caused by your hand. You realize how vulnerable you are in your own life being ended by something like a bullet, just like this squirrel or rabbit that was hit by your pellet. You realize how vulnerable you are to getting caught doing this ancient  activity your ancestors did to obtain wild meat, and get angry that you have to worry about going to jail or having your life legally ruined for something as silly as killing pests in a city. You realize how much you need God to protect and calm you during this. 

Many of us never do anything that risks life or limb, and this is one of the few things where you do have to put yourself in an alert "do or die (get arrested)" scenario. You will see how you perform. And the great thing is that the more you do it, the more skilled and confident you will become. You can also carry a foraging manual on you as an alibi in case you do come across someone. Say you are out looking at plants and are into botany (I am into botany, so this isn't a lie for me. I love practicing identifying plants everywhere). Or just pull it out and act like you are looking at plants as you wait for them to pass by before you position yourself to make your kill. Don't wear camo. I dress in workout or hiking clothes. Don't look the part. Camo has its place when you need to avoid detection completely. That's another discussion for a future article.

Another quote from Wildman:

"Back in the day I didn't mind taking "risks". In fact I never really seen them as "risks", I seen them more as challenges and every time I faced a new challenge and came out on top, it increased my confidence and my level of awareness. It put me at the top of my game. I never really had any fear of "being caught" because I maintained such a high level of awareness. If a warden was planning on catching me, he was gonna have to get up awful early in the morning to get a step ahead of me..."

I will end with a prayer I developed for this kind of work. I couldn't find a prayer online that fits, so I made my own. I wrote this over a year ago.

Poacher's Prayer

I pray to my Lord GOD, The Most High, Maker of Heaven and Earth,

As a poacher, a man of the woods and beasts,

Who desires nothing else but clean, healthy meat and plants from your majestic creation.

I ask for Your protection from misfortune and satan's forces as I brave these unknown lands and waters,

Walking in the Armor of God, cloaked from spying eyes and devices with Your Divine Power.

Bless me success with the tools of my trade, so that I may bring sustenance to my family, friends and people in need,

Grant me the endurance and strength to persevere against the storms and darkness, with Your Holy Spirit as my compass in this fallen world.

In my Lord Jesus Christ's name I pray, Amen.

God bless you all.

Foraging with the Christian Caveman (Article 4)

#1 Mullein tincture (Medicine)

Items needed: alcohol menstruum(I used clear Absolute vodka), mason jars

I will be doing different series on various subjects to help the average Christian become more self-sufficient. With this series, I will be covering wild foods and medicine that you can collect and make yourself.

For the first article in this series, I will be covering how to do a mullein tincture.

Plant description from Wikipedia:

"It is a hairy biennial plant that can grow to 2 m tall or more. Its small, yellow flowers are densely grouped on a tall stem, which grows from a large rosette of leaves. It grows in a wide variety of habitats, but prefers well-lit, disturbed soils, where it can appear soon after the ground receives light, from long-lived seeds that persist in the soil seed bank. It is a common weedy plant that spreads by prolifically producing seeds, and has become invasive in temperate world regions."

Medicinal properties:

From The Modern Herbal Dispensatory:

"Mullein leaves are most commonly used for respiratory complaints. They have a soothing, hydrating effect on the lungs and contain saponins that loosen mucus. Mullein is often used for chronic lung problems such as asthma and COPD, but is also helpful for colds and coughs, particularly dry coughs. Mullein flowers are used to make ear drops to soothe earache. Mullein root is specific for low back pain and inflammation. "

Properties: Demulcent (mucilant), expectorant, and lung tonic

You can find mullein in most parts of North America. I found mine in an open area of a park. The full grown plant is huge and is very distinguishable with its yellow flower stalk. Find the greenest leaves in the best condition possible that have the fewest holes from bugs, aren't brown, and aren't covered in dirt. Usually its only the lower leaves that are filthy if its an issue. I would avoid harvesting Mullein near roads or any area that kicks up alot of particles. The leaves have a kind of fuzziness to them that pick up dirt easily and is annoying washing it off. The first time I found a Mullein rosette in a parking lot near the woods I was so excited that I didn't notice how dirty it was. I ended up not being able to use it. A sturdy pair of scissors make it very easy to harvest your leaves (Scissors are great for all foraging endeavors). Side note: the leaves have been known as "Cowboy Toilet Paper" due to how soft they are to the touch. Useful to know when we have another lockdown and toilet paper becomes hard to find.

After collecting your leaves, head back home and wash the leaves off well. Dry them with paper towels, and tear them into small pieces and place them into your jar. Fill up the jars to about 1 cup with the leaves. Fill the jar with your alcohol menstruum so that the leaves are completely covered, and let it sit for 4-8 weeks in a dark area. Strain it and you have your homemade medicine! Congratulations, you are now one small step closer to self sufficiency from the system. Take a few drops when you have chest congestion, a cold or flu.

I recommend watching this video from the YouTube Channel Trillium: Wild Edibles to see this in action. His YouTube channel was one of the first resources I used when learning foraging, and I highly recommend it. 

What is Your Tribulation Gameplan? - (Article 5)

This article is going to detail some of my thoughts on what a family or lone individual should do during this decade. We have no idea what the Synagogue of Satan (SoS) is going to pull next on the population, though we have a general idea due to their plans being out in the open with organizations like the WEF broadcasting it. This essay will cover two plans that one needs to be ready to execute at a moments notice.

As I write this, the elite are planning to vaccinate animals with mRNA vaccines, which will make its way into food. At this point, we should all be seeking alternative food sources. 

Plan A is that you need to start becoming as self sufficient as much as possible. The first and most important step to this is gathering your own meat and plants. They are absolutely, 100% going to seize total control over the food. You will have to get the mark and enter into the digital ID prison system in order to get food eventually. If you have money and resources to begin homesteading and raising your own crops and animals, then you should definitely begin making that transition. If not and you are like the rest of us, myself included, that leaves one other option. That means you need to gather them from the wild.

Trapping, fishing and hunting will be be the methods you extract food, besides foraging. You can also plant wild gardens in forests with the seeds from wild plants you harvest, creating your own hidden food sources. 99% of people have no knowledge of foraging, which is a big advantage for yourself when developing these gardens. In addition, wild edibles are very tough and resilient, and you don’t have to spend much time or resources trying to keep them alive like domesticated plants. One man I know in my online survival circle discovered this with Amaranth. He raised it next to his kale and other domestic plant species. Many of them withered and couldn’t grow. The wild amaranth flourished and he barely had to do anything to keep it alive besides planting it.

This is God’s handiwork. Don’t fight against His creation he has laid out in your general area. Use it to your advantage and He will make it a lot easier going along with his design instead of you trying to go against it with other foreign species of plants that have no business being there. A recurring trend I see in this world is that it always pays to go along with nature and putting in the work to do it yourself. Any shortcuts or taking the easy way almost always screws you over. For example, you could take the easy way and go to the grocery and get the produce from there. However, it's laced with pesticides and chemicals that will kill you over a long period of time. And dependence on these stores will eventually lead to your enslavement and control. On the opposite end, you could collect or raise wild plants yourself, become one step close to self sufficiency, and learn to feed yourself. You will also improve your health eating wild plants as it isn’t laced with chemicals, and wild plants have deeper roots, leading to them generally being much richer in nutrients than the genetic abominations sold in these evil mega corporations.

The second pillar of self sufficiency that everyone needs to strive for is physical fitness. Physical fitness is vital for many reasons. One, it keeps you out of the kill houses known as hospitals. You DO NOT want to get dependent on Big Pharma medications. The entire Sickcare system in place is designed to get everyone dependent on these medications and vaccines. The transgender scam is another attack vector they are attempting to do. By cutting someone's penis or breasts off, and jacking them up on hormones, they are ensuring these poor people will be needing consistent medical care the rest of their short lives. What a great way for these parasites to make money and sterilize the population! The second reason is because you need physical fitness and strength is to get your food and protect your family. I don’t care if you are a man or woman, you need to be fit. No excuses. If you are a real Christian, you aren’t going on benders or getting stoned out of your mind. The only reason you aren’t training the body God gave you is because you are lazy. You don’t need to work out for hours. Do something short everyday.

You need to eat as healthy as possible. Eat a lot of meat, eggs, fish, and dairy as you can. Yes, I know a lot of what I just listed has hormones and other nasty stuff. But that is why I am pushing you guys to get as much wild food as you can. You are trying to minimize the poison as much as possible. I pray over all the food I eat, and ask God to clean it. Since doing that, I feel much better and I do think God helps when asked. (Witness 2 can vouch for this!)

Prayer: Dear Father in Heaven, Thank you for this food. Please cleanse all evil from in it and bless it in Jesus's name. 

For men, you need to protect your testosterone. I will cycle taking herbal testosterone supplements such as Tongkat Ali, and Fadogia Agrestis, and also take NMN from Black Forest supplements. If you aren’t getting morning wood, that is a big sign your testosterone might be low. Another sign is if you have low energy, low sex drive, and aren’t interested in the female sex. The SoS is obsessed with emasculating and making us men weak. Don’t let them win. You need testosterone to fight and forage.

I could list other ways you can become self sufficient, such as getting your own water (you should be distilling your tap water), becoming self sufficient energy wise, etc. but these are the two biggest ones you guys need to work on becoming. It is a journey that requires study and constant practice, and you need to accept that this is something important for Christians of this modern age to do. We didn’t choose to be survivors in this this satanic, low-cyberpunk dystopia, but we will persevere and make The Lord proud of our spirit and will. *

Alright, time to talk about Plan B.

Plan B becomes more of a certainty as time goes on. We are going to witness some real gnarly sh*t. I can’t sugar coat this. You WILL witness some really terrifying things in this life. We know the SoS can manipulate weather, use DEWs, drop chemical bombs like in East Palestine, has advanced UFO-esque aircraft, access to occult magic and much more. We know they are going to crash the economy, start WW3/civil conflict in America and the rest of the world. We will face pestilences, earthquakes, potentially cosmic phenomena that comes from God and who knows what else. This means that eventually, you will probably have to leave home. What I talked about earlier in Plan A is what you do during the times of relative peace before the real SHTF. Also, by focusing on getting your own food and honing your physical prowess, you are practicing for Plan B as well.

Contrary to what most internet commandos think, you do not want to be getting into fire fights during times of turmoil. You are a person with no military support or supply logistics, with limited resources. The top priority for a family during these events is stealth and evasion. If you are in a city or urban area, scout areas around you. Talk to family that lives in rural areas. Figure out where you would go in case of SHTF. In areas where you think you could stay, scout for food. Study the plants. Look for water, such as rivers, lakes, streams, etc. Look for animal sign. Determine how much human traffic is out there. Again, like I say in many of my writings, you are a scout. You are scouting for your tribe and are responsible for their survival. No one is going to save you. Its just you and God.

If a crisis happens, you want to move at night if possible. Depending on the catastrophe, hostiles will be everywhere searching for targets of opportunity. Maneuver through wooded areas and just behind tree lines. Harbor during the day in thickets, and other vegetation that no one would move through. Night vision devices are an EXTREMELY useful tool. If you have night vision, you will have a large advantage over the population. Very few individuals besides militias, military and serious preppers will have this technology. If you can’t afford a set of PVS-14s, get a night vision scope for your rifle or as just one to wear around your neck with a piece of string. Seriously, I would get PVS-14s over some fancy AR and chest rig. It’s that much of a game changer. You do not want to be fumbling around in the dark with a flash light. If you only have a flashlight as an option, get a red light lens flashlight. They are harder to see at night, and I used them in the military. If you have to use a flashlight, use a poncho, coat or blanket to cover yourself while you read or look at a map. Light discipline is the number one reason recon and special forces units get caught at night. Don’t smoke a cigarette at night as it kills your natural night vision.

You need to get basic kit. Buy a large hiking backpack, and avoid anything that looks military. Hill People kit chest bags go great with a pack. Get high quality hiking boots, you do not want cheap foot wear. Trust me, I have personal experience with cheap boots from the military. Merrell is my favorite brand. I completed a 26 mile hike in the Mojave desert with a heavy pack in a pair of them with a 240B medium machine gun(25 lb). My feet were torn up afterwards still, but I wouldn’t have completed the hike in cheap boots. They make a huge difference when you are on your feet all day.

Get camping gear. Fire starters, lighters, water filtration, lightweight tent, poncho, blanket, sleeping bag, hand axe and saw, medical kit, traps like #11 longsprings/110 and 220 conibears, fishing kit with lots of line and hooks to make limb lines, fish antibiotics/medicine. There are a million resources online for this kind of stuff. You want to remain as light as possible. Check my earlier posts on resources to learn trapping and other critical skills.

For firearms, I would get a take-down .22LR rifle and a self defense handgun. Why am I not recommending something like an AR? Simple. I have thought about this a lot, and I genuinely think that an AR or AK is not practical for this kind of situation. The ammo is heavy, so you can’t take a lot of ammo. You can’t hunt small game with them, as the rounds destroy the meat. Plus it is very loud. You are not trying to get in fire fights. If there is a group of men trying to kill you with body armor or other tricked out AR/AKs, you will very likely die. I am not being pessimistic, but this is based off my training. We did simulation drills with paint balls in infantry school, and we got shown you WILL get overwhelmed by multiple shooters quickly. The best defense is to limit your exposure to these situations as much as you can. If you are in a homestead or other area with resources, then I would 100% recommend having fighting rifles like AR/AKs. But if you are on foot, you need to treat this as a long camping trip. Ounces equal pounds, and pounds equal pain. And carrying a heavy load will wear you out and make you need more food. With .22LR ammo, you can carry 3-5x as much ammo compared to .223 or 7.62. You can also hunt small and large game with it, with large game requiring a head-shot or heart-shot. Study animal anatomy to know where to shoot. Deer can be shot between the eye and the base of the ear.

With modern Ruger 10/22 take-downs, there are many options you can choose. They are extremely modular, with tons of after market parts. You can build a very accurate and reliable shooter, with the capacity to magazine dump on hostiles at close range very quickly with low recoil. You can also buy a suppressor and quiet the report down to minuscule levels. A suppressed .22LR can use sub sonic rounds like the ones made from CCI that work wonderfully. Self defense .22LR rounds are also made that increase the reliability and penetration, something that bulk .22LR ammo is known to lack. After-market parts can increase your reliability even more from companies like Tandemkross.

If you study history, it is full of examples of the deadliness of the .22LR. The Israelis used them as sniper rifles to quell leaders during riots. They thought that shooting them in the leg would make them run away and discourage them from participating. Well the government ended up canning the project because they found out they were just straight up killing people accidentally. Rounds would either tumble and bounce in their body, or they would miss and hit their genitals. There are numerous stories you can read of women using the .22 to kill charging bears and other predators with headshots. Poachers use .22 rifles to kill big game such as deer as well with head shots. Our own US special forces have used .22 rifles to assassinate targets or as sentry removal. Anyone who laughs at the humble .22 is ignorant to how truly versatile this round is.

I hope this has gotten your “noggin’ joggin'". I can’t cover everything in this article. You need to think about your situation and plan accordingly. Start going out on walks in nature, camping and getting food from the wild. Get comfortable walking in the dark in the woods. Be comfortable being alone in the woods. Shoot guns, or whatever weapons you have access to. Be like what Bruce Lee said, and “be like water”. Be adaptable, always learning, and growing stronger. This, combined with a healthy prayer and Bible routine will ensure your success.

~Caveman 

Foraging with Christian Caveman #2 (Article 6)

With fall and winter are around the corner, now is the perfect time for everyone to begin studying for next years spring and summer harvest. Foraging is a fun past time for myself, as you turn the entire world into a never ending treasure hunt. No matter where you are at, whether in the city, parks, neighborhoods or the desolate forests, you should always be looking and trying to identify plants to eat. Add on knowledge of animal sign and game trails, and you will have loads of fun just walking around and identifying food no matter where you go. Envision yourself as a scout for your tribe(family), looking for resources everywhere. Their survival depends upon you.

Do you know anyone who has this mindset? I don’t! But its one you need to adopt now. Food is going to get real scarce in the coming years, and you need to start getting in this survival mindset now. Because once things get bad (and crises tend to escalate very quickly if you study history), you will be in too much shock to learn then. You need these skills ingrained in you.

The best thing about foraged greens is that they are healthier than any greens you can buy at a store, and they don’t have pesticides sprayed over them that gives you cancer. Just make sure you pick in areas that aren’t exposed to roads or where a lot of humans tread. Places like golf courses and some parks may or may not spray certain areas to keep the weeds down. Use your brain, critically think and use common sense. Treat all of this as life-or-death training. Because it is.

With this foraging mini-series, I will periodically write about various plants, mushrooms, and other edibles that you can find in the United States. If you live in other parts of the world, you are going to have to take the initiative and learn local plants yourself. Foraging in itself is local, and while reading and watching videos is a fantastic way to learn, you need to go out and find out what you actually have around you. For someone just getting into foraging, you should focus on easy to identify plants that are everywhere. My plan with this series is to introduce plants to get people motivated to do a bit of research and look for them in their day to day life. Foraging takes time to study and learn. You need to start now.

Most of the plants I am going to list today are best picked young and green. You can still eat them when they are older, but they will be bitter. Cooking them and changing out the water once or twice can eliminate the bitter aftertaste. Keep in mind that bitter foods actually have a positive reaction in your body. When you eat bitter plants, it makes your liver purge itself, improves digestion, increase blood circulation, stimulate release of digestive juices in the pancreas, and much more.

You also want to try these foods out now to make sure you don’t have some food allergy or other reaction. If you try out a plant when you are on the run from the satanic LGBTQ+ androids and find out you have an allergy, that could be game over for you. When you first try a plant, eat a tiny amount, see what happens, and then proceed to eat more. Look up the US army foraging test. I don’t espouse using this test for plants you have no idea what they are as that is extremely dangerous, but use it for plants you have positively identified.

• Plantain: This stuff is everywhere! Everyone should know this plant for emergencies. Not only can you eat it as a green, its medicinal. You can chew it and put it on bee stings to stop the sting, and also use it on cuts as an antiseptic. It helps with inflammation and has other medicinal properties. Its a little bitter, but you can cook it and add it to soups. Its very healthy for you. It has vitamin A, C and K.
• Dandelions: Yes. You can eat those yellow flowered weeds you see everywhere you go. They are bitter, but you can cook them to lessen the taste. You can also make fritters out of the flowers. Has high levels of vitamin A, vitamin C, iron, and protein.
• Curly Dock: Another common green that is everywhere. It has high oxalic acid, so its best to cook it and change the water once or twice to get rid to get rid of the flavor. It is very healthy for you . It has vitamin C, A, iron and protein.
• Prickly Lettuce: Another common, bitter green. Cook it to break down the spines. When its a young rosette(first year stage for perennial(2 year life span) type plants) you can eat it raw, older you will need to cook it. Has vitamin A, B and minerals.
• Stinging Nettle/Wood Nettle: I put both sub species together here. Wood Nettle is my favorite green to eat that I have tried so far. These plants are VERY healthy. It is anti-proliferative, anti- inflammatory, antioxidant, analgesic, anti infectious, hypotensive and anti-ulcer. Even healthier than the greens I have listed above. Make sure to cook it as they have stings that hurt, so when picking them it would be best if you use gloves and some scissors. It is delicious when cooked with butter. Nothing else tastes like it in the grocery store.
• Purslane: Delicious and found everywhere. It is classified as succulent, which means its juicy and fleshy. You can blend these into a shake, eat them raw, put them in a salad or pot. Good source of thiamine, niacin, vitamin B6, folate, vitamin A, vitamin c, riboflavin, calcium, iron, magnesium, phosphorus, potassium, copper and manganese. Has carbs, fats and protein.
• Acorns: I saved this type of food for last. They are normally harvested in the fall, which means this is a good chance for all you remnants to go out looking for these. Unfortunately for the greens listed above, while they provide great medicinal and nutrition benefits, they don’t provide much calories. Calories and fat are key nutritional factors that hunter-gatherers typically have a hard time getting enough of. Acorns, roots and nuts are the main plant food that Native Americans went for calories, in addition to hunting and trapping their meat. You can leach the tannin in the acorns either with a hot or cold leach with water, and make flour out of the nut meat. I highly recommend getting Same Thayers Foragers Harvest books, in addition to his uniquely exceptional field manual. It details the process in processing acorns and turning them into flour. You can find videos online detailing this, but it is vital to have offline sources of information.
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There you go! I gave you a few plants to study. Now learn as much as you can about them. Look up videos. Watch people talk about them, and all the possible uses. In the future I will release more articles talking about wild edibles you can eat. The more plants you know how to eat, the less satan has control over you in the grocery stores. Think of this as returning to the days of Adam and Eve, reclaiming the knowledge that allowed us to simply live with God in His garden. I never thought I would have fun learning plants, but once you begin foraging, it becomes addictive. I suspect that video games, especially with RPGS that make you collect items and such, play off this psychological trait that God put into us humans. You will see what I mean once you begin.

God bless you all,

Caveman 

 Foraging with the Christian Caveman #3 (Article 7)

Two Witnesses Disclaimer: Safe, sustainable & responsible foraging

The information provided on this website is designed to inspire and educate readers on the traditional and modern uses of plants as well as trapping. 

We are not liable or responsible for any consequences resulting from consuming, trapping, or using wild food based on this information, including accuracy and availability, and all wild, trapped, or hunted is food consumed is at your own risk.

The Two Witnesses have not evaluated the accuracy of these statements. 

Continuing with the series is the next section of plants for your remnants to study and look up. Remember, I recommend looking these up, watching You tube videos on them, and finding them yourself. If the latest prophecy and world events unfolding aren’t motivating you to prepare now, I don’t what will. Let’s begin.

Black walnut: The outer shell is a green fleshy mass. As it ages, this mass will turn black. Inside are walnuts you can eat. It is recommended to use gloves when shelling these, as the juices can stain your hands. People use hammers or run them over with their cars to shell them. Has vitamin A, C, copper, calcium, iron, and manganese.

*Bonus tip: Old trappers used these to dye their traps. When you first get your steel traps, it’s good to boil them with some baking soda to get rid of the grease that comes on them from the factory. Once you get the grease off, put the traps outside for a week or two to get an initial light rust on them. After rusting, knock the rust off. With the black walnuts, get one gallon of them that are black, smash them up and throw them in a 5-gallon container with boiling water. Lower the traps one by into them. In two days, remove the traps. Now you have naturally scented and camouflaged traps.

Cattails: If you played the survival video game The Long Dark, then you definitely know this plant. Well, it’s an actual survival plant! You can eat the heart of the stalk, make tinder out of its head, in late summer use the roots that are full of starch for flour or cook them to eat, and use the pollen as flour as well. Make sure to identify this properly, as you don’t want to mistake this for an Iris, as those are toxic. I recommend watching videos on Iris’s to make sure you know the two plants. Cattails are found around wet places and bodies of water. Have Vitamin C, beta carotene, niacin, riboflavin, thiamine, potassium, and phosphorus.

Hickory nuts: Another type of nut you can eat. They are known for being hard to crack. The type of trees they come from are Shagbark, Shellbark and Black Hickory.

Jerusalem Artichoke: Type of sunflower. The key identifying feature is the yellow flower center and 13 petals (13 tribes of Israel). The tuber is used like a potato. This plant is also known for its gassy qualities due to the high levels of inulin, a soluble fiber that passes intact through the digestive system. Methods to eliminate this include soaking it in salted water before simmering gently in milk, and slow roasting it to break down the inulin. The tuber is best collected in winter or early spring.

Kentucky Coffee Bean: You can make a coffee substitute with this. Gather ripe pods from fall through into winter, extract the seeds, and roast at 350-degree F for 20 minutes or until the shells are brittle, then crack them with a nutcracker. Remove kernel from the shell and roast at 250 until dark brown, then grind and brew like a coffee. Seeds roasted less dark can also be eaten boiled or ground into flour to mix sparingly into baked goods. Immature seeds gathered when the pods are still pinkish to yellow in mid- late summer can be boiled and used like fava beans.

Lambs Quarters: Popular plant among foragers. The seeds can be cooked as a grain or ground into flower. Leafy tops from young plants can be collected from spring to early autumn, and can be eaten raw or cooked like spinach. Quinoa is a domesticate variant of this species. It is a very nutritious plant as well. Has vitamin A, C, calcium, folate, riboflavin and manganese.

Dead Nettle: Can be cooked in the pot as a green. Great in a stir fry. Can also be juiced or in a salad. All over the place during spring. Has vitamin a, calcium, iron, magnesium, phosphorus, potassium, manganese, and some protein.

Wood Sorrel: Tea can be made from it to soothe the stomach and stop vomiting. Has a lemony taste. These are more of a trail nibble, but they are found everywhere, including even in urban settings.

Shepherds Purse: The plant can be used to stop hemorrhaging and can be used as a poultice for inflamed joints. Is also a diuretic and helps with bladder problems. The young tender leaves can be gathered in spring and fall and eaten raw or cooked as a potherb. The shoots can be eaten as well.

Virginia Waterleaf: Can eat the young leaves in the spring, both raw and cooked. The shoots are tender and juicy. These are everywhere in forests and are available for a long time.

Prickly Sow-Thistle/Common sow-thistle: Can eat the peeled stalk in spring or early summer raw or cooked. The leaves can be eaten raw or cooked when young or tender. Cooking reduces prickliness.

Chicory: Roots of first year plants can be eaten cooked, old ones are too tough. Young or old roots can be dried and ground into a coffee-like powder. Young spring leaves can be used raw or cooked as a pot herb. They have beautiful bright blue-purple flower heads.

That’s all for this segment. Go forth and study! Time is short. If you haven’t gotten Sam Thayer’s field guide, you are behind the game. This book is literally the best resource you can find on this subject in the world. And it’s only 30 bucks. Great investment to keep you alive. A lot of the information I wrote about in this segment is from this book. I highly recommend getting his other books that go into extensive details on specific plants. I have read his three other books multiple times.

Link to The One Foraging Book To Rule Them All: https://www.amazon.com/Thayers-Field-Guide-Edible-Plants/dp/0976626640 

SHTF Traps and Snares (Article 8)

The time to get traps and snares if you don’t have them are now. The prices are shooting up, and eventually you won’t be able to buy them. The government has also tried banning traps in the past, and they will try again in the future. Traps are the most efficient way to get meat, and any end times survivor needs an arsenal of traps to weather the apocalypse. In this article, I am going to detail a list of traps you should buy. I will list the core ones you need ASAP. View your traps as you view your knives, guns, and other weapons. Some of these can be repurposed as anti-personnel tools, area lock down, and booby traps to protect a camp or homestead.

A good trapper is a formidable opponent, and throughout American history, trappers were the original survivalists who were the best hunters and woodmen. To trap an animal, one had to understand the environment, animal behavior, and woodlore. To learn trapping, one often had to apprentice under an experienced one to learn the tricks of the trade. While that is still applicable today, we now have many resources available online to learn. The best resource I can recommend is TheMeatTrapper on YouTube and Patreon. He is oriented towards a prepper/self-sufficiency mindset, and he has phenomenal advice I have never heard anywhere else. Most of what I have learned has come from him. I can’t possibly write about trapping and snaring to the full extent to what I would like on here when his videos and resources are for free on YouTube. So, I will try to summarize and point you to the gear and websites to stock up. You need to study these videos and watch them over and over and practice the techniques.

Traps for SHTF: Sleepy Creek or MB #11 double longsprings footholds (small-medium game), Sleepy Creek or MB #2 double longspring footholds (medium game), MB550 Closed Jaw 2 Coil Spring footholds (medium game), Round Body Grip Traps 110 and 220 (kill traps for small to medium game). Get around 12 foot hold traps, 8 #11 longsprings and 4# #2’s or MB550’s. Get 2-4 110s and 2 220s. These are rough numbers, and if you can get more, get them. You must evaluate your trapping territory and the animals around you. You might only have small game or larger game, so you will have to prepare accordingly.

“Blind” foothold sets are the king of trap sets. They require no bait and they completely catch animals off guard. You can set them on trails, set them in front of cubbies you build out of sticks or buckets that have bait, in front of scent posts, carcasses, logs on a trail and more. The body grip traps can be set in front of den holes, cubbies, and on trails. The round shape has a more persuasive shape than the usual square body grip traps. Body grip traps are great for when you need an animal killed and it can’t be alive running around creating a “burn circle”. You use them most of the time during cold weather or in the water, as the meat will spoil quickly in warm weather if the animal is dead.

Put 6 feet of american #2 chain on the longsprings and closed jaw traps. You can buy quality chain at fntpost.com. Don’t get cheap Chinese chain. You can use 3/32 aircraft cable as your tieoff for the bodygrips. #2 chain can be used as well.

For the longsprings, you can get bigger trap pans that will enlarge your capture rate at wildrivertraps.com. I use the #1.5 mink and muskrat pans. This way, anything from a squirrel to even a coyote can be caught in your longsprings.

MB550s are another option if you can’t find any longsprings, especially the Sleepy Creeks, as they are out of business. Coilsprings are generally not as durable as longsprings, but the MB550s are an exception and are built tough.

Snares: You can buy snare cable and parts from Snareone. Newt is one of the most respected snaremen in the world. He can talk to you and get what you need. If you don’t want to make your own snares, you can buy premade ones from him. I recommend getting a set of 12 of 3/32 1/19 twist snares that can be used for coon all the way to deer if need be. He also has a sister site that is focused on survival snaring. They have snare packages you can buy ready-made.

I also recommend reading his book, Survival Snaring. I have read that book multiple times, and always learn something new. He also has great instructional DVDs. I also recommend buying his premium snare dip called Formula One. It protects your snares from the elements and camouflages them. You can also use the black walnut trick I listed in the foraging article I released today to dye them if you can't afford it, but it isn't as good as Formula One. 

Snares primarily work by being set in trails. They are silent and if set off by a misfire don't scare animals and educate them like steel traps do, so they can be reset if they don't catch anything. Animals view them as a part of the vegetation. The way to set snares is to set as many as you can in a trail. Set them for different heights and species depending on the sign you see in the trail. 

Snares are lightweight and can catch large game like deer. If you need a lot of meat in a hurry in a survival scenario, you can “gang set”(set many snares) 3/32 snares in deer trails. You can also set them on rubs the bucks use with their antlers. Newts Survival Snaring book goes into great detail over this. TheMeatTrapper also has videos on how to do this on his Patreon and Youtube. For more information about using traps to provide food or other benefits, his Patreon is a great resource. 

This is a down and dirty article to get you remnants started on trapping and snaring. Trapping is a huge subject, and I recommend beginning your study now. Combined with a robust foraging knowledge base, you can begin to become self-sufficient with meat and plants. You will be leagues ahead of everyone if you are equipped with a nice arsenal of traps and snares.

I am a former recon marine, and all throughout my twenties I was an alcoholic womanizer. The job I had made me a bit of a sociopath and made me obsessed over combat. However, I have always been a warrior in my heart, and all the men in my family have been marines. I was raised on military bases, and my dad had a career as a marine.

I made a lot of bad decisions after I got out, ruined my first relationship, and essentially spiraled into a dark, drunken depression in my late twenties. I was dealing with mental trauma I had received from being in, mainly from verbal abuse and hazing and feeling I was never good enough, and that I was a terrible marine. 

I was full of hatred. I would wake up hungover, look in the mirror and tell myself "I hate you". I would just go from one drunken hook up to the next, and I felt stuck with my current job situation and debt. I was having dreams of demons around me laughing at me while I was in a cage, multiple sleep paralysis dreams, including being suffocated by a black wave of goo, and other horrid dreams that I don't have anymore after turning to Christ. This suffering culminated into me attempting to take a permanent solution out, which luckily I survived with only a ringing right ear and a hole blown in my apartment wall and no one finding out. 

Shortly after that, I had one of the most terrifying dreams I've ever had, with a cloaked figure that looked like a dementor from Harry Potter (crappy series I know) floating above me, watching me in a sleep paralysis dream I was completely awake in, and I had this knowledge in my head that it wanted my soul and it almost had me. I was an atheist at this time, as my former Catholic priest was caught being a pedo, and it drove me and my family from the Catholic church. I used to denounce God all the time and criticized the church all the time. I was a fool. 

Well, after this happened I was completely scared, and I began working on getting into IT and turning my life around. I still drank, but over the next few years, I slowly started controlling my drinking. I have been clean for two years now from drinking, and I have made a new contract with God to now stop doing weed, as I used it to quit drinking, which has been going well so far. Prayer has helped immensely.  I finally got my dream job in cybersecurity, and I have developed a relationship with a woman I'm going to be marrying soon. 

I figured out Covid was BS after a couple months into it, and researching it took me down the rabbit hole, with 4chan being a primary source for info in addition to other youtube channels. I began questioning everything, and I made a decision out loud: "I am going to figure out the truth of the world." This also included researching religion and learning about philosophy. Over the first 11 months, I was learning an incredible amount about Hinduism, Buddhism, different philosophies and such. I finally realized after looking into Christianity that it was 100% true.

I still remember when my soul realized this, I was completely shocked. I was alone in the house, broke down crying and started repenting. I didn't even know where to begin, as I had sinned so much and done some truly awful things. I felt weird afterwards, like my soul was rebooting. 

Then my dream happened shortly after. This was unlike any dream I've ever had in my life. 

I woke up in a dark temple, with a spiral staircase in the far left corner in the distance leading up, with a brilliant light shining down. To the right of it was a blurry figure in the shape of an angel with wings and a robe. I couldn't focus on it, like it was hard to see or some kind of forcefield was over it. It raised its left arm, and pointed to a small wooden table to the right of me, ahead of me a bit. It said (in my mind) "Go to the table." 

I walked over and looked down. On the table were various small candles, all half melted around it. There were a bunch of wooden cards on it, but I can't remember what they looked like. On the left side of the bottom edge of the table was a carving of a tree with a round top, and the card on the right side was a carving of a pine tree. I didn't study dreams or symbolism during my studies so I know this wasn't my subconscious, and I ended up looking them up and asking /x/, and one person said the rounded tree sounds like a baobab tree. I looked it up and it looked just like it. It represented protecting people and survival. The pine tree represented undergoing a trial. Of course, I could be wrong in my interpretation. If you know the right meaning, correct me. 

In the center of the table was a wooden card with a carving of Jesus, and as soon as I looked at it, the angel said "You will be tested beyond anything you can possibly imagine."

The scene shifted to a vision of me and my current fiancee in the mountainous woods somewhere, with many cars all abandoned around us. I think my fiancee had a baby with her. We heard people behind us screaming and gunfire erupting. I grab her and the baby and yell "Lets go towards the woods!". The dream ended, and I immediately woke up, and strangely my fiancee woke up at the same time and I told her the dream. 

For the rest of 2022 and into the next year throughout 2023, I began praying and reading the Bible. I would have moments where I would not pray or read the Bible, but I would remember my dream and come back to it. I began seriously contemplating my life, my existence, God, the circumstances I've encountered and my relationship with God grew. I would be in contemplative meditative modes, sort of talking to God and praying for long periods of time doing things or just daydreaming. I finally declared to him that my life was forfeit, if I die doing the right thing then so be it. I wanted to embody all His good qualities and be as much of a paragon of his values as I can. This moment culminated a year later, on Halloween in 2022, almost exactly a year later since that dream. 

We have gay men neighbors who we had sort of a feud with. They were heavy drinkers, and without going into all of it, we hated each other. They had insulted me and my gf at the time, and one of them tried apologizing to me when I was out in the backyard. I screamed at him you are out of your mind, and he walked away. Well, after coming to God, I realized I have to forgive them. I was out shooting one of my bows out back, and waited for my lady to leave for work. I said in my mind, "Alright God, here goes. Help me with the words." I walked over, knocked, but they weren't there. I then said to myself, well God I tried, I'll try later. As soon as I walked back over, they arrived. I laughed to myself and was like OK OK. I walked over and they were ecstatic with me accepting their apology and apologizing to them. I told them that God did this, and they agreed (I don't think they are seriously Christian, but who knows except God). After that happened, I went back home and felt really good, and decided to call an old friend and tell him the truth about something that had happened with us awhile back and apologized and told him I love him. He was like "Well dang man!" paused, and we continued chatting and he accepted me. 

This was on Halloween. The next day something happened that completely dumbfounded me.

I was cooking in the middle of the day, and my fiancee was in the living room with me. I was contemplating God, when out of nowhere this small voice in my head said something like "...I would like that." I froze and was like "Wait, is this God?". It said "Yes it is I. The Living God, the God of Abraham, the Just One." And a few others I can't remember. He told me "I'm proud of you and what you did. You are my son and I love you. Don't tell her (my fiancee) you are talking to me just yet." I was flabbergasted and my fiancee told me I had some weird look on my face and asked me if I was OK. I started talking to him and He said "The more you talk to me, the louder and more clearly you will hear me." I asked him a few other things which I won't disclose, but He told me 2027 was going to be bad. That's all He would say. 

Even now, I can talk to Him in my mind. I've tested Him to make sure it's not a demon or satan, and He has affirmed it many times and what He says always follows the word. When I sin, His voice goes away and I feel bad. It's been a struggle, but things have slowly gotten better and better, and life is going pretty great. 

I've been training non stop in weapons, survival, trapping, foraging, snaring, fitness and other activities to prepare for what's coming. He has told me I'm one of his warriors, and I know I have to be strong to help others when the time comes. I also study and pray all the time, and plan to read the whole Bible, as I finished the whole New Testament. When this NWO smart prison or UFO demonic invasion or whatever happens I know this will be my destiny and I will suffer for Christ's love, and be the best Christian I can be. 

Thanks for reading this. I just wanted to share it, and get your take on it. I never thought this would have happened to me. I am half worried about the future,  mainly I am scared I will fail myself or God and not do the right thing, or be a coward if I do have to die doing the right thing. I want to make God and Jesus proud of me.