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The Prepper Journal

By Pat Henry

The Prepper Journal is a survival blog devoted to a wide variety of preparedness, survival, self-reliance, and personal defense topics for readers who want to protect themselves and their families from seen and unseen disasters in the future. I started the Prepper Journal in 2013, to help people become more prepared for life’s curve balls.

I believe that anyone can take steps to be more prepared for natural or man-made disasters regardless of their age or physical ability. With that in mind, I want to do anything I can to motivate people to start prepping.
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Neighborhood Defense Strategies - Part 3

The Prepper JournalMar 12, 2024

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How To Get Home After an EMP Attack –

How To Get Home After an EMP Attack –

Imagine a situation where an EMP has wiped out power nationwide, and you are hundreds of miles away from your family on a business trip. How will you make it home? How will you survive in the wilderness or navigate cities where you know chaos will reign? What will you need to consider now to give you a better shot at success? Today on the Prepper Journal, we will discuss how to make it home after an EMP.

Jan 30, 202439:23
Everyday Carry Essentials – Gear That Can Save Your Life

Everyday Carry Essentials – Gear That Can Save Your Life

Everyday carry items are up close and personal prepping items that each of you should have access to anytime you leave the house. They are tools that can be useful in a myriad of situations, but most importantly, they all share one or more lifesaving properties when used in the proper context. Today on the Prepper Journal podcast, we are going to discuss how three little letters can save your life in a survival situation.

Jan 30, 202442:53
Everyday Carry Essentials – Gear That Can Save Your Life

Everyday Carry Essentials – Gear That Can Save Your Life

Everyday carry items are up close and personal prepping items that each of you should have access to anytime you leave the house. They are tools that can be useful in a myriad of situations, but most importantly, they all share one or more lifesaving properties when used in the right context. Today on the Prepper Journal podcast we are going to talk about how these three letters can save your life in a survival situation.

Jan 20, 202442:53
Survival Communications

Survival Communications

On today’s episode of the Prepper Journal, we're diving deep into the critical aspects of survival communication. I’ll share information and tips you can use when disaster strikes to coordinate with family members, keep tabs on your neighborhood, or stay informed about the world around you.

Jan 12, 202437:52
A Second Civil War Is Not What You Have to Worry About
Dec 27, 202336:56
Survival Gear List - Part 2
Jun 17, 202153:19
Survival Gear List - Part 1
Jun 09, 202149:44
The Pros and Cons of Bartering

The Pros and Cons of Bartering

Bartering is the key. This will be the solution to all our problems when the grid goes down and society devolves back to somewhere around the early 1900s,  or at least that is what everyone in the prepping community would have you believe. Everyone that is except for the 10% who are anxiously awaiting the collapse so they can finally live out their lawless fantasies to their fullest.

Bartering, in theory, makes perfect sense. It is at its core, trading services or goods for other services or goods. An agreement between two people to exchange one thing for another. The assumption is that two people would have an honest contract implicit in nothing more than a firm handshake or “you have my word” statement. This will work for most people as I believe that most people are good and honest. However, some people are not honest and forthright and those are who you will need to be aware of when the subject of bartering comes up. Bartering has its good points and it's bad so today we will discuss the pros and cons of bartering as it relates to preppers.


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May 18, 202131:19
Top 5 Firearms You Need To Get Your Hands On NOW!

Top 5 Firearms You Need To Get Your Hands On NOW!

To the individual who is either interested in Prepping or already knee-deep into preparing for any number of potential emergencies or disasters, security has to be one of your primary concerns. This is not any truer if you have a family than if you are all alone. The simple fact of life is that when people are scared, hurting, or in some other way seriously under duress, the niceness of society disappears quickly. Someone who used to be your best friend will kill you if you are standing between food and their baby is starving.

It should be clear from any number of recent disasters where looting happened within hours that you and your family need to plan for security wherever you are. Firearms are most commonly (and for good reason) associated with security. Are there other options? Sure, but I would rather have my trusty shotgun as opposed to a baseball bat and harsh language if there were a bunch of people trying to knock down my door any day.


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Original Article - Top 5 Firearms You Need To Get Your Hands On NOW! - The Prepper Journal

May 07, 202135:00
The Fallacy of the Sensible Prepper Mindset

The Fallacy of the Sensible Prepper Mindset

From the fanatical doomsday prepper to people who are just trying to be more self-sufficient and everyone in between, each type of prepper has its strengths and weaknesses. Increasingly often though I keep hearing from self-described “Sensible preppers.” On the surface, the phrase is understandable, but I am starting to think that those who describe themselves as a sensible prepper could be leaving themselves open to problems at best. At worst, it could be minimizing the importance of prepping overall.

When I refer to “sensible preppers” I specifically mean, self-identified preppers who view anything more than very cursory preparations as symptoms of lunacy and panic. I’ll give you an example. I was reading a social media thread a few days ago and a topic was brought up by a Sensible Prepper who quickly pointed out that they just have some food and water stored up for local power outages – I believe they even said protestors in their town asked people to honk.

For a ton of Prepper Information – www.theprepperjournal.com

Original Article on The Fallacy of the Sensible Prepper Mindset - https://theprepperjournal.com/2021/02/08/the-sensible-prepper/

Article on Bunker Basics - https://bunkerbasics.com/the-prepper-journal-pat-henry/

Apr 28, 202117:35
Importance of Survival Sanitation after SHTF

Importance of Survival Sanitation after SHTF

In thinking about preparing your family for survival after a disaster or emergency situation you can’t forget to consider their health. Your family’s health is affected by so much more than having adequate stores of food. Having the best gun for self-defense is great and important, but what if someone in your group comes down with an illness that could have been easily prevented with a proper survival sanitation plan?  What if the killer that attacks you is a sinister little microorganism you never saw coming?


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The original article - https://theprepperjournal.com/2013/03/17/importance-of-survival-sanitation-after-shtf/

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Apr 21, 202126:54
Home Fortification Tips That Can Save Your Life

Home Fortification Tips That Can Save Your Life

In the world of Prepping, we group our topics that people want to learn about into just a few major categories when you think of it. The overarching goal of prepping or survival is to stay alive, but the disciplines that feed into Survival could be broken simply into food, water, shelter, self-defense, and first aid. There are many other branches but is a simplistic way of looking at priorities. Self Defense is one that has more urgency, and our home fortification plans are some of the most important parts of initial survival we can discuss.

As a parent of small children when I first got into prepping, it was hard to say which item I cared about more, but I know home defense was near the top. The thought of someone breaking into my home and harming one of my loved ones was scarier than just about any hypothetical armed combat against mutant zombie biker gangs in a post-apocalyptic world. Break-ins happen every day so my goal as a father along with providing for the general welfare of my family was keeping them safe.

Home fortification is a complex subject though for a couple of reasons. There are no one-size-fits-all solutions. We can make certain assumptions though and understanding that the Prepper Journal’s audience is primarily located in the US, our collective home situations share similarities.


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Original Article on Home Fortification - https://theprepperjournal.com/2021/01/09/home-fortification-tips

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Apr 11, 202128:40
Building the Perfect Emergency Go Bag

Building the Perfect Emergency Go Bag

Some situations in life do not give you time to think a lot. Sometimes you just must act in the interests of protecting your family. If you are ever faced with having to evacuate your home quickly, a packed go bag is your best bet of getting out of the house fast with the supplies you need to survive, potentially without anything else.

There are few things that provide preppers with a sense of security like a well-thought-out go-bag. Go bags are the same thing as a Bug Out Bag. It is a bag personalized to you and your situation expressly designed to grab on your way out the door. Your go bag should be packed and ready to go when you need it.

Today, we are going to break down what is needed for a go bag list and give you the information you need to set your own go bag up. Hopefully, you will never need a go-bag, but if you do let’s make sure you know the important items to consider when you build your go-bag.

Read the original article on The Prepper Journal

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Apr 03, 202156:33
Best Gun For Home Defense
Mar 26, 202141:53
Are You Ready to Be Called a Domestic Terrorist?
Mar 12, 202117:04
Neighborhood Watch on Steroids

Neighborhood Watch on Steroids

You have heard of the neighborhood watch before and some of you may even have this in your neighborhood. I remember that we had a home in our neighborhood that was broken into several years back and all of our neighbors got together at a meeting to discuss forming a neighborhood watch. We had a police officer come in and talk briefly about what we should and should not do and we all received small flimsy signs to put in our yard that said words to the effect of “This neighborhood is protected by neighborhood watch”. I think there was one lady who volunteered to roam the streets but that is about the last I heard of it and once the flimsy sign rusted and faded it found its way into my trash can.

If you have a true collapse and you and your neighbors feel that they need to defend their homes it is better to join together and combine forces so that you can protect more homes at once. It is also more likely that several people watching over things will be more of a deterrent than a single older retiree walking her dog at night. This is another situation where it all depends on the disaster that has happened. If you are talking about a late summer storm that drops some trees on power lines and you have the resulting loss of power for a few days, the neighborhood watch on steroids probably doesn’t need to get activated.


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Bugging Out vs. Hunkering Down
Feb 22, 202121:27
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Hello everyone, this is Pat Henry, creator, and editor of thePrepperJournal.com. Since 2013, I have been sharing information on the topics of preparedness, survival, and self-sufficiency will millions of readers and now we are bringing this information to a new platform.
The Prepper Journal podcast will be a new adventure for me, and my goal with the podcast is to share the message of prepping, survival, and common sense with you each week – delivered on your favorite podcast service.
In this new format, we will talk about all the prepping basics and teach you what you need to know if you want to get prepared for life’s unexpected events. You can be sure we will bring the same quality of content to this podcast as readers of The Prepper Journal have grown accustomed to for years, just delivered in a different way.
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