Deuteronomy 28:12:

“The Lord will open for you His good storehouse, the heavens, to give rain to your land in its season and to bless all the work of your hand; and you shall lend to many nations, but you shall not borrow.”

The frontier concept of rifle and revolver using the same ammo still makes sense. I teamed a Ruger SP101, with a Marlin 1894C .357 lever-action. Either can use .357 Magnums or lower powered .38 Special ammo. Back East it is getting very much more difficult to find someplace to practice with a military rifle. Most indoor ranges let you use a rifle which fires handgun ammo.
The .357 lever action is manageable by females and youngsters, has low recoil, is adequate for deer, more accurate than an AK and quiet when used with standard velocity lead .38 Special ammo. I don’t plan to stand and fight off the whole world. I just want to protect myself, my family and my gear, put meat in the pot and get the job done. Got both for less than the cost of a black rifle.

Accounts of real people who survived stress positive attitude, survivor's mindset, resourcefulness, enduring faith and teamwork. Without these even the well equipped will die. Google these examples:____Lt Hiroo Onoda, Imperial Japanese Army, who didn't walk out of the Phillipine jungle until 1974.__LtJg Dieter Dengler, USN, shot down, escaped and evaded until rescued, story depicted in movie Rescue Dawn.__Aron Ralston, exploring, a boulder fell on him, freed himself by severing his arm below the elbow. __Steven Callahan, Adrift 76 Days At Sea, best survival tale since Swiss Family Robinson.__Lost In Red Hell is Bela Gogos's autobiography of survival in the Gulag of Arctic Russia __Alive, story of the Andes survivors of Uruguayan Air Force Flight 571 that crashed on October 13, 1972.__There are so many inspiring true stories if you look for them, that you don't need fiction. ____

Other links where these materials are co-hosted are: http://www.slideshare.net/ke4sky/acs-survival-ski... http://www.theprepared.com/forum/viewtopic.php?f=... http://www.cert-la.com/smf/index.php?topic=108.0

Since 9/11/01 our fire department has been training municipal employees and Citizens Corps groups in "Disaster Survival Skills for the Urban Environment" in the Washington, DC metro area. Our .ppt presentation may be downloaded at following link: http://www.w4ava.org/races/KKauxcomm33.htm