From PrepperCon 2018 with Dave and James
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On this episode of Prepping Up Dave travels to PrepperCon in Salt Lake City Utah and broadcasts his show live form the floor of the show. His sponsor Emergent Biosolutions, maker of RSDL sent Dave to one of the biggest Prepper Event in the US. Get ready to hear about the latest gear, current trends and what Prepper in Utah are prepping up for. Don’t miss this show because Dave will also have the host of I Am Liberty, James Walton on as well. Hear what James found during his travels at the show and his prospective on the prepper trend. James has a great insight on Prepper things and will share the vibes he is getting from the show live on the air. Read more “From PrepperCon 2018 with Dave and James”
This week on The Gunmetal Armory, we are gonna discuss BUDGET PREPPING, Prepping on a Fixed Income, Prepping while on Disability, and finding Single Mom Solutions for building a BOB, a GOOD Bag, or even an INCH Bag for her kids or herself on very little money. My listeners are going to enjoy where we’re going to learn this information from. My wife, Mrs. Gunmetal, is going to be co-hosting the show with me this Thursday. Being a single mom herself for a number of years, gave her the ability to seek out and find budget options for all sorts of different things. And now she is going to apply that knowledge and experience to the Bug Out Bag. 
In this show we are going to be playing a little bit of fantasy. Sometimes you need to take a break from the doom and gloom and have fun. So tonight we are not going to be teaching a skill or cool prepper tool. Tonight we are going to talk about what we would buy if we won the lottery. This can be the multi-state ones where you receive millions of dollars or just a simple $100 scratch off. What items and things would you buy? Where would you go if you had the money? Remember this not a vacation, its prepping related. 
This show Dave turns to Prepping on a tight budget. These Preps almost everyone can do and in a grid down situation could save your life. Barrowing the slogan from Ollie’s Discount Outlets Dave tell you how and where to get “good stuff cheap” for your prepper supplies. After this episode you will never look at the Dollar Store, Harbor Freight, Walmart and Family Dollar quite the same way. 
I approached The Prepper Journal a couple months ago for a client. I already knew of the site and loved its content. I was a fan long before all of this freelance writing. Well, I posted some great content on there about setting up a 
Calling all DIYers! Want some ideas for frugal, quick-to-make holiday gifts? You still have time to to make loads of handmade, natural, herbal gifts. Be sure to listen to Herbal Prepper Live this Sunday to learn how. 
In the first segment we cover cover the equities markets, metals, the dollar, Shanghai metal prices, BDI, VIX…All of the Indicators that we’ve been following. I believe that it is critical for us to closely monitor all activity at the beginning of the production chain. 
Ray, also known as Renaissance Man takes some time to discuss buying Silver. When you think of Silver, try not to think of it as money. Silver and Gold are store of value. All we’re doing is converting our fiat Federal Reserve Notes into a physical asset. Some people are able to buy large quantities of Silver and Gold. This is wealth protection or hedging against a falling Stock Market. 
There are lots of people out there making varying degrees of money from the survival niche. Whether its owning a blog, writing a book or even some level of training or consulting there is money to be made. There are even people making decent money with YouTube and survival content. You could also invent something great to affect the survival industry. Either way there is money to be made if you have great content or 
In the Prepper community there seems to be two prevailing purchasing strategies for gear. Buy cheap and buy often, or buy once cry once. Some Preppers buy some of the absolute cheapest gear possible from sites like Aliexpress and buy as many as duplicates as they can. Others do a ton of research and buy high end. 
