Central Texas Survivalist Introduction

My primary goal is sharing the hunting and survival knowledge that I have from my experience growing up and living in the country, as well as my time in the military as an Emergency Management Specialist. I have always been interested in primitive skills, and in preserving them for the future. I also believe that the modern culture that we have built is based on a very fragile framework of technology(i.e. Electricity), that could collapse at any time due to a natural or man-made disaster. This places us in a unique situation, the skills of our forefather are almost lost to history at a time when we may desperately need them again, as individual and in large. I would seek to promote a sense of self-sufficiency to all those whose read my posts or watch my videos, but also a sense of respect for the ancient way of life, and the recognition that the future world may very well only support cultures that can marry the old ways with the new.


I am not an alarmist, nor am I prone to panic, but I can see the writing on the wall. We are running out of the resources that literally fuel our world as we know it: oil, water, food, etc. Although we may find solutions for our current problems, I doubt that we will escape without suffering a few lean years at the least. There are many scenarios that you can focus on, but the solution for the individual is the same, to be prepared. In any survival situation from a wide disaster to just wandering too far off of the hiking trail, the skills and mindset to survive is the same, the only difference is the scale. I do not know what is coming for us in the future, therefore, I must prepare myself and others to survive in any situation. In reality, it comes down to just a few things: ensuring your supply of oxygen, regulating your body temperature, maintaining your supply of clean water, and providing your body with energy in the form of calories. Everything else is just a bonus. It doesn't matter what the scenario is, survival is survival. I will discuss many topics here, that relate to all aspects of survival from my perspective from lean-to shelters to fall-out shelters.


I have the unique benefit of having had two primary influences in my development as a survivalist. First, my father, having been in the Army and serving in Korea, as well as being an avid hunter and outdoors-man, wanted his sons to be able to survive in any situation. As a young child, my father told me that one day, without notice, he would take me out to the woods and that I would have to survive on my own and make my own way back. Although he never did so, he repeated the warning throughout my childhood and through my young adulthood. Along the way, he made sure that I was acquiring the skills that I needed to survive in any situation. Through my own passion and experiences, I have continued to grow those skills over my life. My other great influence as a survivalist, was my grandfather. My grandfather was an ordained minister and believed that the end of the world was soon to come. He gave me an interest in the study of the end of the world, called Eschatology, and although my early years were spent studying the Bible, in Greek and Hebrew, as well as modern translations, over time I began to research other cultures such as the Mayans, Hopi, Egyptians, Sumerians, and others.


-Richard