No my name is not Pandemic, nor am I a Major, I am but a mortal being, using my freedom, intelligence, and available resources provided in this great free nation to survive another day. Hopefully I can help you get smarter and live longer and enjoy the outdoor more comfortably and more safely
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THANK YOU FOR BEING A MAJOR PANDEMIAN
As I say in my videos, "Welcome Major Pandemians" and thank you for using this site as another way to learn, read reviews, and generally waste time on the world wide interweb. Your readership is valued.
WHY THE SITE? - THE POINT
Knowing many people and how unprepared they are even to cook a meal during a power outage frustrates me... yes we have become a nation of people who understand little about the basics of survival in the home and outdoors in even the most accommodating of situations. It is my hope I can provide relevant information and reviews of some great products I find along my own learning journey related to enjoying the outdoors, hunting, shooting, general survival basics and even how to prepare and defend your home. Obviously, all content is provided "As-Is, final sale, do not try this at home", with a note that "use of any information provided or suggested on this site is done so at your own risk of personal injury or death of you or others." and "some information provided on this site should only be used in a life or death survival situation and as such could pose a risk of personal injury or death". In the end, if you do something monetarily, legally, or physically terribly based on information from this site, its all on you.
COMMON SENSE PREPAREDNESS
This is not a site about building bunkers or filling your garage with enough supplies to exist until the end of eternity. My approach is to identify those products which you can enjoy now, but would be very handy if "it" does hit the fan. Just Water Ceramic water filters for instance are handy now to reduce the cost of buying bottled water, and a Roundboy Pizza oven produces great food and adds value to your home now, and my Houlding and Black Rain ARs certainly are a blast to shoot, however all these items you can see would be indispensable in preparedness situation. My hope is that I can lead you down a common sense path of great products and knowledge which enriches your life in some way, perhaps provide an entertaining read, and also create a base of products you can leverage to survive. I am not often faced with a survival situation, however when I am I choose to survive well.
I did write for national a magazine for well over ten years and was a professional paid writer, have my own photo studio and photography equipment. I am also far too aware of the "everything is wonderful in candy land" reviews which are seen in nearly all publications. Name one article you have read lately in a publication which flat out says "this stinks on ice and must have been engineered by chimps." Having been a magazine writer, I know the politics of paid advertising and glowing reviews and was specially the reason I stopped writing for magazines. As an example, recently I read a glowing review of a loaded $3000 AR15 in a national publication which could not hold 1" groups at 100 yards (actually it held 1.5" groups with match ammo) ... this was disgusting and just makes me sick, a $3000 gun should bulletproof tack driver, but yet it had a glowing review. Unfortunately this is the advertiser sponsored truth you get with magazines, my hope is this site will provide a more accurate fair and honest perspective on products.
MY GOD HOW DO YOU AFFORD THIS?
Unless I was a millionaire, I would never be able to afford all the products I review. To be up front, yes, often manufacturers do provide me with evaluation equipment/products to test, but many products I buy just like you. Sadly some demo products provided for review just do not stack up and are simply packed up and shipped back to the manufacturer. Sorry I only review products which are innovative, have unique features, or are are in some way superior to competitive products. The products that do not meet my criteria are not worth my time.
I also have a real job... luckily a good one, do not golf, and spend my hobby money on this crazy endeavor.
A well known firearms writer once told me that very few writers shot more than a box of ammo through evaluated guns, so I thought it was important to "actually" review products for more than an hour before passing judgement, however ammo costs money. Ammo is my largest review expense by far. I typically spend on average $400 in ammo per rifle reviewed.
As a long-time Hornady ammo shooter, I believe Hornady makes some of the best consistent shooting ammo available. A big thank you goes to my friends at Hornady which provide me with much of my non-bulk accuracy ammo for testing.
A NOTE FOR MANUFACTURERS
If you feel confident in your product and would like a full word count detailed honest review of your product like you see on over 350 articles from over 200 manufacturers on my site, please feel free to reach out to me. As my real job, I am a nationally featured Executive Marketing Strategy, Search Engine Optimization and Digital Marketing expert, so my reviews tend to bubble to the Top-10 first page results of Google and other search engines; there is of course the bonus that your article will be around more than a month for all to enjoy and reference. Currently MajorPandemic.com has a monthly readership of over 150K a month, I guess people do like honest reviews, because those numbers seem to increase each month.
As I say in my videos, "Welcome Major Pandemians" and thank you for using this site as another way to learn, read reviews, and generally waste time on the world wide interweb. Your readership is valued.
WHY THE SITE? - THE POINT
Knowing many people and how unprepared they are even to cook a meal during a power outage frustrates me... yes we have become a nation of people who understand little about the basics of survival in the home and outdoors in even the most accommodating of situations. It is my hope I can provide relevant information and reviews of some great products I find along my own learning journey related to enjoying the outdoors, hunting, shooting, general survival basics and even how to prepare and defend your home. Obviously, all content is provided "As-Is, final sale, do not try this at home", with a note that "use of any information provided or suggested on this site is done so at your own risk of personal injury or death of you or others." and "some information provided on this site should only be used in a life or death survival situation and as such could pose a risk of personal injury or death". In the end, if you do something monetarily, legally, or physically terribly based on information from this site, its all on you.
COMMON SENSE PREPAREDNESS
This is not a site about building bunkers or filling your garage with enough supplies to exist until the end of eternity. My approach is to identify those products which you can enjoy now, but would be very handy if "it" does hit the fan. Just Water Ceramic water filters for instance are handy now to reduce the cost of buying bottled water, and a Roundboy Pizza oven produces great food and adds value to your home now, and my Houlding and Black Rain ARs certainly are a blast to shoot, however all these items you can see would be indispensable in preparedness situation. My hope is that I can lead you down a common sense path of great products and knowledge which enriches your life in some way, perhaps provide an entertaining read, and also create a base of products you can leverage to survive. I am not often faced with a survival situation, however when I am I choose to survive well.
HONEST REVIEWS WITHOUT THE BS
My first goal is simply to provide impartial honest full reviews of common sense preparedness products which you can use and enjoy today, but will provide you with top quality options when things do not go so well. I want to do this without you having to cull through the BS of Forums or make you paid for log-in access sites that bait you with partial reviews, or the BS of weighted advertising sponsored magazine reviews .
MY GOD HOW DO YOU AFFORD THIS?
Unless I was a millionaire, I would never be able to afford all the products I review. To be up front, yes, often manufacturers do provide me with evaluation equipment/products to test, but many products I buy just like you. Sadly some demo products provided for review just do not stack up and are simply packed up and shipped back to the manufacturer. Sorry I only review products which are innovative, have unique features, or are are in some way superior to competitive products. The products that do not meet my criteria are not worth my time.
I also have a real job... luckily a good one, do not golf, and spend my hobby money on this crazy endeavor.
A well known firearms writer once told me that very few writers shot more than a box of ammo through evaluated guns, so I thought it was important to "actually" review products for more than an hour before passing judgement, however ammo costs money. Ammo is my largest review expense by far. I typically spend on average $400 in ammo per rifle reviewed.
As a long-time Hornady ammo shooter, I believe Hornady makes some of the best consistent shooting ammo available. A big thank you goes to my friends at Hornady which provide me with much of my non-bulk accuracy ammo for testing.
A NOTE FOR MANUFACTURERS
If you feel confident in your product and would like a full word count detailed honest review of your product like you see on over 350 articles from over 200 manufacturers on my site, please feel free to reach out to me. As my real job, I am a nationally featured Executive Marketing Strategy, Search Engine Optimization and Digital Marketing expert, so my reviews tend to bubble to the Top-10 first page results of Google and other search engines; there is of course the bonus that your article will be around more than a month for all to enjoy and reference. Currently MajorPandemic.com has a monthly readership of over 150K a month, I guess people do like honest reviews, because those numbers seem to increase each month.
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