Some of you may remember Mel Tappan an his Survival
Newsletter out of Oregon.
His wife Nancy continued the Newsletter for a number of years.
His Survival Guns and Survival books were /are first rate. Recommended reading. His predictions are on the mark -and are not dated.

Keep as much as you need-take the rest away from
the modern Tories/Bolsheviks. Be Prepared.

Read a lot Of Tappan back in the day.

Had some interesting thoughts

I read a lot of his too as well as Nonte, Askins,Jordan, Keith, O'Connor,Carmichael, Seyfried, ad infintum. Actually too many to list + at the risk of sounding like an old fart that they don't make them like they used to, well, they don't.

Mel lived about a half-hour from my town in southern Oregon. Never got to meet him.

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at the risk of sounding like an old fart that they don't make them like they used to, well, they don't

That is because we are the old farts.

Who was the old man that wrote a survival articles in Guns & Ammo? I remember him advising to invest in silver coins. He answered the door one night and someone killed him and don't know if they ever caught the killers.

I'm not sure who that was but if I heard the name, then maybe. I took G+A for many years, but the best editors kept passing away + the newer writers were never as good. I finally quit when I realized I was only reading "Coopers Corner" on the back page + thought it pretty silly to buy a magazine for only one page. However, I did buy all his books, including Gargantuan Gunsite Gossip, that was a compilation of his musings.

While many of Tappan’s recommendations are dated (especially his specific reccomendations on weapons selections) his concepts are still very valid.

I regularly recommend “Survival Guns” folks just starting out and tell them look at the concepts not the specific recommendations.

Weapons recommendations are always subjective, but some calibers are timeless in rifles.

We are in a radically different time now with open borders and violence in the streets.

In the past like in combat, if you didn't like your own weapon, take one from the opposition. It still works. The rifle in your hands becomes your "bear gun" in Alaska. Same everywhere.