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If you have been looking for a quality knife for yourself or as a gift it can be difficult to decide what type and brand are best. There are many different kinds of knives available and each has unique characteristics that set it apart making it more useful for some people and less for others. The most popular small, portable knives generally fall into three categories, the automatic knives, assisted opening, and fixed blade knives.

When recruiting for a retreat group, or if you are considering joining an existing one, proceed with appropriate OPSEC precautions and prayer.

To supplement your own extended family, try to find folks with the same religious background and representing a good mix of skills. My novel "Patriots: Surviving the Coming Collapse" describes some of the specific skills that would be ideal for a group retreat--like a doctor, a mechanic, a machinist/welder, a farmer, a combat veteran, and so on. If you are already living at your intended retreat, it is probably best to recruit locally. If not, then you should probably recruit regionally looking for preparedness-minded people that have the same long-term relocation destination, or at least people with the willingness to be flexible about where they relocate.

I recommend five web sites (three free and two paid) for making connections--whether you are looking to join or form a retreat group, or even for someone looking looking for a "prepper" spouse. They are: Read the rest at SurvivalBlog.com