From MAY, 1990 ISSUE of "DIRECTIONS: A Magazine for the Survivalist" Copyright (C) 1990 by Live Free, Inc., Chicago, IL All rights reserved. Executive editor: James C. Jones Managing editor: Duncan Long Production and mailing: Marie Jones Back issues (as available): $1.75 Year's subscription (12 issues): $15 Live Free, P. O. Box 1743, Harvey, IL 60426 SPROUTING SEEDS BY ARTEMUS If you garden, then you're going to enjoy growing sprouts. You don't need soil, a rake, shovel, planting board, rototiller, or a plot. There are no weeds to pull, no fertilizer to spread, no baking in the hot sun, and no aching back! If you don't garden--don't worry. Anyone can sprout seeds. And don't leave out the kids; most like watching sprouts grow. A few minutes rinsing daily, and that is basically all the work that's required. Sprouts are germinated seeds of vegetables, nuts, grains, and legumes. Sprouts are nutritious, inexpensive, low in calories, high in protein and living food. Sprouting increases the vitamin content of a seed. Sprouted grains and legumes supply all eight essential amino acids which make up complete proteins. Enzymes are also present, as are fiber, minerals, and carbohydrates. Sprouts are very clean because you control their atmosphere. Your sprouts are the purest, cleanest, and most uncontaminated food you can eat. Protein levels of sprouts range from 10 to 40 percent. Soybeans have the highest content. Many sprouts contain vitamins A, b-complex, C, D, E, and K. The most successful sprouting families for eating and growing are: Leguminosea (peas, chick-peas, beans, genugreek, alfalfa, clover, lentils, soybeans), Gramineae (wheat, rye, corn, barley, millet, oats), Cruciferas (mustard, radish, cress, kale). Other seeds include parsley, carrots, dill, celery, beets, buckwheat, flax, purslane, lettuce, caraway, onions, chia, and sesame. Almost any grains or seed can be sprouted. But never eat tomato or potato sprouts--they're poisonous. Seeds that are chemically treated with fumigants, pesticides, etc., have had their sprouting abilities destroyed. Pink seeds do not sprout for eating. Rice or any seed with the outer hull removed will not sprout. Use only high quality seed. Seed can be purchased from health food stores, seed suppliers, etc. Sprouts can be eaten raw, in soups, steamed, in baked goods, pancakes, meat loaves, spreads, omelets, breads, sandwiches, casseroles, stews, etc. You're only limited by your imagination. Radish, cress, lettuce, mustard, dill, parsley, and celery sprouts are too highly seasoned for most people's daily use. These can be added to salads, soups, etc., however. Not much equipment is needed for sprouting--and what you use is inexpensive. There are several methods to sprout seeds. you can use trays, bowls, pans, baskets, strainers, colanders, racks, frames, screens, damp towels, etc. In general, seeds need moisture, warmth, and ventilation. Temperatures between 65 and 75 degrees Fahrenheit are about ideal. Keep out of direct sunlight until the last day or two before harvest to add chlorophyll. Water with chlorine may harm some seeds. Store your seeds in a dry, cool area. Store your sprouts in a plastic bag in the refrigerator after harvest. You may have some quart-size canning jars left over from canning season. Put the seeds into a quart jar (see chart for amount). Add water two or three times the amount of seeds, using lukewarm water. Soak overnight (or see chart). Cover the jar with a top which has small holes, mesh, canning lid with holes, etc. Rinse and drain with lukewarm water, two or three times daily. Rinse away hulls (if seed has hulls). Let the jar lay on its side between rinsing. Harvest when ready (see chart). Do not let sprouts sit in water because they will mold. Generally, seeds will increase 6 to 8 times during gemination. Two ounces of seed will fill a pint jar. Grow in the dark or indirect light for good growing conditions. Temperatures vary from house to house and time of year, causing harvest time to vary. One pound of dry beans makes 4 to 8 pounds of sprouts. Store 10 pounds or more per individual, making about 1/2 cup daily. Clean your container after each use with hot soapy water and a brush to clean completely. Screen screw-on tops are manufactured in red, yellow, and green. Each one has different mesh holes on top for different seed sizes during rinsing. These fit Ball, Kerr, and Mason glass jar containers. I personally use a product called "Kitchen Garden." I've had it for over six years. The "Kitchen Garden" is a plastic, white, round container with four compartments. The bottom has many holes to let water in and out. The center cross pieces come out making it very easy to clean. It has a round, overhanging top to keep out dust and light. Sprouting seeds is fun, nutritious, easy, and money-saving. Most of all, it gives lots of enjoyable eating. Experiment to find your favorite-tasting sprouts. Happy Sprouting! Bibliography: Add a Few Sprouts by Martha H. Oliver. Keats Publishing, Inc., P. O. Box 876, New Canaan, CT 06840 (1975). Crisis Preparedness Handbook by Jack A. Spigarelli. Resource Publications, P. O. Box 1515, Provo, UT 84603 (1984). Kitchen Garden: Sprouts Recipe Book. From 185 West Stratford Ave., Salt Lake City, UT 84115. Sprouting Courses by Steve Meyerowitz. The Sprout House, 210 Riverside Drive, New York, NY 10025. Toppers. Bima Industries, Inc., P. O. Box 88007, Tukwila Branch, Seattle, Washington 98188 (1977). REVIEWS The M16A1 Rifle: Operation and Preventive Maintenance booklet is actually a comic book! Yes, that's right. No, it's not a new publication created for grade school children with the idea of making the gun-grabbers have coronaries (though that is an idea...). Instead, it's a reprint of the comic created by the US Army during the Vietnam era. The publication was designed to keep troops interested enough to obtain the vital information they needed to maintain their rifles. Will Eisner--who illustrated EC Comics and Mad Magazine- -was hired to do the art work--it's strictly quality work in content and as far as comic art goes. The result is an easy-to- read booklet with a wealth of information about the M16A1 (and AR-15 as well). I have to admit the publication is outright sexist. It's blushingly obviously just how sexist we all were "back then" when you read this booklet. But the information is still great and the sexism is so quaint as to be funny. If you own an AR-15, this booklet is a good buy and a conversation piece as well--how many other military books have you ever seen with a comic book format? Cost is $4.95 from Lancer Militaria, P. O. Box 886, Mt. Ida, AR 71957--D. Long The Survival SIG Newsletter is back after two years of not being in print. The MENSA Survival SIG (Special Interest Group) Newsletter is being edited by Dick Hershbain. He put out an issue (Vol. 6, No. 1) in February and is offering it as a back issue for $1 plus an SASE. The next four issues cost $5. Publication will be based on available material, so the 4 issues will be at irregular intervals. The first issue was only five pages, but they have some good ideas for future issues. Publishing a survival newsletter is a rough and unprofitable job these days. So it's nice to have some company for DIRECTIONS. Write to Survivalist SIG, Richard Hershbain, 2675 E. 128th St., Cleveland, OH 44120.--J.C. Jones Indian Scout Craft and Lore (formerly Indian Scout Talks) by Chas. A. Eastman. The author was a full-blooded Sioux "raised as a young warrior in the 1870s and 1880s" according to the back cover--which unfortunately said little else about his history. So I was uncertain about authenticity. The book contains a mix of questionable information (eg., "lightning does not strike in the water"); cliches ("in the great laboratory of nature, there are endless secrets yet to be discovered"); and hints ("The best way to sleep in camp is feet toward the fire" because the feet are sensitive and will awaken you if the fire escapes). And the how-to sections (eg, making a canoe) are NOT detailed. The gesture-language chapter suffered badly from no illustrations (and there were only a few anywhere else). I'd say read it if an easy opportunity arises, but I wouldn't go out of my way. A Few Worthwhile Gems: "In the event of sudden danger, I was taught to remain perfectly motionless... If I discover the enemy first, I may pass undiscovered... This rule is followed by the animals as well... They [the hidden young] are made to close their eyes also. The shining pupil of the eye is a great giveaway." A trick characteristic of deer and rabbit families: "...at the end of the trail they make two loops, and conceal themselves at a point where the pursuer must, if he sticks to the trail, pass close by their hiding place and give timely warning of his approach." Eastman says salt is not needed for jerking (drying) meat, and my experience coincides with this. Regarding camp sites: "In the case of a small party or solitary traveler, concealment is the first principle to be observed. Seclusion gives a sense of security..." When blazing trails: "You should not disfigure the tree... It should be just enough guide for your friends, neatly done, and courting no unnecessary publicity." "We boys hunted squirrels, rabbits, partridges, and ducks with stones, merely, and often succeeded as well as if we had had arrows or even guns." (They practiced long hours.). This book is a reprint from 1914 and costs $4.75 from Dover Publications, 31 East 2nd St., Mineola, NY 11501. Dover carries over 2,800 other durably bound paperback reprints. Catalogs are free.--Julie Summers. AR-7 Advanced Weapons System is the updated classic AR-7 Exotic Weapons Systems that recently went out of print. This new book is for those interested in the various modifications of the AR-7 as well as seeing a practical way to convert it to selective fire (which--the book points out--is now impossible to legally do, thanks to the 1986 gun laws Congress passed). Included in the book is a look at an M16-styled rifle created from an Explorer II pistol as well as folding stocks, forward grips, and a wealth of other strange modifications centered around the basic AR-7 rifle. For those who own one of these survival rifles, this book will be of great interest. Cost is $16 from Paladin Press, P.O. Box 1307, Boulder, CO 80306--D. Long SEALS: UDT/SEAL Operations in Vietnam by T.L. Bosilijevac gives an inside look at how this American commandos operated in Vietnam. As such, this book give readers an inside look at what modern war is really like as well as the feats that can be carried out by skilled, trained soldiers. In many ways, the "Combat Tips" given in the appendix is one of the most worthwhile part of the book. This sections gives a lot of nitty-gritty tricks that would be useful for "civilian combat situations" as well as a realistic view of the capabilities of various types of weapons and gear in use in Vietnam (and which are still being employed by the Army as well as many survivalists). A very interesting book available for $24.95 from Paladin Press, P.O. Box 1307, Boulder, CO 80306--Phil Hunter. SURVIVAL IN THE 21ST CENTURY is a small magazine published by a Japanese, pro-American, pro-freedom, anti-communist organization. The term "survival" in the title seems to refer to political and economic survival rather than biological survival--there are no shelter plans or articles on water purification or first aid. But there are articles on such things as the Japanese Socialist Party's affiliation with North Korea and the "Arrogance of the News Media" along with information and comments from those who have defected from North Korea and Vietnam. Interesting reading from friends in Japan. The publication is available in English or Japanese. Six issues cost $11; 12 issues run $21. The newsletter is published by Friends of the USA and is available from HIC International Subscription Service, 2020 Penn. Ave., NW, Suite 210, Washington, DC 20006.--J.C. Jones. LETTERS The article on trapping rats in one of the past issues reminds me of a live trap I used as a teenager. It was simple to build and quite effective. Cut 1x12-inch wood to form a box roughly square, but with one open side. On one piece, cut an opening about 2-inches square in the center of the bottom. Using 1/2-inch square of hardware wire, form a square tube about 2-1/2 inches square and about 6 inches long. Cut a piece of hardware wire to form a hinged door inside the tube slanted toward the middle to the box and fasten it around the 2-inch hole previously cut. (The objective of the slanted door is to allow the rats to push their way while being prevented from exiting.) Now assemble the box with 2-inch opening and tube in the bottom of it and place hardware cloth with a door on the open side. To bait this live trap, roll up some bacon in hardware cloth with enough space to where the rats cannot reach the bait. Set the trap in an area where you know rats to frequent. I have caught as many as 10 rats at one time using this setup as the rats already caught seem to attract still more rats. To kill the rats, you can put the entire trap in a container of water and then shake them out after they've drowned.--K. Sarabok. * * * * * Here's a little item which you might want to pass on to your readers regarding storing garden seeds. I have been a long-time believer in buying my garden seeds a year in advance. It's a sure sign of insecurity, I know. But I figure that when the crunch comes, we won't have time to buy things. I was saving some seeds eight years ago when I had to move and lost a garden spot. I had on hand my early purchased garden seeds. I packed them in an air-tight can (ammo box) with a generous supply of silica gel. This winter I decided to see if my folly had any merit. I tried a germination test on a large sample of these old seeds. Much to my delight, the seeds germinated almost 100 percent. A few specific varieties did not fare so well (okra, for example). But most did as well as new seeds. Others might want to use this idea.--J.E. OPINION: SURVIVALIST BACKUP RIFLE THE M-1 CARBINE By Michael Ironwolf It's 1990 and THE PLAN for the destruction of the United States as a free and independent nation is progressing rapidly. "We at the executive level here were active in either the OSS, the State Department, or the European Economic Administration. During those times and without exception, we operated under directives issued by the White House. We are continuing to be guided by just such directives, the substance of which were to the effect that we should make every effort to so alter life in the United States as to make possible a comfortable merger with the Soviet Union. --Rowen Gaither, President, Ford Foundation to Norman Dodd, Chief Counsel, Congressional Reese Commission, 1953. (Taken from McAlvaney Intelligence Advisor, Box 22998, Denver, CO 80222.) The recent "fall of communism" that we have been observing is nothing more than the preliminary stages of THE PLAN for implementing a ONE WORLD government system. Freedom-loving patriots protected by the US Constitution are not part of this PLAN. Gun restriction, registration, and confiscation IS an important step in this PLAN and will soon come to pass. Because of the speed at which the situation is changing internationally as well as the recent domestic restrictions placed on semi-auto firearms (in California, Atlanta, Denver, Cleveland, Columbus, etc.) a re-evaluation of your weapons and ammunition storage plan can be suggested. Although the primary battle rifle selected by most survival- oriented people is the AR-15 or the M14, a need will eventually arise for one or more additional rifles for members of a growing family (kids grow fast), for burial at a remote location (cache site) or as a "sacrifice" weapon during a time of gun confiscation. With so many requirements on your survival list and so few dollars available, this can easily become a low priority item, seemingly never to be acquired. The M-1 Carbine is a semiauto, gas-operated rifle that fires a .30 caliber, 110-grain bullet. This rifle is considered one of the most reliable and easy to use weapons ever developed for combat. The M-1 has been used with great effectiveness in WWII, Korea, and Vietnam as well as many other smaller combat situations the world over. In addition, because of the large number of these guns produced over a 50-year time span, it is a favorite weapon of many SOG groups (if captured or confiscated, the country of origin is impossible to determine). Because of the easy availability of surplus rifles as well as technical manuals, surplus ammunition, and maintenance equipment, an M-1 Carbine is an excellent choice for a backup rifle. The following is a list of sources for obtaining M-1 Carbines: Nationwide Sports (70 James Way, Southampton, PA 18966), carbines for $129; Southern Ohio Gun (100 S. Mechanic, Lebanon, OH 45036), carbine for $139, fast service; Birmingham Pistol (1833 Pinson Valley Parkway, Birmingham, AL 35217), carbine $139 with original or arsenal finish with a choice of 9 manufacturers. For parts and accessories: SARCO, Inc. (323 Union St., Stirling, NJ), Amherst Arms Company (P.O. Box 658, Mt. Airy, MD 21771); Lone Star Ordnance (P.O. Box 29404, San Antonio, TX 78229); William J. Ricca, (P.O. Box 25, New Tripoli, PA 18066); J&T Surplus (134 Alabama St., Winchester, KY 40391); Carbines (P.O.Box 71304, Ft. Bragg, NC 28307); Quality Parts Company (P.O. Box 6659, Portland, ME 04103); Gun Parts Company (West Hurley, NY 12491); Interstate Dist. (1809 East 23rd St., Little Rock, AR 72206); Concorde Arms (27820 Fremont Ct. #3, Valencia, CA 91355); and Sierra Supply, (P.O. Box 1390, Durango, CO 81302). For ammunition: SARCO, Inc. (323 Union St., Stirling, NJ), NC/Boxer $168/M); Atlanta Discount Ammo (P.O. Box 627, Norcross, GA 30091) Hansen, new $168/M; Oklahoma Ammunition (4310-4312 Rogers Bl., Skiatook, OK 74070) Hansen, new $169/M; Paragon Sales (P.O.Box 2022, Joliet, IL 60434) Chinese, NC/Berdan--not reloadable--$139/M. Once again I would recommend 3 or 4 different technical manuals from Sierra Supply as well as some of the required assembly and disassembly tools as listed in the SARCO ad in Shotgun News. (These sources and many others can be found in a great gun-owners newspaper: Shotgun NEWS, P.O. Box 669, Hastings, NE 68902). After purchasing an M-1 Carbine and its accessories, you might consider having the gun treated to eliminate rust and corrosion. An excellent start-up company (the VP is formerly of Z-Cote) called DMG (3903 Industry Blvd., Ste. 11, Lakeland, FL 33811 (813) 646-8888). DMG can process your rifle with a 20-day turn around time. In addition, they reassemble and head space/test fire your weapon. And a Woodland Camouflage pattern is available. As of this date (April, 1990), the M-1 Carbine is NOT on the list of banned "assault weapons" for the PRC (Peoples Republic of California) although it might be targeted at a later time. Remember that because of the plans being implemented by the traitors in Washington, London, and Brussels, the days of legal firearms ownership are rapidly coming to a close. You should be thinking in terms of obtaining the necessary firearms and ammunition to sustain you and your family for the rest of your life. No number of guns and ammunition is too much. When the ONE WORLD government is implemented, you, as a criminal "survivo-terrorist" will only be able to restock your supplies from the dead bodies of the secret police. You might make it a habit to visit your local gun ranges and shooting areas 2 or 3 times a week in the summer. Go not to practice, but to pick up every piece of brass you can find. Almost everything you find except for .30-caliber Russian is reloadable. In addition, start collecting lead scrap tire weights for melting down into bullets. Reloading your own ammunition is a fun, family-oriented pastime. Remember: Your mind is your primary weapon. USE IT. Also in the May issue of DIRECTIONS: Power Failure Alarm by Jerry Reimer with schematics for building our own alarm.