Thanks for the input. I to shoot competitively also and like to think i can hold my own . I hunt and fish so those skills are already developed. I weld and fix junk at work. I practice survival skills in the back yard on the weekends with my kids. My daughter is 3 and is not as interested as my son. He is 5 yo. I try and make it fun. I try and make things into games to play such as making tinder bundles and lighting them with fire steels, edible gardening, water gathering, camping out (in the back yard) etc. One thing I am lacking is that I only have about 2 months of food on hand. I would like to get it to 6mo-1yr.