Water is critical to everyday survival and vital to making it through a survival situation. We all know that, but do you know how to find water if you are in a survival situation? More importantly, would you be able to locate water that was clean enough to drink without posing a threat to your…
Maximize your Space to Grow Food in an Urban Environment
Regardless of where you live, if you are planning for a survival moment or just want to live a life that is not dependent on the grocery story, growing your food is both rewarding and helps wean you off that dependence. One major challenge to growing your own food if you live in an urban…
Cleaning Fish is Quick and Easy (But Still Kind of Messy)!
If you followed our advice, you have spent some time learning how to catch fish. Whether by using a traditional fishing kit, spearing them or even using traps, you have learned (or perfected) how to get your hands on an excellent source of protein, nutrients, and calories virtually anywhere you find yourself. Now you have…
Sometimes Older Hand Tools are Not Better – Why You Should Keep Them in Excellent Shape!
Just about everyone has a collection of tools that they use with varying frequency. Many are power-tools, which makes work a lot easier. What happens, though, if there is no power to run electrical tools or recharge battery run tools? Most of us have hand tools like screwdrivers, hammer and files, but what about drills,…
Coins: Stockpiling for a Survival Situation
Just about everyone who is survival minded is aware of the importance of saving individual coins to use during a survival situation. Silver dimes and quarters from 1964 and earlier, pennies from 1981 and earlier (1982 copper pennies were a mix of copper and zink) and nickels dating back to the 1800’s are all types…
Why You Must Have a Better Survival Garden and What to Plant
If you are growing a survival garden, the chances you are growing your favorite foods is high. Your favorite foods, however, might not be the best foods for a survival situation. Not growing the best survival foods that are perishable is not the greatest of ideas if a survival situation lasts for longer than a few…
Filtering and Purifying Your Water with a Pill Bottle
Optimally, you head out into the wilderness and have an adequate water filtration and purification kit that can provide you with clean and sanitized water throughout your trip. Many times, however, depending on how much you use it, traditional kits break down, and when that happens, you must have a portable, quick and easy alternative.…
Re-Use Those Silica Gel Packets!
You find them in the bottom of literally thousands of items – new shoe packages, in the bottom of bottles, virtually everything that requires packaging has at least a couple lurking around, silently fulfilling their purpose of absorbing moisture. Moisture in many items can literally destroy things – leaving them susceptible to mold and mildew,…
10 Basic Survival Skills You Must Master!
Survival situations come in phases and dependent on what the situation is, certain skills come in handy. You do not, for example, need the same skills for a few hours with no power after a thunderstorm as you do for a few days after a blizzard or a few weeks after a hurricane. You do…
EMP or Cyber Attack – What You Need to Read
If I asked you to come up with what you thought the most likely SHTF moment to hit the USA would be, mostly likely you would have “EMP” somewhere on your top five list. What if I told you a revered and world famous journalist named Ted Koppel, a newsman and anchor of Nightline for…
[VIDEO] Knife Etching Technique for a Damascus Knife
Etching metal is a technique used to decorate a surface, usually metal, by using a corrosive agent (usually some form of acid) to eat away at more easily corroded metals or along etching points made by the person doing the etching. It dates back to the Middle Ages when goldsmiths and metalworkers used etching to…
For a Successful Bug Out Plan You’ll Need…
The purpose of a “bug-out” bag and plan, is to have a ready-made kit and quickly implemented strategy that gets you to a refuge as quickly and safely as possible. While we always focus on what needs to be in a bug-out bag, most of us do not give a lot of thought to…
Pemmican – The Ultimate Survival Food
Pemmican is one of those amazing “super” foods that is easy to make, lightweight, compact and very high in protein, carbohydrates, vitamins and minerals. If correctly made, it has a shelf life of a few years up to a lifetime and can be stored in almost any environment without going bad. Invented by Native Americans…
[VIDEO] How to Make an Aztec Sword
Get ready to enjoy a three part video on the next page that will cover how to make a Maquahuitl (Aztec Sword) from scratch. While its utility in a survival situation is limited, it is important that everyone preparing for a survival situation or SHTF moment understand the basics of making their own tools and…
How to Stay Safe From Injury After Going Through a SHTF Moment
Check out virtually any video or article we post that covers issues where there is the possibility of getting injured and we, the video makers or authors stress the importance of safety – often we both do it. This is because no matter what the SHTF moment or survival situation you face is, getting injured,…
Make This Bushcraft Knife Only Using Simple Tools
Getting through a survival situation requires ingenuity and the ability to make do with what you have on hand. In this case, that includes re-purposing used up tools to handcraft a knife. Knowing how to make your own tools or weapons, should a SHTF moment or survival situation arise, is a key skill that all…
The List: Discover What Important Items Your Survival Kit Should Include
Every survivalist has in their mind what the perfect survival kit looks like. Equally, every survivalist has “pet items” that they cannot do without that differ from everyone else’s and of course, there are basics that every survival kit must have. What, though, is that comprehensive list? What has to be in there and what…
Learn How to Cook in a Steam Pit
There are many ways to cook food outdoors and the more ways you know, the better off you will be if you ever have to use those skills in a survival or SHTF moment. Knowing how to cook in a steam pit is one such way. The benefit of this style of cooking is many.…
Step by Step Guide to Making Gunpowder
Warning: As always, when working with the combustible stuff, please follow all safety protocols and equally important, follow all local and state laws at all times. The more self-sufficient you are, the better off you will be in a survival or SHTF moment. That seems obvious enough, but there are so many things that are…
Know Your Camouflage Basics and Concealment
Camouflage is a gift that allows animals, plants, people, fish, you name it, to avoid predators. The better you blend in with your surroundings and the harder it is to spot you, the greater your chances are of going undetected. You will also have a better chance at remaining remain safe. In a life of…