If you have ever tried to make a fire when the conditions are very windy or if you need an extremely hot fire that uses less wood and is hard to see, the Dakota fire hole is just the thing for you. In a survival situation or SHTF moment, any of those benefits make the…
(Video) A Clever Way on How to Insulate a Tent for Cold Weather
Even if you are camping, spending the night outdoors in cold weather can be difficult. Facing a survival situation in cold weather can be at best inconvenient and at worst deadly, unless you are highly prepared and know what you are doing. Keeping warm, however, except in extremely cold conditions is easier if you use…
[VIDEO] Learn How To Make A Bushcraft Knife From A File
Being able to re-purpose old tools and turn them into new tools gives every survivalist an edge over those who lack that ability. Use it to your advantage! Today we’re focusing on an old hand file which is annealed and then grounded to make a neck-knife. Being able to make a knife or other multi functional tools/weapons from used…
[VIDEO] Reality Check: Do You Have Survival Mentality?
Surviving a SHTF moment or survival situation comes down to three things: Common Sense, A Survival Mentality and Skills. Of the three, the first two are indispensable, you can learn the third. Of the two, Common Sense helps, but in reality, we all know plenty of people who have none, yet blunder through life with…
Six Things You Must Learn About Animal Tracking In A Survival Situation
Reading an animal track is much like reading a book. With practice, you can tell what type of an animal you are following, what that animal is thinking, where it is going, whether it is stressed, what is stressing it and even where it might head towards. Each of those help you make survival decisions,…
[VIDEO] 5 SHTF Survival Hacks You Need To Know
When you get down to it, thriving in everyday life or a survival situation comes down to common sense, preparation and knowing the “tricks of the trade,” so to speak, that make life easier. In a survival situation, the easier you make things the better your state of mind and the greater your chances of…
[VIDEO] Do You Know The Best Survival Rifle? Check This One Out And See
In a SHTF moment or long term survival situation, your firearm can be your best friend or worst enemy. You might have to use it for protection (against man or beast,) to hunt and secure game and even in a pinch as a barter item (if you have more than one rifle at your disposal.)…
[VIDEO] Tips For Successfully Bugging-Out On A Budget!
I don’t know about you, but a lot of time I see articles and videos offering advice on what to include in a bug-out bag or survival kit and think to myself “That would be really cool. If only I had a few thousand dollars hanging around that I did not know what to do…
[VIDEO] Primitive Water Purification Method For Emergency Situations
Any survivalist knows the importance of water to making it through a survival situation in one piece. Depending on the environmental conditions, the average person can survive about three days without water. After that, the time they can survive is reduced to hours and with each passing hour, the crippling effect on the body becomes…
These Survival Myths Can Place You In Harms Way – Know What To Avoid!
Survival is a state of mind, but there are a lot of perceptions that are wrong that greatly reduce your chances on making it out in one piece. Mainly they are assuming you know more than you know. Or, we get ourselves in a situation we think we can handle but cannot. That could be…
Plannning Out Your Survival Kit And Weighing Wants vs. Needs
Everyone involved in the survival lifestyle, whether you just believe in being prepared in general, are preparing for a SHTF moment / situation or the end of the world, has advice as to what to include in a survival kit. Opinions are as varied as the people in those three categories, but what most do…
An Urban Survival Kit For the City Survivalist
If you live in rural or suburban areas, it is relatively easy to accumulate and store what you need to survive a SHTF moment or survival situation. But what if you live in the City or are caught in an emergency situation in a City? Your needs and opportunities in a city survival scenario are…
Check Out This Awesome Auto-Setting Survival Fishing Rig
Catching fish in a survival situation can mean the difference between eating or not and if the situation is dire enough, between life and death. Fish are some of the most prevalent and easy to catch live food sources imaginable, they literally exist in just about every place on earth there is water, but if…
Why You Should Bug In And How To Do It
If you are reading this, chances are better than even that you have at least a survival cache at home and probably have a bug-out bag as well – not because you are anticipating the end of the world, but because a survival situation can happen just about anytime, anywhere. For most of us, “bugging…
[VIDEO] Economic Collapse? 5 Items You Forgot To Stockpile
The single toughest task for any survivalist is knowing what to store for a survival situation – be it SHTF, the more likely short-term or a longer-term survival situation. All of us could collectively brainstorm what to include in an equipment, materials or supplies stockpile and the one thing that would be assured is that…
[VIDEO] How Are Your Survival Skills? Here Are 10 You Need For Survival
When you break the survival mentality down, there are two types of preparation: Stuff and Skills. Most of us spend a lot of time discussing the “stuff” side of survival preparation – what to store, what tools and equipment are needed, what can you modify and what can you do without? The skills side is…
[VIDEO] Make This Awesome Paracord Monkey Fist
A Monkey Fist is a survival tool that has a lot of different types of uses – as a weight on a line, weapon, even as an “anchor” in rock climbing. In a survival situation, it can be a very useful weapon for small game such as squirrels or birds. It also is relatively quiet…
[VIDEO] How To Cook In The Wild When You Don’t Have The Appropriate Gear
One survival skill that is often overlooked is the ability to cook food, in the wild, particularly if you have lost or cannot access your normal outdoor cooking gear. Almost anyone can work through cooking outdoors if you have the right gear, but what if you do not? If you are lost or in a…
[VIDEO] Check Out This Effective Toilet Paper Storage Option
Almost all of us who believing in preparing for a crisis struggle with finding fail-safe ways of storing survival food, gear, materials – even toilet paper. Maybe even mostly toilet paper. In a survival situation that is long-term, next to necessities (food, water, etc.,) toilet paper could be come a very hot commodity. Storing it,…
Quick, Easy and Cheap DIY Fire Pit
If you are like me, you look at some of this survival stuff and wonder if every survivalist is either an engineer or has tons of money hanging around. The reality is most of us are not the former and don’t have the latter. That is why I am always looking for ideas and ways…