Knots. They can be the bane of your existence when you don’t know how to go about untying them. But knowing how to tie them is an incredibly useful skill to have! Whether you’re setting up a shelter, making a fishing line, building a weapon, setting up a trap that includes a net – knowing…
(VIDEO) How to Accurately Throw Your Knife
In a survival situation, you never know when you will need a knife. Or, more accurately, you never know in what way you will need a knife. Indeed, you will be using it to set up camp, to cut through kindling and cord, or using a knife for any hack that might come up while…
You’ve Just Encountered a Bear Who is Ready to Attack. Here’s How to Make it Out in One Piece.
Bear attacks might seem like rare occurrences in the wild. For the last fifteen years, there have been 27 fatalities caused by bear attacks in North America. More than half of the attacks were caused by black bears, and the rest were caused by grizzly bears. When it gets down to it, it averages out…
(VIDEO) This Bushcraft Camp is Incredible. When You See How They Made it? You’ll Be Impressed!
Establishing traditional basic skills places an enormous advantage on anyone who spends any amount of time in the wilderness. There are a million ways to use lashing skills, woodworking, and knife and ax techniques on everyday excursions into the woods. Throw in an actual survival situation, and you’ll find that having learned these techniques will…
(VIDEO) Your Flashlight Just Ran Out of Batteries. Learn How to Use a Primitive Birch Bark Oil Lamp as the Perfect Light Source.
Birch bark is some pretty amazing stuff. It can be used for boats, water containers, boxes, and, most famously, as an excellent fire-starter. This is because of the oils embedded in the bark which allow it to be waterproof and to be extremely flammable. This means the bark is an excellent firestarter even when wet.…
(VIDEO) Making Oil From a Birch Tree?! Yes, It Can Be Done! Here’s How:
Birch trees are one of the most useful plants you can find in the woods. The oils in their bark make them ideal for starting fires, as they will ignite even when wet. These same oils also make the birch an ideal candidate for making boats, as the Ojibwa will attest with their birch bark…
(VIDEO) These 3 Trees Can Save Your Life in a SHTF Situation. Once You Find Out What They Are? This is AMAZING!
Many of people like to escape to the woods to get away from work, family, and the apocalypse. This escape is often short-lived, though. Most people tend to miss the finer things in life like bathtubs and cold beer, meaning they often flee the woods just as quickly as they went in. Sometimes, though, this…
Four Compelling Reasons Why You Should Add a Pellet Air Gun to Your Arsenal
Pellet guns, along with airsoft guns and BB guns, are where young shooters and outdoorsmen usually begin. They are after all easy to use, inexpensive, and remarkably durable. As shooters age, then tend to abandon these guns and focus on larger calibers for hunting and sport at the range. It’s a skill many survivalists pride…
(Video) Forget Camp Fuel and Glue. Find Out Just How POWERFUL Pine Tree Sap is for Survival.
When it comes to surviving out in the wilderness, pine resin is one of the more useful resources you can should go out of your way to obtain. In fact, before the invention of modern glue, pine resin glue was what many trappers, pioneers, and Native Americans used in their tool and shelter building, as…
What You Should NEVER Be Caught Wearing After the Collapse. If You Do, You Won’t Stand a Chance
In today’s episode of What Not To Wear, we decide on what is the worst wardrobe mistake ever when entering a post-collapse situation. When SHTF and we discover that we’re back in the Stone Age once more, many preppers will be tempted to vanish in the woods and live out their days away from the rest…
(VIDEO) These Clever Uses for Pine Cones and Pine Needles Will Amaze You…
The pine tree is one of the most useful resources to the survivor, and not just because of the highly edible squirrels that can often be found running around its branches. The thick resin that leaks from its wounds has about a hundred uses, and the branches themselves make for an excellent heat-retaining and waterproofing…
The Many Uses of Soap Plants Will Astound You! Here’s How to Find and Use Them.
When most people think of traditional soap as it is used by preppers and homesteaders, they typically think of lye and tallow soap being made by the brick in large vats in the back yard. This is certainly an old recipe that still holds its weight today, but few people know that before this there…
During a SHTF Situation, You May Need to Jump From a Building Into a Dumpster. Here’s How to Make That Happen.
We’ve seen it in movies a million times. The hero is being chased by an army of bad guys and is jumping from rooftop to rooftop only to come to a sudden stop at a dead end with no more rooftops left to jump to. When the bad guys are closing in, the hero must…
(VIDEO) What?! Repair Your Gear with This Insanely Easy Agave Thread Hack
When you hear about successful survivalist stories, one of the most common factors that they all share is the ability to use whatever they have on hand or whatever they can find to adjust their situation so that it is more in their favor. In this example, envision yourself camping in the Sonora desert, a…
Could You Identify These Venomous and Deadly Snakes?
Think you can’t get bitten by a dangerous snake? Think again. When I was a young teen, my dad got bit by a rattlesnake in our backyard. What my dad thought was a bull snake ended up being a baby rattlesnake that was hard to identify. It’s true that identifying venomous snakes (especially babies) are…
(VIDEO) Tactical Hand Signals That Can Aid You in Surviving After the Grid Goes Down
Good communication is the key to the survival of any relationship, whether that relationship is between a couple, parents and their children, or a boss and her employees. Likewise, effective communication will be an important factor to keep your team alive in a post-SHTF scenario. Usually, this communication will be carried out in the same…
5 Mind-Blowing Uses for Pine Resin That You’ll Wish You Had Known
Pine trees have a lot of uses. Apart from adorning many homes and filling them with pleasant scents in the winter months, their wood makes for excellent fast-burning fires and is an ideal material for many projects. However, pine trees, and most other evergreens, also have an excellent resource readily available: resin. The equivalent of…
Tactical Hand Signals Every Survivalist Needs to Know
Imagine if you’re in a life or death situation, and you’re unable to communicate. How would you communicate to one of your team members without being discovered? That’s why hand signals are an invaluable tool that can be used in any environment when you cannot communicate as you normally would. NFL quarterbacks use hand signals…
4 Eye-Opening Ways a Pine Tree Can Keep You Alive
It never ceases to amaze me just how survival uses you can glean from a single tree. Specifically, a pine tree can keep you alive for days in the wilderness. When the collapse happens, and you find yourself without food or shelter, a pine tree is your ticket to survival. Within a single pine tree,…
He Took Out a Rope and Cut it in Half Without Using Any Tools. How He Made This Possible? This is a Survival Hack You NEED to See to Believe!
Every survivalist will come across a life threatening emergency in their life where they will need rope or need to figure out how to cut rope. If you don’t have the proper tools to complete a task you may think you’re hosed, but after seeing this video, you’ll soon realize that you don’t need any…