Today’s DIY prepper project is an awesome idea if you have an old gun carrying case or really any case that can hold a handgun, associated equipment like a holster or gun clip and even some utility type knives and tools. In this case, the maker of the video used an old multiple guns carrying…
Make a Tent in Your Truck With Only a Tarp and PVC Pipes!
Just about every survivalist knows how to and enjoys being outdoors – often in a camping environment, but not everyone is into the entire “roughing it” experience. For some, roughing it is not sleeping in your own bed or not being able to take a hot shower. Some of us just simply do not like…
If You’re Going to Encounter a SHTF Moment, Brush up on Your Navigation Skills!
Successfully navigating in the wilderness requires a combination of savvy, knowledge and the proper tools to successfully identify North, South, East and West and to use that knowledge to plot your course. While some possess a keen sense of “dead reckoning,” most people who get lost do not, do not have the proper tools to…
Using a Soda Can for Survival – Check Out These Cool Project Ideas!
Surviving by nature means being able to use everything around you to further your existence. That means being able to take everyday household items and improvising them to make what you need or want to make your survival prospects more likely. For example, did you know you can make a survival whistle from an empty…
The ‘Fat Guys in the Woods’ Show Us How to Make a Buzzsaw Signaling Device
If you get stranded during a survival moment, say you get lost hiking in the mountains, your best chance of being noticed and getting help from searchers is to signal them. Even if no one is looking for you, an out-of-place signal usually is interpreted as a sign someone needs help. If they did not…
Learn 9 Different Ways on How to Convert Military Ponchos Into Survival Shelters
A useful part of any hiking, camping or survival kit is a poncho; in a rainstorm they can be invaluable for keeping you dry, but if you have the right type of poncho, you have a survival tool for many different purposes. For example, a military-issue or survival-style poncho with grommets can be used to…
A Shipping Container is Now Being Sold as a Underground Storage and Survival Unit!
When most of us think about creating a food and supplies cache, we envision a room in our house or at the most, some other location that will give us the ability to outlast any survival situation. The concept we cover here takes that notion and moves it way beyond the next level! This company…
PVC Pipe Fishing – Float Fishing Made Easy!
Fish are one of the most abundant foods in existence. Virtually they can be found wherever people live and if you’re able to catch them this is one way of ensuring a food source, especially when faced with a survival situation. One method of fishing is “float-fishing,” where you attach a line and hook to…
How to Get Hot Water Without Electricity – You Have to See This!
For most of us, preparing for a survival situation means storing food, medical supplies, clothes, etc., to be able to make sure we can make it through in one piece. As much thought as we put into tangible, physical stuff to store, however, we tend not to think about certain intangibles. Like, for instance, where…
Helping Your Family Adjust to a Low Tech Living Situation During SHTF
If you were faced with a true SHTF moment, one that could last weeks or even months, how would you cope without all the modern, high-tech electronics you have grown accustomed to relying on? Think about it. No cell phone or internet, not television, radio or computers. Maybe even no land line phones (yes, they…
Nuclear Disasters: Being Prepared for a Radiation Emergency
If you grew up during the Cold War and particularly in an area that was a target of any of the major players, especially for children, the prospect of a nuclear war was real and scary. With the fall of the Soviet Union, that fear was largely forgotten, until recent events. Now with countries like…
Check Out This Bizarre Life Saving Bed That “Swallows” You During an Earthquake!
There are different things you should do if you happen to be in bed during an earthquake. But what if your bed doubled as an earthquake proof shelter – sort of a literal “shelter in place” contraption that swallowed you before the building around you fell around your head? The details are sketchy as to…
Warm Up Your Home with Homemade Metal Can Air Heaters? This DIY Project is Incredible!
This survival hack is so easy; almost anyone could do it! All you need is a metal can (soup, paint, something in the middle), a roll of toilet paper and rubbing alcohol (70%) and you have all you need to make your own light, heater, stove – or all in one! In a survival situation,…
Take Wilderness Survival to the Next Level with a Tomahawk
A tomahawk is a general purpose tool and weapon that you can use in a Bushcraft, camping or survival situation in any number of ways. It was created by the Algonquian Indians before Europeans came to America and comprised sharpened rocks or deer antlers lashed to stout handles by rawhide. Europeans loved it as a…
The 10 Most Important Principles When it Comes to Blade Combat
Ideally, even in a survival situation, you never have to resort to physical violence, but unfortunately, in a violent world, especially when people are desperate, violence, for some, may be how they choose to survive. It would be awesome if in a survival situation everyone behaved and self-defense was only something you occasionally thought about.…
Make Hunting Easy with This DIY Snare Trap for the Spring
If you were faced with a survival situation, ideally, you would have enough food stored so that having to catch your food would only be something you would have to worry about after a prolonged period of time. In a longer-term survival situation, however, finding your food for meat may become an inevitability and one…
Wind Turbines – Check Out This Amazing Tutorial on How to Build One and Improve Energy Production
Note: This is not a step-by-step tutorial, but rather some general advice to consider and pointers for making sure your wind turbine system does what you want it to do the first time! We do include a link at the end where you can secure step by step instructions for the particular components and their…
Check Out This Abandoned Bug Out Cabin – Insane!
There are all sorts of treasures you can find in the woods – often man made! In this case, after a long walk, this guy hits pay dirt – finding an abandoned, illegal cabin, probably originally used as a fishing or hunting camp, but it could easily double as a bug-out cabin in a pinch.…
Check Out What a Kuksa is and How to Make It
A Kuksa is a drinking vessel, traditionally made by the Sami people of Northern Scandinavia (also known as a Guksi). Traditionally it’s made from dried Birchwood, reflected local traditions regarding design and served as a special drinking dish, which if done properly and maintained correctly, could last for decades, even a lifetime. The Kuksa in…
How to Preserve Bacon by Pressure Canning it
Storing meat for a survival situation, especially a long-term one, can be problematic. You can freeze it, dry it, cure it or can it – although canning meat is not something that pops into the minds of most. One meat almost no one thinks of canning is bacon. While the true bacon aficionado might find…