Almost every survival minded person has stockpiling canned or frozen food down to a science. One area that is not as understood or even as acknowledged as much as it should be is dehydrating food. Used for centuries, instead of canning or refrigeration technology, dehydrating food is a quick and relatively easy (especially with today’s…
Survival DIY Stove: Make a Brick Rocket Stove for a Survival Moment
Cooking food is one of those challenges that comes with virtually every survival situation. This is particularly true if the issue is a power outage. While most of us have outdoor grills, if the survival situation is long enough, eventually propane stocks will disappear, and traditional charcoal will become scarce. Depending on the survival situation…
How to be Prepared for a Bear Attack During a Survival Situation
One of the downsides to venturing outdoors or into the wild is the risk wild animals pose. Everyone likes to see animals in the wild, but when they get too close to humans, or visa versa, dangerous things can happen. Dealing with a situation like this is particularly true with bears. Some types of bears…
Do You Have These Critical Elements in Your Bug-Out Bag? This Prepper is Well Prepared…
Your bug-out bag is the key to your being able to respond properly to a SHTF moment or survival situation. It should include both life-saving items and other supplies that make life on the move less stressful, and these supplies must be able to sustain you for up to 96 hours at a minimum. Opinions…
Essential Storage Tips Every Prepper Needs to Know
Anyone who is survival oriented knows the importance of staying organized. Everything you prepare for – your gear, equipment, food, materials, supplies – everything has to have a place, and it has to be coherently stored with ease of access and use in mind. In many ways, having an organized survival cache is as important…
Cook Clams in the Wilderness Using These Useful Methods
To get access to food in a survival situation, you have to be able to use all the tools at your avail. That means, if your situation is dire enough, actually using the landscape to create your own cooking tools, foraging wherever you can find food and being willing to eat anything you find that…
You’ll Never Guess How You Can Break Out of Zip Ties!
As we all know, zip ties can be used as hand restraints and if used correctly can be very effective. Done correctly, your hands are mostly immobile, and most people assume there is no way to break out of them. The assumption that no one can break out of zip ties is actually incorrect. Here’s…
Several Ways to Re-purpose Your Old Yoga Mats and Make Them Useful Once More
For the uninitiated, yoga mats are used to protect a person from the hardness of the floor when doing yoga. Like any piece of equipment, though, they wear out and lose their protective coating and cushioning, rendering them useless as protection against hard surfaces. When that happens, they usually get discarded, but just because they…
How Would You Survive on a Desert Island? Learn How to With These Incredible Tips
For the vast majority of us, ending up stranded on a desert island is not a very likely scenario. The essence of survival, however, is understanding how to make it through virtually any situation, which can only be achieved by understanding how one set of survival skills can transfer into another environment. For example, learning…
How to Make a Speargun with Rubber Bands – WOW!
As a hunting instrument, a Speargun is very useful for killing fish and small game. There are dozens of different models for Spearguns, and each one fits a particular hunting need. In a survival situation, being able to construct a functional speargun would give you the ability to catch your dinner and provide yourself with…
How to Stay Alive – Survival Tips You Must Remember for Potential Deadly Situations
The single highest cause of death among men between the ages of 18 to 54 is accidents (spend an hour on YouTube, and the reality of this will become apparent). As women have become more engaged in outdoor, extreme and survival activities, it is inevitable that the rate of deaths from accidents for them also…
How Cool is This?! By the End of This Video You’ll Know How to Cook an Egg in a Potato!
The video we highlight today is not a survival video necessarily (although it does give great advice about how to create a lot of smoke on a fire both to control bugs as well as to use as a signal). It is, however, a great piece of advice for if you find yourself camping or…
This DIY Backpack is Incredible – Perfect for a Bug Out Moment!
Do It Yourself skills are a must if you are planning on encountering a survival situation, especially a long-term incident. If the grid went completely down and it took months to repair, for example, eventually, no matter how well prepared you are, your equipment will wear out, and your supplies become depleted. When that happens…
Hacks and Tools You Can Use While Camping or Bugging Out!
When you get down to it, a bug-out situation, especially if your destination point is primitive or if it takes a few days to get to it, is a lot like camping, just with a lot more stress. That is why almost every survival expert encourages those inclined to bug-out in an emergency, to do…
Things to Consider When Deciding to Heat with Wood
One of the downsides to heating with wood is the fact that you actually have to have wood and a lot of it if you heat your home regularly. That means you have to make some decisions. If you use a moderate amount, you can have pre-cut wood delivered, but you have to stack it.…
In Debt? Here’s how to Manage it and Still be Able to Afford Survival Supplies
Americans, even fiscally responsible Americans, are infamous for not saving and spending a lot and ending up in debt. Almost all of us have some sort of debt and while most of us are able to manage both the debt and immediate needs, not everyone does and that reality can hurt a person’s ability to…
12 Innovative Uses for Old Socks That Could Come in Handy
Whether you are preparing for doomsday or a more mundane survival situation or not preparing at all, one thing almost everyone can agree on is that we all end up with single socks. It is one of the great mysteries of life. You never know where the other socks ended up and it can drive…
Increase the Efficiency of Your Wood Stove!
If you live in an area that has a cold climate and is rural, chances are you get most of your heat from wood. For most, some iteration of a wood stove is the method of choice and for many, that wood stove is a primary source of heat or, at least, is an auxiliary…
No Place to Bug-Out? Try This!
In the lead-up to a hurricane approaching landfall – a true SHTF moment – everyone in its immediate path is pleaded with by the authorities to evacuate. If the storm is big enough, literally thousands batten down their property and make arrangements to bug-out before the storm hits land. For many, evacuating means getting to…
Here’s How to Escape From a Sinking Vehicle During a Survival Scenario
While most of the survival mindset deals with weather or man-made events that require plans, stockpiles and quite a bit of equipment as well as a repository of knowledge, some are more immediate. Those types of SHTF moments are sudden, often violent, destructive, can be deadly and happen every day – it is just that…