Depending on where you are located, fishing in a survival situation is one of the best ways to get your hands on a food source if you do not have canned or dried goods to eat. It is a lot easier than hunting and killing game and if you do it correctly, it requires a…
Three Threats Every Survivalist Must be Ready to Face
As if there were not enough dangers and obstacles in preparing for and facing a survival situation, there are also dangers you must be aware of from angles you may not have thought of. A normal survival scenario has a lot of ways to make your life miserable – broken stuff to injure you, lack…
Use Trash to Make This Long-Lasting, Inexpensive Firebrick
This is a DIY project that lets you convert used biomass trash into a combustible “firebrick” that you can use in a wood furnace, woodstove or camp fire. If you heat with wood, you know that the price of a cord, split, has gotten quite expensive. You also probably receive all sorts of junk mail…
Food That Will Not Stand the Survival Test of Time
There is a lot of advice online about what you should do if you are preparing for a disaster or survival situation. There is a distinct gap in advice on preparing for a disaster or survival situation as it relates to what you should not do. That reality can cause two issues: You do not…
(Video) Survival Hacks That Could Literally Save a Life
Survival hacks are more than just fun facts or things to do if you are bored. In some cases, they can save your life! At least, they will make your life in the midst of a survival situation much easier. This is important because every survival situation has enough challenges! In a true survival scenario,…
How to Prepare in Case of a Nuclear Attack
A lot of us thought after the Cold War that fear of a nuclear strike was more than just remote – it was no longer a threat. Then came several developing countries bent on getting nuclear technology and using it to make nuclear weapons. There were also rumors that “tactical nukes,” smaller weapons that delivered…
Cotton Balls and Vaseline – A Sure-Fire Fire-Starter
Fire in a survival situation is one of the key elements you must have in all but the most benign survival environments to have a chance at surviving. While not part of the “Principle of Threes,” fire is as vital as any of them to life with the exception possibly of water. Fire warms, cooks,…
Wanted: Vital Skills Needed if TEOWAWKI Happens
It goes without saying that in a severe survival scenario – where life as we know it was altered permanently – that adaptation would be the key to making it through. That type of scenario would likely mean the traditional infrastructure we have come to rely on would be severely restricted or even destroyed. In…
(Video) Grasshoppers Are for Dinner (and Why That is a Good Thing)
Finding food in a survival situation is not your number one priority, but eventually, if your situation lasts long enough, it will become a key to your survival. There are many stories of people in a survival situation (whether they knew it or not) who ended up essentially starving to death, even though they had…
Free and Reduced Survival Gear – When and Where to Find It
A true survivalist is resourceful and is always on the lookout for a good deal. They also like the concept of “free” if it comes with no strings. Further, while some can afford any and all survival gear, many cannot, making a bargain or free stuff a necessity if they want to have the equipment…
(Video) The Backup Survival Kit That’ll Help the Slacker in the Group
Have you ever been to a cookout and everyone has brought something except for that one person who always seems to forget to bring anything? The same thing can happen on a hike or camping trip – there is always someone who is woefully prepared for what they might encounter. When that happens, someone else…
(Video) How to Suture a Wound and Why Knowing How is Critical
One of the grim realities of a survival situation is that a person can get injured far more easily than when life is at a normal pace. Stuff is mangled or broken, or jagged, or hot, or unfamiliar – and all these things end up presenting the survivalist with a ton more risks than normal.…
(Video) Survival Footwear and How the Right Pair Can Make All the Difference
Of all your survival gear, your footwear is possibly the most important in terms of ensuring you can make it through to safety. If you have ever had uncomfortable shoes or shoes that gave you blisters, you know what I mean. If your feet are wet, cold, blistered, hot, cracked, bleeding, etc. movement can be…
(Video) Bug-Out Bag 2017 – This Man Discusses Which Gear Makes the Cut
One of the most challenging aspects of survival preparation is separating the “wants” from the “needs” as it pertains to survival kits, bug-out and bug-in bags. This post will cover what to include in your bug-out bag. If you take all the advice you can get online, your bug-out would literally be the size of…
Fishing for Beginners – How to Catch, Clean and Cook Them
If you are a seasoned angler, this post is not for you. It is for the person just starting out fishing or someone who normally does not fish but finds themselves in a survival situation. In most areas of the world, while fishing is not a fool-proof way to secure a meal, it is one…
Food Storage for a Year – Do it Without Breaking the Bank!
Note: This post is kind of a last gasp, emergency backup to your survival cache if stuff really gets bad. It ensures you will have food for up to a year, albeit the variety will be lacking – but in a drastic survival situation, where making it through is the only goal, it could be…
An Indispensable Common Tarp Should be a Staple in Every Survival Kit
If you do any type of outdoor work or camp, chances are you have one of those blue tarps that you use to cover stuff or to make a shelter from the wind, rain or sun. Drive through any neighborhood, virtually anywhere and the chances are you will see at least one of these things,…
How to Vanish Off the Grid and Live a Stealth Life
Have you ever thought about what it would take to disappear? To terminate your present life and start anew? Unless you have lived a charmed life (some have,) just about everyone has fantasized at least about leaving the old behind to embrace a new life, a new you, a new identity. 40 years ago, it…
(Video) A Simple (and Pretty Cool) Tutorial on Paracord Netting
Paracord has a ton of uses – both as it was intended and by improvised means to make other tools for survival. You can use it to make fishing lures and line, sewing thread, a hammock, shoelaces, ultra-strong fasteners, small game snare and much more. In fact, what you can do with paracord is literally…
Feminine Needs in a Survival Situation and How to Prepare
In the realm of survival preparation, one area that is oft overlooked is feminine needs. Let us face facts: Watching a video about hunting or fishing or coming up with a list of survival equipment, materials, supplies or food is “sexier” than discussing how to deal with “that time of the month” in a survival…