Facing a lot of social, cultural and societal upheaval, more and more people are examining and even embracing the survival mentality. Whether natural or man-made, doomsday or just regular life, the prepared you are, the better your chances of making it through a survival situation – short and long-term. Embracing something new, especially when it…
A DIY Survival Knife Made from a Hacksaw!
In a survival situation or SHTF moment, your knife is your best friend, even more than your firearm or any other survival tool in your possession. This is because, bar none, of all your survival gear, you will rely on your knife day in and day out, all day, in multiple situations. On one recent…
Emergency Signaling – What You MUST Know!
Everyone who ventures out into the wilderness runs the risk of facing a survival situation. Depending how severe it is, you may or may not have technology at your disposal to help you navigate or be located. In many cases, the GPS inside a cell phone will work, but all other communications with the outside…
Prepare Yourself for Survival Challenges – After the SHTF Moment!
In case you did not have enough to worry about and prepare for, you need to think about what will happen after a survival situation hits and how you would handle daily life in the aftermath. Like it or not, most survival situations do not immediately return to normal as soon as the immediate crisis…
What Essential Items Will Vanish First During a SHTF Moment
Ted Koppel, award-winning journalist, television presenter and author, has recently written a book that highlights how vulnerable the US electrical grid is. In his scenario, those wishing harm, could shut off the power for entire swaths of the country and as a nation, we are utterly unprepared for subsequent weeks, maybe even months of no…
Why Living in a Self-Sufficient Manner in 25 Years Will be Simple
Since the late 1960’s, people have been dreaming of and planning for being able to power their homes and properties on their own terms. Some of this desire is born of necessity, much of it a desire to be self-sufficient and over the last decade, self-preservation. The self-preservation (or survival) motivation can be because our…
How to Set Up a Forge Under $40 and Become a Blacksmith
One of the largest obstacles to making it through a long-term survival situation is that most of us lack the basic skills needed to perform trades that used to be commonplace. This is particularly true as it comes to the work of a blacksmith. While as recently as a few decades ago, one could find…
How to Build a Materia Medica (Herbal Notebook) and Become a Herbalist
Understanding herbal sciences is a key to being as adept a survivalist as possible. Herbalism has been a practice that has been with humans for virtually as long as we have stood upright. Evidence has indicated that using plants for medicinal purposes dates back approximately 60 thousand years and lists of plants have been found…
Do You Know How to Cook on a Wood Stove? Learn How!
One challenge in a survival situation – whether it is for a few hours or much longer, is cooking food. If you heat with a wood stove, you probably have used your stove to heat water or even to cook; and if that is so, you have found that it is quite a bit different…
[VIDEO] How to Build a Paracord Shelter You Can Carry on Your Back!
Shelter in a survival situation is critical to making it through in one piece. Next to a fire, it is the most important priority you have immediately after the SHTF moment has stabilized. When faced with a survival situation of SHTF moment, knowing how to build a shelter quickly and easily is important if for no…
Survival Drills You Should Practice in the Event of an Emergency
Because one never knows when or where an emergency can happen, it is important that you and your family practice basic drills to ensure each one of your family members knows their responsibilities. Just like in sports or theater or pretty much anything that requires on-demand performances, the more you practice, the better the chances…
[VIDEO] Gardening Mistakes You Must Avoid
The survival lifestyle is hinged on being as self-sufficient as possible, one way of helping to achieve that goal is to grow your own food. Gardening is one fairly easy way of making sure you have a stockpile of fruits and vegetables ready for eating during non-growing months or if you are facing a situation…
[VIDEO] Minimalist Camping Techniques to Practice and Perfect
The purpose of this video is not instructive except to show how one of the best ways to hone the survival or SHTF skills you may need is to practice in a controlled environment. The essence of this is to practice your survival skills in an environment where if something goes wrong, you are not…
Are You a Beginner at Preparing for SHTF? Don’t Panic! Here are the Basics
News journalist Ted Koppel recently recommended preparing for a survival moment. Jamie Lee Curtis, the actress, has done so for the Red Cross. Even the US federal government has recommended that everyone have a survival kit and food stockpile that can allow you to make it through several days without power, water, sewage, etc. The…
[VIDEO] Learn This Simple Way to Break Vehicle Glass During a Survival Situation
Most of us will at some point encounter some type of survival situation or SHTF moment. It probably will be weather related, such as surviving the aftermath of a hurricane or blizzard. It could be man made, such as many experienced in the immediate aftermath of 9/11 or on a smaller scale after any of…
[VIDEO] Knot Tying Basics and Why You Must Learn Them
Knowing how to tie sound knots is one skill that everyone will at some point use and if you spend time in the wilderness, camping, fishing, hunting or even just doing yard work, is something you will constantly use. Knots are essential for securing and hauling things, but there is nothing more frustrating and possibly…
[VIDEO] Nitecore Lumen Headlamp Review
One challenge in any camping or survival situation is light at night. The right angle HC-30 Headlamp, made by Nitecore goes a long way to alleviating that problem. It puts out an amazing 1K Lumens of light when used in Turbo mode (one of five modes: Ultra-Low, Low, Medium, High, Turbo and then three specialty…
[VIDEO] Which Bug Out Vehicle Is Right for You?
While most of us have prepared for more of a “bug-in” situation, bugging-out might be the preferred alternative. If the SHTF moment you are facing is dire enough, say with a hurricane approaching, it might be your only alternative. If you face that type of a situation, your vehicle has to be dependable, rugged, have…
[VIDEO] Dead Reckoning is a Skill You Must Develop for Survival Navigation
Almost everyone who has spent time in the brush has encountered a situation where traditional course-plotting is just not possible or practical. This situation might be when you are ensconced in a foggy environment, traveling after dark or when your traditional instruments, like a compass, are not operative. On land, dead reckoning is best achieved…
[VIDEO] 5 Minute Nutrient-Rich Survival Super-Food
In a survival situation, quick and easy is the key as it pertains to food. You also want whatever you make to be packed with as many nutrients, vitamins and minerals as possible, without sacrificing taste or texture. One type of food you can quickly master is this flat-bread recipe that is very easy to…