Being able to survive with just your knowledge and instincts in the wild is a pretty amazing skill. Understanding that your surroundings provide you ample resources and opportunity to survive – as long as you know how to use those resources is invaluable to making it through a survival situation. This amazingly talented guy is…
Make This Cross Functional Paracord Bag: Step By Step Instructions
Part of being prepared for a survival situation is being able to create tools that will aid you when SHTF. This is one such project. It is easy to make although it will take a few hours of your time (if you possess ten thumbs on projects like this like I do.) In a survival situation,…
[VIDEO] This Guy Opts To Clean His Windshield With Steel Wool And THIS Happens
Keeping the windshields on your vehicles is very important – especially if you do a lot of traveling – a dirty windshield not only makes driving more difficult, it also can be dangerous if your view is obstructed. If I told you, though, that steel wool is a great glass cleaner, you likely would be…
[VIDEO] 10 Awesome Fire Hacks You Never Knew About
I was searching online for some innovative ways to start a fire and found this awesome video – from a survival perspective, except maybe as instruction on what burns and how to light it, this is pretty useless. But from a “these are some really cool uses for fire” perspective, the video is amazing. We…
Make This Thousand Watt Wind Turbine
In the late 1800’s, an electromagnetic pulse from the sun fried telegraph wires and some of the early electricity driven public utilities, even starting a few fires, but certainly shutting down broadband communications across the nation. Since then, our electrical grid has gotten more complex and we are desperately reliant upon it, but it has…
[VIDEO] Learn How To Make A Machete Without Using Power Tools
A machete is a very useful tool if you are in a survival situation – not only to clear brush, but also for self-defense. Most machetes are jade using power tools – grinders, presses and machine tools, but you do not have to have a lot of money, skills or a professional shop to make…
How To Prepare Guns And Ammo For A SHTF Scenario
We all hope that we never have to face a SHTF moment (unless you are nuts) and hope that if we do, we are prepared. One of the most overlooked aspects to survival situations is your ammunition, or ammo. Most have a stockpile, but is it appropriate for the situation you face? Have the wrong…
[VIDEO] Got An Old Washing Machine? Turn It Into A Water Powered Generator: DIY
Just about any old machine – stoves, dryers or in this case an old washing machine can be re-purposed to make something else in a SHTF moment or survival situation. This is particularly true if you are in a long-term survival situation. One of the most acute challenges facing any survivalist is being able to…
3 Most Effective Arrow Spines For Survival
While we all hope that in a survival situation, our stock of ammo would suffice, the reality is for most, unless you can make your own ammo, eventually, the stock will run out. When that happens, the ability to kill game for meat or protect yourself is greatly diminished. In reality, if you have your own…
Predict The Weather By Making This Storm Glass
Storm glasses is a type of weather forecasting device. It consists of a sealed glass container, potassium nitrate, ammonium chloride, distilled water, ethanol and natural camphor sealed in a glass container. While its forecasting ability is questioned, many people swear by it.The concept is that how the liquid appears, affected by environmental factors, is a predictive…
[VIDEO] Learn How To Make Mini Greenhouse
PVC pipe is one of those resources that literally has limitless uses – in this case, it serves as the frame for an awesome mini-greenhouse. Regardless of where you live, just about all of us who garden – be it just to have fresh fruits and vegetables or as a method of creating a more…
Learn How To Dehydrate Butter Substitutes For Storage
One of the most acute challenges of any survival situation is losing the “creature comforts” we have grown accustomed to and often take for granted. Unfortunately, many of these comforts are not easily preserved or replicated, unless you have a lot of land, livestock, or have done a lot of prepping in advance. Butter is…
[VIDEO] Watch How This Guy Builds A Primitive Hut From Scratch
While it is very unlikely any of us will have to build our own survival hut out of sticks, leaves and mud daub, what this guy can do is an example of the resourcefulness all of us need when faced with a survival situation or SHTF moment. You simply never know, were we to encounter…
See How To Make This Knife Handle From Paracord
Your knife is one of the most important survival items you will own – in fact, it might be the most important. You will use your knife in a survival situation more than just about any other tool and the uses you employ will be more diverse. That is why it is critical to have…
Are Rabbits The Most Sustainable Protein?
Part of being prepared for that SHTF moment, survival situation – short and long-term or just being self-reliant as much as possible is to grow and harvest your own meat. You have a lot of options – from cows and pigs to chickens or sheep, ducks, even goats. One option that often gets overlooked, but…
Most Effective Survival Uses for the Eastern White Pine for Self Sufficiency
One key to making it through any SHTF moment or survival situation is resourcefulness; if you possess just this one trait you increase your chances of survival exponentially. One of the most useful natural resources the survivalist has at his disposal, growing virtually everywhere, is the White Pine, but any of the 36 different types…
8 Unconventional Benefits Of Honey
Honey is one of those substances that the more we learn about it, the more applications it has beyond sweetening tea or being a spread on toast. In fact, in a survival situation, honey is one of the most versatile products a person could have – there are literally dozens of uses. Honey is a…
How To Treat Dangerous Spider Bites In 3 Steps
Making it through a survival situation is tough enough, but adding to all the things you must be careful of are bites from venomous spiders. Actually, any spider bite is really rare, but they can and do happen, usually, however, because people are unaware of their presence and not paying attention. The US has three…
14 OTC Medications You Should Have In Your Bug-Out-Bag
We all have a list of stuff that we know must be included in our bug-out bag. Those things include stuff to build shelters, navigate, catch food and much more. What many overlook, however, are simple over-the-counter medications that not only will make your survival existence easier, they could actually save your life. Just about everyone…
Learn How To Make An Outdoor Improvised Lantern In 5 Easy Steps
If there is one theme we emphasize here it is that the essence of survival is improvisation. What that means specifically, is having the knowledge, skills and abilities to re-purpose stuff to make survival tools and to take everyday items to construct the same if necessary. One aspect of survival that is almost never overlooked…