If you are converting to solar, sizing it correctly is critical to both maintaining the system and rationing your power without depleting your battery system during times when sunlight is not readily available or if part of your system is malfunctioning. Knowing how many kilowatt hours your batteries can store is the key to determining…
Excellent Preparation Tips For Survival
“Practice makes perfect” is a saying just about all of us have heard and most of us have heard it thousands of times in some iteration growing up. The same applies to learning how to best prepared for a survival situation. You will not know if something is a good idea until you try it…
Thoughts On Firearms: Should You Or Shouldn’t You Own A Gun?
The decision to own a firearm is one of the most controversial topics today. Some folks do not like guns, others are fearful of them, while others are not comfortable being around them. For a survivalist, owning a firearm is almost assumed, but even still, the decision is one that takes a lot of consideration.…
Use the Awesome 18th Century Style Bow Drill Set to Start a Fire!
Just about every survivalist knows that fire is one of the major priorities to any survival situation. Fire lets you cook, keeps you warm, provides a sense of security, is a morale booster and can even be used to ward off intruders, two and four legged in a pinch. While you hope that your various…
See How This Plant Can Help Stop Bleeding
While modern advancements in food, tools, science, medicine, even stuff as simple as clothes have made our lives much easier and more fulfilling, nature had given us an abundance of highly useful plants to use for everyday and emergency situations. Sheppard’s Purse is one such treasure – either to eat or as a way to…
[VIDEO] Learn How To Make This Primitive Trap To Catch Fish
As we have discussed before, fish are probably the easiest source of meat protein there is in a SHTF moment or long-term survival situation. You can catch fish virtually everywhere and in all but the most toxic of settings, they are safe to eat in the short-term; just make sure you prepare them properly. If…
[VIDEO] DIY Fishing Tool: The Gorge Hook
If you are facing a survival situation, catching a fish can be the game changer in terms of getting your hands much needed protein. Hunting, killing and dressing game takes a lot of time and energy and depending on where you are, might not be available; fish, however, are available just about anywhere and for…
[VIDEO] Bushcraft Skills: How To Make A Mallet Using a Saw And an Axe
The key to survival is being able to improvise. As every survivalist knows, re-purposing or modifying stuff to meet your immediate needs can mean the difference between being comfortable or not, being able to complete vital survival tasks and even in some cases between life and death. One way to to improvise is to make…
Tactical Hand Signals Every Survivalist Should Know
Hand signals when you cannot communicate as you normally would is an invaluable tool that is used in many, many environments. NASCAR drivers use hand signals to indicate they are getting ready to hit the pit stop. NFL quarterbacks use them to shift offenses. In baseball, just about everyone on the team knows hand signals…
Which Is A Better Survival Backpack: Military or Civilian?
If you are in a bug-out situation, an extended hike that devolves into a survival situation or even if you are just building your survival kit / bug-out bag, one question you will have to consider is what type of backpack you should go with: Military or Civilian. Both have up and downsides – and…
Long Range Precision Shooting Tips and Methods
One of the most controversial aspects of being a survivalist is self-defense; people get worked up over firearms and none of us really ever want to be in a life and death situation. Yet, in a SHTF moment, if it leads to a long-term survival crisis, being able to defend yourself, property, belongings and family…
Tips For Creating The Perfect 25lb Survival Bag
One of the key questions facing every survivalist is what to put in your survival kit, back or bug-out bag. It’s a tough question – take too much stuff you do not need and you run the risk of not taking stuff you need. Then again, it is pretty much accepted that having “creature comforts”…
Awesome Bushcraft Cooking Techniques For Survival
You can have the best skills in the world for catching game and fish, but if you do not know how to cook it, you are pretty much stuck eating raw food. In a Sushi bar, raw fish can be consumed without consequence (give or take). But in a survival situation, consuming raw or contaminated…
This Compact Fishing Kit Will Fit Almost Anywhere
In a survival situation, fish provide a great source of protein and nutrients and are easier to catch in most cases than small game. Fish are present just about anywhere there is water, even in urban areas and in most cases, if you prepare and cook it correctly, they are edible. The other nice thing…
[VIDEO] Do you Know This Effective Primitive Fish Trap?
Catching fish in a survival situation is one of the easiest ways to get access to protein and a host of vitamins and minerals. Fish exist virtually everywhere and while not all are edible normally, in a survival situation, if that is all you have to eat, well, “any port in a storm” as the…
[VIDEO] When SHTF, Do You Know How Many Magazines You’ll Need?
If you have to use your firearms in a SHTF scenario, or a “grid-down” situation, regular use will eventually degrade your ammunition magazines and if you are in a situation where you go through all the bullets in your magazine, you will need to have at least a few replacements. The last thing you want to…
[VIDEO] Awesome Survival Tools For Off Grid Living
In an “off-grid” moment, your ability to improvise is critical to your survival. If the situation is long-term enough, being able to improvise becomes a necessity and that means having backups to the tools and utilities we all depend on that require electricity. For example, what would you drill with if your electric or battery…
Be Found In An Emergency With These Attention Grabbing Smoke Bombs
Colored smoke has a lot of applications – in pyrotechnics, special effects and believe it or not, in a survival situation. As a signal, in a survival situation, colored smoke stands out and can be seen for miles. Right now, it is used in some military situations to help air support target the enemy and…
Survivalists Guide To Venomous Spiders
Staying healthy in a survival situation is always a challenge. There are literally countless ways you can cut, maim, mangle or crush part of you and then there are the myriad parasites, viruses and bacteria that can make you sick. Oh, there are also venomous spiders, as if all of the above was not enough.…
[VIDEO] How To Make This Pine Pitch Glue
We take a lot of our daily lives for granted – stuff that we barely notice now, would become critical needs in a survival situation. Glue is one of those things we largely ignore until we need it and then the need becomes acute. Luckily, in a survival situation, nature has given you an amazing way…