The art of surviving a doomsday scenario or survival situation is being able to use common items readily found to their maximum potential. Steel wool is one of those often-overlooked utilities that everyone has but often forgets about as soon as they are done using it for a project. Its uses as a survival tool,…
How To Stay Alive In The Wilderness: The Essentials!
While every hiker, camper or survivalist has creature comforts they try and include in their wilderness gear, there are certain essentials every person who ventures beyond the asphalt jungle must have. The list of critical gear is subjective, but there are a few basics. Without them, survival becomes at best, very uncomfortable and at worst,…
The Ultimate Fishing Kit For Survival
When you venture into the wilderness, It’s always important to prepare for the worst. No one ever wants to be in a survival situation, but face the facts! Bad stuff can happen to even the most experienced survivalist as well as the most inexperienced camper or hiker. A survival situation can arise at any moment and…
Emergency Washing Machine For Under $10
Many people who have survived dire situations – natural and man made disasters, economic collapse, getting lost in the wilderness – will often comment that “creature comforts,” those little things you overlook ordinarily, play a huge role in keeping your spirits up. One of those overlooked things is keeping your clothes clean. A few days…
[VIDEO] Awesome Bottle Cap Fishing Lures That Actually Work!
Securing a food source in a survival situation is critical to your survival and fish are a plentiful (in most cases) and fairly easy to catch source of protein and calories. Ideally, you can whip out your emergency fishing kit, but if you find yourself without that, here is an awesome way to improvise and…
Make This Portable Solar Powered Generator: A Survivalist Must-Have!
Whether you are camping or in a survival situation, at home with no power or even just hanging out in a backyard screen house, lugging around a gasoline generator is often just not practical. It’s heavy, smelly and noisy – not exactly conducive to a peaceful setting or a situation where silence is necessary. More to…
[VIDEO] How To Make Survival Arrows on the Cheap
No matter how prepared we are for a survival situation, one can easily pop up and catch us by surprise. When / if that happens, our very survival could depend on how well as can improvise and adapt. Protection and food rank near the top of the list in terms of critical needs if we find…
The Green Beret Guide To Being Armed: What You Need To Know
When the time comes, and you’re in the trenches of a SHTF moment, those who are armed and prepared will have a distinct advantage over those who are not and failed to prepare. The latter, by choice or happenstance, will be at the mercy of those who are! Do NOT fall into that scenario. Survival in a…
Garage Sales: An Excellent Resource for Survivalist Items!
Ensuring you have the resources you need to make it through a survival situation can be expensive. That’s why it is critical that you’re always on the lookout for items and tools and ready to scoop them up when and where you find them if the price is right. One often-overlooked way to find the items…
24 Awesome Survivalist Uses for Coffee Filters
While the most critical use of coffee filters is to make sure we get our morning jolt of caffeine without having to swallow a mouthful of coffee grounds, coffee filters do have many other innovative and unique uses. Not only will most of these tips for coffee filter uses make life easier, in some cases,…
Emergency Power Options You Need To Know About If SHTF
When power goes out for a period of time, people can start to panic. It’s important to know your options during these situations so you can maintain a sense of control. With an aging and extremely vulnerable electrical infrastructure, blizzards in winter, major summer thunderstorms, tornadoes and many other potential causes of power disruption, chances…
[VIDEO] Amazing Survival Uses For The Common Drinking Straw
In a survival situation, storage space is always an issue. One endlessly amazing option for survivalists to utilize is the plastic drinking straw! It works as a great mini container and is surprisingly durable. Yes! Drinking Straws! Drinking straws are quite strong and they provide many uses as emergency kit storage containers that are compact, water…
[Video] How To Make This Kickass 5 Gallon Bucket Air Cooler
Using a couple of buckets, some PVC and a portable fan you can create this kickass 5 Gallon Bucket Air Cooler that you’ll wish you had last summer. This thing is super easy to make and it will cool down your home without having to use a heavy, electricity hogging air conditioner. Almost everyone uses air conditioning…
Epic Outdoor Uses for a Metal Can!
Of all the items you can modify to serve another purpose, the common metal can is one of the most versatile. Depending on size, it can be used as a stove, trap, digging tool, even as an alarm. That is right. That empty can you were just about to throw away has multiple, potential other…
Why Having A Safe Room Is Critical For Survival
When most people think of “safe rooms” they envision a room in the center or a basement of a house in tornado alley. We have all seen the pictures of houses demolished by a twister, except for the rock solid, usually square room that some family in the Midwest saved themselves by taking refuge in.…
Awesome Step by Step Guide To Hooking Up Your Generator The Right Way
With harsh winters in the Northeast and severe weather in the Spring in the South as well as normal weather everywhere else, most homeowners, even in urban and suburban areas are turning to generators as a back-up power supply. Ask any Home Inspector, Fire Marshall or Electrician, however, and they will tell you that while…
How To Build a Cinder Block BBQ Pit On The Cheap
Want a BBQ but don’t want to pay an arm and a leg to buy one? Learn how to make an AWESOME BBQ for practically nothing. It’s great for the outdoors and also your backyard! For most of us, an incredibly long, cold and snowy winter has finally passed (we hope) and we are well…
[VIDEO] How To Make These Awesome Ninja Throwing Stars
First of all, these badass ninja throwing stars can be made without the use of ANY tools. All you need to build this awesome weapon are three bear-claw hooks and some duct-tape. This is hands down one of the easiest and best handmade weapons we’ve ever seen! Ninja Throwing Stars were allegedly a weapon used…
Why Survivalists Need This Rad Olight Baton Flashlight
In an emergency or survival situation a reliable, easy to use, non-complicated flashlight can be vital. Whether you get lost in the woods at night or suffer a power outage because of storm, flashlights located on your person or in an easily identifiable location completely alter your perception, ability to be mobile and provide no…
The Survivalist Guide to Honey: It Kills Bacteria And Heals Wounds!
Did you know honey is an awesome bacteria killer? It can even be used as an agent to promote healing! Honey is such a versatile product that many doctors, champions of modern medicine, are warming to its amazing qualities. An ironic aspect about our “sophisticated” society is how much, despite technological advances, we rely on “old”…