Candles are essential for any survivalist that doesn’t want to be dependent on a battery-powered light source. But if you’re in your bug out cabin and short on candles, you can actually use household items to create a water candle. This candle is different because it doesn’t look like any regular boring old wax candle.…
Does a Snake Bite Kit Really Help When a Person Has Been Bit by a Venomous Snake?
When you’re heading into the desert for a nice long hike on your vacation – what all do you bring along? Water, extra food, sun protection? Emergency tools and first aid kits? Those are all good things to have in your backpack. But do you bring along a snake bite kit as well? Snake bite…
So, How Do You Know Things Are About to Get Stupid in a Public Location?
In an ideal situation, we are safely in our homes and away from the chaos when SHTF. But we know that doesn’t always happen. Sometimes we are out in the middle of a daily routine, sitting in traffic, waiting in line at the grocery store, and then forced to respond to the emergency with dozens…
(VIDEO) How to Make a Primitive Stone Axe From Scratch
A celt stone axe is a prehistoric tool made of stone or bronze. They have been around for thousands of years, as many museum artifacts can demonstrate. They were used for hunting, cutting down trees, and had various uses for construction. They started out “unhafted,” or without a handle. Once people started attaching the sharpened…
(VIDEO) He Takes Out Gum and a Battery. How He Creates Fire? This Is Insane!
Picture this: You’re stuck in the wilderness during a SHTF moment, and you didn’t have time to double-check your supplies before running out the door. You’re finally in a relatively safe location and are in a position to analyze the contents of your bag. Your matches are missing, and you remember that you left your…
(VIDEO) Smart Hacks That’ll Help You Master and Conquer the Bowdrill
The bow drill is also known as a fire drill, and it has been used since ancient times to produce fire through friction. It is composed of four parts: a hearth board, a drill, the bow, and a handhold for the drill, and it is relatively simple to make. It can be used to ignite…
(VIDEO) 10 Fire Tricks That’ll Blow Your Mind. A Few Will Also Help You When SHTF!
What one of the top three most important survival skills that you need to stay alive in the wilderness? According to most experts – fire skills. If you haven’t come equipped with a lighter or matches, you will obviously need to know how to make a fire with whatever supplies you have in your backpack,…
How to Put Together a Personal Solar Powered Air Conditioner
Most of us want to spend our summers outside, appreciating nature and the beautiful weather. But many of us – especially those in extremely hot climates – can’t spend all day outside because of the heat. We don’t want to be exhausted and dripping with sweat by the end of the day just for deciding…
(VIDEO) Using Just 2 Containers, This Couple Creates a Prepper’s Off Grid Dream Home. When You See It? WOW!
Would you be willing to live tiny? Can you imagine downsizing your belongings to fit into 40-foot shipping containers? It does sound tempting: living off the grid, not having a mortgage, not paying utility bills. You would be living sustainably. Your water would be collected from the rain, your energy from the sun using solar…
(VIDEO) You’re Not Going to Believe This Hidden WWII Bunker That Was Found. Shocking!
The Atlantic Wall during World War II was used as a means of coastal defense along the coast of France, Belgium, the Netherlands, Denmark, and all the way up to the coast of Norway. It was built by Nazi Germany as a means to defend against an invasion from the Allied forces, and it was…
(VIDEO) This Survivalist Bugs Out by Only Using His Military Ruck Sack. Now Watch His Incredible Experience!
Whether you’re a long-running survival enthusiast or just starting out setting up your supplies and gear, it is always helpful to see what’s in the bug out bags of other survivalists. If you are in the process of purchasing items to start out your bag, it is particularly helpful to know which items are essential.…
(VIDEO) The 10 Most Poisonous Animals Around the World Will Shock You
We’ve talked about the deadliest animals on the planet, whether ferociously large or surprisingly small. You might recall that humans made the list as well. But we haven’t talked about the ten most poisonous and venomous creatures to humans. Against these creatures, humans don’t stand a chance! Think of which ten animals you would put…
(VIDEO) The Variety of Food You Can Forage in the Wilderness Will Surprise You!
When you are starting to get hungry out in the wild during a bug out, and you notice your food stores slowly shrinking, it can be incredibly discouraging. Hopefully, you have some form of reference – whether a book or list – for edible plants and berries stowed away in your shelter or bug out…
(VIDEO) For Emergency Food, This Survivalist Shows You How to Eat Grub Worms
When you’re out in the woods, slowly starving and trying to remember which plants look familiar to the edible listings in your plant reference guide, you can’t afford to be picky. Not in the sense that you should stop worrying whether the plant is poisonous and just eat the plant – please, don’t do that…
(VIDEO) He Takes Out a 12 Volt Battery. The Survival Hack He Shows Us? AMAZING!
In a SHTF situation, you want to make sure all of your energy needs are covered. Whether it’s during a natural disaster or an EMT, your electricity is sure to go out for who knows how long? You don’t want to be the person that didn’t prepare when SHTF. You also don’t want to be…
(VIDEO) The Speediest Way to Setup a Shelter Tarp. My Mind Is Blown!
When you’re worried about the incoming storm heading your way, setting up shelter in a time efficient manner is of the essence. Think about it: do you really want to be fumbling around in the mud while your gear gets soaked through from the rain, trying to set up your tarp? And driving your stakes…
10 Primitive Survival Tools that Transformed History
When you think about how far we have come as a modern civilization with all of our technological advances, all of our refined weaponry and equipment, it can be difficult to comprehend the simple ways of our ancestors. The people living hundreds, even thousands of years ago had only their bare hands to create remarkable…
(VIDEO) Using a Scrap Reciprocating Saw Blade, You Can Make a SHTF Knife for Under a $1!
What type of knife you have depends largely on what tasks you face ahead. Whether it’s a tool you require for creating ribbons for tinder, for cutting rope to set up your shelter, as a means to build other useful tools, or to use in place of a small shovel for various digging jobs… you…
5 Primitive Shelters That’ll Keep You Safe From the Elements When the Collapse Takes Place
It can be difficult to know the best course of action to take when you’re in need of a shelter. So much depends on the current conditions and the building materials and tools that you have at your disposal. Obviously, you need to consider if it’s safe to go out in search of materials before…
12 Things You Can Do Now to Prepare for an Unexpected Collapse
Most of the most experienced preppers are prepared in just about any situation. They have their supplies handy, their shelter prepared, and their bug out bag within reach at a moment’s notice. You yourself might be an avid prepper. You might have a rough plan in order for an EMT, natural disasters like floods or…