The adventurer in you is calling; it’s telling you to cross a desert, paddle a sea, trek a forest… scale a mountain. With nearly every inch of the planet mapped in this day and age (except for 95% of the ocean floor), people needing a good dose of adventure inevitably feel the draw to climb…
(VIDEO) How to Build Inexpensive and Durable Solar Panels
The biggest problem to be had with off the grid living, apart from having to deal with no indoor plumbing, is the problem of how to power your home. While you may be thinking, “I don’t need power, I can just use candles and heat my home with a wood stove,” in reality, that may…
(VIDEO) With This Simple How to You Can Forge a Knife That’s Useful for Survival
When many people think of survival knives, they tend to picture large thick blades which can be used for chopping, stabbing, processing game, and for fighting and self-defense. The problem with this, though, is that when you try to make a knife that can do it all, you end up with one that can’t really…
(VIDEO) This Dakota Fire Hole is Mind Blowing. When You See How to Make One? Ultimate Survival Skill!
While it’s always fun to sit around a fire and reminisce about the events of the day or maybe big events of old, sometimes all you want is a small cooking fire that you can use to boil water and heat up your MRE. However, if you don’t have a cooking stove, then you may…
(VIDEO) How to Live in the Woods With a 19th Century Lifestyle
Once upon a time, back before the Industrial Revolution and before our throwaway society, back when food was caught or grown by whomever wanted to eat it and being vegetarian simply meant you were a bad hunter, what we would call bushcraft or survival skills today were simply everyday living skills that everyone who didn’t…
(VIDEO) You Can Learn How to Make Sugardine, a Cost-Effective Anti-Septic. Here’s How:
Cost-effective antiseptics are few and far between. Some are so outlandishly expensive that they are hardly worth the cost, unless of course you are dying of a debilitating bacterial infection, in which case they probably won’t do you much good anyways. Most antiseptics are applied to prevent infection, not cure it, so, in general, you’d…
(VIDEO) How to Build a Debris Shelter for Long Term Survival
When most people think of wilderness shelters of logs and leaves, they tend to lean towards thoughts of a temporary nature or one-time use. However, in a bug out or during an emergency survival situation, you may need to make a shelter which will withstand quite a bit of use and abuse. This means you’ll…
(VIDEO) The Secrets of Stealth Camping Revealed…
One area of concern that many people have with regards to bugging out is the idea of camping while bugging out. Yes, most bug out bags will have a tarp or some form of shelter in them for emergency purposes, but the problem with normal camping in a bug out situation is that you need…
(VIDEO) He Takes Out a Huge Knife. When He Shows You How to Forge an Old Lawnmower Blade? Unbelievable!
You can make a knife out of pretty much anything. History tells us that we have made knives out of pretty much anything. Stone, bone, iron, bronze, copper, steel… mankind has always found ways to create new and deadly weapons from whatever we could get our hands on. Take one look at any prison confiscation…
(VIDEO) He Takes Out a 9 Volt Battery. What He Creates With It? This is a Clever Survival Hack!
Every survivalist worth his salt knows the trick with the 9-volt battery and the steel wool to start a fire. It’s such a staple that many backpackers and campers keep a 9 volt and some steel wool in their fire starting kits because it’s so dependable. But the 9-volt battery can be used for much…
A Major Earthquake Just Took Place. Here’s How to Quickly Escape an Earthquake Zone in One Piece…
Of the many things preppers prepare for, from economic failure to EMPs to terrorist attacks, natural disasters are above all the most likely reason you’ll ever have to make use of your prepping skills and supplies. Among natural disasters, few things frighten people as much as a powerful earthquake. You can see a storm coming…
(VIDEO) Learn How You Can Make a Durable and Incredible Damascus Steel Knife
Constantly learning new skills is the mantra of the prepper. When SHTF, you’ll have to provide a lot for yourself, and if situations escalate to the point where there is no longer an established system of trading goods and services (there will still be a system, just not the same system we’re all used to)…
(VIDEO) You Can Make a $10 PVC Bow. When You See How? This is Insane!
One aspect of survival that many people tend to gravitate towards is the area of weapons. It’s a great area rich in entertainment thanks to decades of action movies about the apocalypse that have long a long way towards fueling new generations of preppers. Entertainment value aside, there is a lot of value in weapons…
(VIDEO) Philippine Marine Corps Teach U.S. Marines to Survive in the Jungle. When You See How They Do It? I Can’t Stop Thinking About This!
There are a lot of difficulties with jungle survival, not the least of which are the problems with finding food, avoiding the plethora of hidden dangers, and building fires. In the humid environment, the body can give out much more quickly due to dehydration and hunger, due to the extreme stress of the climate on…
(VIDEO) Could You Eat Grasshoppers for Survival Food? This Prepper Shows Us How:
While it’s certainly not at the top of your priority list, finding food is certainly going to be a strong point of thought if you find yourself in a survival situation. You will generally be burning a much higher number of calories than usual, and it’s only natural that you’ll get hungry and start longing…
7 Natural Allergy Remedies That’ll Help You Overcome Sneezing and More When SHTF
Allergies are probably the most annoying part of spring, or any time of the year, bar none. They can cripple your ability to get any work done around your property, will make you miserable through any work you are actually able to complete, and will make you quickly go through your stores of tissues–and that’s…
(VIDEO) Learning How to Make a Poultice Could be Your Ticket to Healing Blisters and More When You’re Out in the Wild…
Prior to big name pharmaceutical brands and doctors prescribing pills for every ailment under the sun (many of which have side-effects that far outweigh the benefits–if one of the side effects is “death,” maybe you should take that pill back to the drawing board…but I digress), most people relied on the almost miraculous healing effects…
(VIDEO) This Emergency Solar Phone is Exactly What You’ll Need When SHTF…
When SHTF, an important thing to consider is how you are going to communicate with others in your group or with emergency services, should something go wrong. One option for this is a HAM radio, but that requires a license and is a very complicated system to learn–not a great option to rely on if…
(VIDEO) You Just Discovered a Wasp Nest at Your Bug Out Cabin. Here’s How to Get Rid of Them With a Brown Paper Bag.
Nothing ruins a good picnic like a steady stream of wasps getting into the food. The same can be said of a perfectly good bug out cabin. A wasp nest will often become a threat to not only you, but also to your family and even your pets. If anyone in your family is allergic…
Check Out the CRKT Homefront Pocket Knife. It’s Insane!
Having a knife to rely upon is a top priority for nearly every survivalist, prepper, outdoorsman and just people in general. While many prefer the ruggedness of a fixed-blade knife, there are many others who like the concealment and space-saving capabilities of a folding knife. While many folding knives are nearly as rugged as fixed-blades…