Once in a while, you may get into a fight. That’s just a fact of life. While many people leave their fighting days back on the playground, there are others who turn to fighting at every opportunity to get their way, and they often have no qualms at bringing others into the fray with them.…
What You Need to Know About the Coming Economic Collapse
It’s not fun to think about, but there is an excellent chance (it’s almost guaranteed by the top economists) that we will be facing the worst economic strife ever seen since the founding of this country within the next couple of decades. People will need to tighten their waistbands, learn to work with their hands,…
(VIDEO) He Wants to Save on Space. Now Watch Him as He Makes a Canned Food Dispenser.
One problem that many preppers face with their preps is the problem of space. Planning on storing months and months of food takes up a lot of room, which can be a problem if you don’t have all that much room to spare. For those preppers who have large families and a small home, and…
(VIDEO) Survival Hack: How to Start a Fire With Sugar and Without Matches
If your matches are wet, your lighter is out of fuel, it’s a cloudy day, making your magnifying glass useless, and you don’t have hours to waste trying to get a friction fire going. Sounds like a pretty rough weekend in the woods. Luckily, if you’ve ever spent some time in a high school chemistry…
(VIDEO) It’s Hard to Believe What This Guy Can Do With a Five-Gallon Bucket. INSANE!
When SHTF, we are going to face a lot of problems. The power will likely be out, who knows for how long? Without power, there goes the refrigerator, the freezer, all lights and *gasp* the internet. These are the things a lot of people worry about for SHTF scenarios. But one thing that will also…
(VIDEO) Would You Like to be Skilled in Flintknapping? Allow This Survivalist to Teach You How! Incredible!
Flintknapping is the art of striking stones together in order to craft a tool. That’s the simple explanation. The full explanation is much more complicated, just like the processes involved in crafting a high-quality tool from simple stone. This process evolved over thousands of years as our ancestors figured out which stones worked best for…
(VIDEO) You Can Open a Padlock With a Soda Can. It Sounds Difficult But it’s Possible!
Protecting your goods and property is important to you, so you employ a lot of locks and check up on your storage frequently. You may think that padlocks are extremely secure, but what you may not know is that just about anybody can circumvent these rugged locks with something as simple as a soda can.…
(VIDEO) For an Extremely Sharp Knife, Sharpen Your Knife on a Whet Stone. Here’s How:
To whet, or to sharpen, is a skill of utmost importance for anyone who relies on knives on a regular basis. A great many people allow others to perform this service for them, bringing them to a local blade sharpening shop so that the blade can be ground down by a rapidly spinning wheel. But…
How to Survive a Massive Shooting
At the same time that violent crimes are declining across the board, mass shootings are becoming an increasingly common way for killers to take out their psychological issues on an often defenseless public. One thing compounding the increasing threat of mass shootings is the increasing numbers of businesses and areas that forbid guns on the…
(VIDEO) By Learning These Pertinent Survival Skills, You Can Make Cordage From Natural Materials
Cordage is one of the most valuable survival tools you can have. With it, you can weave nets, construct a shelter, thatch a roof for your shelter, construct a raft, make snares, set up triplines, etc. The list pretty much goes on to infinity. Cordage is worth more than its weight in gold to the…
(VIDEO) Make a Tasty Bushcraft Meal and Roast a Fish on a Stone…
You’ve laid out several fishing trap baskets, some spring-loaded tip-up lines, and have been sitting on the side of the river all day. Finally, paydirt! You’ve caught a fish, and now you’re ready for dinner! But how to cook it? There are an infinite number of tips on how to catch game, find edible plants…
(VIDEO) Hardtack Can be a Life Saving Survival Food When You’re Bugging Out and You Can Make it Ahead of Time!
Hardtack is the food of the settlers. It was the go-to supper for the sailors who first made landfall in this country. It was utilized by the first pilgrims in order to make it through the long winters. Hardtack was in every saddlebag of the settlers who moved out west. Needless to say, hardtack was…
If You’re Not Careful When SHTF, Here are 10 Ways the Beach Can Kill You
Most people think of a day at the beach as the most relaxing experience imaginable. A drink in one hand, a book in the other, forget about it; there’s nothing better. However, there are plenty of people who view the beach as an absolute death trap, and they may be right. Inattentive lifeguards, man-eating sea…
(VIDEO) This Prepper Gives Us a Tour of His Underground Bunker. Now Watch in Awe When You See Him Reveal It.
Wouldn’t it be cool to have your very own underground bunker? A place where you can run and hide every time a tornado hits, there is an EMP strike, or the in-laws come? This is a common dream for preppers, although many shirk away from the idea due to cost and not wanting to look…
(VIDEO) Building a DIY Shooting Bench Useful for Survival
Sighting in your rifles and practicing with them regularly is an important step of proper prepping. When SHTF, your rifle is going to be a valuable key to putting food on the table once your food stores have been used up. Your rifle will also be one of your top ways to protect your property…
5 Hardcore Security Measures That’ll Keep Even the Scariest of Predators Out
Whether you’re waiting for the financial bubble to burst, the massive supervolcano beneath Yellowstone to erupt, or a massive zombie horde to rampage through the streets, all signs point to the necessity of a good strong door. When things go south, keeping the riffraff off your property and out of your home is one of…
(VIDEO) He Takes Out a Saw and Two Pieces of Sturdy Wood. What Primitive Tool He Makes? This Will Come in Handy!
Occasionally your longterm survival plans are going to call for you to move some heavy objects out of the way. They could be blocking an optimal shelter area, you may want to use them for the funneling game down a particular trail, or you may want to clean out an area on your homestead for…
What You Need to Know to Repair Your Vehicles and Equipment Post-Collapse
Before we became a throwaway society, nearly everyone had a huge accumulation of seemingly useless junk that would appear in piles in the backyard or a forgotten room of the house. This largely stems from the Great Depression, when survival often depended on upon your innovation in using whatever you had at your disposal. Nowadays,…
(VIDEO) Choosing the Right Saw Blade to Get That Off the Grid Job Done
When Eustace Conway, the master primitive skills expert from Mountain Men and Elizabeth Gilbert’s book, The Last American Man, first started construction of his 1,000-acre paradise known as Turtle Island, the very first building he constructed was his tool shed. This is the ultimate message as to how important tools will be to your homesteading…
(VIDEO) This Prepper Will Show You How to Make a Primitive Survival Bow and Arrow. Amazing!
A valuable asset in any survivalist’s arsenal is a reliable weapon that can be depended upon to bring down game to put on the dinner table or to take down threats to your home and your family. When out in the wilderness, having a weapon brings a sense of peace to the mind and levels…