It is so easy in this day and age to buy throw rugs or any type of material that meets with our approval. Most are all manufactured and fine to look at. Yet, often we wonder what it might feel like to pick a design and make our own. Certainly, there are weaving classes about,…
6 SHTF Tips You’re NOT Following That’ll Later Make You Have to Deal With Consequences
As a prepper, it’s easy to get caught up in stockpiling while enjoying the world we live it. Looking at the latest survival gear and planning for that possible future when an EMP takes place or worse is a very common past time. Planning for that pivotal SHTF moment is important, but as a prepper…
(VIDEO) How to Build a Paiute Deadfall Trap That Native Americans Have Used for Thousands of Years
Brought to us by Martin Survival, it’s time to learn how to build an accurate and useful Paiute Deadfall Trap! Native Americans used this method for generations, it aiding in the feeding of their families and tribes. Honestly, it reminds us a bit of some of the odd contraptions implemented by a favorite character in…
(VIDEO) Survivalist Bear Grylls Captures a Snake in the Wild, Except the Snake Has Other Ideas…
When it comes to eating dinner, usually all you have to worry about is either eating too much, dealing with annoying heartburn, or going to bed with an upset stomach. Oh, and you may have bit your tongue or cheek while eating too. But usually, very few people have to deal with their meal trying…
20 Items That Will be Ideal for Bartering in a Post-Collapse World
No matter how prepared we are, in a longer-term survival situation, eventually, everyone will run out of stuff they need to survive or to make their survival lives more livable. When that happens, your options are few unless you are in a position to barter. Bartering is trading a good or service for another good…
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…
10 Survivalists Share Their 3 Best Survival Tips When You’re Doing Everything in Your Power to Survive in the Wilderness
You’re alone in the wild. You’ve veered off your trail, and you’ve been wandering for hours trying to get back. Somehow, you’ve managed to lose your sense of direction as you tried to retrace your steps. And now the sun is beginning to set, and with the oncoming darkness, panic is spreading through your body.…
4 Highly Venomous Snakes in North America That May Take You by Surprise. Know What They Are NOW, Before it’s Too Late.
You’re walking alone on a trail about forty minutes outside of Tucson. The day is perfect: The sun is shining down on you (rather than beating down on you), and there’s a light breeze in the air. You contemplate your plans for the day as you walk the trail, admiring the desert scrub and the…
How to Identify Wild Animal Tracks…Before it’s Too Late
For most people, these days, the science and art behind tracking animals is as clear as mud. What were once extremely obvious tracks to our ancestors as recently as the days of our grandparents are now just smudges in the dirt which are almost completely indistinguishable from the clumps of earth around them. An animal’s…
The Most Venomous Spiders in North America Will Shock. #4 is Actually Quite Common!
Most people fear spiders more than anything else in the world. After all, we were taught when we were young that spiders should be snuffed out with a paper towel because if we don’t, they may bite us when we’re not watching. In horror films, spiders are sometimes the main antagonists where they get rid…
Stealth Camping – What You Need to Consider
Unfortunately, if faced with one of the more dire survival scenarios we often hear about, the need for a stealth existence might become a necessity. This is especially true if you are caught away from home or have to move quietly through an environment to get to a bug-out location. If that is the case,…
The Lost Art of Bartering and Why You Need to Learn it!
If society as we know it was to end suddenly, say the dreaded EMP threat becomes a grim reality, and everything is thrown back into the early 1900’s effectively, would you know how to survive beyond your stockpile of food and water? Most of us would not and many of us would run a huge…
(VIDEO) How to Identify Poisonous Mushrooms in the Woodlands…
It’s one of the most important things we can do as preppers, survivalists, and homesteaders; identifying poisonous mushrooms. After all, the good mushrooms are delicious and can be canned. They also can be used as terrific pizza toppings as well as being fantastic in just about any Italian dish! But again, you have to be…
7 Extraordinary Survival Tips We Can Take Away From 19th Century Cowboys
The frontiersmen and women who traveled out west in the 1800’s were momentous survivalists. They used what skills they had to survive during a daunting time during the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. Most cowboys owned little. In fact, their belongings were usually purchased at a store they had to travel miles to get to…
You’ve Been Splitting Kindling Wrong This Entire Time But Not Any More…
Splitting firewood is an important skill to practice over and over again. Despite the apparent simplicity of the action of log splitting, it can be quite difficult to put into practice. Logs that aren’t sawed at a perfect angle can be lopsided on the chopping block, making the danger of the ax head swinging wild…
(VIDEO) You’re Bugging Out and Suddenly Are Ill. Here’s How to Make Medicinal Needle Tea From a Pine Tree
It’s fairly well known that vitamin C is a powerful tool in the function of your immune system, which is why people such vitamin C-enriched cough drops like candy whenever they get a sniffle. Citrus is one of the strongest contenders in the world for the production of this essential vitamin, and if you get…
You’re Running Out of Food But Luckily Just Came Across a White Birch Tree. Here’s How to Utilize it to Stay Alive.
Nearly every survivalist and prepper is well-aware of the unparalleled usefulness of a birch tree for fire starting purposes; the bark that peels from the tree is like gasoline-soaked paper and takes a spark or match flame extremely well. It’s the go-to for many bush crafters and weekend campers. Not as many people know that…
5 Bushcraft Basics That’ll Help You Do More Than Just Surviving When All Hell Breaks Loose…
Bushcraft skills are usually defined as any skill which is used primarily for living efficiently in the wilderness. This can be anything from whittling skills for tool-making purposes to fire-crafting skills. Many preppers have a love/hate relationship with bushcraft. For some, it is seen as an essential set of skills to have and that these…
4 Mind Boggling Survival Uses for a Sugar Maple Tree
There are many majestic trees that grace us with their presence on the earth. And few are more or more useful than the sugar maple tree! They can live for more than 200 years. And what comes to mind when you think of maples? Probably maple syrup, whether you’re the type to drench it on…
You’re Stuck in a Fast River Current. Here’s How to Survive It.
As a survivalist, a wilderness walker and camper, you more than likely will find yourself near lakes or rivers. While they may seem harmless and often quite beautiful from the outset, a survivalist and prepper should never forget that water is a force to be reckoned with! In other words, danger lurks in rushing water!…