Successfully navigating in the wilderness requires a combination of savvy, knowledge and the proper tools to successfully identify North, South, East and West and to use that knowledge to plot your course. While some possess a keen sense of “dead reckoning,” most people who get lost do not, do not have the proper tools to…
The ‘Fat Guys in the Woods’ Show Us How to Make a Buzzsaw Signaling Device
If you get stranded during a survival moment, say you get lost hiking in the mountains, your best chance of being noticed and getting help from searchers is to signal them. Even if no one is looking for you, an out-of-place signal usually is interpreted as a sign someone needs help. If they did not…
A Shipping Container is Now Being Sold as a Underground Storage and Survival Unit!
When most of us think about creating a food and supplies cache, we envision a room in our house or at the most, some other location that will give us the ability to outlast any survival situation. The concept we cover here takes that notion and moves it way beyond the next level! This company…
Check Out This Bizarre Life Saving Bed That “Swallows” You During an Earthquake!
There are different things you should do if you happen to be in bed during an earthquake. But what if your bed doubled as an earthquake proof shelter – sort of a literal “shelter in place” contraption that swallowed you before the building around you fell around your head? The details are sketchy as to…
The ‘Fat Guys’ Host Tells Us How to Stay Safe During a Lightning Storm
Young or old, we have all have gotten caught in a rain storm at one time or another. Emotionally, it only becomes really dangerous for us when our imagination gets the best of us. We hear that rumble in the sky, see that flash of lightning, and we quickly get reminded of that day when…
How to Prepare for a Hurricane and What to Do if it Turns Into a Survival Situation
If you are living in an area where hurricanes are frequent, a preparedness plan is indispensable. Whether you stay or go, it is in everyone’s best interest to have an evacuation or an emergency kit prepared in advance of the annual storm season. Think about the following: Where will you go should a hurricane touchdown…
How to Stay Alive – Survival Tips You Must Remember for Potential Deadly Situations
The single highest cause of death among men between the ages of 18 to 54 is accidents (spend an hour on YouTube, and the reality of this will become apparent). As women have become more engaged in outdoor, extreme and survival activities, it is inevitable that the rate of deaths from accidents for them also…
Prepping for Survival with Your Children: Here’s What You Need
If we ever get to the point where the grid goes down and the SHTF one of the things we need to take into consideration is our children. Children will get confused, impatient, and frightened, at first, even if you have prepared them, and then the boredom coupled with depression will take over. Of…
Hacks and Tools You Can Use While Camping or Bugging Out!
When you get down to it, a bug-out situation, especially if your destination point is primitive or if it takes a few days to get to it, is a lot like camping, just with a lot more stress. That is why almost every survival expert encourages those inclined to bug-out in an emergency, to do…
In Debt? Here’s how to Manage it and Still be Able to Afford Survival Supplies
Americans, even fiscally responsible Americans, are infamous for not saving and spending a lot and ending up in debt. Almost all of us have some sort of debt and while most of us are able to manage both the debt and immediate needs, not everyone does and that reality can hurt a person’s ability to…
Here’s How to Escape From a Sinking Vehicle During a Survival Scenario
While most of the survival mindset deals with weather or man-made events that require plans, stockpiles and quite a bit of equipment as well as a repository of knowledge, some are more immediate. Those types of SHTF moments are sudden, often violent, destructive, can be deadly and happen every day – it is just that…
Compelling Reasons Why a Hacking Scenario is Bound to Happen
Over the last 25 years, our society, indeed almost every society, has gone from slightly computerized to computers being ubiquitous in all we do. You simply cannot find an element of life that is not in some way computerized to one degree or another. That has vastly increased our vulnerabilities in regards to those systems…
The Survivalist in Your Life Will Appreciate These Survival Gifts!
Choosing gifts for your average survivalist is a fairly easy process. Virtually all of us have a “wish list” that even if not written down, could fill pages if pressed to document it. Less easy is knowing smaller survival-minded gifts that can serve as stocking stuffers, birthdays or office gifts that are not major purchases,…
7 Aspects of Survival You Must Consider
No matter how much you prepare for a survival situation unless you manage to pull off “blind luck,” there will items or areas you discover you could have planned and prepared for better. That reality, by the way, applies to much more than just survival – it also applies to just about every event we…
The Differences Between an Urban Prepper and Rural Prepper
Most survivalists live in a more rural environment and consider many survival skills – like hunting, fishing, using alternative heat or electricity sources, growing our own food, etc., to be part of “normal life.” A few have experience living in both urban and rural environments and know the skills of the rural survivalist (although we…
How to Act if You Feel a Terrorist Attack is Eminent
Unfortunately, terrorism has become a central concern for most of America. Realistically, terrorism has been with us for the entire history of our country, but recent years have brought the random nature of it closer to home. The Boston Marathon bombing, San Bernardino, 9-11, a host of loan wolf attacks and several attempted terrorist attacks…
Bug-Out Vehicles – What you Need to Consider and How to Enhance Them
The decision to purchase a bug-out vehicle should not be taken lightly. There are a ton of variables you have to consider or you will end up with a vehicle that does not meet your needs or is more than you need. There is also the issue of expense. You could spend a small fortune…
Don’t Forget to Stockpile These Essential Items for a SHTF Moment
Not every survival situation is a SHTF moment – the difference is immediacy and potential dangers. Preparing for each is very different as well. While there is a lot of overlap, a SHTF moment has a lot of immediate and dire requirements, including dealing with the shock of having your world turned upside down. A…
Garage and Yard Sales – Why They’re Your Secret Survival Source
It’s a tradition that millions do each weekend, starting in spring and lasting until late fall – and it is not baseball. It is cruising yard sales looking for hidden bargains of other people’s stuff that they no longer want or wonder why they ever had them to begin with. One man’s junk is another’s…
[VIDEO] How to Properly Stay Hidden in a Survival Moment – Don’t Give Your Location Away!
Depending on the survival situation or SHTF moment you face, stealth could easily be the most critical element of your existence, particularly if the situation is severe to start and rapidly declining. For example, suppose you experienced a grid failure and as the days passed, the predictable and predicted civil unrest became standard as opposed…