Tracking, a Valuable Skill for Preppers
Tracking. Maybe you heard about it from your grandfather or father during hunting season. Or you noticed it in some scenes from The
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Technical skill
Making Fire with a Bow and Drill
There is nothing quite like using a bow and drill to make your very own fire completely from scratch! Of the many ways
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Cattail Plants: Friend of the Forager, Bushcrafter, and Basket-Maker
Have you ever driven past a marsh, only to see a forest of tall stalks that seem to be topped with hot dogs?
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Tree Pruning Tips
There are two kinds of winter gardening. The first method usually starts in January as the gardening catalogs begin to arrive in the
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Making Arrowheads: The Art of Flint Knapping
Flint knapping is the age-old art of making arrowheads and other edged stone tools. Hunter-gatherers relied upon this key wilderness survival skill to
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Practical Prep: Range Tips
For many preppers, static square ranges are the only opportunity to put rounds through the barrel. They do have some limitations, and they
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29 Essential Tips for the New Prepper: “Start Small. Develop Your Skills. Create a Plan”
Whether you are just starting out with prepping and are figuring out what to focus on first, or whether you are a veteran
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5 Easy Ways to Start a Fire Using Water
Starting a fire with water may seem counterintuitive, but water is actually a very useful tool for starting fires in emergency situations if
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Survival Fishing With Just a Hook, Line and Sinker
When people plan for survival scenarios they often times gather supplies in large quantities in hopes to wait out any chaotic breakdown of
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This Unique Post-Collapse Skill Will Help You Fabricate and Repair Essential Items
We’re going to forge ahead with those self-reliant skill sets and I’m going to tell you how to make your own forge. Try
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Introduction to Gunsmithing – Part 1
What is Gunsmithing ? It is the process of repairing or modifying firearms. You can do it on your own firearms without any
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10 Ways to Opt out of the System
I’ve noticed an increase in the defeatist tone among activists lately. Many are realizing that the current system cannot be salvaged, and they
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Build the Ultimate Survival Shotgun: Modify Your Pump Shotgun Survival Style
Today, www.artofmanliness.com published an article written by Creek Stewart on their site about How to Build the Ultimate Survival Shotgun. You have
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Four Ways to Increase your Survival Endurance
News of the recent Ebola case in Texas has a lot of people on edge. You may have felt the urgency yourself as
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10 Ways to Improve Your Technical Skills
In 10 Reasons to Develop Your Technical Skills, I explained why it’s important to develop your technical skills as an integral part of
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