5 Survival Hacks That Could Save Your Life In The Wild
Follow me Surviving in the woods is something that you may, at some point, need to know about. Even if we never experience
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Bamboo: Scourge or Smart Prepper Resource
Follow me I was talking to some friends the other week and the subject of bamboo came up. My one friend was discussing
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Setting Up A Back Up Generator
Follow me In a recent article on SHTFBlog called “10 Lessons From A Multi-Day Power Outage“, I fielded several questions about how my
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Survival Gear Review: Sawyer Squeeze Mini Water Filter
Follow me In any survival situation, from urban to wilderness, there are few resources as valuable as potable water. As a survivalist, I
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Trees You Need for Survival and Their Uses
Follow me In a post-SHTF world, it’s probable that you won’t have access to modern amenities such as electric or gas heat or
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7 Survival Uses Of Pantyhose That You Didn’t Know
Follow me OK, so it may be a bit weird for you guys in the crowd to buy pantyhose, but if you don’t
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5 Plants From The Kitchen For Your Health
Follow me It’s been known since ancient times that vegetables and herbs are crucial in maintaining health and improving your well being.
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Do You Really Need An AR-15 When the SHTF?
Follow me There are two groups of people reading this: those that think you’ll need an AR-15 or two and those that think
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Making Fire With a Bow Drill
Follow me Imagine you’re hiking with some friends on a day hike on a trail you’ve never been on. The trail is well
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Prepping vs Bushcraft: Which is Better for SHTF?
Follow me There has been a lot of spirited discussion in the comments this week so I thought I would try to throw
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Wilderness Survival: Part 1
Follow me Even if you’re not an avid camper or backcountry enthusiast, knowing how to survive in the wild is at the core
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7 Ways To Upgrade Your Home Defense Using Booby Traps
Follow me Some see the subject of booby traps as taboo. They are mostly those who have been affected by politicians who seek
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A Look at Bullet Proof Vest Protection for Survivalists
Follow me Why do you need protection? If you’re going to prepare for the worst case scenario, a bullet proof vest needs to
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Back To Basics: Making And Canning Homemade Butter
Follow me Butter: you use it to make baked potatoes delicious. You smear it on your biscuits and you make finger-licking sauces with
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Back To Basics: Homemade Seasonings
Follow me We all love them – those delicious herbs and spices that takes food from bland to grand, but what happens when
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Could the Survival Bike be your Bug Out Vehicle of Choice?
Follow me I was casually strolling around the internet today as most of us do at some point in time, looking for article
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Paiute Trap
Follow me The skill of trapping is one of the most fascinating yet controversial aspects of Bushcraft. In an ideal world it wouldn’t
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Why I Prefer a Map and Compass over a GPS
Follow me Call me old fashioned. Call me a Luddite. But don’t call me lost, because I know how to read a map
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Holsters For Bug Out Carry
Follow me Being able to quickly bring a handgun to bear during a Bug Out situation can be essential. In fact, it could
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How To Survive Without The Pharmacy
Follow me Following an emergency or the all-out collapse of society and TEOTWAWKI (The End Of The World As We Know It), medical
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Let’s Bring Back Victory Gardens
Follow me As the U.S. government begins scaling back its Food Stamp Program, I wonder how 48 million recipients (almost 1 of every
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10 Ways Your First Backpacking Trip will Better Prepare you for Bugging Out
Follow me There are two recurring themes we have in prepping and survival blogs around preparing for disasters of any type. The first
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Life in the Wild: Find Your Way Using Nature
Follow me Before the GPS there was the compass. Before the compass was cartography. But even before man had maps annavigationalaids, he was
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Off-Grid Survival: How To Track Food In The Woods
Follow me Tracking animals and humans in the woods is an art form worth mastering for survival needs. Depending on what you are
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