Atlatl
An atlatl is an ancient survival projectile weapon used for hunting, warfare, and sport. Atlatl artifacts have been found on almost every continent
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skills
Wilderness Survival Kits:Top Ten Items
Wilderness survival kits can provide you with just the right amount of tools and supplies to make it through a challenging outdoor experience.
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Three Preps Your SHTF Stockpile Cannot Do Without
In a recent article written by Tess Pennington regarding why we should continue to prepare when nothing seems to have happened. My philosophy and hers
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MAKE A SHEATH FOR THE OLD HICKORY BUTCHER KNIFE
ABOUT THE OLD HICKORY BUTCHER KNIFE Before we dive into making your own sheath for the Old Hickory butcher Knife, let’s talk about
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Situational Awareness: Without This Skill You May Not Survive
From the extensive list of skills necessary to survive (and not only in SHTF), situational awareness is perhaps the one needed the most to stay
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Essential homesteading skills for self-sufficiency
Homesteading requires diverse skills to truly become self-sufficient. You need to produce your own food, create and mend your clothing, till the land
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The Canning Shortage of 2020: Here’s How You Can Find These Essential Supplies
Sometimes it feels like 2020 is out to get all of us. Especially those of us who can and store our own food.
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Your path towards Food Freedom: Simple and cheap home gardening innovations
Food freedom is a top concern for many people, whether they be natural health enthusiasts, environmentalists, or simply concerned about the hazards of
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How to Make Improvised Arrowheads with Simple Tools for a Survival Bow & Arrow in Modern Times
Overview You will learn how to make what I consider to be the best and simplest arrowhead for hunting, and we will discuss
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Smart Survival: This is How You Find Water When There Is None To Be Found
With water being one of your main survival priorities, you want to know multiple ways of procuring water in an emergency situation. Knowing
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Essential Hurricane Preparedness Skills You Need to Know Before the Next Storm Arrives
Staying safe during a hurricane is always the main priority when mapping out your preparedness strategy, but many forget to plan for the aftermath scenarios or health
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Outdoor Survival Techniques
I have spent much of my life practicing outdoor survival techniques and searching for lost or injured people in the backcountry and over
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SHTF essentials: Don’t forget to learn these 6 commonly overlooked survival skills
Survival skills tend to focus on being able to gather supplies such as food, water and medicine from alternative sources. These are great
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Basic Survival Skills
There is so much information on basic survival skills that you might be asking “Where to start?” Here are 6 primary components of
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Primitive Fishing Techniques: How to Catch a Fish in a Survival Situation
Primitive fishing techniques are very useful skills to know if you find yourself in a survival situation. The chores of survival require a
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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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Scientists successfully brew beer and mead using 5,000-year-old “resurrected” yeasts discovered in the Holy Land
Want to know what ancient Middle Eastern beer tastes like? Try asking this team of researchers from Israel: In a study published in mBio, microbiologists
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5 Primitive Skills Preppers Should Know for Survival
To easily operate in an off-grid environment, learn old, forgotten skills and make them new for you. To acquire is good, to improvise
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Five Good Reasons to Grow Your Garden from Seed
You’ll Have Many More Choices Heirloom flowers such as Sweet William, Love-in-a-Mist, and Love-Lies-Bleeding offer romance, drama, and fragrance to the garden, and
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Skills – Stuff: When Stuff Matters More
I generally agree with the premise that skills are far more important than stuff, and that knowledge weighs nothing. There are skills that
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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 Homesteading Skills We All Need
When I grew up, we didn’t live in a world of abundance and high technology. My dad was a construction worker, and my
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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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SHTF Survival: 10 Survival Tools That Should Be In Your Survival Pack
Let’s be honest, survival is not something you want to gamble your life on. Meeting your basic needs during a disaster is key to
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