When travelling, working from a vehicle or in a hostile environment it makes sense to keep all your important and essential equipment in a bug out bag.
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In this article I list some of the most unique ways that some basic survival gear, weapons, and defensive tools can be disguised in items you already wear every day.
It’s that time of year again; time to over eat and over drink, and wonder where on Earth 2016 went?
For most, defense is simply just about the weapons you choose to keep. In reality, self defense is so much more.
If many survival groups are mainly made up of people whose only skill set is “providing security” and for some reason you found yourself looking to join a group either now or after a collapse, would you take you?
Wet and miserable some of us were experiencing early signs of hypothermia, and we all desperately wanted to feel some small amount of warmth.
An unusual phenomenon is occurring on College Campuses these days. It seems that students are offended by just about everything.
I do like my breads and I do like something sweet now and again, so here’s half a dozen ways we can still get them, even without a working oven or supermarket.
Seems everyone online is focused on prepping for a nuclear war these days, so I thought I’d share the contents of my radiological medical response kit.
So how do you defend yourself using unarmed combat skills if you get stuck in such an unpleasant situation?
I have a tight budget. I’m talking, poverty level budget, and with survival products being over the top expensive, prepping can be really hard.
Do you know how to survive the end of the world? Get the keys to apocalypse training 101 and learn how to prepare for SHTF.
In the millennia mankind has existed we have witnessed some small corrections. Nature, the things by which we are all bound, sets in motion events, unforeseen and undeniable.
Considering the regular commitments like mortgage and car payments they have to keep up with, average income Americans may feel they have no money to start prepping for disasters.
The Blizzard of ’77 is a prime example of why you should be prepared.
Once reality has set in and people have started to adjust to the new normal, an essential component of rebuilding your immediate community will be the ability to give selfless service to others.
Effectively organizing a disaster scene can be as difficult and as important as directly treating victims.
Planning for medical emergencies is one of the biggest challenges one faces. This is especially true if the situation will occur with limited outside resources on which to rely.
Benjamin Ellefson is a prepper who writes children’s books with themes of preparedness and survivalism.
I don’t think there is anything wrong with looking like a Viking with an AR or a jacked and tan super woman–in fact, that’s actually super impressive. But is that Prepping?
I’m going to play devils advocate and attack several of the most common so-called “survival tips” preps so prevalent on the web today. I will even offer a suggestion or two.
There are multiple articles, videos, and books about bugging out and a few on bugging in. My aim here is to throw a bit of thought on the bugging in concept from my unarmed Canadian perspective.
In general, long-term storage food staples like whole grains, beans, flour, oil, sugar, etc., are not the foods you want to have when a natural disaster strikes.
By learning about what happened, and knowing that history repeats, we can prepare better and avoid making the same mistakes when SHTF again.
I am always being asked for my advice about what equipment should be taken on trips to out of the way places. With the below items you should be able to operate for extended periods of time.
You see, it is a mindset.. It is putting yourself mentally in a situation and seeing if you measure up.
The subjects that should be included in your tactical training are defensive shooting both left and right-handed, drawing from concealed carry, using different fire positions and use of cover.
If the worst happens, have you given any thought to how you would be making a living post TEOTWAWKI?
“All Aboard!” Easily understood when shouted by the conductor of a train—either get yourself “on board” or be left behind.
I got to thinking about what I would do with 32 years nursing experience and most of that in trauma if I had a person laid up in bed and was faced with providing hospital care in SHTF and why.