Flashlights come in handy all year round, and even less serious preppers have them at hand. You never know when you’ll need one. On camping trips certainly, but also if you need to look for small items under the furniture, or in case of a power outage.In most instances, a regular flashlight will do just …
When sheaths were invented they didn’t only bring about a great method of carrying your blade but they also acted to keep you safe from the blade while it wasn’t in use. In modern times we’ve adapted this ancient technology to meet our needs and add capabilities to blades that previously weren’t available to us. Things like …
Every day carry (EDC) items involve the essential items you carry on a daily basis.These are usually limited to what can be physically carried on a person or in a small bag or organizer, but the term EDC may sometimes be extended to everyday preparedness items and may be stored in a larger backpack or …
An essential survival skill that everyone should learn how to do is to start a fire. In a survival situation, being able to start a fire can save your life, and it can often mean the difference between life and death. The most obvious reason for needing a fire is to provide warmth, but you …
If you are the type of person that carries around a medical first aid kit when they go on adventures, then a SAM splint would make a great addition to your kit. They are really handy to have available to you just in case of an emergency, and if you like to go on hiking, camping, …
Survival is not about being fearless. It’s about making a decision, getting on and doing it – Bear Grylls An old SEAL buddy of ours once told us that it’s not a matter of if society is going to plunge into disarray and disharmony, but when the final collapse is all but guaranteed to happen. He told …
The only easy day was yesterday – Navy SEALS mottoYou don’t have to be a rocket scientist to see that the world is becoming increasingly more volatile every day.Even though most of the chaos, upheaval, and unrest seems like it’s somewhere far from here, the chances are, that one day, that disorder is going to …
If you are preparing for the worst and you, like many others, believe that the end is coming, then you will want to do everything in your power to be prepared for it. You might have what seems like endless supplies of food and water, and everything else that you can think of to keep …
Making a shelter out of tarp is one of the easiest ways of creating a shelter in a survival situation. When you are out in the wild with limited resources, a tarp is one of the most useful materials to have with you.Building a shelter can be really difficult, especially when you are trying to …
If you were to go back in time a few hundred years ago, people would have been able to start a fire with ease and precision.But, now, in the twenty-first century, we so used to technology, having lighters or matches on hand that very few people know what to do if they are stuck out …
