Charles Yor, Author at Survival Sullivan

Tactical Vehicle: 11 Ways to Make Your Bug Out Vehicle Tactical

You’ve planned the routes, have triple redundant bug-out locations, and primary, alternate, contingency, and emergency travel itineraries for every conceivable set of circumstances. Your BOBs are packed, your family is drilled on the fastest possible way to grab their stuff and pile in the SUV. You, my prepper friend, are officially bug-out-ready. Or are you? […]

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Preparing and Executing a Bug Out on Foot

Bugging Out / Charles Yor

Bugging out is a central tenet to prepping. You cannot count on staying where you are! The best laid plans, the most fortified location, all of it could be rendered moot, even dangerous in the wrong situation. That could be from bad luck, a bad plan or just something you could not have predicted. No

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close-up of man and his dog in the hide ready to ambush

Can You Predict How It Is All Going to Go Down?

Survival / Charles Yor

Preppers perhaps more than anyone spend a disproportionate amount of time analyzing, wondering and even, perhaps, darkly fantasizing about the Big One, the event that will set society and perhaps the entire country, even the world, up on its end. It is in our nature to try and discern what the future holds, what threats

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How to Prep if You’re Renting

Preparedness / Charles Yor

Serious prepping seems on its surface to be the province of the well-heeled land owners upon first inspection. The “ideal” is a remote hideaway, deep in the forest, on a mountainside or deep in the desert or tundra stocked to the rafters and beyond with every imaginable provision, piece of kit and all the installations

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So, Why Are Glocks So Popular?

Weapons / Charles Yor

To say the arrival of the Glock pistol coincided with a paradigm shift for American handguns is no understatement, not at all. And even though the Glock’s much vaunted features at the time- striker ignition system, lack of manual safety, polymer frame- had all been seen on production guns elsewhere earlier (sometimes much earlier) it

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Overview of the Smith & Wesson Model 63

Weapons / Charles Yor

Smith & Wesson revolvers are revered as some of the very finest in the world, and no other manufacturer’s wheelgun offerings come close to the sheer number of theirs that have served military and police units around the world, and defended the lives of citizens against attack. Smith & Wesson’s long line of guns have

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The First 7 Things To Do After Buying a Gun

Weapons / Charles Yor

So you did it: you finally bought that shiny new gun you meticulously researched. A hundred YouTube videos and enough advice from gunslinging friends and family to fill an encyclopedia. If it is just another gun in the safe or you are finally one step closer to taking responsibility for your own safety. Yay for

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How to Survive a Knife Attack

Self-Defense / Charles Yor

Knife attacks are freaking scary. Knives are available anywhere, easy to hide, quick to put into action and extremely effective in close quarters. A knife is every bit as lethal as a gun once someone has closed the gap with you, and that part is often something you can count on occurring no matter how

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The Top 5 Best Pocket Holsters

Weapons / Charles Yor

Pocket pistols are often the butt of jokes all around the gun world. It’s easy to see why that’s so: tiny, underpowered, low capacity and generally lacking in the attributes that you want in a proper fighting handgun. Even when you can excuse their lack of firepower, you’ll often see them derided as guns for

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6 Tactical Pen Techniques, and How to Use It Effectively

Self-Defense / Charles Yor

Tactical pens are a niche but effective self-defense tool with one major advantage over all other weapons: they can go, quite literally, anywhere. This one attribute makes tactical pens a worthwhile addition to any prepper’s tactical options but using one requires its own skillset. Sure, you can grab hold of the pen in your clenched

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Charles Yor

Tactical Vehicle: 11 Ways to Make Your Bug Out Vehicle Tactical

Preparing and Executing a Bug Out on Foot

Can You Predict How It Is All Going to Go Down?

How to Prep if You’re Renting

So, Why Are Glocks So Popular?

Overview of the Smith & Wesson Model 63

The First 7 Things To Do After Buying a Gun

How to Survive a Knife Attack

The Top 5 Best Pocket Holsters

6 Tactical Pen Techniques, and How to Use It Effectively