Everyone interested in self-defense wants to focus on dealing damage: punching, kicking, grappling. We naturally want to be proactive and be the one handing out the beating, not receiving it. The best defense is a good offense, after all! But the kind of fight we all want to have, the one where we whip the […]
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If one relies on a handgun for self-defense, a good holster is an essential element for safe and effective employment of it. A holster allows one to carry and stow the handgun when it is not immediately needed, and keep it help securely in a consistent position that will help ensure your draw is quick
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In times of peace or in times of war, it is often a good idea to keep people out of your space and out of your business. If your home is your castle or in our case our off-grid, secret, fortified BOL, that means you’ll need proper barriers to prevent or at least funnel the
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Real self-defense is often a crapshoot. Even with excellent awareness, refined skills and sharpened reflexes, the bad guy will always get to choose the time, location and duration of the attack. Just because you are armed, ready and willing does not mean you’ll always get to employ weapons and gadgets to aid in your defense.
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Knives are essential tools for preppers. As part of your EDC or packed away in a BOB, there is hardly a tool that offers more capability, ounce for ounce than a knife does. Knives can help you create shelter, prepare a fire, catch dinner, cook dinner, cut yourself free of an entanglement and even fend
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Prepping is a commitment to a wholly new level of procedure, schedule and periodic activity. There are always things to do, skills to learn and topics to investigate. If you are a prepper, if never ends, and if it does, you aren’t really a prepper. To stay still, to remain idle, is to start the
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Rifles are the firearm you reach for when you really need to get some good shooting done. The range, power and precision of rifles trumps any other personal firearm in most circumstances, and their versatility and portability, especially when looking at the most modern semi-autos makes them an ideal do everything defensive arm for preppers.
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Violence is not always the answer to an escalating interpersonal conflict, but it is an answer and a mighty effective one at that. While it is almost always in your best interest to avoid, evade or defuse trouble before the fangs come out, that is not always an option, or just not prudent. Depending on
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I will venture that it is no guess that most of our readers here on Survival Sullivan are familiar with the term “EDC”. For those few who are not, EDC means simply Every Day Carry shorthand for all of the items that one chooses to bring with them on their travels out and about. EDC
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Any bug-out bag is just a starting point. No matter how nice the bag, or how cleverly you have it packed to the brim with your survival kit and accoutrement, you can improve on it in some essential way. Maybe you can make it more comfortable, durable, waterproof, or something else. This is not to
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