For preppers, one of the most central tenets of preparedness is the concept of the BOB, or bug-out bag, that one, vital piece of luggage that contains everything you need to drop what you’re doing and escape to someplace safe ahead of or right behind a disaster. The urban bug out bag becomes your home […]
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You’ll rarely catch most preppers without a knife on them, or nearby at the least. From survival bushcrafting to self-defense, preppers love their blades. Especially on the defense, several inches of sharpened steel can make short work of an attacker, and the mere sight of gleaming silver can be enough to send all but the
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Part of being prepared means having the right supplies, tools, and equipment to face whatever disaster befalls you head-on. While it is true that the more you know, the less you need, having the right stuff close at hand sure helps! The less you have to fashion, build, scavenge or improvise in a crisis, the
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You might laugh at the idea of a pen being anything more than a weapon of utter desperation, but if you were on the receiving end of several inches of hardened metal being driven into your sternum you’d probably change your tune. Tactical pens have been popular products for years now, offering preppers, protectors and
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You won’t always have ample warning when a disaster or emergency strikes. Some arrive with all the suddenness of an earthquake. Heck, the emergency may be an earthquake. But for every don’t-blink disaster that may happen there is one that will furnish some kind of warning if you are alert and can recognize the signs.
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Prepping is not everyone’s cup of tea. Or instant coffee flavored with powdered milk, because half the world has ended, but you get my meaning! If you don’t take toward personal preparedness and immersing yourself into an, admittedly, pretty scary subject matter at times then living a prepping lifestyle can feel like one big never-ending
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There is something of a simmering debate among those who move in survival-centric circles on the topic of smartphones and how they fit into one’s preps. You’ll hear plenty from both camps, from those who are pro-phone and those who are decidedly no-phone. Some folks, often the Old Guard, decry these modern miracle machines as
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The argument between the older generations and the new is a never-ending one. The Old Guard constantly reprimands the new about how much better and easier they have it, and how much harder it was in their day. And it was the hard that made them better, dammit! Just ask them and they’ll tell you.
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If you are using your guns the way you should, they’ll benefit from periodic function and safety checks in addition to routine cleaning. If you are planning on buying a used gun, you can conduct a similar check to quickly ascertain whether or not there is anything majorly wrong with the gun you have in
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One of the tenets of prepping is the mandate to be ready to bug out: we plan our bug-out routes, choose bug-out locations and load our bug-out bags with all the things we think we will need to survive while we are out and about and hopefully very far away from whatever danger sent us
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