One of the very best things you can do for yourself when it comes to ensuring you have continuity of communications in times of trouble is to take up amateur radio, often called ham radio. Completely self-contained, as long as your set is powered, you can broadcast and receive from anyone else that’s out there […]
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When it comes to wilderness survival, getting your hands on enough food is challenging. But no matter where you are, chances are pretty good there will be some variety of small game that can be caught. Animal protein is one of the best things you can get when it comes to calories in the bush,
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If you’ve taken it upon yourself to get ready for those disasters and crises that life can sometimes throw our way, you’ve probably heard of an EMP before. In the context of prepping and survival, this is the event that will knock out much of our electrical grid, and destroy any equipment or vehicles that
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If there’s one thing that everybody knows by now, it is that the military speaks English with enough strange acronyms, lingo, loanwords, and slang terms that it definitely sounds like a different language. Perhaps nowhere is this more apparent than within the Marine Corps. Marines are lots of things, but they happen to be especially
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One of the most important and, sadly, most overlooked survival essentials in any kind of situation is communications. Don’t get me wrong, it’s great to plan to keep yourself and your loved ones alive, but what you really need to do is reach out to people who can help you one way or another. That
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If you’ve been paying any amount of attention to the prepping sphere for the past couple of decades, you have probably seen concern over EMPs, electromagnetic pulses, rise and rise. Sadly, they are one of the most prevalent and pressing threats going forward, one with the potential to completely collapse society at the regional and
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If there’s one threat facing the nation today, one that is bound to make even the most die-hard prepper a little queasy, it has to be an EMP. Think about it: in the blink of an eye, the electrical grid could be totally destroyed, all of our electronics damaged or destroyed alongside it, and an
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If you want to survive in the wilderness against all odds, you’ll have to learn how to make use of every single resource that Mother Nature places at your disposal. When it comes to food, that means things that you ordinarily wouldn’t eat in a hundred years. Reindeer Moss is a great example. This crunchy,
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Raccoons are a study in contrast. They are among the cutest and most charismatic animals that you’ll see, and certainly some of the peskiest. Raccoons are notorious for taking up residence in and around homes, breaking into stored food and, most annoyingly of all, getting into your trash cans. Waking up to strewn trash and
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There are all kinds of cherished survival myths out there. I grew up hearing them, and the guys that taught them to me probably grew up hearing them. Suck the poison out of a snake bite. You can eat anything that animals eat. Drinking from white water is safer. The sad thing is none of
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