For daily carry or emergency preparedness, there is hardly a more valuable and more used tool than a good flashlight. More than any firearm, more than even a knife, a reliable flashlight is vital for all kinds of situations, from common chores and tasks to serious survival situations. The reality is that you cannot see …
Personal lighting solutions are an important part of preparedness, as you’ll have a definite and acute need for light no matter what kind of emergency you are facing. At home, on the road or abroad, you’ll hardly find a prepper that does not keep a flashlight of headlamp handy. But one piece of personal lighting …
Ask any number of preppers, outdoorsmen and other tough, gritty self-sufficient people to name one, and only one tool that they could bring with them if they were being dropped into an unknown survival situation for an unknown length of time. I’ll bet by bottom dollar that most if not all of them would name …
A rapidly growing problem in America is the geometrically increasing population of wild boars, themselves an invasive species of wildlife, and also wild boar hybrids resulting from mating with formerly domestic feral pigs. Colloquially called hogs, boars or razorbacks, these tusked nuisances are now running wild across much of the U.S. and North America. No …
What I am about to say may “shock” you: not all guns are created equal. I know, I know. It is painful, hard to stomach, for sure. But it is true. Of all the myriad guns out on the market made by all the dozens and dozens of manufacturers, some guns are excellent, some guns …
Most of us will spend a lot of time dissecting the minutiae of what weapons we should carry for self-defense and SHTF prep. We’ll research for hours and hours what calibers are best and what gun are most reliable. We’ll pour over knife grinds, designs and blade steels. We will even delve into the sometimes …
Debates carry on endlessly about what one should or should not keep in a BOB. Preppers furnish meticulously detailed and designed lists of their BOBs’ contents only for others to tear it apart for some real or imagined inconsistency or incompatibility with their environment or intended mode of egress. This is a case of much …
A common, fun theoretical question that you’ll hear pop up among preppers, shooters, outdoorsmen, and other red-blood types is, “who do you want with you after, or during SHTF?” Time-honored crowd favorites include various fictional characters, a squad of elite military bad-asses, or an army of killer robots. Or Chuck Norris, because of course. This …
As we know, there are many people out there who are scared of flying. Most of the time, they picture the worst possible things that can happen, which includes a plane crash and having to survive on open water or a deserted island. While it is true that statistically, cars crash more often than planes, …
There are many reasons why you’d want to bulletproof your car. Perhaps you are getting your bug-out vehicle as ready for its mission as it can be. Maybe you just live in an unsafe neighborhood where shattered windows and stolen cars are the norm, or perhaps you want some extra peace of mind for your …
