General Survival

When SHTF, the first things most people will focus on is trying to find food and water. But if you’re a prepper you know that while water is critically important to your long-term survival, the ability to stay warm and to heat yourself post-SHTF can mean the difference between life …

Why are you prepping? I don’t mean what type of SHTF specific SHTF scenario are you prepping for, but what is the motivation behind your survival and homesteading efforts. Self-preservation is of course, a primary factor in why we spend countless hours and dollars preparing for a doomsday disaster, but …

I am sure you have seen the person driving around with the Zombie Hunter bumper sticker, or know some who is completely infatuated with Zombies. I am going to talk to you about real life zombies. There have been several cases of “zombie-like activity” which people exhibit when they take …

Another year has passed and, for those of you who’ve been following the blog, you probably noticed the sheer amount of information that has been published in 2017. I’m sharing below the articles that’ve gotten the most shares, likes and comments, just in case you missed them. Rest assured in …

When SHTF and you find yourself needing to replenish your quickly dwindling supplies, do you know where to look? I can tell you right now that if you try to head to a local grocery store, hardware store, or other popular shop, you are putting yourself and your family at …

Could you survive a tiger attack? It seems like a strange question – when would you foreseeably be attacked by a tiger? But tigers actually claim an average of 85 lives per year – mostly in South Asia, and they claim more people’s lives than any other cat in the …

When it comes to being prepared for a SHTF event, preppers are focused on threats from natural disasters to nuclear wars, EMPs, and devastating cosmic events.  The situations that people can focus on and become obsessed with preparing for and unpredictable and vary widely. There’s no way that one person …

Do you have unprepared or under-prepared loved ones who will be journeying to your survival-ready home or compound after the SHTF? I don’t mean all of the friends and co-workers who have relentlessly mocked your prepping habit, but your adult children, teens away at college, or siblings – perhaps even …

You can tell a lot about a man by his survival goals. There are lines in emergency preparedness and sometimes you see the tactical bleed in as well. There is great value in studying military operations and understanding how you can be effective using their techniques. Strangely enough I am …

A catastrophic event can be extremely hard on the body; mentally and physically. Since not all emergencies are the same, it is important to recognize the difference between normal and abnormal stress. Everyone’s body is made differently, so are our minds. In this article, we will go over how to …