Skills before gear! You can have all the survival tools and gear in the world, but if you don’t know how to use them, you might not survive. There are dozens of survival skills you can learn, but some are more important than others.
Regardless of what skill you’re looking to master, you’re probably going to find it in one of the articles below.
This is a very similar method to other ways of tying the bowline but is very fast and controlled, if the anchor point is behind you, and you want the knot in front (e.g. if you have taken a line from and truck and walked to a load you wish to tow) the method is …
‘Fast’ (Controlled) Bowline Around an Anchor Near or Behind You Read More »
The alpine butterfly is mostly used by climbers. It can be tied without using the ends and produces a loop which stands perpendicular to the rest of the rope. The Alpine Butterfly should be used when the direction of the load on the loop is close to perpendicular to the rope (or is not likely …
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Every prepper who had not stockpiled morale boosters prior to the pandemic surely sees the value in them now. Keeping the mind and body active, as well as stimulated can make the time spent either cooped up in a small space in an urban or suburban area, or when having the daily routine entirely disrupted …
36 Old-Fashioned Family Activities When Stuck in Quarantine Read More »
Learning new survival skills or honing existing ones doesn’t necessarily involve spending a weekend roughing it in the woods or going to some type or training facility. While many of the most important hands-on training does occur outdoors, there are extremely valuable survival skills you can learn right now while sitting inside your home. Watching …
20 Survival Skills You Can Learn While Stuck in Your Home Read More »
If there is one group of people you can be certain of running into both before and after an SHTF event it is liars. No matter where you go, no matter what culture you are among or what region you are in deception will be an ever-present fact when it comes to interacting with people. …
15 Clever Ways to Tell if Someone is Lying to You Read More »
This is the method of tying a bowline taught to cavers and search and rescue personnel, for tying a bowline around oneself with only one hand (leaving the other free to help a casualty or stay in place) when thrown a rescue line. Done in this way, it relies on the weight of the body …
Bowline Knot Step by Step (One Handed, Anchor in Front) Read More »
If we’re all being completely honest, it’s tough not to get taken by the allure of spy fiction. On film or in the pages of a book, fictional spies’ lives and jobs may look very different from the real thing, but this does nothing to dampen the fascination, and it is easy to understand why. …
The Boom Hitch is essentially an extended, more complex relative of the Clove Hitch. It is something of a chore to learn, but worth it. It will hold fast and not slip under tension from any direction, even when tied in thick, slippery line. This makes it good for securing a line to a beam …
The Zeppelin Bend is the best, strongest bend one can possibly use for joining two lines of similar diameter. It is very unlikely to slip open or jam shut, and can be untied fairly easily having been loaded (though like most bends, not while loaded). Additional Information In spite of its name, it is unlikely …
Invented by bushcraft master Mors Kochanski, the Flip Flop Winch is an improvised winch for pulling large loads. It’s a wonderful piece of bush ingenuity, and easily powerful enough to pull a car out of a ditch. Well worth learning. The Flip Flop Winch uses only a length of strong line and two stout sticks, …
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