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.
We have all been in that old, familiar situation before: You are out in the field, maybe on a job, maybe on a recreational endeavor, and you are missing that one tool you need to perform some task. One of the worst tools to forget if you are out camping or working in the woods …
Activated charcoal has a seriously wide number of uses, so it is worth discovering what makes it activated and how it differs from normal charcoal, because normal charcoal is just not the same. When we are planning a campfire and prefer not to have the smokiness of wood, we may head off to buy a …
24 Uses for Activated Charcoal You Didn’t Know About Read More »
Part of prepping is gathering the tools, materials and resources you think you’ll need to survive a disaster, or long- or indefinite-term SHTF situation. When there is no telling what sort of problem you’ll need to solve next using your own ingenuity and the items you have close to hand, you’ll need to be adaptable, …
7 Surprising Survival Uses for Potassium Permanganate Read More »
Once again, winter is fast approaching, and just as season follows season that means the arrival of cold and oftentimes treacherous weather. You might like winter or you might resent it, but one thing you must do is respect it if for no other reason than it is statistically one of the most dangerous seasons, …
You won’t have to travel far in prepping and self-defense circles both on and off the internet before you hear someone harping about the importance of situational awareness. Situational awareness they will say, correctly, is a foundational element to staying safe from a variety of threats, human-caused or otherwise. But if you are new to …
Situational Awareness – Everything You Need to Know Read More »
You might do well as a prepper to learn (and learn well) the single most important skill that will keep you alive in a crisis. What is this unusually critical skill, this crucial, all-important element? Keeping your head. You can call it “keeping your cool”, “staying frosty”, or just keeping calm and thinking clearly. No …
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 …
19 Survival Skills You to Learn and practice While Stuck at 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 »
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. …
With fun in the sun, in and on the water activities, hikes and adventures it’s a common myth that a person won’t really have time for games around camp. Just wait until it rains and you have people looking for something to do. That’s when the well-prepared campers haul out their stash of games and …
30 Best Survival Camping Games to Try On Your Next Trip Read More »
