Survival Skills

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, […]

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

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

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.

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 homeless people around the world may be a poor and pitiable lot, but they have a lot to teach us about survival. At first glance, you might not think the people surviving in the middle of urban and suburban centers are in “real” survival situations, but you’d be wrong. Deprived of financial resources and,

Crisco should be stockpiled in anyone’s pantry alongside buckets of wheat and dehydrated protein. Sure, you can cook, bake, and fry with Crisco, but the plethora of other uses this old-fashioned kitchen standard boasts is what makes it a prepping and homesteading all-star. In 1911, crystallized cottonseed oil, or as we more commonly call it,

Sandbags should part of your survival stockpile, even if you live nowhere near a flood zone. These durable items have a multitude of uses, perhaps not as many as duct tape, but it would at least be a decent contest. You can use sandbags not just to hold back water, but as a ballistic barrier