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.
It is right to prepare for rough times by developing the skills needed to survive the onset, laying in the goods and equipment necessary to sustain yourself in the aftermath and having a plan to endure the time of lack and austerity until things get to back to normal. There is only one fundamental flaw […]
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When SHTF, you will be dealing with multiple threats to your life and the lives of your loved ones. On top of the chaos, you may find yourself in a situation where traditional products and medicines are inaccessible, simply unavailable, or cost-prohibitive even if you could get to them safely. One of the key things
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Just about every doctor will tell you that Q-tips aka cotton swabs are NOT recommended for cleaning your ears, but did you know they were invented for exactly that purpose? And, the idea was inspired by a mom. In the early 1920’s, Leo Gerstenzang, an immigrant from Poland, invented the first cotton swab after seeing
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Look around the gun sphere next time you are out and about on the internet. When you watch all the cool videos of various drills and training evolutions, does anything strike you as strange? When discussing a “what would you do?” scenario with friends or colleagues, does it seem like anything is a foregone conclusion?
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When the topic turns to survival skills among proponents of self-sufficiency, the conversations is almost always framed in the context of survival or subsistence in a remote wilderness setting. This makes a fair amount of sense as being far away from any infrastructure and possible support afford by civilization in a life-threatening scenario is one
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If you’re stuck in a survival situation or another emergency situation without the tools you need to get what you need, it can not only be uncomfortable, it can be downright deadly. But with the right knowledge, t-shirts have unlimited uses for survival. If you’re wearing a t-shirt and throw a couple extra old ones
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In any long term SHTF or bug in/out situation, your clothes and other items will be damaged. You’ll need to be able to stitch clothes, backpacks and tents back together, and you will need to do it by hand in a survival situation or out on the trail. Inevitably over time, some things will break
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If you’re someone who remembers your parents slathering your chest and neck with horrible smelling slimy cough medicine and then tucking you into bed, then you’re probably over forty. It worked wonders back then for cough, congestion, and runny noses and it was a common fall back of parents everywhere. It’s not used so much
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“Duct tape is like the force: It has a dark side and a light side and it holds the universe together.” Carl Zwanzig Duct tape is without a doubt one of the most useful things you can have in a post-SHTF scenario, when a lot of things will NOT be at readily available. There are
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If there’s one thing you’ve likely learned pretty quickly as a prepper it’s the importance of having the right materials and supplies with you when SHTF and things go wrong. No matter what else is in your bug out bag or bug in stockpile, consider adding several tubes of super glue. While most preppers will
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