Hand Water Pumps Making a Comeback
As recently as 100 years ago, the most important site consideration for homesteaders and villages was whether plenty of good water was within easy reach. When electric power lines and drilled...
What’s In Your Nightstand?
It is the sound that almost everyone fears at some point. ‘That noise’ you hear while you are in bed that doesn’t sound right. I don’t know how many...
Urban Survival Kit
The remembering of the events on 9/11/2001 that killed thousands is just barely in our rear-view mirror. This day, fortunately, passed without any incident. That day in our past saw...
My Take on How to Buy the Best Survival Lighter
You know that the flame’s gone in your love light when your wife gives you a lighter for your birthday. Just pulling your leg. Anyway, the real reason why...
5 Ways To Survive With Only a Lighter
Perhaps the single most useful tool for someone to have in a survival situation is lighter. While some might argue that a lighter is a little bit of a...
Top 10 Android Apps That Might Save Your Life
There are four things that I grab every day before I walk out of the house. My keys will get me to work, my wallet has my cash, my knife is my do-all tool,...
Five Emergency Survival Tools
As preppers we strive to acquire skills, knowledge and yes tools that can assist us should we ever be faced with dire circumstances. The actual disaster that you might...
13 Skills to Learn Now for Survival Later
Evaluating survival readiness takes more than just 13 questions. However, these thirteen skills to learn in the areas of food, water, shelter, protection, and communication will form a solid...
Archery as a Prepper Skill?
When I was 4 or 5 years old my dad gave me a plastic bow and arrow set. It was one of those cheap, $5 toy bows with the...
How to Catch Fish in a Survival Situation
Have you ever been in a situation whereby there is no food left and fishing for your next meal is a possibility? In this context survival fishing refers to...
