Going into the wild with only the clothes on your back and surviving for any extended period of time is not nearly as easy as Hollywood makes it out to be. In fact, it is extraordinarily difficult, and most people would die from exposure to the elements, dehydration, or any number of other causes in a matter of days. Just because surviving in the wild is … [Read more...]
10 Fun Prepping Activities for the Whole Family
We all know that children learn through play. It is through play and using their imaginations that children process the world. Play helps kids build a sense of their own identities and abilities. And it is through play that children learn essential life skills such as problem-solving, teamwork, and self-confidence. Play also helps kids develop the motor … [Read more...]
Upside Down Fire – Forget What You’ve Learned
Anyone who's ever built a fire knows you're supposed to start with smaller pieces of wood and work your way up to larger pieces. It seems perfectly logical. After all, you can't light a log before you light the kindling. But there's another way to do it that is actually more convenient. In this video, Cr0cket20 demonstrates. Want to save this post for … [Read more...]
Top 5 Survival Knots Every Prepper Should Know
Everyone knows how to tie a knot or two, but do you know how to tie the most important survival knots? Learning how to tie knots is not something that happens overnight. Like most things, it takes practice...sometimes lots of practice. Focus on mastering just one survival knot at a time. Once you can pull off tying and untying the knot with your eyes … [Read more...]
15 Rare Skills That Will Come In Handy When SHTF
If you’re familiar with the world of prepping for natural disasters and other life-changing, cataclysmic events, you probably have some provisions. You’ve decided that having a bug out bag is a good idea; you’ve stocked up on nonperishable items; you have a plan for where to go and what to do when the SHTF. But at some point in a survival scenario, there … [Read more...]
7 Things a Campfire Needs to Burn All Night Long
The crackle and pop of a good campfire is one of the best things about staying in the woods overnight. When a fire is in full bloom and the flames radiate up charred logs and lick off into the night sky, you can stare at it for hours. It’s about the best setting for comradery you can find. Fire making is a basic skill, but like most skills, it can be … [Read more...]
20 Trees Every Prepper Should Be Familiar With (And Why)
Growing your own food and medicine will vastly improve your chances of surviving a long-term disaster. Cultivating fruit trees is just one small way to enhance the food sources at your prepper retreat or bug in location. There are a multitude of trees that are chock full of nutrients like Vitamin C and ingredients for natural remedies that can treat … [Read more...]
9 Improvised Hunting Weapons for Fish and Game in the Wild
We always assume we’ll have a rifle when hunting, but in a survival situation, we may be lucky to have a pocket knife. A rifle is the standard, contemporary tool or weapon for almost any hunting situation. It’s a highly sophisticated weapon customized with scopes and by caliber for a variety of game species and sizes. But hunting without a rifle is a whole … [Read more...]
8 Basic Survival Skills to Teach Your Children
As parents, we want to protect our children from harm. It’s in our DNA. So we diligently prepare for possible emergencies, and we educate ourselves on how to survive them. Teaching your children to rely on you is a good thing, but we can’t possibly be with them at all times. Would your kids know what to do if they were on their own in a survival … [Read more...]
10 Lost Skills We Can Learn From The Amish
The Amish (about 300,000 of them) quietly live among us throughout the United States. They do not live on the grid, not in a conventional manner of speaking, at least. American Amish communities function from a power grid far superior to our antiquated electrical system - “God’s Grid.” We preppers can learn a whole lot from the Amish and their off-grid … [Read more...]
How to Skin, Butcher, and Cook Wild Game
Are you one of the many preppers who plan on bugging out to the woods after the SHTF? I've heard many people say they plan on doing this (both in person and online), and most of them think they will hunt for food while they're at it. This always makes me cringe. First of all, if everyone is bugging out to the woods at the same time, there's not going to … [Read more...]
How to Read a Map and Contour Lines
Countless times, I've recommended buying detailed paper maps of your local area and all the areas along the path to your bug out location. During a major disaster, satellites might be down and GPS might not be working. If that happens, you need to know how to find your way with paper maps. They will be especially important if you need to take a different … [Read more...]
9 Street Survival Skills for the Concrete Jungle
Major cities may still only take up a small portion of the land mass in the United States, but they are nevertheless home to over 80% of the population. With this being the case, the odds of being caught in the concrete jungle when disaster strikes are quite high. Of course, the survival skills necessary to navigate a city during a disaster – whether it’s … [Read more...]
9 Most Overlooked (But Important) Survival Skills
There are many different survival skills that could prove invaluable in a disaster scenario. Some of these skills--such as marksmanship or the ability to preserve food--receive a lot of attention, while others often fly under the radar. Nevertheless, these skills are each incredibly valuable in their own right, and some of them may prove just as important … [Read more...]
7 Essential Knots You Need To Know
How many knots do you know (other than the shoelace knot)? Probably not many. But believe it or not, knots can be very useful. They can be used for boating, construction, and various DIY projects. This video covers seven essential knots that will allow you to use cordage however you need. The knots covered include: Square Knot Clove Hitch Sheet … [Read more...]
5 Survival Skills to Learn From Native Americans
This article makes an interesting point about Native Americans. It calls them "survivors of the highest order" because not only did they live off the land, they protected their resources and lived sustainably. They may not have had much in the way of technology, but there's still a lot we can learn from them. In particular, there are five skills we can … [Read more...]
30 Survival Skills Modern People Have Forgotten
Every generation is skilled at using the technology of its era. For example, people today are very good at driving cars, using smartphones, setting up home entertainment systems, and so forth. The problem is, if the end of the world as we know it ever happens, all those skills will be useless. The skills of our forefathers, on the other hand, will never be … [Read more...]
