If you ask anyone involved in the fields of preparedness or bushcraft, they will all invariably tell you that a knife is the most important tool to have on hand...
Why Your Next Bugout Vehicle Should Be Diesel
Low thunder filled the early-morning air, rattling the windows and setting off car alarms on the street. With cle...
When the grid goes down, life changes.
One of the key areas it pays to wire is alternative fuels, such as biodiesel, because it can be used as fuel in a dies...
The power has been out for 38 days, and what looked like a short-term blackout has now turned into a serious event. Fire and police departments have been largel...
What young man hasn’t seen a pirate movie and dreamed of the freedom and independence implicit in a life lived on the open sea? Like Robert Redford in “All is L...
It’s odorless, tasteless, invisible and, in the right amounts, it can kill you almost instantly.
Threats to your survival don’t have to be visible to be real...
It is a normal flight on a small “puddle-jumper” plane between Minneapolis and Grand Rapids. Feeling chatty, you spark up a conversation with the woman across t...
You arrive in camp and begin using your blade. It is late and, as a result of both the darkness and exhaustion, your hand slips while cutting—and you damage the...
There’s a wise old saying that goes “nobody’s problems were solved with wine, but milk isn’t much help either”. As amusing as that sounds, it’s actually half ri...
It had been raining for most of the morning, but you were still three miles from camp with intentions of reaching it within the hour. A simple misstep on a wet ...
