by The Coach Here is a question for you. What is the MOST important survival equipment that you have? Think about that question for a minute before you read on. Here is the answer; the most important survival equipment that you have is the equipment that is on you when you need it! You can have … Read more
A home is not simply a place to sleep and watch mindless television episodes hour after hour. A home is a personal shelter for your home and family. Protecting those that you love and care about is something we can’t just play around with. We need to have systems in place that can withstand … Read more
A few weeks ago I published a review the excellent knife – the Cold Steel GI Tanto. A great knife at a great price. The ONLY complaint I had was the handle was a little too slick. Compared to the rest of the knife and the sheath included – this is a minor concern. Regardless, … Read more
Energy, an important part of prepping that usually is forgotten about. It’s something we take for granted right now, but in a SHTF scenario, we all will be thrust into a harsh new reality of a world without the grid. Everyone would like to think they could get by without continued power, and they very … Read more
Have you ever tried freeze dried food? Over the years I have tried many different brands and flavors – some good, some bad. As I continue to add long term freeze dried foods to my system I have found it very useful to try smaller pouches before spending the money on larger #10 cans. Hey … Read more
by Nate Smith The simple fact that you even find yourself reading this article probably means that you satisfy the first requirement of raising backyard chickens: desire. Obviously, without a strong desire to keep chickens the occasional hassles and burdens of doing so would quickly become overwhelming, leaving you wondering why you ever got started … Read more
If you have made the decision that you would like to try your hand at keeping some chickens in your backyard, there are a few considerations that you might want to make first, and although you have probably thought of some of these, there just might be a few that might come as a surprise. … Read more
One of the basic needs for any survival situation is a means of cooking food. The most abundant fuel available is wood. There are many ways to use wood to cook food…the most common being a camp fire or the “rocket stove”. However, these methods are not the most fuel efficient, and a lot of … Read more
How can frying a turkey bring us heat and light? Good question – so glad you asked! Cajun Frying a turkey involves a lot of peanut oil – 3 gallons for a medium to large bird, at $10 per gallon, or more, depending on the brand and where purchased. Have you ever wondered if … Read more
I was the lucky winner of the Paladin Go Bag during the last ModernSurvivalOnline.com guest post contest. Rourke asked me if I could do a review of the bag after receiving it. Upon receiving the bag, I knew exactly what I was going to do with it. I made my Paladin Go Bag a portable toolkit for emergency … Read more
This is my 3rd year as a hobby beekeeper, I seriously love being a beekeeper and look forward to heading out to the apiary (technical name for where the beehives are) to see the girls buzzing in and out of their hives. If you look closely at each bee when it returns to the hive … Read more
A couple months ago I bought the Cold Steel GI Tanto knife. I had been looking at this knife for quite some time as other Cold Steel offerings I have owned were quality items. Due to the low cost of the GI Tanto I kept my distance….until recently. I ordered one from Amazon and hoped … Read more
I was recently introduced to char cloth with a brief demonstration. I was impressed with how well it worked and how simple it sounded to make it. I decided to make my own and documented the results. What is char cloth? Char cloth is a form of natural material which is “cooked” to remove all … Read more
by Jordan The point of prepping is because you never know when something will go wrong. It could be a natural disaster like hurricane Katrina or a blackout. You should always keep a few items on yourself to ensure you’ll be ready for any disaster or storm that comes your way. Fire Source It’s always … Read more
Hey Rourke, I enjoyed the article by Viper117. Gold Bond (Gotta get that), Wipes (Got those), Maxi-Pads (Gotta get that) but I think I will stick with Deep Woods and mosquito coils. I’m going to take a little different tact here. Like many Preppers’ I have guns, ammo, not a year’s supply of food but much more … Read more
Today’s typical bug out bags can weigh between forty and seventy pounds. For many of us that’s just to much weight to haul. Happily, significant backpack weight reduction is possible without giving up the necessities, and even some of the comforts. For our growing population of aging, and with our often sedimentary lifestyles, walking for … Read more
By Harriet, Editor At Large – SeasonedCitizenPrepper.com As I look back over my own life and through the generations as far as our family is concerned, I think our biggest risk is not a collapse of the power grid, nor TEOTWAWKI, but financial hardship due to loss of employment, loss of a working partner, changing … Read more
I recently completed my second tactical response class in the past 3 months or so and came away with a revelation: magazine dump pouches can get people killed. If you are not familiar the idea of their use it is to have a place to stash empty(or partially empty) magazines rather than dropping them on … Read more
by The Coach National Martial Law is a free pass to the military and law enforcement to do whatever they want to, whenever they want to! Informants, who could be your best friend or family member, will be feeding information to the authorities so that they may get some type of a privilege or help … Read more
It seems that most United States citizens want the government to take care of them, to protect them and keep them safe, no matter what the cost or no matter what the federal government has to do to accomplish it. So, we accept that the federal government keeps taking away our constitutional rights to keep … Read more
As someone that carries concealed on a regular basis this past summer was challenging. Currently my carry sidearm is a Smith & Wesson M&P9 full sized 9mm. My regular Fobus holster does not do well to help conceal the M&P when dressed in shorts and a t-shift. I recently received an Aegis “Shield” Hybrid holster … Read more
I have continued my quest to learn how to tie a variety of knots. Last week I covered the Bowline knot which looks to be a very useful one to know. This week I have been practicing the Half Hitch – or really the Two Half Hitch. I am not a knot-guru by any means and … Read more
One skill I have never had has been tying different types of knots. Over the years I have wasted a lot of rope using the wrong knot in different applications. Recently I have been working on that and learned how to tie a useful and very easy knot called the Bowline. The Bowline is useful … Read more
My food storage program consists of grocery store foods, freeze dried, dehydrated, and bulk stores such as rice, wheat, and beans. I have been thinking that I really need to inventory everything and come up with a menu system. Having a schedule of what we can and will prepare would likely take the edge off … Read more