5 Secret Ways to Prep in Urban Environments
Prepping in an urban environment is in most ways much the same as it is in suburban and rural environments, as I and other authors on this site have written of in the past. But […]
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Prepping for Non-Preppers
You may have stockpiled all of the preps your family will need to last five years, have mastered a copious amount of survival skills, and live off the grid in a remote area – but […]
The Top 5 Multi-Caliber Guns and Who They Are For
Imagine a scenario where you are low on ammunition. You used the last of your supply some time ago and despite your searching high and low for more, you have come up with nada. A […]
Hiking for Preppers – Survival Fitness Training Series
If you can walk, then you definitely can hike; and we’ve done a lot of walking so far, right? Hiking is simply taking walking to the next level. And that next level may be… a […]
5 Ways to Secure Your Preps From Intruders
So your hard work and vigilance paid off; you sacrificed, scrimped, saved and religiously laid in supplies and stored provision ample enough to see you through a crisis that you hoped would never happen, but […]
The Best of the Best Self Defense Knives
All kinds of preppers carry knives and a quite a few of them have probably given some thought to using it for self defense, if they had to. A smaller fraction of those preppers have […]
The Right Way to Carry Concealed in a Purse
One of the most popular ways for ladies who carry purses to carry their gun is, duh, in their purse. While this approach is certainly convenient and offers an easy to way to conceal the […]
Trucker’s Hitch Knot – Easy Step by Steps
The Trucker’s Hitch is a mechanically advantageous block and tackle (pulley) system made only of one piece of rope. This has hundreds of uses. It’s great for guy lines for tents and tarps, it makes […]
Survival Fitness Training Series: Jogging
Howdy and welcome back to our survival fitness series, where we take the fitness aspect and apply it to prepping, so you can be physically prepared for disasters and emergencies big and small. No matter […]
60 Camping Tips and Tricks You Need to Know
When you start out camping it’s easy to make mistakes and they can make life pretty miserable for the time you are out there. Although these may be basic to seasoned campers, they will help […]
Should You Modify Defensive Firearms?
When discussing firearms for personal or home defense with other like-minded shooters, a common question that crops up, and often results in argument, is whether or not modifications are acceptable on defensive firearms, and if […]
20 Things Chickens Can Eat and 17 Things They Cannot
If you’re adding a few chickens to your homestead soon, you’re not alone. Millions of people all over the country, whether they’re in rural towns or have backyard homesteads in urban areas are discovering the […]
Seeds Stockpile: How to Plan and Start It
Every family has their own goals for prepping, and creating a seed stockpile follows our goals to have a self-sufficient homestead. Seed saving allows you to have a self-sustaining garden each year. You won’t depend […]
DIY Oil Lamp for Emergency Lighting
No matter what type of SHTF you are prepping for, expect the power grid to eventually cease to function. Many preppers stockpile oil lamps, and that is a great idea, but learning how to make […]
Survival Fitness Training Series: Warming Up and Walking
Ok, if you’ve read my introduction to survival fitness, you are now ready to take action. But before we jump into training, there’s one critical aspect we need to discuss (and do): warming up. You […]
Are Subcompact Pistols Worth It?
Concealed Carry of pistols is a subject of enormous breadth and depth, covering such intricacies as who you are and what you do for a living versus where you are carrying and under what conditions […]
Introduction to Survival Fitness
How long have you been prepping, now, 6 months? A year? More? I bet it’s not every day that someone comes to you and says: Look, you’ve been doing it wrong. You’re neglecting a critical […]
How to Put Together The Ultimate Bug Out Bag
Disasters, both natural and man made are becoming more and more frequent in our world today. If you woke up in the middle of the night to find yourself in a situation where you needed […]
15 Rural EDC Items to Never Be Without
EDC items you tote with you will be highly impacted by both where you live and where you work. State and local laws will determine what type of self-defense tools can legally be carried, and […]
Awesome Airweights: Overview of 3 Smith & Wesson Lightweight J-Frames
Smith & Wesson revolvers are iconic and nearly timeless firearms that remain the fabled manufacturer’s flagship product. Their excellence in manufacture and highly innovative designs has set and continue to set very high benchmarks for […]
50+ Tools You Should Have on the Homestead
If you’re longing to switch to the homestead lifestyle but are frustrated by the fact that circumstances just won’t come together to make it happen for several months, or even several years, there is something […]
10 Carbine Drills to Master
Carbines, modern, vintage or somewhere in the middle are exceedingly popular guns for general purpose readiness in prepper’s armories for good reason. Their combination of range, power and ease of use make them excellent guns […]
27 More Long-life Foods for Your Survival Plan
Note: This is a follow-up article to the original piece on the 34 best staple foods to stockpile which you can read here. You need to eat. So do I. Before I wrote this, I […]
13 Ways to Do Laundry Post-SHTF
When it comes to an extended power outage, whether living off grid by choice or due to a SHTF situation, one of the things just about everyone will have to figure out eventually is how […]