As surely as winter follows summer, you will read headlines announcing the inevitable deaths resulting from blizzards. Many of the reported fatalities will concern motorists who become stuck in snowdrifts.
Survival
Counter Sniping Tactics Mandatory for Preppers and Survivalists
The sun has just come up and is shining on the door of your retreat. The morning is bright and clear, as you and your family walk outside to start the day’s chores. Suddenly a gunshot rings out. Someone screams. A sniper is firing at your camp. Your first thought is: “What will I do?”
Wilderness First Aid Basics
I began working on this article on wilderness first aid basics after receiving a few emails from our readers. They asked if I would be willing to present wilderness first aid basics so that people will be more aware of what to expect when exploring the great outdoors. I will try to put some emphasis on the most common first aid scenarios that could happen to all of us.
Surviving With Diabetes Successfully When Disaster Strikes
It is the nature of most humans to resent having to be dependent on anyone or anything. One of the basic tenets of the survivalist is self-sufficiency. Surviving with diabetes when disaster hits close to home is a real challenge, but not an impossible one if you prepare properly.
Psychology Of Survival And Coping With Stress
The current approach to survival training with a few notable exceptions is to focus on the physical skills and deal with the psychological aspects in a secondary manner. The psychology of survival is almost never found in today’s media, and preppers and survivalists are unaware ho the psychology of survival operates.
How To Become A Good Weather Forecaster In The Outdoors
Bad weather has traditionally been the cause of many disappointments of backcountry trips, sleepless nights in inadequate sleeping bags, and even injury and death directly or indirectly. Becoming your own weather forecaster when exploring the great outdoors is a skill required for long-term survival.
Camping Survival Skills You Need To Practice
Time off from work is precious stuff. For many folks two weeks out of 52 is it, and you need to compress as much R&R into that time as possible. Developing your camping survival skills becomes somehow mandatory every time you organize a trip into the great outdoors.
Detailed Strategies For Surviving An Ambush
Ambushes are of special concern to preppers and survivalists because, in a crisis, there may be looting bands who prey on others in order to sustain themselves. If worst comes to worst, and a total break-down of law and order occurs, criminal elements will have an almost free hand to victimize others. Surviving an ambush will certainly not be an easy task, but these strategies should give you an idea on how to prepare and what to expect.
Bugging In – The Number 1 Ultimate Guide
What is bugging in, anyway? The vast majority of situations that occur in our daily lives are handled without us even knowing it. When you hear sirens, the emergency services are handling all of the emergencies. However, what happens when you hear commotion and disorder, but no sirens? Of course, the first thing you do is ring them. Now, what happens when they have no resources left to handle what is going on? Large scale disarray, for whatever reason, will require you to look after yourself.
Why The Steel Baton Is A Proper Self-Defense Weapon
I first came in contact with a steel baton during my years in the law enforcement, and its practicality as a self-defense weapon stayed with me long after I left the force. I have a steel baton in my car, and it’s my weapon of choice to convince an assailant to change his mind.
Man Tracking Techniques Useful For Search and Rescue
Tracking techniques are useful for hunting purposes, but they prove their true worth when searching for a missing person. Tracking man is not an easy task, and you need to have a lot of experience in the field besides mastering the theory for man tracking techniques.
Fire Piston – 11 Great Steps To Using Them
How many times have you been in the wilderness, needed to make a fire, but all your lighters are wet? If you are anything like me, that is probably too many. The other scenario that you may, inadvertently find yourself in, is when you have run out of gas and matches. Mainly in tidal areas or the woodlands. Now is the time that you need something else to use. Instead of fumbling about trying to find something to use, or rubbing two sticks together, you need a Fire piston. In this article, we are going to take a look at what a fire piston is, how it works, and when you should use it.
Ventilatory Assistance In The Field
Anyone who has taken a course in Cardiopulmonary Resuscitation (CPR) knows the accepted method of ventilating a person who isn’t breathing spontaneously is to open the air-way and give mouth to mouth ventilations. Ventilatory assistance should be provided without causing further harm to the patient.