What does the recent social upheaval happening all over the world mean to you and your ability to defend yourself and your home? Many people’s home defense plans are predicated on a collapse of civil order…. today’s city dweller often lives in conditions that make it look like that collapse has already happened.
Primitive Survival – 23 Top Tips
If you are a prepper, then you are likely ready for almost anything that can happen. However, what happens when things go worse than you have ever planned? You may find yourself thrown into a position where you need to call upon your primitive survival techniques.
One of the most unfortunate things about a scenario like this is that most people, even preppers, are not knowledgeable enough in primitive survival to last any length of time.
Cold Injuries Management and Successful Treatment
The exposure to cold in a survival situation ranks as one of the most difficult medical problems facing the survival paramedic. Cold injuries management and treatment should be part of your training if you spend a lot of time outdoors or if you happen to live in a cold climate.
Excessive Body Heat Loss and How To Stay Warm
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.
Make Your Own Dehydrated Meals In 6 Easy Steps
In this article, we are going to be taking a look at dehydrated meals. We have all seen the packages of shriveled up banana slices, and the dried vegetables in packets. You may even have eaten them. However, when you are a prepper, it is not just banana and vegetables that you want to eat. While they are great foods, it will get very dull, very quickly.
Asian Martial Arts – Which is best?
For the modern preppers and survivalists interested in self-defense training, attempting to separate mythical images and actual attributes of Asian martial arts fighting systems can become an exercise in frustration.
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.
When the World Ends, What Value is Money?
Survivalists often seem to be preparing for national calamities or the collapse of society. However, it is wise to examine how well prepared we are for milder occurrences like an economic recession. They say that money is the root of all problems, but for the prepared individual, that might not be the main concern.
Saving Garden Seeds For Essential Food Self-Sufficiency
Some of the best lessons for survival come from people who have lived close to the edge of existence for many years. The first pioneers are a good example. Many of these pioneers arrived in the country penniless. Few, however, arrived seedless.
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.