I learned to appreciate the value of a poncho in my younger years, and to this day, I consider it a versatile piece of equipment that shouldn’t miss from your backpack. Regardless, if you’re a prepper, a survivalist, or just a camping enthusiast, the poncho will become your best friend in times of need.
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Tips To Good Optics Use When Hunting or Tracking
A spotting scope and a quality pair of binoculars are mandatory for the serious hunter and tracker. While making a quality purchase is the first step, there are some keys to good optics use in the field. There’s a long way from pulling out your binoculars and spotting your first kill of the day. Lear forward and learn how to use your optics in the field.
Using Snares For Food And Defense
A metal cable does more than hold heavy stuff together. It can provide you with food and even act as a defense system. Snares fashioned from such cable make fast-acting, sure-holding traps. Using snares for food and defense can make the difference between life and death for the keen survivalist.
Backtracking – Finding Your Way Back To Camp
Finally standing over that ridge taking the photos you’ve been after for the last couple of hours, you’re filled with a sense of accomplishment. Unfortunately, it’s soon replaced by overwhelming panic, when you can’t remember which way back to camp. It doesn’t really matter whether it was the excitement, the long walk, or mesmerizing surroundings, either way, you’re lost. At this point backtracking your way to camp is the only chance of making it out of the wilderness.
Making Trail Foods For Wilderness Exploring
A few steaks, some bags of chips and a case of beer or soda pop will usually get you through an easy weekend overnighter of hunting or target shooting. And this only if the weather’s mild. Long wilderness expeditions to remote usually require proper trail foods. Dehydrated or freeze dried foods that are as light come heavily spiced to overcome the cardboard factor. However, you can make your own tasty trail foods and here are a few recipes.
Ten Tips For A Low-Impact Bug-out Campsite
Building a low-impact bug-out campsite means tread lightly. Protect rather than destroy. Leave it cleaner than you found it. Melt into the environment and leave no trace. Above all, it’s an attitude and method for healthy living in the outdoors not only for preppers but also for the average camper.
Raising Rabbits And Butchering Them For Organic Meat
If you are interested in becoming more self-sufficient, you should consider raising rabbits. You can start with only a few animals, and within a year, you will have a fine supply of organic meat for your larder.
Mountain Survival – How To Survive In The Mountains
The mountain environment can be an unforgiving place. Most people immediately think of ‘falling off the mountain,” but be assured that weather, rockfall, avalanche, or even simple route-finding can be hazardous. Mountain survival is about planning and thinking before acting.
Surviving a Grid-down Disaster – Part 2
In part one of this article, we talked about all the potential threats to our grid systems and how our reliance on technology affects us. We also talked about how to become a part of the solution before a grid-down disaster occurs.
How to Build a Survival Bow & Arrows – Beginner’s Guide
No matter what happens, it is always important to be ready. Being stranded in the woods is not the best scenario, and at that point, you need to act. The first step is knowing how to get food, and this is why when your energy is up, you need to know how to craft a survival bow and arrows. Doing so may save your life.
How Can I Build Enough Strength To be Useful During A Crisis?
Do you have enough strength to survive the next coming crisis? This is the one thing you should ask yourself right now. No matter your age, situation, wealth status, etc. No doubt about it, this is a heavy hitting question, not only for the prepper like you and I but for any being with a soul about him. However, as preppers, we should take the question with a particular sense of significance.
Toothache Tree: Survival Uses, Medicine, and Safety Tips
Found along roadsides, fence rows, and open woodlands across the southern United States, the Toothache Tree (Zanthoxylum spp.) is one of nature’s most powerful natural anesthetics. Often called prickly ash, tickle tongue, or Hercules club, this small tree or large shrub has been valued for centuries by Native Americans and frontiersmen for its unique ability to numb pain and fight infection, especially when professional medical help isn’t available.
Mastering The Skill Of Stalking When Hunting For Survival
During a crisis, when you are forced to hunt for survival having a good rifle and pinpoint accuracy is not all it takes to bag game animals. Whether you use a rifle, shotgun, handgun or bow to hunt for meat, stalking is a useful talent to have.