Land Navigation Using a Map and a compass

Navigation using a map and compass

Navigation is the process of finding one’s present position and then determining the best route to follow to reach a distant goal. We do that today every time we get into our car and pull out of the driveway. Succesful land navigation requires a map and a compass and most importantly, knowledge to use these survival tools.

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How To Survive A Snakebite

Can you survive a snakebite

In the long history of first aid literature, a vast amount of information, misinformation, and folklore have been written on the subject of how to survive a snakebite and general treatment. Over the years, suggested procedures have ranged from sheer quackery to viable, but controversial, medical practices.

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HAM Radio – A Critical Piece Of Equipment For Survival Communications

Ham Radio Antenna

The worst happens. Overnight America’s sophisticated, fragile public communication systems are turned into scrap metal, high-tech junk. What happens to you and your survival group? Sure, you’ve provided for as much as you can of your own medical care, and the group is well drilled in protecting itself in the absence of constituted authority—or the presence of unconstituted authority—but what about communications?

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15 Essential Tips For Surviving In The Wilderness

Essential tips for surviving in the wilderness including navigation, shelter, fire, water, and emergency survival skills

Surviving in the wilderness is far more difficult than most people expect. Movies and television often portray outdoor survival as something that can be handled with minimal preparation, but the reality is far less forgiving. Even experienced campers, hikers, and hunters can suddenly find themselves in serious danger when weather changes, navigation fails, or an injury occurs far from help.

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Survival Improvised Cooking: Primitive Ways To Cook Your Food

Cast-iron skillet cooking an egg on a Swedish torch in a forest survival camp setup, demonstrating improvised bushcraft cooking over a log fire.

When disaster strikes, whether during wartime, a grid-down event, or a major natural disaster, the ability to prepare food becomes a test of adaptability and ingenuity. Survival improvised cooking is not just a skill from the past, it’s a vital art that allows you to make nourishing meals even when modern conveniences fail. Our ancestors relied on primitive methods such as clay ovens, hot ashes, and wooden slabs to keep their families fed when fuel and power were scarce.

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