Tag: Survival skills

Your SHTF Plan MUST Include Encountering Strangers

It was Tuesday last week and we were on a difficult jeep trail with no cellular service in the middle of nowhere.  The trail was one we found by chance and it was rough and rocky,  as such we aired down the tires and made a slow but steady go of it.  We crossed a …

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Water Storage (5 Years Later)

Water storage = life. Have you ever forgotten to pay your water bill or maybe your well pump gave out? Both have happened to me and I’m pretty sure I hit the faucet to turn it on (with no results) at least 50 times a day. We all use a LOT of water. What’s the …

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Split Operations: Separated from your home base.

Home is where the heart is and for most of us where our preparedness stash is.  Should some localized or regional disaster (or worse) take place I’d like to think we would feel better about addressing that situation surrounded by what is familiar to us (read: having loads of preps and self sustaining infrastructure in …

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Foraging for Edible Plants

By The Maj In the long term survival situation, our meals are going to transform drastically from what we are accustomed to today.  Typical breakfast today is eggs, meat, and bread or a simple milk and cereal, while a traditional lunch or dinner will range from a hearty salad and sandwich combo to steak, potatoes, …

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Identifying Necessary Survival Skills

By The Maj In the post SHTF world, skills can make the difference between life and death, but which skills are the “right” set of skills you should focus on? Determining “right” is personal and will be different for every person, so finding that magical list which you can reference to build your own personal …

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How to make fire without matches

From Trailmeister.com Carry a small amount of steel wool and a good smoke alarm (nine volt) battery and also some toilet tissue, in case you need a fire. Stick the battery ends into the steel wool. The steel wool will short circuit the battery and turn red hot, thus causing the toilet tissue (or other …

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