Dear Fellow Survivalist; Greetings. As we head into colder weather, I imagine that most of you have shut down your gardens for the year, awaiting...
Wintertime is the hardest time of year to survive. In essence, everything our ancestors did, was to prepare themselves to survive the winter. Even the...
Given the choice, most people would much prefer to go through their entire lives without experiencing a violent confrontation. However, when a criminal threatens...
Greetings. I’ve been doing some threat analysis the last few weeks, something I do every once in a while. The idea is to look at...
Greetings. Well, winter is just around the corner once again. Back in my native Colorado, snow is starting to fall and the mornings are getting...
Dear Fellow Survivalist; I’m a firm believer that unless you have the proverbial cabin in the woods, all stocked and prepared as a survival retreat,...
Dear Fellow Survivalist; Of all the potential disasters we face, none has sparked modern imaginations as much as the threat of an EMP. Sadly, while...
As I mentioned in a previous article on this topic, I like to think of survival kits as a three part system consisting of...
Dear Fellow Survivalists; Greetings. I’ve been looking into life expectancy and survival lately. Specifically, I’ve been wondering if we could expect to live as long...
When most people venture into the wilderness, they often expect to be there for only a short period and thus, they commonly fail to...
When I think of surviving in the wild, I tend to think about hunting and fishing for my food. Perhaps that’s because I’m a carnivore...
Deciding how much to stockpile is one of those questions that preppers never stop asking. It doesn’t matter if we’re talking about a group of...
Perhaps you’re a bit like me; confident in your survival skills and ability to make it on your own. If you actually know that much,...
In a previous article, I proposed the idea that instead of thinking of survival knives as a single, all-purpose, tool, that you instead think...