Category Archives: Survival Skills
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Surviving the Wilderness through Hunting and Gathering
Hunting and Gathering is a form of human adaptation and is the oldest and most extensive in terms of time and space. A hunter-gatherer is a person who lives in a community where most or all of the food is obtained from forage, that is, gathering wild plants and hunting wild animals. Ancient humans were… Read More
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Knife Safety: 7 Tips to Keep You Safe
Knives are essential tools to have ready at hand during any outdoors trip, whether you are out camping, bushcrafting or you simply keep one ready to use. Whether you use a survival knife or a pocket knife, all knives have one thing in common: they are dangerous. Regardless of the type of knife you are… Read More
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Top 10 Natural Shelters every Survivalist must know
If an emergency situation is happening, it may be better to hide inside your house because it is easier to survive when you have many tools and commodities. But there are situations when it is necessary to leave your home. Even if your survival plan is all about hiding inside, you must have a backup… Read More
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Bartering Basics: How to Trade Goods After SHTF
No matter how well prepared you are, if a crisis goes on long enough, you’ll eventually run out of something…whether that’s food, water, medicine, or something else. When this happens, you’ll need to find some way to get more supplies. But after SHTF, you won’t be able to get them through normal means, such as… Read More
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7 Things You Should Do Before SHTF
Preparing for when SHTF is a never-ending process. Even the most prepared people in the world can still improve their survival plans a little bit. Picking up a few new survival skills is always a good idea, and if you do it consistently, you’ll be much more prepared for when a crisis eventually happens. This… Read More
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Survival Skills You Can Learn Without Leaving Home
As preppers, there are certain skills we need to know that will help us survive during a crisis…but we need to occasionally practice them to keep them sharp. The problem for some people is that they don’t live near a good outdoor area, like a forest, to practice these skills, or they don’t have time… Read More
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How to Sharpen Your Survival Knife
A survival knife is one of a prepper’s most important tools, but it also needs to be sharpened occasionally to keep its edge. A dull survival knife is useless in a survival situation, so I’ll show you how to sharpen your knife even if you’ve never done it before. By the end of this post… Read More
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5 Types of Campfires You Need to Know How to Build
Starting a fire can be difficult. That’s why there are so many tools designed to help you get your fire started and keep it going. It’ll be easier for you to start a fire if you know which type of campfire you should build to suit the conditions you’re in. If you’re struggling to start… Read More
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How To Re-use Old Food For Survival
As preppers, we know that we need to keep stockpiles of food to survive a crisis, but there’s one problem…Unlike the rest of our survival gear, food is something that needs to be continually replaced. Most American households buy more food than they need, and that excess food turns into waste. This wasted food costs… Read More
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Life was harder in the old days, and people had to do a lot more to survive. Our lives today are relatively easy, and a lot of the useful knowledge from back then has been lost for most people. Luckily, some of these old school survival hacks are still around. Today, I’ll share with you… Read More