One of the very best things you can do for yourself when it comes to ensuring you have continuity of communications in times of trouble is to take up amateur radio, often called ham radio. Baofeng radios are inexpensive, small, and capable of communicating over miles. Completely self-contained, as long as your set is powered, you can broadcast and receive from anyone else that’s out there as long as they’re within range. Old fashioned compared to cell phones, yes, but still incredibly useful and also a worthwhile hobby in and of itself. However, talking on the radio is an entirely different ex ..read more

When it comes to wilderness survival, getting your hands on enough food is challenging. But no matter where you are, chances are pretty good there will be some variety of small game that can be caught. Animal protein is one of the best things you can get when it comes to calories in the bush, so you should get it at every opportunity. And setting up traps is one of the best ways to multiply your efforts in that regard. You can have multiple traps set up and ready to spring even while you sleep or focus on other tasks. And one of the best traps for reproducing is the simple, humble snare… Snar ..read more

If you’ve taken it upon yourself to get ready for those disasters and crises that life can sometimes throw our way, you’ve probably heard of an EMP before. In the context of prepping and survival, this is the event that will knock out much of our electrical grid, and destroy any equipment or vehicles that rely on circuit boards and other, similar components. Seriously worrisome stuff, and depending on who you ask they can be damaging on a regional level or even borderline apocalyptic at the national level. But just what is an EMP anyway? An EMP, or electromagnetic pulse, is a short burst or p ..read more

If there’s one thing that everybody knows by now, it is that the military speaks English with enough strange acronyms, lingo, loanwords, and slang terms that it definitely sounds like a different language. Perhaps nowhere is this more apparent than within the Marine Corps. soldier inside foxhole Marines are lots of things, but they happen to be especially creative users of slang terminology. Some of its crude, much of it is obscure, and about half of it is downright hilarious- hilarious as long as you know they aren’t talking about you! To help you decipher what these hard-charging jarheads ar ..read more

One of the most important and, sadly, most overlooked survival essentials in any kind of situation is communications. Don’t get me wrong, it’s great to plan to keep yourself and your loved ones alive, but what you really need to do is reach out to people who can help you one way or another. emergency radios: UV5R, Motorolas, ClipJam, and Tecsun That help might be rescue, information, guidance, or just checking to see how bad things are in the next town over. Information is power, and the farther and quicker you can reach out to collect it or convey it, the better off you’ll be. The trick, of c ..read more

If you’ve been paying any amount of attention to the prepping sphere for the past couple of decades, you have probably seen concern over EMPs, electromagnetic pulses, rise and rise. sun close-up showing solar flares Sadly, they are one of the most prevalent and pressing threats going forward, one with the potential to completely collapse society at the regional and even national level. In less than the blink of an eye, an EMP could completely destroy the electrical grid and pretty much everything that relies on electronics in any way. It sounds like the stuff of fiction, but I assure you they ..read more

If there’s one threat facing the nation today, one that is bound to make even the most die-hard prepper a little queasy, it has to be an EMP. Think about it: in the blink of an eye, the electrical grid could be totally destroyed, all of our electronics damaged or destroyed alongside it, and an entire society plunged into chaos. This isn’t the stuff of fiction, and it isn’t black magic. EMPs are entirely real, and worst of all, they can be spawned by various natural events or by things as terrible as nuclear weapons and man-made generators. It’s bad enough to make anyone want to give up, becau ..read more

If you want to survive in the wilderness against all odds, you’ll have to learn how to make use of every single resource that Mother Nature places at your disposal. When it comes to food, that means things that you ordinarily wouldn’t eat in a hundred years. reindeer moss Reindeer Moss is a great example. This crunchy, creepy, uh, moss, is… you know what, reindeer moss doesn’t look like moss at all. Exactly what is reindeer moss anyway? Reindeer Moss isn’t a true moss, but instead a type of lichen, Cladonia rangiferina. Reindeer moss, like all lichens, consists of bacteria living among the gro ..read more

There are all kinds of cherished survival myths out there. I grew up hearing them, and the guys that taught them to me probably grew up hearing them. Suck the poison out of a snake bite. two trees about 4-6 feet apart You can eat anything that animals eat. Drinking from white water is safer. The sad thing is none of these are true, or good ideas! If there’s one good thing you can say about the internet, it is that it has made it remarkably easy-to-crush myths. Let’s look at another one, and put it to the true or false test. Does moss only grow on the north side of trees? No, moss does not only ..read more

Whether you are bugging out, evacuating from a disaster, practicing your escape and evasion routes, or just heading out on a road trip, sometimes you get tired behind the wheel and need to pull over for some shut-eye. But one thing to consider, and something most people don’t, is whether or not sleeping in your car is illegal. In the wrong circumstances, this could be a really big deal! So what’s the word? Is it legal or illegal to sleep in your vehicle? It’s generally legal to sleep in your car at the federal and state levels, but some states do have laws on the books that make it illegal to ..read more