How to Build an Urban Survival Kit that Can Fit in an Altoids Tin

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How to Build a DIY Survival Fishing Kit You Can Depend On

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Find out the flaws in most DIY survival fishing kits and what gear you actually need to make an emergency fishing kit that will help you quickly catch the fish in your location.

Buck 120 Knife Review

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In-depth review of the classic Buck 120 knife. Covers length, balance, handle material. We look at the different models including 420HC vs. 5160 steel and blood grooves.

How to Build a Compact Bushcraft First Aid Kit (Medical Kit for the Wilderness)

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Preppers Emergency Stockpile List – Non-Food Survival Items

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How to Forge Your Own Bushcraft Axe Out of Scrap Metal

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Urban Edibles: 13 Plants To Forage In The City

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25 Items You Forgot to Put in Your Bug Out Bag

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19 Cheap Items that Will Be Valuable when SHTF

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The Best Neck Knife For Survival (And Should You Get One?)

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What Is Paracord? The Complete Guide For Survival

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Nuclear Survival Kit – Preparing for the Worst

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How to Build Your Own Storm Shelter for Under $3000

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Warning: Read this Before Stockpiling Water in Milk Jugs!

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How to Build Your Own Cheap DIY Underground Survival Bunker

Many people are waking up to how vulnerable we are to disasters and starting to stockpile survival supplies.

Yes, having a stockpile of food, water, candles, first aid supplies, etc., is vital to get through a short-term disaster like a hurricane or earthquake.

But let’s be realistic. In a significant SHTF disaster scenario, these stockpiles aren’t going to help much: as soon as someone realizes that you have supplies, they will come and take them!

The best way to prepare for disaster situations is to keep your supplies secure in your own underground survival bunker.  

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The 10 Best DIY Hiding Places and Hidden Compartments in Your Home

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10 Of The Best Buck Folding Knives That Will Make Every Hunter Drool

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Vikings Used a Gross Survival Firestarter. Here’s How to Make It

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Did you ever wonder how people started fires before matches and waterproof lighters?  Some would use friction-based fire starting methods.

But if you’ve ever tried making a fire with a bow drill or flint, you know that it isn’t easy.  More importantly, you need a good tinder that will easily catch fire.

The Vikings found a unique – and gross – solution for this.

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How to Purify Water with Household Bleach

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54 Square Foot Medicinal Garden Plan

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5 Essential Electronics You Need for Survival

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I’m usually am all about going low-tech for survival. Your most important survival tool is your own wits. With the proper knowledge, you won’t need gadgets and equipment to keep you safe and alive in a disaster situation.

But some electronics are so useful that I’d go as far as calling them essential.

Here they are — Let me know if you agree.

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Best Machete For Survival And Self Defense: 7 Ferocious Blades Reviewed

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Learn about the Bolo, Kukri, Bowie, Panga, Golok,and Parang machete types, blade features, and the top picks for best survival machete.

IFAK Contents List: What the Military Have in their Individual First Aid Kits

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Urban Survival: Essential Skills to Surviving Any Disaster in the City

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The Oh Crap! Guide to Off Grid Sewage and Septic Systems

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7 Absolutely Terrifying DIY Survival Weapons

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It is The End of the World As We Know It, there are mobs of starving people rioting outside, and your stockpile of ammo is all gone.

What are you going to do?

In a total SHTF situation, you will be happy to know how to make these absolutely terrifying homemade survival weapons.

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How To Survive a Hurricane: Step by Step Guide

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13 Wilderness Hygiene Hacks for Camping or Bugging Out

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The Practical Guide to Survival Cache Planning

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Having a Bug Out Bag is crucial for disaster planning.  However, you can’t rely on the BOB alone.  Thus, it is important to also have a survival cache – a well-hidden stockpile of survival supplies that you can access during a crisis.

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You Know You’re a Prepper When… 29 Surefire Signs You are a Prepper!

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The 6 Types of People Who Will Die First When SHTF

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We all believe that we’d fare well if a disaster hit. At least, those of us who think about disaster preparedness believe that they’d survive (the rest aren’t even willing to admit that a disaster could impact them!).

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How to Clean a Pocket Knife or Multi-Tool Like a Pro

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Your knife or multi-tool is a critical part of your everyday carry.  You love it.  You cherish it.  And maybe you even show it off once in a while…

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Bug Out Plans: How to Make a Survival Strategy for When You Have to Flee

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11 Bushcraft Skills Hardcore Wilderness Lovers Will Want to Master Now

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Disaster Preparedness for Pets: How to Keep Your Entire Family Alive when SHTF

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Humans aren’t the only ones who suffer during disasters like hurricanes, tornadoes, and earthquakes (not to mention the numerous other types of disasters that could strike).

Our pets also suffer too – often to a worse extent because they don’t have access to aid supplies as we do.

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10 Plastic Bottle Survival Hacks that Could Save Your Life

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I’m a staunch believer that the most valuable survival skill – for both disasters and everyday life – is creativity.  Yes, creativity!

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Off Grid Checklist: Become Self-Reliant with these Steps

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10 Things You Only Know Once You’ve Lived without Electricity

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Off Grid Water Systems – How to Live without Running Water

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How to Find Ammo When SHTF

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I hate to break it to you, but a gun is absolutely useless for self-defense if you don’t have any ammo for it!   

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5 Ridiculously Simple Animal Traps and Snares for Outdoor Survival

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How to Make a $5 Bucket Washing Machine

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How to Hide Your Guns during Martial Law

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The Most Rugged Off Grid RV Caravans You’ve Seen Yet

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I’ve said before that I am not going to buy a survival property for bugging out, mostly because I don’t think any properties in my nearby area would actually be secure during a total disaster scenario.  So, I’d rather spend my money on other preps.

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Best Gun Alternatives for Urban Survival

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As a member of the prepper and survivalist community, I know how popular guns are and how important they are as part of your survival plan. Many people are taking the step of stockpiling guns and ammo for when SHTF…

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What Is a Dry Flush Toilet and How Does it Work?

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How To Store Emergency Survival Food (Basement, Garage, Pantry, Cellar)

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6 Options for Long Term Food Storage Containers

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The subject of which containers are best for long-term food storage is controversial. The only thing that people seem to agree on is that food storage containers matter!

If you are choosing storage containers for your survival food, the last thing you want is to find your emergency food has gone bad because of improper storage containers!

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How to Start a Fire with a Lemon, Potato, or Other Produce

There has been a viral video floating around which shows how to start a fire with a lemon.  Because fire is one of the fundamental pillars of survival, this is a great trick to learn.  However, I want to point out that survival hacks are pointless if you don’t learn the science behind them.

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How to Use a Ferro Rod to Start a Fire: Expert Tips Inside!

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Bug Out vs Bug In: Why You Need to Rethink Bugging Out

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Get Home Bag Contents and Essentials Checklist

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Best Bushcraft Stores and Outfitters in the USA and Canada

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How to Cook and Eat Grasshoppers in the Wild

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Insects like grasshoppers are a great survival food that is packed with protein, fat, and other crucial nutrients.   We could survive off of eating grasshoppers alone!  However, the videos we see of people eating grasshoppers or bugs are usually really hyped up. 

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Find Out How Prepared You Are for Emergencies Through This Checklist

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When getting started with emergency preparedness, a lot of people make the mistake of rushing out and buying a lot of non-perishable foods, bottled water, and random gear.  But this isn’t a good way to prepare.

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My 9 Favorite Uses for Wood Stove Ash

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The 7 Types of Preppers You Need to Avoid

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Important Survival and Prepping Tips for the Disabled

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Prepping Mistakes So Stupid You Won’t Believe that You Are Making Them

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You spend a lot of time preparing for disaster and SHTF scenarios, such as by stockpiling supplies and brushing up on your survival skills. But, even with your best efforts, you are still probably making a LOT of prepping mistakes.

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4 Mental Preparedness Secrets Used by Navy Seals

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You can practice survival skills like food utilization, finding water, and emergency first aid, but unless you are mentally prepared, these skills don’t do you any good. Unfortunately, mental preparedness usually gets put on the back burner.

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5 Off-Grid Survival Food Systems that Really Work

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How To Survive in the Wild: The Only 4 Things You Need!

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7 Reasons Why You Shouldn’t Buy Bear Grylls Survival Gear

Bear Grylls hosts popular reality TV shows where he teaches survival skills. While I appreciate that Bear Grylls has brought the subject of survival to the mainstream, I think he is ridiculous and promotes reckless behavior.

Considering that he is foremost a celebrity figure, it shouldn’t be surprising that he has capitalized on the success of his TV shows with a line of “Bear Grylls Survival Gear.”

Regardless of what you think of him, I don’t recommend buying Bear Grylls survival gear for these 7 reasons.

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The 7 Different Types of Weapons – Which Should You Choose?

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8 Tricks for Surviving a Bad Neighborhood

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4 Steps to Take Immediately After EMP

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10 Bad Survival Strategies which will Get You Killed

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If you are into the prepper and survivalist lifestyle, then you probably spend a lot of time planning and strategizing what you would do when SHTF.

The good news is that there is a lot of great advice out there online.

But there is also a lot of really, really bad advice out there too.

Some of this bad advice could get you killed. So, think twice before you follow any of these bad survival strategies.

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The Survivalist’s Guide to Rope

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By definition, rope is simply any thick, long cord which is made by twisting or braiding together pieces hemp, sisal, nylon, or other materials.

There are a lot of ways to make rope, and some are far superior to others. Likewise, some materials are much more suitable for certain tasks. That is why it is so important that you know how to choose rope.

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Top 3 Weapons for Wilderness Survival – Deter Wild Animals

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3 Ways to Make a Survival Fish Trap (with Pictures)

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8 Requirements of a Good Bug Out Location

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6 Reasons Why I’m NOT Buying a Survival Property

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How To Survive a Riot

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Your 3 Best Emergency Toilet Options for When the Plumbing Goes Down

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Do Your Kids Know these Survival Skills?

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The 10 Top Barter Items List to Stockpile for SHTF

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Car Survival and Emergency Kit List: Essentials You Shouldn’t Drive Anywhere Without

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Ultimate Guide to Eating Bugs for Survival

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10 Survival Tricks Learned from Homeless People

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Survival Water Collection Methods (Tarp, Rain Catcher and Other Options)

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Ultimate Prepper Supplies and Gear List

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