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You may have a backpack at home that’s armed to the teeth with survival gear, or perhaps you have a similar kit in your car. That’s great, but have you considered carrying survival gear in your pocket? While carrying only ...

He was a man of his time, a writer for Forest and Stream magazine around the 1880s, and woodsman among woodsmen. George Washington Sears, affectionately known as Nessmuk, spent many of his days rambling in the backwoods of the Adirondacks ...

If you are stranded out in the wilderness without an adequate means to defend yourself – no knife and (gulp) no knife — learn to improvise. Security is one of the most important aspects of survival, as weapons give you ...

Everyday carry, otherwise known as EDC, is not the carrying of a full survival kit on your person at all times, contrary to what many people may think. Instead, it includes items that you need to make a habit of ...

As a general rule of thumb, water or the ability to purify water is the most important priority in a survival pack, and a good knife is typically second. With a good knife, you have a means to protect yourself, ...

This is part 2 of a 2-part series on making knives. Read part one here.  Last week we looked at the first steps in making a knife, including grinding it. Now we turn to finishing the knife. Since you started ...

Read part 2 in this series here.  Of all the survival equipment available, the most useful and most necessary is a good knife. Knives allow you to cut tree branches to make shelter, prepare firewood to keep you warm, hunt, ...

There are times when you might need to reach for something, an object, piece of furniture, a tool, or otherwise, to act as a weapon in your time of need. When your life is on the line, just about anything ...

Political correctness and paranoia over guns is rapidly spreading in our nation’s public schools, with a series of incidents where students have been suspended and expelled for even “imaginary” guns or for playing with toy weapons off campus. Perhaps one ...

You can find a lot of actual wisdom in folk wisdom. One of my favorites is “Don’t bring a knife to a gun fight.” In general this is very sound advice. But, like all great rules, it requires exceptions to ...