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  When you’re in the sticks, you absolutely, positively must maintain some semblance of self-reliance out there — no matter how long your backwoods stay happens to be. Simply put, the duration of your trek or tramping may not necessarily ...

  Posted Sept. 22, 2016 CHARLOTTE — As the situation in Charlotte continues to escalate, one fact is certain: Wherever there is a high population area, you’re going to have a high chance of people not getting along. In this ...

Determining the specific ramifications after something like a high-altitude electromagnetic pulse weapon (EMP) attack, or even a Carrington Event-style coronal mass ejection (CME) is kind of a guessing game at this point. However, one thing we do know is that ...

If I had to choose from among the worst possible scenarios of being marooned in the wilderness, it would be one of these two predicaments … First, I’m stuck in an area where there doesn’t seem to be any readily ...

I absolutely love multi-purpose gear which can be used in a wide variety of scenarios, settings and applications. But selecting an optic for your rifle can become tricky, because you just don’t know what ranges you will be pressed to ...

“There never was a good knife made of bad steel.” – Benjamin Franklin After having indulged in my own love affair with knife making, this was perhaps the single most important lesson I learned about the art: A knife’s steel ...

During a crisis, whether it’s some type of natural or man-made disaster, it’s important to be dressed for a successful bugout. Granted, it might come down to a scenario where you’ve got minutes to get out of Dodge, ruling out ...

There are lots of survival blades out there from machetes and hand-forged skinners to double-bit axes. I’d buy them all if I could, because one can never have too many knives. But then, there’s one particular knife which holds a ...

There’s nothing quite like the sweet smell of lithium grease dripping off an old AK-47 from some splintery wooden crate. If you want a battle rifle that was designed for its ability to endure abuse from conscript armies, battlefields and ...

It doesn’t get much more American than the old Ruger Ranch Rifle: the Mini-14. This tiny M1-style carbine weapon was designed to be amazingly rugged, especially considering how it was originally crafted for the whacking of sly coyotes on the ...