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Articles Written By Randy A.

How To Stay Warm In The Field

How To Stay Warm In The Field

It was first light in January, and we were unloading snowmobiles at the caretaker’s house at the Taylor Park Dam in Colorado. We were almost ready to fire up the sleds when the caretaker came out and asked, “Do you ...

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The Cheap And Easy Way To Build A 30-Day Food Supply

The Cheap And Easy Way To Build A 30-Day Food Supply

One of the first steps in prepping your family for an emergency is setting up a 30-day food supply. This may seem like an expensive task, but it can be affordable – and easy — if you do it the ...

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15 Essential Items In Any Bug-Out Bag

15 Essential Items In Any Bug-Out Bag

When deciding on what to pack in your bug-out bag, you need to decide what it is intended to do. Is it a 72 hour pack designed to keep you alive three days? Is it your get-home pack designed to ...

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Hebrews Hall of Faith: Who was Barak?

Hebrews Hall of Faith: Who was Barak?

Hebrews 11, the great faith chapter, highlights great acts of faith by many Old Testament characters. The first three verses say, “Now faith is the substance of things hoped for, the evidence of things not seen. For by it the ...

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A Survivalist’s Dream: Dropping Out Of Society

A Survivalist’s Dream: Dropping Out Of Society

It all started back in fourth grade on the fateful day that I picked up the book My Side of the Mountain (1959) written by Jean Craighead George. It is a book about Sam Gribley, a 12-year-old-boy who runs away ...

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3 Secret Native American Foods To Keep You Alive Off-The-Grid

3 Secret Native American Foods To Keep You Alive Off-The-Grid

When the white man arrived on the shores of North America, the folks who already lived here had been thriving for hundreds of years, using foodstuffs that were available to them. If we are smart, we might want to explore ...

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A Rifle For Preppers: The Mosin-Nagant

A Rifle For Preppers: The Mosin-Nagant

Every prepper should strive to own a center-fire rifle of some kind. This rifle should also be of sufficient caliber and power to take big game cleanly. You can spend hundreds (even thousands) on a nice, big game rifle, but ...

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Dealing With Deadly Snakes In The Grass

Dealing With Deadly Snakes In The Grass

Indiana Jones and I have at least one thing in common: we both hate snakes. While I don’t hate all snakes like Indy, I do have an aversion to being around poisonous ones. There are four types of poisonous snakes ...

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Bartering In Tough Times

Bartering In Tough Times

“The end of the world as we know it,” or TEOTWAWKI for short, can take many forms, but there is a good chance that whatever brings it on will be accompanied by monetary problems. Our currency may become devalued or ...

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Don’t Be The Next Tragedy

Don’t Be The Next Tragedy

A recent tragedy on the Ozark trail has really touched me and gotten me thinking. A thirty-six-year-old father who was an Air Force veteran and his two sons, ages ten and eight, died of exposure after getting turned around on ...

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