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Everyday Carry: Why Your Strategy May Be Wrong

Everyday Carry: Why Your Strategy May Be Wrong

If you follow a lot of survival and self-defense articles, you are bound to see at least one or two on individual everyday carry. The same goes for those who watch the gun guys on YouTube. I’m not sure if ...

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How To Survive A High Intensity Firefight

How To Survive A High Intensity Firefight

There are three different stages in a life-and-death self-defense scenario, but before we go into those a quick story will help. This story is true to the best of my memory and does take place in a war zone. The ...

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Why Many In The Survival Community Are Doomed

Why Many In The Survival Community Are Doomed

No matter if you believe in the theory of evolution or creationism about how the world was created, one constant fact does remain from Darwin’s theory: Only the strong survive. Survival of the fittest is a fact that resonates with ...

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How To Turn Your Altoids Tin Into A Personal Pocket Survival Kit

How To Turn Your Altoids Tin Into A Personal Pocket Survival Kit

Most of us hear the word survival kit and assume someone is talking about a bug-out bag or a get-home bag, or any number of different-sized kits out there. A lot of people, though, aren’t just thinking about end-of-the-world scenarios, ...

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3 Intimidating Alternatives To Guns

3 Intimidating Alternatives To Guns

There are a lot of views on self-defense out there. Most of us follow the way of the gun, for one simple reason. The gun is the most efficient and effective self-defense tool one can carry and use. There are, ...

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Gun Review: Pocket Pistols For Self-Defense

Gun Review: Pocket Pistols For Self-Defense

There have been a few events these last few weeks that brought a touchy subject to my mind about self-defense. The first event is the release of the Glock 42, a single stack 380 Glock pistol. The second event is ...

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Deadeye: How To Become A Super Marksman With ‘Survival’ Gun Drills

Deadeye: How To Become A Super Marksman With ‘Survival’ Gun Drills

“Dynamic shooting” kind of sounds like something the latest tactical ninja training DVD would be teaching. In reality, it’s really not. There are different types of shooting, and the two main ones are dynamic and static. Static shooting is simple ...

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Review: New Low-Cost Survival Pistol

Review: New Low-Cost Survival Pistol

I’ve always advocated a .22 pistol as a survival firearm. The .22 round has a lot of disadvantages, but also some real advantages. One advantage: the ability to carry a brick of ammo in an area roughly the same size ...

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Trapping Wild Hogs Is Easy With This DIY Pen

Trapping Wild Hogs Is Easy With This DIY Pen

My father’s way of live has always been living mostly off the land and being independent. He is a practical man who prefers function over form, who despises buying grocery when he knows he can grow vegetables and hunt and ...

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