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 ...
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The Only 3 Blades You’ll Ever Need In The Wilderness
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 ...
Read More »3 Deadly Homemade Weapons When You Don’t Have A Gun
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 ...
Read More »23 Everyday Carry Survival Items You Should Always Have
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 ...
Read More »5 Essential Knives Every Survivalist Should Own
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, ...
Read More »How To Make A Survival Knife You’ll Brag About For Years (Part 2)
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 More »How To Make A Survival Knife You’ll Brag About For Years (Part 1)
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, ...
Read More »Extreme Defense: Turning Everyday Items Into Deadly Weapons
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 ...
Read More »Schoolboy Suspended For Making Imaginary Gun In Cops And Robbers
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 ...
Read More »Knives 101: When You Must Carry A Blade Instead Of A Gun For Self-Defense
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 ...
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