What about a crossbow? Are they really useful? Can a felon own one? We talk a lot about firearms and weapons on survival sites. Both for hunting and self defense. However, what about a crossbow? Who can own one? How useful are they for self defense? Hunting? How expensive are they? What should you look …
Prepping Anyone Can Do Weekly I am asked all the time: “I am barely getting by for today. How am I suppose to prep for the future? Particularly for a disaster that may or may not come tomorrow or next year?” There are lots of ways of prepping without spending a fortune and some …
Safely Encountering a Rattlesnake We’ve talked before about what to do if you or a member of your group/family is ever bitten by a rattlesnake. We have even given you information on how to skin and eat one (see that here). But if you are like me, I am only going to be worrying about …
Shooting Accuracy: Essential Tips to Make You a Better Deer Hunter Guest Author To become a pro deer hunter, you need skills and information to help you strike every other buck within your target range. Back in the day, our forefathers used bow and arrow among other tools before the emergence of deer hunting …
Survival Trapping 101 No matter how well you have prepared or how large your stockpile is, during a long term event your supplies will eventually run out. Hunting will be necessary for larger prey, but it is a time and energy consuming task which requires several skills to be successful. Trapping is less time consuming …
Butchering Duck We know that hunting has been a method of procuring food. But if you don’t know how to butcher the game, in this case a duck, you could not only waste a portion of the bird but even render it useless. If you are going to hunt always remember the animal gave up …
Trapping and Prepping Skunk for Eating Hunting post SHTF will become imperative for the majority of us. Game will become scarce in some areas and frankly beggars can’t be choosers. Skunk was nowhere on my list of edible critters until reading the featured blog from Survival Cache. I apparently wrongly assumed that they were not …
CDC Instructions for Properly Removing Ticks When you spend a lot of time in wooded or grassy areas or in some regions of the country just spending any time in your own lawn ticks will be an issue. Most of us have heard a bunch of rumored ways to safely remove them from the skin. …
13 Gross Critters That are Edible if Necessary Desperate times would call for desperate measures. There are critters that are edible if you have no other options. They aren’t pleasant nor common options and in all honesty the idea turns my stomach. But if necessary to feed my family I want to know what …
DIY Ammo Can Solar Power Supply Having power when you need it is a luxury that we take for granted. Off grid the ability to run small electronic devices could be truly life altering after a disaster. There are small pocket size solar chargers that can keep your cell phone charged, but for anything bigger …
