Improve Your Rifle Marksmanship Practice makes perfect is what we are all taught when it comes to building a skill like marksmanship. However, before you begin practicing make sure you are doing it correctly to start. You want to make sure that you aren’t honing the incorrect method which could cost you later. The featured …
Survival Tools You Should Own We assume that you already have the basic home tools i.e., a hammer, nails, a wrench or two etc… So, the tools discussed in the featured article are more for the bug out prepper and for use in bush type locations. These particular 7 tools have been chosen by marines …
Evaptainers Off Grid Cold Storage Unless you end up near a cold river after a SHTF event cold storage will be harder to do than will be heat based storage like dehydrating, canning, and cooking. Fire is easier to make off grid than is ice! But this evaptainer can change that. It works using only …
Auto Batteries For Off Grid Energy Storage I confess to having been careless and allowing my cell phone battery to die on more than one occasion. I didn’t actually learn my lesson until it died in the middle of a storm which had taken down my household’s electricity. No outlet to plug it into and …
Crossing a River Safely Whether you are a hunter, hiker, fisherman/woman, camper, or in a bug out situation, eventually you will come across a river. Most of us plan to seek out a water source in any emergency scenario. Rivers may appear to be calm and of little or no depth of consequence and still be …
2 DIY Trip-line Alarms (2 links) Trip-lines have been used forever as a security method. I would assume that it was the basis for the motion detecting lazar alarms of the high-end alarm systems today. Many of us can’t afford these high-tech systems and in a SHTF event or if you are off grid now, …
Medicinal Herb Garden We all know we should have a medicinal herb garden; it only makes sense for preppers and homesteaders. Along with those herbs, plants, and roots we know are helpful to the conditions we currently have within our own families what else is recommended we grow? The featured article speaks to the favorites of the …
Rainwater Harvesting Laws As we previously reported – Man Does Time for Water Collecting – The United States has implemented some rainwater harvesting laws (for a look at those see State Rainwater Harvesting Laws) and it appears those states that have these laws are not only getting stricter but are being joined by other states. Right now …
Medicinal Plants You Can Grow At Home One of the primary concerns for both homesteaders and preppers alike is self sustainability. The primary resources needed to survive are shelter, water, and food. Too often that isn’t enough! Medical care should be right up there on your list of must haves and frankly it is probably …
Harvesting & Eating Acorns Native Americans have been making use of acorn meal for centuries. It’s a reasonable substitute for flour in a SHTF scenario or for off grid cooking. Harvesting and eating acorns has been almost a lost art. Now we can revive it again for this generation. Check out the featured link below and receive …
