Budget Home-Defense Techniques from a Green Beret I recently read a post online from a woman who was hopping mad. Someone had put a rock threw her window in order to gain access to her home unaware that she was at home. She announced that she intended to sit and wait for this person to …
10 Basics For Your Armorer’s Kit Almost every prepper site talks about having a personal armory for the day when you must hunt for food and or protect yourself and your family from those who would take what you have or simply want to do harm. But they don’t talk about the fact that just …
15 Gadgets That Save Lives Today People tend to think of preparing for a major event as prepping. But it is so much more than that. It also encompasses preparing for the less wide spread, less public, more personal disasters that can occur at any time to anyone of us. Being self-sufficient doesn’t always mean …
Practice Tactical Clearing We see bits and pieces of tactical clearing on television shows all the time. But no one talks about how to do it and how to practice this technique for home use during or after a SHTF event. Knowing your own homes layout viewed from the point of an intruder should be …
10 Things Not to Post This may be a generational thing. The younger crowd having grown up with social media as a big part of their lives often don’t see any dangers of what to them is the norm. While the middle age group that were a part of the younger crowd when social media …
Your Trash is Talking (Video) One thing often overlooking when talking about and thinking about OPSEC is today’s trash. In normal times unless we are trying to live green and recycle etc… or the garbage men and women are on strike we don’t tend to consider our rubbish as a big deal. But when faced …
Trust and Body Language Learning to read body language is a skill in just about every walk of life. It will always assist you in knowing what truth is and what is what someone wants you to believe is truth. Some people are experts at covering their tells when lying but the majority of the population …
20 Tells That Expose Concealed Carry We never provide information with the intent of it being misused to commit crimes or avoid being taken into lawful custody. In this case knowing how to tell if someone is carrying a concealed weapon when you are in a bad situation or just in the wrong place at the …
Why Have a Survival Cache? Even if You Plan to Bug In There is always a lot of banter on prepping, homesteading, and survival sites about survival caches. Most of the time the talk revolves around having a cache or two along the way from your home to your bug out location and/or between your workplace and …
Landscaping with Edible Shrubbery Many preppers don’t live in rural areas where you can plant whatever you want wherever you want on your property. They have governing bodies called Homeowners Associations that dictate where and even if you can have a garden, what you can grow in a garden on your property, if you can …
