Field Dressing a Turkey Field dressing your prey after the hunt helps insure that as much as possible of your kill stays usable and makes it much easier to pack out of the woods and back to your home or camp. In a SHTF scenario many who don’t currently hunt may have no choice but …
DIY Laser Assisted Blowgun First the required warning: Blowguns are not toys; they are weapons and should be treated as such. Children should never handle them without adult supervision. Blowguns can cause serious injury, so please only use with caution. The video below shows a DIY blowgun being built and with the added use of …
DIY Cook Top From a 55 Gallon Barrel This project is just awesome! We have seen barbeques and wood stoves for heating made from barrels and now one with a cook top. I personally love it. If cooking off grid on a permanent basis for any length of time and I would desperately want a …
Emergency Rectal Rehydration I know no one wants to talk about anything that has to be done rectally. Worse than talking about it of course is being the one on which the rectal procedure is being performed. However unpleasant or not it sure beats dying of dehydration. You can indeed die if you become overly …
Turn Waste Paper into Heating Fuel Probably everyone at one time or another has burned paper in a fire. As you saw it didn’t last long or really put off enough heat to do much of anything. More of a fire starting material than an actual heating fuel. Before this special project anyway! This make …
Knitting Without Needles This is for those who don’t know how to knit with needles but still would like to make a thing or two on their own. For those who have problems that prevent them from using their knitting needles as often as they would like due to arthritis or other joint issues that …
Prepping with Zip Ties Video Sometimes the smallest of items can make the difference between making something work or not. Zip ties are extremely versatile and I use them at home and in my garden for a number of things but Team switch via the Organized prepper has come up with 19 survival uses …
Harvesting Rainwater Off Grid Almost twenty years ago, I set up this rainwater collection system out in the woods. Using about three hundred square feet of metal roofing to catch the rainwater, the water is run through a very coarse filter as it exits the gutter. Before flowing in to the two thousand (US) gallon …
DIY Dual Burner Rocket Stove This nifty rocket stove is made with only 6 bricks! Add old stove burner tops and you have yourself a dual burner outdoor range. After a major SHTF event a lot of folks will be cooking outdoors for the short or perhaps even long term. This DIY dual burner cook …
DIY Bottle Cap Fishing Lures Another awesome use for something that we would ordinarily throw out without thought! Not just useful in a SHTF scenario when fishing could become a major source of protein and important oils. Fishermen spend a small fortune on good “lucky” lures. How cool would it be to spend those funds …
