How to Make a Portable Stove Powered By Used Oil Rocket stoves are a popular option for starting small fires in order to cook small meals. However, most of them are fueled by kindling and wood or alcohol and tissue. Let’s take a look at a variation that uses used cooking oil and grease as …
Make Your Own Professional Grade Hammock at a Fraction of the Cost Some of the best hammocks for camping are made from nylon due to their strength to weight ratio and ease of storage. You can make your own if you have some basic sewing skills and the right material. Take a look at the …
How to Create a Rudimentary Multi-Purpose Campsite Tool Have you ever seen cleaning crews in parks picking up litter with a poker attached to a stick? This simple tool is a very effective way of picking up small items without the need to repeatedly bend over. This type of tool also useful for a million …
During World War II, GIs in the field built really amazing simple radios to listen too. These were made with materials that they could get their hands on and were small enough to carry around in a big pocket. You can modify this design if you want to set it up so that it’s tunable …
How To Make Fishing Rods In The Wild Making a fishing rod in the wild is the mark of a true outdoorsman. You may need to make a fishing rod for survival’s sake because you somehow got lost in the wilderness and need to eat. You might want to make a fishing rod in the …
How To Make A Simple And Effective Catfish Pipe Trap There are a number of commercially-available catfish traps on the market today, and many of them are quite effective. However, they can be expensive and some can become easily damaged. Let’s take a look at how you can improvise and make some simple but effective …
How To Make A Cool Wood Burning Pocket Stove There are a million and one uses for small tin containers, and one of the most useful can be to fashion a miniature and self-contained wood stove. This trick works best with a rectangular Altoids tin, but you can also use things like shoe polish containers …
How To Defend Your Bug Out Location The biggest obstacle when it comes to defending a piece of ground is resources, in particular trained personnel, weapons and ammunition. You can have an arsenal at hand, but you as one person can only fire one weapon at a time, so if you have limited personnel then …
6 Steps For Car Survival Being swept up into the chaos or potentially violent encounter that transpires over the course of a few seconds can lead to serious injury or death. It is important to try and avoid being in that situation to begin with, but there are also steps that you can take in …
Tips for Choosing the Right Sleeping Pads Sleeping pads are an integral component to any survival gear for a couple of reasons. First, they provide cushioning that promotes a more comfortable and restful sleep out in the field. Second, they can be used to enhance thermal comfort by either insulating the body from the cold …
