Category: Wilderness survival

Simple and Delicious Stick Bread Recipe

Simple and Delicious Stick Bread Recipe There are lots of recipes for making bread while camping out there, but stick bread has to be one of the easiest and most delicious.  You don’t need to knead the dough or go through a lot of trouble to prepare it, and you can cook the bread to …

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How to Make a Sturdy but Lightweight Camping Toilet

How to Make a Sturdy but Lightweight Camping Toilet We all know that it doesn’t take a lot of ingenuity to make a basic camping toilet or to dig a hole that can get the job done.  However, these options are not always comfortable, and they may require a little bit of balancing in order …

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How To Build A Foxhole Radio

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 …

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How To Process Big Game And Livestock

How To Process Big Game And Livestock Big game hunting can provide you and your family with a lot of high-quality natural meat. If you choose to process it yourself, you have even more control over your food supply. Processing your own big game animal is not the overwhelming task it may seem at first …

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How To Make Fishing Rods In The Wild

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 …

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How To Make A Simple And Effective Catfish Pipe Trap

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 …

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How To Make A Cool Wood Burning Pocket Stove

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 …

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How to Make Ezekiel Bread With Minimal Resources

How to Make Ezekiel Bread With Minimal Resources Ezekiel bread comes from the bible, and recipes have been used for centuries to provide a simple and efficient source of nutrition. It is especially useful during a survival situation because it involves minimal time and resources to prepare. Let’s take a look at a basic recipe …

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8 Edible Bugs That Could Help You Survive

8 Edible Bugs That Could Help You Survive In many parts of the world, eating bugs is commonplace. Insects are actually the most abundant protein source on the planet, and many of them boast dense concentrations of en-vogue nutrients like omega 3’s that we buy at fancy grocery stores. If 2 billion people can invite …

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Egg Storage And The Myth of Refrigeration

Egg Storage And The Myth of Refrigeration Keeping eggs in refrigerators is a very common practice in the United States, but it is not shared by many other countries around the world. The general perception is that eggs that are not kept cold can make us sick, and while this is partly true, the reasons …

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