Mistakes to Avoid When Bugging In Bugging in may often be the safer and more reasonable approach to dealing with a survival situation for a million and one different reasons. However, it’s important to be mindful of a number of common mistakes that people make when weighing their options. Let’s take a look at what …
How to Free up Some Extra Cash for Prepping Prepping costs money, and we all know that developing a good set of tools, supplies and resources requires a significant investment over the course of time. The good news is that you don’t to spend all of your money now in order to get on the …
How to Make a Portable Thermal Cooler You can build a thermal cooler and save some money by gathering some basic material and following a few, easy steps. It is an excellent option to use for keeping items cool in your backpack, campsite or bug out location, and you can easily customize this project based …
How to Make Corrugated Shingles from Aluminum Cans If you are working on a semi-permanent structure and don’t want to use forest debris or other material for making the roof, you can turn empty beer or soda cans into shingles. The process is very easy, but producing the shingles is tedious and time-consuming. However, if …
How to Create an Effective Steam Pit A good steam pit can be used for slow cooking certain types of food or keeping items warm for hours. It is very easy to build and can be put to use in almost any type of wilderness survival situation. Let’s look at some basic considerations that can …
Tiny Wood Stove Made From A Propane Tank This little wood stove was made from an old propane tank! The tools you’ll need to build something like this are of course an old propane tank, a metal grinder, some way to cut the steel (we used an air compressor and cutoff blade), a sheet of …
Simple Steps for Tick Protection Lyme disease impacts more than 300,000 people per year in the United States, and tick bites are the prime route of exposure. Ticks are found all across the country, and people in the west are just as vulnerable to being bitten as those in the east. Lyme disease produces a …
Simple Trapping Methods for Catching Turtles Turtles are an abundant and excellent source of food, and they are very easy to catch. You can either fish for them or build traps depending on their size and habitat, and both options allow you to deploy, leave and check back on them later. Let’s take a look …
How to Forge a Big Knife from an Old Lawnmower Blade In this video we start with a beat up old lawnmower blade my next door neighbor gave me and we end up with a very nice chopper. This is a good tutorial on using a lawn mower blade and turning it into a big …
Maximize Protein Intake During Survival Situations We need anywhere from .5-.7 grams of protein per pound of body weight on a daily basis. We get the bulk of our protein from meats and fish under normal circumstances, and legumes or beans provide a vegetable option that is equally beneficial. However, during survival situations, we need …
