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Your home is much more than a place to store your accumulated possessions. Its primary purpose is to provide shelter to protect you from the weather. While we use the home for many other purposes, the original reason that mankind started building homes was to provide themselves with shelter. Shelter works by providing a barrier between you and the great outdoors. That barrier protects you from wind and rain; it also provides a barrier to hold heat in, so that you can create a warm environment to help your body maintain its core temperature. A well built shelter will include...

Of all the substances that this world supplies for our survival, the most critical is oxygen. If the Earth’s atmosphere runs out of oxygen, I’m afraid we’re all done for. That is probably one of the few survival needs that we can’t actually prepare for.After that comes water. If we don’t have enough water, we’ll only live about three days. But finding water can be a problemwhen the city water goes down. Fortunately, there is still rainwater. Granted, catching rainwater will vary in effectiveness, depending on where you live in the country, as well as the season of the year. But regardless...

Being an avid shooter is great survival training. There are many survival scenarios where you are likely to have to be able to defend yourself and your family; so learning to shoot, and shoot well, is an important part of survival. But there’s only so much you can do at a shooting range. You need to work on the tactics that go with shooting as well, or you’re not going to get a chance to use your gun. Many ranges offer tactical shooting events. These are excellent training as well, as in them you have to compete against various targets,...

A knife in the survival world is akin to a lifeboat on a ship that is sinking. A knife is everything. It can be what makes the difference between surviving in the wild and succumbing to the elements. Without a knife, life will be extremely difficult when you need to cut wood, clean an animal or cut lengths of cordage. Knives are easily lost or broken when you are in the wild. Ideally, you would want to make it a priority to keep your knife safe and in good condition, but things happen. If something does happen and you find...

I’ve heard it over and over again; shooters blaming their mistakes on their guns, especially their pistols. It seems that people of all stripes have trouble accepting the blame for their own failings, so they look for something else to blame. In shooting, that often means their gun. One of the first things that many shooters want to do with a pistol is start messing with the sights. They can’t hit the bulls-eye and are convinced it’s because the pistol’s sights are off. So, they start making adjustments and keep on making adjustments every time they find that they can’t...