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When you are browsing the store shelves at your local Army surplus store or searching online for the right knife to put into your bug out bag, it can be a little overwhelming. You know you need a knife. It is a staple in any survival scenario. Without a knife, survival in the wilderness is going to be extremely difficult. There is no shortage of knives.  They come in all shapes and sizes and if you are a novice in the survival world, it can be confusing trying to figure out which one will work best for you and your...

Security is absolutely a top priority when it comes to prepping, and you can be sure that includes storing a number of guns that you will need for defensive and hunting purposes. Most survival experts agree that the top five most important guns to have for prepping are as follows: handgun, shotgun, .22 rifle, semi-automatic military-style rifle, and a longer range bolt action rifle. But something that many preppers forget about when it comes to guns for survival is that they are useless without ammunition. And even preppers who don’t forget about stockpiling ammunition and stockpile enough of it to ward...

Anyone who has studied survival for any length of time will agree that having the right tools can make a world of difference. While it is theoretically possible to survive without any equipment or tools at all, taking everything you need from the environment around you, that's infinitely harder than surviving with the right tools in hand. The key, of course, is to have those tools with you. That means having them with you at all times, as you never know when you'll be thrust into a survival situation. A day that starts out perfectly normal can suddenly and unexpectedly...

Of all the possible survival situations, open warfare is probably the most extreme. The military recognizes this and trains soldiers in the necessary techniques for surviving that environment. Those who might end up isolated and needing to survive, like pilots and snake eaters, get specialized survival situation. But survival of our troops shows up in everything to the weapons they use to the meals that they are issued. Before the existence of the current MREs (meals, ready to eat), which the troops call three lies for the price of one, the military had C Rations (the “C” is short for...

There's a lot of interest and even some romanticism in preparing for an "end of the world as we know it" scenario. Doing so tends to give us purpose and motivation, as those are much more interesting than the day-to-day problems we all face. But in reality, the disasters that we are most likely to encounter in our lives are natural disasters. So those should be out highest priority. Beside the normal problems of supply and infrastructure that we need to prepare to meet natural disasters, we should also be prepared to perform emergency repairs to our homes. If there...