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There's a fair amount of talk that goes around about what types of firearms to carry in a bug out or what types are useful for general survival. There's even people talking about "alternate weapons;" for those that don't have or don't want to have firearms in the home. Many have tried to identify a "best;" but the truth of the matter is that what is best for one person may not be best for another. Truthfully, I still haven't decided what is the best for me, let alone what's the best for someone else. Yet, weapons tend to be...

There are a number of reasons why people didn’t move around much in the winter in olden times. First of all, there was the problem of trying to keep warm. Horses and open wagons don’t come with heaters that you can use to keep warm. About the best they could do was to heat up a soapstone, put in on the floor of the wagon, under their seat, and put a blanket over their legs. That would help for an hour or so but after that, they’d be out of heat. Another problem was finding feed and water for their...

There are a number of different perspectives people have when looking at prepping and survival. It almost seems like people pass through these different perspectives as steps in their "growth." Most start with the basic idea of stockpiling food and move from there to expanding on what they are stockpiling. Before long they are working on their home, making it more workable as a survival retreat or build a retreat they can but out to. But the ultimate step for most people is one of learning skills. Actually, the idea of learning skills starts much earlier than that, but it...

American society today is highly mobile. Few of us work close to our homes, so we are constantly running from one place to another, burning gasoline and putting miles on our cars. According to the National Auto Insurer's Association, this is on the increase, with the average American driving twice as many miles per year as they did 30 years ago. With so much time in our cars and trucks and so much of that time being a ways away from our homes, it only seems logical to make sure that our vehicles are prepared to help us survive; yet...

Of all the catastrophic events that could befall us, I believe that a high-altitude electro-magnetic pulse (H-EMP) is both the most likely and the most devastating. Maybe I'm wrong, but the risk of one of our enemies sending a missile above our atmosphere with a nuclear bomb in its nose, is to huge to ignore. The thing is, the technology needed to effect an EMP attack is not as difficult or as complex as most would think. For the missile part, a SCUD missile would work. Granted, that's not the most elegant or efficient of missiles, but it's readily available,...