Forward This article will look at a range of modern tools for creating fire, also known as fire craft, as well as a few old ones, and look at [...

Introduction DISCLAIMER: This article in intended to provide basic information regarding defensive tactics to preppers who are new to the subject. Tho...

 There are hosts of camp stoves in the marketplace today, as I learned when I started to doing my research. Many use liquid or compressed gas fuels,...

  Fire making – as we are used to – results from a chemical reaction and some friction (whether from a match or lighter). Even those lighters...

The news offers two more examples of how trained civilians with firearms could have prevented bad things from happening. In Woolwich, London yesterday...

A large part of prepping is the art of storing provisions and other necessary items in anticipation of a time when they will not be readily available,...

Last week on National Geographic’s American Blackout we got to see a lot of common problems presented as the result of a power grid collapse that la...

During the great depression when the dollar collapsed, basic items became currency. Any trip to the market would be better accompanied with items suc...

When non-preppers think about how to survive the end of the world, they usually think about hoarding supplies, finding a secure place to store them an...

Take a look at what our pioneer ancestors ate and the chances are you’re not going to envy them very much. Compared to the food on offer in any mode...

“It’s never lupus,” as the iconic Dr. House put it. Don’t know too much about that, but I have a saying of my own – “it’s never just a p...

One of the disasters that preppers fear the most is an EMP (electromagnetic pulse). Why? Because it would literally throw us back a couple of hundred...