There are many types of survival shelters, but they mostly serve one basic purpose, and it isn't to have an attractive home for the night. There might be some psychological value to certain styles, and there may ocassionally be a need for protection from animals, but the primary purpose of a survival shelter is to keep you from losing body heat....
Martial arts are about survival. Yep, that's right. The purpose of martial arts is to have the skill and knowledge to be able to do in the bad guy and still make it home in time to walk the dog.
Martial arts are not some trendy type of workout designed to impress the ladies ...
Here is a list of handy tools and gadgets that would do well to be stored in your G.O.O.D. pack.
A design collaboration between Ethan Becker of BK&T and John Benner of TDI, the Tac Tool ($80) smashes, bashes, prys, hammers and cuts. It is equally powerful at lifting stubborn hinge pins, prying open ...
Learn how to build a shelter in the woods with just an axe. Also learn a neat trick for creating effective tinder and kindling with a fixed blade knife.
Today on the Drudge Report I found an article from the Wall Street Journal that talked about stockpiling food. Now, I don't wanna go all Mormon on ya'll, but stockpiling food, learning to hunt/fish/garden, and learning to prepare survival meals are very important. The Mormons pride themselves on ...
Many articles have been written on Survival Digest and elsewhere on the various tools and gear available for surviving in just about any situation. Some of these articles are good, some are bad (the bad ones, of course, have not appeared on SD). Yet for all the attention given to lights, tents, campstoves, water purification, ...
I know that if you are survival enthusiast you have seen the list of 100 Items that would disappear in a TEOTWAWKI situation on other sites. If this is your first time seeing this list then great! What I want to stress is that if there is ever an event that results in ...
G.O.O.D stands for Get Out Of Dodge. In the asides post I recently did about JW Rawles Survival Philoposohy he talks briefly about getting outta town the smart way. It takes preparation and smarts. He says that:
People Run in Herds and Packs, but Both Follow Natural Lines of Drift. Most people are ...
Save yourself from being the main course in Yogi's pic-a-nic basket with this S&W Bear Survival Kit.
Smith & Wesson has assembled an “Emergency Survival Tool Kit” that revolves around their 460PD or 500PD revolvers, it is available with either. S&W’s Herb Belin, who developed this kit, emphasizes the short and very ...
