When the chips are down and things get crazy, a warm, crackling fire can make the difference between being cold and miserable and being safe, warm, and comfortable. A fire is more than warmth, when you gather around its pulsating orange tendrils; it offers an almost primordial sense of security. Having said that, in any …
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3 Essential Items You Probably Overlooked in Your Bug Out Bag
We’ve covered Bug Out Bags (BOB) quite a few times in the past, but most of these lists tend to go over the basics and tend to miss the more nuanced items you should have in your bag. Sure you know about a survival knife, food, and water, but what about a way to dig …
Beautiful wheat field this weekend
Took this pic over a beautiful wheat field this week-end. It reminded me of how glorious, spacious, & private life can be, as we contemplate our next SHTF move. – Survivalbased Reader Holmes S. Write or Produce Content For SurvivalBased.com! Do you love survival and prepping? We’d love to see your article, …
Five unique ways to start a fire, you won’t believe #3
Let’s be clear. These are not the preferred ways to get a fire going. If you would have used your noggin’, you would have a BIC lighter or strike anywhere matches handy, or perhaps a magnesium stick on your keychain. Any of these will work much better than the methods I am describing. But if …
Survival Using RVs
Over the past year many people have reached-out to me asking the same question; ‘What can people do to survive a catastrophic event besides sailing to an island on a bug-out boat? This was of course a natural response by some people to my book; The Nautical Prepper My experience led me to believe that …
How To Cope With Sleep Deprivation
Planning for the end of the world as we know it (TEOTWAWKI) is one thing, but experiencing a world-changing event and continuing to thrive and survive is something else completely. Once the initial shock and implementation of your plan is over and done with, the real survival skills come into play. While most people plan …
The Different Kinds of Fire Starters
In any survival or emergency scenario, the ability to create fire is a must-have. Fire is useful for all sorts of things in the outdoors including keeping yourself warm, cooking food, making signals so that rescuers can find you, having a source of light at night, and even just providing a psychological boost to your …
8 Prepper Tips Learned From World War Z
Before Brad Pitt starred in the movie World War Z, it was a book by Max Brooks. The movie and book are just about as different from one another as possible, with only a little carry-over from one to the other, but both of these combined give us some pretty great tips on how to …