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It is necessary to have hidden storage areas to keep your survival resources safe and secure from theft.

As preppers, the idea of evacuating, or as we call it – “bugging out,” is one that we have an easy familiarity with.

For more than 10 years, I’ve been caught up in this emergency preparedness lifestyle, and I can tell you that I’ve seen it all.

There has been much said, at one time or another, about bartering in a post-disaster world. Some preppers go so far as to build

In the decades that I’ve been involved in survival, there have been many ideas that have come and gone. There are also ideas which

I grew up in a different time. That’s actually not hard to say, when you’ve reached retirement age… not that I’m retiring anytime soon.

Unlike the fictional character Robinson Crusoe from Daniel Defoe’s novel published in 1719, Alexander Selkirk wasn’t English, he was a young Scotsman.

This time of year always seems to catch me by surprise. For the last few months of the year, I’m focused on Christmas, busy

I’ve always lived above my means, mostly by doing things myself. You can save a lot of money by repairing your own car, making

It’s common knowledge that you can’t drink saltwater to survive. The concentration of salt in seawater is higher than in our bodies, meaning that

I got interested in bows as a survival tool/weapon years ago when I was looking for something I could use as a realistic alternative

Early last week, Biden’s Covid Response Coordinator, Dr. Ashish Jha, announced during a briefing in the West Wing that, assuming the Food and Drug

Coming July 28-30th, the Ready Summit will feature training from experts in first aid, food storage, water treatment and storage, emergency planning and kits,

After a few years of wandering around some of this planet’s most indigenous places, two things about cutting tools have rung true to me:

The TOPS Knives C.U.T. 4.0 comes from Joshua Swanagon, who is no stranger to TOPS. He designed the Backwoods Skinner for TOPS years ago,