Whether you’re taking a trip off the grid or preparing for an emergency, you’ll find the camping and survival articles you need to stay ready here. From topics like choosing the right prepper weapons to tips for dealing with severe weather, prepare for any potential disaster with advice shared by our experts.
Being prepared for a crisis or bug-out situation is a matter of being prepared. Adding a training plan to your regular activities is a simple way to make sure you’re well-trained and ready to go if, or when, the time comes. In this post, learn how easy it is to train at home.
As someone with a survivalist mindset, you believe you have all the gear you need to survive an emergency or disaster. Not only have you stockpiled food and plenty of water, but also you have cached ammunition and mapped out a strategic route to get out of town. However, there might be one thing missing from your bug-out-bag—a positive survivalist mindset. Having the correct mindset when it comes to surviving a disaster could be the difference between life and death.
Don’t consider yourself a prepper? You might just be more prepared than you think. Quite a while ago in CheaperThanDirt.com’s Survival and Preparedness forum, we started a topic about everyday items that could possibly save your life. I suspect surprise from readers by Survivalist Bear Grylls’ suggestions of typical items found in a women’s purse that could come in handy during an emergency. The following list includes some common items women carry in their purses, including a few extra odds and ends from my own purse that will come in handy during an emergency.
Liquor has its place in a post apocalyptic world even if you are a teetotaler. Stock up on cheap, high-content alcohol and add it to your long-term food and gear storage. The best liquor for its many different purposes is Everclear. Everclear made by Luxco is pure grain alcohol. You can purchase Everclear in 95 percent alcohol content or 75.5 percent. The higher alcohol content is more popular and more effective for survival use. Here are my 45 suggestions on survival uses of alcohol.
Statics show the number of kids getting outdoors has been on the decrease for several decades. The good news is it is never too late to let your kids experience the outdoors.
Summertime is the perfect time to introduce a child to the outdoors because kids are out of school and many are desperately looking for ways to combat their boredom. Plus, by mid-summer most parents are seeking inexpensive ways to keep the kiddos entertained. A few backyard survival games maybe just the ticket.
Most survival or prepping blogs and websites—FEMA and CDC included—recommend storing a three day supply of non-perishable food items for emergencies. But what is a three-day supply exactly? Does that mean you need to store three meals a day for each person in your household or does that mean you need to buy three cans of food per person per day? Neither is necessarily correct. Stockpiling a three-day supply of food is a little more complicated than that. To help you get started, Mountain House provides a four-day meal planner. Based on a 3,000 calorie a day diet for one person, Mountain House’s meal planner suggests using a 40:30:30 ratio—a close variation of the recommended percentage mixture of our total needs of carbs, fats and proteins. The meal planner has simple instructions how to plan your meals.
The best way to reduce the risk of contracting tick-borne diseases is to avoid tick-infested habitat in the first place. An idea that is great in concept but impossible in reality. Particularly, this is not an option for big- and small-game hunters, hikers and morel mushroom hunters, listed below are a few simple precautions that can reduce the chances of a tick encounter.
Getting started building a food supply is not difficult, neither is staying on budget, especially if you know what steps to follow. The old saying “the best way to the top of the mountain is to take one small step at a time” is sound advice especially regarding the task of building a supply of food.
The image of a Dutch oven is often associated with camping trips or even chuck wagon cattle drives from days gone by, but the truth is Dutch ovens are still being used by many folks today. In a nutshell, the Dutch oven is a timeless alternative for cooking delicious homemade meals without using electricity and is a perfect tool for the home prepper.
On the night of Wednesday, May 15, 2013, an EF-4 tornado ripped through the North Texas town of Granbury, killing six people and injuring many more. That same night, I was driving home from running errands 72 miles away in Dallas. As I was entering downtown Dallas, my riding partner exclaimed, “Look at that weird car! What is that?” I glanced over to see a car pulling off the highway that appeared to be the Tornado Intercept Vehicle from Discovery Channel’s television show Storm Chasers. Being fully aware these professional guys know more about tornados and severe weather than I do, should I have pulled over as well or kept driving? What are you supposed to do when on the road and a tornado is approaching? Can you outrun a tornado?