A few months ago, I went to a gun show for the purpose of helping a friend pick out a new pocket gun. For concealed carry, a ‘pocket gun’ is really ideal for a lot of people. Of course, some guys like to carry a full size 1911 and wear a khaki hunting vest like [...]
Bullet Proof Tires
Survivalists everywhere will be thrilled to hear that the future of tires is full of holes…in a good way. The new Honeycomb tire design, originally created at the University of Wisconsin for the U.S. Army, can survive explosions, gunfire, extreme terrain and even handles every day driving. The Tweel And for those of us that [...]
Survival Probabilities: Your body wasn’t built to last
What do you think are the odds that you will die during the next year? Try to put a number to it — 1 in 100? 1 in 10,000? Whatever it is, it will be twice as large 8 years from now. Image via Wikipedia This startling fact was first noticed by the British actuary [...]
The Destruction Of The World
*Guest Post from - Survival Stew Years ago a very insightful soul once pointed out the obvious to me, which we tend to look past many times in our day to day lives. She said, look around, the world really is a pretty good place but it’s just some people who tend to make it [...]
Self Reliance – An Essay by Ralph Emerson
“Ne te quaesiveris extra.” “Man is his own star; and the soul that can Render an honest and a perfect man, Commands all light, all influence, all fate; Nothing to him falls early or too late. Our acts our angels are, or good or ill, Our fatal shadows that walk by us still.” Epilogue to [...]
Levels Of Awareness – Guest Post
*Thanks to CKM for this post. The weekend has finally come and you can’t wait to enjoy your day off and just kick back at home. You’ve waited for this all week, you’ve been working hard and you feel you deserve a break. You wake up that morning happy as can be, you’ve made your [...]
10 Awesome Apocalyptic Vehicles
A great post from jalopnik.com shows 10 of the best (and real?) survival vehicles out there. Although they may not be practical they are definitely cool! Here are a few highlights:
Guest Post – Living For End Times
This post was written by Zac Shaw from Living for End Times, visit their site and see more great content. In the entire history of humankind, we have never before been so acutely aware of all the ways the world around us could end. Global economic crisis, peak oil, civil unrest, martial law, class warfare, [...]
Cool Survival Vehicle
It may not be very practical, but come on you can’t deny that it’s cool. http://jalopnik.com/5067352/the-unicat-amerigo-international-is-good-for-regular-zombie-or-financiapocalypse
Why we need to prepare
Once again nature shows us why we need to prepare and why we need to diversify our preparedness efforts. Some had their homes destroyed and all of their supplies along with it. Others got out in time and were doing just fine in a hotel room or an alternate bugout location. Now with billions of [...]
Mental Preparedness
When something traumatic happens in our lives it is a natural human reaction to experience resulting stress or even shock. Just as soldiers at war experience post traumatic stress disorder, victims of natural disasters or other catastrophic events can also experience PTSD in varying degrees. The level of distress depends on several factors including age, [...]
Survival Podcast
So I found a new site while browsing the internet, it’s called the Survival Podcast. Although the site is new it already has tons of great content. Can’t find time to read throughout the day? No prob. Just download these survival podcasts and listen to them on the way to work or even during work [...]
Extreme Weather Vulnerability
*This is a reader submission In the past few months, Americans have seen a plethora of extreme weather ranging from extreme droughts in the south, tornado’s in the Midwest and unprecedented flooding in America’s heartland. Although we’ve all seen the disastrous affects of Mother Nature venting her rage over the course of our lives, at [...]
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