Preparedness Archive

We’re going to have some fun designing and building a survival kit together. Here is Part 5 in the series where each week we will vote on a new item …

We’re going to have some fun designing and building a survival kit together. Here is Part 4 in the series where each week we will vote on a new item …

As part of the building a survival kit series, I ordered the Ontario Air Force Survival Knife. I received it yesterday and was shocked with what came out of …

Am I the only one who has looked back at their life and realized that in nearly 100% of “rough times” it was money that made things better? It …

As a kid growing up in the ’80s and seeing Bruce Lee dispatch several opponents with the nunchuku I became an avid practitioner. The speed, versatility, and pure power …

We’re going to have some fun designing and building a survival kit together. Here is Part 2 in the series where each week we will vote on a new …

Mountain House has been the ruler of long-term food storage for decades. The reasons are many including taste, excellent marketing, industry-best shelf life, and for quite some time they …

In the preparedness world, “cool” attracts a lot of attention. The latest & greatest guns have wallets being pulled out faster than Joe Biden’s brain cells are leaving his …

I’ll be quick and to the point: Buy it. I’ve dabbled with small solar kits for over a decade. Charging battery packs and cell phones are good tasks for …

Lately, I’ve been playing around with some different fire starting methods including Ferro rods. With the right tinder, I have been really impressed with the results. While I still enjoy …

There is a huge market for specialty food bars made just for survival kits and bug out bags. I’m not talking about those 3,600 calorie bricks of cardboard that …