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Survival Skills

Constructing the Lazy Man’s Fishing Trap

In a survival situation, it is very rare for you carry a fishing pole during your whole ordeal because of the size of a fishing pole. Unfortunately, without a fishing pole, you cannot catch fish. Not true! If you carry a fishing

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11 Rookie Survival Prepping Mistakes You Must Avoid

We all make mistakes, but in survival, it’s best if you make them BEFORE you’re faced with the disaster or an emergency. It’s easy to figure out why. Even something as “simple” as a handheld HAM radio can be difficult

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Making a Survival Lamp using Olive Oil

In this day and age, people believe that they cannot survive without technology! Well, the majority of the human race has lived without technology. Henceforth, you can too! When Thomas Edison invited the lightbulb, the world got a whole lot

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Top 10 Survival Supplies

Survival supplies are essential to staying prepared during a crisis. Whether it is a natural disaster or the threat of an economic collapse by maintaining some specific survival supplies you, your family and your loved ones will have an increased

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Making Waterproof Matches with Finger Nail Polish

In my last article, “Making Waterproof Matches with Candle Wax,” I stated that it is a necessity for a survivalist to waterproof your matches. Again, you can buy your own waterproof matches. It may be time effective to buy your

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The Two Stick Deadfall Trap

Don’t have paracord, string, or wire to trap small game in a survival situation? No problem! You can construct the two stick deadfall traps using only natural materials. You will need a large rock and two sticks, hence the name.

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The Ultimate Bug-Out-Bag (Part 1)

Review – Local Lion 60L Trekking Backpack (Part 1) Previously, (see it here) we discussed what makes a good backpack suitable for a BOB (Bug Out Bag).  Often GearBest.com has good stuff at great prices, so I thought I’d see

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Top 5 Survival Products from Gerber

As a 16-year-old entrepreneur, I make money that I don’t even know what to do with. I pay my few bills and pay for my website/radio show, but other than that I just go around buying beef jerky and survival

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Using Steel Wool And a 9 Volt Battery to Start a Fire

Survival is more than just matches and lighters. It is a skill that requires learning many methods of fire starting. Fire starting is a necessity in just about every wilderness survival situation. In my own opinion, matches are just terrible

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When the Fault Breaks (Book Review)

When The Fault Breaks by Xavier Bruehler is a post-apocalypse book predicated by the rupture of the Cascadia Fault. It is about the stories and lives of survivors of the Mega Quake in a world of chaos and mayhem. It is

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