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October 26, 2012
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With Hurricane Sandy, aka: Frankenstorm, barreling down on the entire Eastern seaboard, now is a good time to review some commonsense hurricane safety tips. We've compiled our best survival tips below, so you can stay safe and ride out the storm.
[ Read Full Post ]October 19, 2012
by With news stories about bubonic plague in squirrels and hantavirus in other rodents, cleaning and eating small game may not look like such a smart survival solution anymore. But these diseases are not new.
So how did our ancestors, with limited knowledge of biological hazards, process game to avoid these illnesses?
[ Read Full Post ]October 15, 2012
by For those of us with functional fireplaces or working woodstoves, the impending cold weather doesn’t seem too bad. But most people in America don’t have a stove or operating fireplace. For those who rely on electric heat, or a system that needs electricity to burn fuel, the thought of utility outages and winter storms can be scary.
Here are some important things to consider when heating your home without power.
[ Read Full Post ]October 10, 2012
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Aluminum foil is one of those classic camping supplies that can morph into hundreds of useful things. I have made foil oil lamps and foil cooking pots, added flash to fishing lures, and performed many other camp tasks with this versatile product.
Some commercially available survival kits even include a square of foil to shape into a container for boiling water, among other tasks. It’s never a bad idea for us to fold up a few feet of this modern marvel and store the little square in our own survival kits. So how can we use aluminum foil for survival cooking?
[ Read Full Post ]October 4, 2012
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Acorns and other tree nuts are the most valuable food we can get from any wild plant. There are many different types of tree nuts that offer a great back-up food supply at home and in the wild. Black walnut, butternut walnut, pecan, hickory, beechnut, hazelnut and even Pine nuts can be eaten after picking the meat from shattered shells
The common and abundant acorn requires only a nut cracker. But these high calorie nuts were a staple crop to many of our ancestors around the Northern Hemisphere. Coming in at 2,000 calories per pound, this abundant food crop is too valuable to ignore. Just make sure you know an acorn from a buckeye, as buckeyes (and the very similar looking horse chestnut) are poisonous for people to eat.
[ Read Full Post ]October 3, 2012
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I would certainly hope that every outdoor enthusiast has a few books on survival skills.
Yes, you may have every episode of your favorite survival show on DVD, and you might even have some kind of survival app on your fancy phone. But to me, these just don’t take the place of a real paper book.
So what’s in my library?
[ Read Full Post ]October 1, 2012
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The tactical knife market is one of the fastest growing segments of knife retail today. Many folks select one of these knives as a multi-purpose survival blade; or as a backup method of self-defense. And some folks will admit to the fact that they just bought one because it looked cool. I have many of these knives, but not because they seem to be a fad. I use mine often, if not daily. So how do my three favorite tactical knives stack up? Check out our knife showdown and find out.
[ Read Full Post ]September 25, 2012
by The Hudson’s Bay Company, founded in 1670, is one of the oldest companies in the world and the oldest commercial corporation in North America. Much of the company’s existence was founded on the fur trade in North America, specifically in Canada. With traders, hunters and trappers wandering so much of the untamed North, good survival gear was critical.
While this kit seems antiquated by today’s standards, I think there is a lot of wisdom built into this collection of food, gear and supplies. I know I’d rather have all this stuff than not have it if my plane went down or my canoe got smashed.
[ Read Full Post ]September 17, 2012
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Bamboo is just one of those things, like rope or duct tape, that can be adapted to create an infinite number of material items. From survival gear to homesteader equipment, bamboo’s uses seem to only be limited by the imagination of the user.
So what are the 10 best ways to use bamboo for survival?
1. First, you’ll want to get a survival shelter built in the event of an emergency. Bamboo poles are both strong and lightweight, which makes them a great choice for building shelter elements.
[ Read Full Post ]September 11, 2012
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Rub-a-dub-dub, imagine spending 26 hours floating in the waters off Sitka, Alaska, in a 4-by-4-foot tub. That’s what Ryan Harris, 19, did late last week after the 28-foot aluminum boat he and a friend were fishing from capsized. The Coast Guard rescued Harris on Saturday, two hours after his fishing buddy Stonie “Mac” Huffman was found alive on a beach 25 miles northwest of Sitka.
The two men had been fishing for coho salmon two miles from Cape Edgecumbe when the hydraulics on their boat failed. They fixed the problem and started heading to port when a massive wave knocked the boat on its side, dumping the men into the water before they could send a mayday. “We had no radio, no cell phones,” Harris told the Daily Sitka Sentinel.
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