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Expired or Edible? How to Tell If Scavenged Food and Drink Still Safe for Consumption with These 5 Tips

By Tim MacWelch

/ Mar 4, 2016

Survival Skills: How to Carve a Traditional Bow

By Tim MacWelch

/ May 21, 2015

Survival Skills: How to Make Char Cloth

By Tim MacWelch

/ May 15, 2015

Survival Skills: 3 Tricks for Rigging Tarp Shelters

By Tim MacWelch

/ May 13, 2015

3 Ways to Increase Your Odds of Lighting a One-Match Fire

By Tim MacWelch

/ Mar 30, 2016

10 Techniques for Catching Fish in a Survival Situation

By Tim MacWelch

/ May 8, 2015

Survival Skills: 5 Do’s And Don’ts Of Desert Survival

By Tim MacWelch

/ May 6, 2015

Your Brain on Survival: The Physiological Response to a Life-Threatening Situation

By Brad Fitzpatrick

/ Apr 12, 2016

The Psychology of Survival: Inside the Minds of 4 Survivors

/ Apr 12, 2016

Survival Video: How to Work With Flint and Steel

By Tim MacWelch

/ Apr 29, 2015

Off-the-Grid Survival: How to Disappear (Or, What Not to Do If You Want to Be Rescued)

By Conrad Allen

/ Apr 18, 2016

Is Catching Fish with Your Bare Hands the Ultimate Survival Angling?

By Tim MacWelch

/ Apr 20, 2016

Survival Skills: 5 Easy Ways To Enhance Your Home’s Security

By Tim MacWelch

/ Apr 22, 2015

Survival Skills: 6 Strategies For Surviving an Earthquake

By Tim MacWelch

/ Apr 20, 2015

Dead Wrong: 26 Survival Myths That Can Get You Killed

By Tim MacWelch

/ Apr 28, 2016

Survival Skills: 3 Wild Roots for Spring Foraging

By Tim MacWelch

/ Apr 28, 2016

Survival Skills: 3 Ways to Make a Wooden Bowl in the Wild

By Tim MacWelch

/ May 6, 2016

Survival Video: Find Great Tinder And Kindling

By Tim MacWelch

/ Apr 14, 2015

3 Ways to Fortify Your Home In the Event of a Crisis

By Tim MacWelch

/ May 18, 2016

Survival Video: Camp Cooking with a Rock Frying Pan

By Tim MacWelch

/ Apr 6, 2015

Survival Skills: How to Set Up An Emergency Automotive Repair Shop

By Tim MacWelch

/ Jun 1, 2016

Survival Skills: How to Store Dry Food Staples

By Tim MacWelch

/ Mar 25, 2015

The Best Types of Wood and Tinder for Starting a Friction Fire

By Tim MacWelch

/ Jun 7, 2016

How to Brain-Tan a Deer Hide in 8 Steps

By Brad Fitzpatrick

/ Apr 20, 2021

Survival Skills: How To Tie 3 Advanced Knots

By Tim MacWelch

/ Mar 23, 2015

Survival Skills: 10 Items to Keep in Your Car or Truck for Emergencies

By Tim MacWelch

/ Mar 19, 2015

Book Review: Survival Hacks, by Creek Stewart

By Tim MacWelch

/ Jun 10, 2016

Survival Skills: 5 Attributes You Need for a Survivor’s Mindset

By Tim MacWelch

/ Mar 14, 2015

Survival Skills: 10 Tips to Prepare for Spring Flooding

By Tim MacWelch

/ Mar 12, 2015

How to Cold-Hammer Coins and Keys Into Useful Survival Tools

By Tim MacWelch

/ Jun 20, 2016

Survival Skills: How to Peel Tree Bark to Make a Container

By Tim MacWelch

/ Jun 23, 2016

Survival Skills: How to Avoid 5 Common Mistakes in Bulk Food Storage

By Tim MacWelch

/ Jun 25, 2016

Survival Skills: How to Make Improvised Grease Lamps and Torches

By Tim MacWelch

/ Mar 10, 2015

Survival Skills: 10 Ways to Use a Metal Can

By Tim MacWelch

/ Mar 4, 2015

Video: How to Boil Water with Hot Rocks

By Tim MacWelch

/ Mar 3, 2015

Starvation Island: Hunting Scotland’s Stags to Survive

By Andrew McKean

/ Aug 1, 2016

5 Tricks to Preserve Perishable Food During a Summer Power Outage

By Tim MacWelch

/ Aug 4, 2016

Survival Skills: How To Escape from a Sinking Vehicle

By Tim MacWelch

/ Feb 7, 2015

How to Safely Cross Mountain Streams with a Heavy Pack

By Tyler Freel

/ Aug 31, 2016

4 Unexpected Fire Starters You Can Use in an Emergency

By Tim MacWelch

/ Sep 8, 2016

Survival Skills: 10 Ways to Purify Water

By Tim MacWelch

/ Oct 3, 2019

Survival Skills: How to Make A Mud Cast in 4 Steps

By Tim MacWelch

/ Sep 28, 2016

The Best Survival Movies Ever

By Alex Robinson and Kelsey Farabee

/ Nov 22, 2010

Why Tenacity in a Survival Situation is Priceless

By Tim MacWelch

/ Oct 27, 2016

Survival Skills: How to Escape From a Car Trunk

By Tim MacWelch

/ Jan 9, 2015

Survival Skills: 4 Myths About Staying Warm in Winter

By Tim MacWelch

/ Jan 2, 2015

The 4 Survival Priorities You Should Know and Practice

By Tim MacWelch

/ Nov 21, 2016

Ten Things You’d Want Before A Financial Collapse

By Tim MacWelch

/ Dec 29, 2014

Survival Skills: 3 Ways To Escape Zip Tie Handcuffs

By Tim MacWelch

/ Dec 18, 2014

Survival Skills: Build An Off-Grid Laundromat

By Tim MacWelch

/ Dec 16, 2014

Survival Skills: 3 Winter Urban Survival Techniques

By Tim MacWelch

/ Dec 12, 2014

Survival Skills: 10 Ways To Enhance Home Security

By Tim MacWelch

/ Dec 10, 2014

Survival Skills: How To Use White Pine For Food, Medicine and Glue

By Tim MacWelch

/ Dec 5, 2014

5 New Years Resolutions to Become a Better Survivor

By Tim MacWelch

/ Jan 3, 2017

4 Reasons You Should Never Drink Untreated Water in a Survival Situation

By Tim MacWelch

/ Jan 6, 2017

Survival Skills: 3 Ways to Make Survival Bread (Without an Oven)

By Tim MacWelch

/ Jan 10, 2017

How to Survive an Avalanche

By Tim MacWelch

/ Jan 14, 2017

How to Build a Tripod Filter to Purify Water Afield

By Tim MacWelch

/ Jan 27, 2017

6 Tips to Signal for Help in Winter

By Tim MacWelch

/ Feb 1, 2017

Survival Skills: 10 Foolproof Tricks For Wet-Weather Fire Starting

By Tim MacWelch

/ Nov 22, 2014

How to Make the Most of Your Fire with a Reflecting Wall

By Tim MacWelch

/ Feb 6, 2017

How to Make a DIY Backyard Forge

By Tim MacWelch

/ Feb 14, 2017

Survival Skills: Treat Severe Bleeding In A Survival Situation

By Tim MacWelch

/ Nov 13, 2014

Survival Skills: 3 Handy Tricks For Ferrocerium Rods

By Tim MacWelch

/ Nov 11, 2014

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