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In a Riot, You Don’t Have Time To Get All Choked Up!

June 10, 2013 Click Here To See The Comments In a collapse of civil order, a riot can break out in any number of scenarios… A Natural disaster that causes food shortages Political unrest that...

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Can Your Machete Hack it?

May 6, 2013 Click Here To See The Comments Sometimes I realize it’s easier to make the tool I need than to spend hours or days trying to  find one that's already just the way I want it....

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A Primer on Propane for The Practical Prepper

April 29, 2013 Click Here To See The Comments A Note from ‘Above Average' Joe: I had the absolute pleasure of speaking with Gaye on the phone last week for the better part of an hour. After speaking...

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How To Test Your Family’s Survival Skills

April 25, 2013 Click Here To See The Comments Are you looking for a challenging way to put your family’s survival skills and teamwork to the test? Nothing will assess the grit and endurance of your...

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When You Need Fire The Most, Conditions For It Are At Their Worst…

April 22, 2013 Click Here To See The Comments A few weeks back I did a product update on InstaFire. I got a lot of great feedback and comments from you guys and one of them stuck out in particular. Rick...

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Snake Bite Survival

March 18, 2013 Click Here To See The Comments In a grid-down scenario, you will find yourself out in the woods a lot more frequently, gathering firewood, hunting, and foraging for edible wild...

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Sew What?!

December 13, 2012 Click Here To See The Comments When we think about prepping, preparedness and living a more self sufficient life, we usually start out with food storage, long term, short term and...

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Adding Value To Our Future

December 13, 2012 Click Here To See The Comments It never fails to amaze me when one of my little brothers tells me that something is ONLY $100.00.  When I was growing up I had to learn the value of a...

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Disaster: It’s Not Always Fukushima Or Hurricane Sandy

November 12, 2012 Click Here To See The Comments Living a prepper lifestyle often comes under scrutiny.  Thanks in no small part to recent media infatuation with doomsday type survivalists I am often...

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