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Spyderco Salt Series – Everything You Need to Know
Spyderco Salt Series The Spyderco Salt series of knives have been around for a long time, but not many people have heard of them. If you work around the water, live in a humid area, love fishing or just want a knife that isn’t going to rust on you, then you should be interested in
How to Store Coffee Beans Long Term: The Complete Guide
How to Store Coffee Beans Did you know that how you store your coffee beans can affect how your brewed coffee tastes? If you decide to indulge in an expensive bag of coffee beans, you had best be sure you know how to store them in order to get the best tasting coffee in every
Spyderco Native 5 Review – Spyderco’s Lightweight Classic
Spyderco Native 5 Spyderco has made a lot of amazing knives, but very few of them have been as popular as their Native line of knives. The Spyderco Native 5 is the 5th generation of the Native line and they’ve just about perfected it in my opinion. The Spyderco Native 5 is one of the
Gear
Spyderco Salt Series – Everything You Need to Know
Spyderco Salt Series The Spyderco Salt series of knives have been around for a long time, but not many people have heard of them. If you work around the water, live in a humid area, love fishing or just want a knife that isn’t going to rust on you, then you should be interested in
Spyderco Native 5 Review – Spyderco’s Lightweight Classic
Spyderco Native 5 Spyderco has made a lot of amazing knives, but very few of them have been as popular as their Native line of knives. The Spyderco Native 5 is the 5th generation of the Native line and they’ve just about perfected it in my opinion. The Spyderco Native 5 is one of the
EDC a Fixed Blade? (How to do it, and What Knives Are Best)
EDC a Fixed Blade? Most people decide to go with a folding knife of some kind for EDC, but what about all the great fixed blades that are out there? Can you carry a fixed blade every day? Carrying a fixed blade knife as part of your EDC can be done pretty easily. For hard
Why EDC a Prybar? (What They’re Good For and the Best of 2020)
Why EDC a Prybar? EDC prybars have been pretty popular for a few years. You know what I’m talking about, the little metal prybars that are a couple of inches long and probably have a few other tools forced onto them. What are they good for? A prybar is the most effective tool to apply
Body Armor for Preppers – Do You Need It?
Body Armor for Preppers A lot of preppers are really focused on buying things like body armor but do preppers even need to worry about buying body armor? Does it make sense for preppers to buy body armor? Body armor for preppers makes sense but it shouldn’t be the first thing you buy. Once you’ve
Difference Between an N95 Mask and a Surgical Mask
Difference Between an N95 Mask and a Surgical Mask A lot of people are trying to figure out what the difference is between an N95 mask and a surgical mask. What do they protect against? How long can you use them? It can all be pretty confusing! An N95 mask is a respirator that removes
Preparedness
How to Store Coffee Beans Long Term: The Complete Guide
How to Store Coffee Beans Did you know that how you store your coffee beans can affect how your brewed coffee tastes? If you decide to indulge in an expensive bag of coffee beans, you had best be sure you know how to store them in order to get the best tasting coffee in every
Best Bug Out Bag Food – The Top Food for Bugging Out
Bug Out Bag Food There is a lot of different information out there about bug out bag food. Most people are doing their best to provide information that they think will be helpful, but some of it is just bad. Bug out bag food should be light, compact and calorie-dense. It should also need very
8 Signs of a Tornado – How to Tell a Tornado is Coming and What to Do
Signs of a Tornado Tornadoes often pop up with little notice with wind speeds of up 250 miles per hour and can clear a path 50 miles wide. That’s horrifying! Luckily there are usually some signs that a tornado is about to occur. These are the 8 signs that can signal the approach of a
Can You Drink Rainwater – How to Collect Free Drinking Water
Can You Drink Rainwater? Have you ever wondered if it’s okay to drink rainwater? At first glance, it would seem like there should bee no problem drinking rainwater, but then you start to think about air pollution, the stains left on your car after it rains and all of the different things that rain touches
How to Make Bleach with Pool Shock
How to Make Bleach with Pool Shock Emergency situations can make clean water hard to come by and a potential spread of disease can make it extremely important to sanitize commonly touched items in your home. The good thing is bleach can do both of these things, but it doesn’t last that long on the
How to Survive a Pandemic – Make Your Family as Safe as Possible
How to Survive a Pandemic The thought of a pandemic is pretty scary. Is there anything you can do to protect yourself if a disease is spreading across the entire world? Yes! Surviving a pandemic is best done by preparing ahead of time and knowing what you need to do to not spread the disease
First Aid / Medical
5 Wound Healing Plants to Help When SHTF
Wound Healing Plants There may come a time in anyone’s life where you become wounded but do not have immediate access to a hospital or some sort of medical attention. Perhaps you are out hiking and the trail back is long and arduous, maybe a remote rock climbing expedition has gone horribly wrong and help
Diseases in an SHTF or Post Collapse Environment – Remaining Healthy in a Long Term Survival Situation
Diseases in an SHTF Many people prepare for all kinds of situations, but the one thing they don’t prepare for is how to deal with Diseases in an SHTF event. Diseases after SHTF will be deadlier than any band of marauders. That’s why I always recommend focusing on things like food preservation, water filtration and
Garlic Tincture – Its Recipe, How to Make It, and It’s Uses
Garlic Tincture Modern antibiotics and medicines are one of the most effective ways of curing illnesses and infections, but that wasn’t always the case. For a long time, garlic was one of the main medicinal herbs used by doctors. Today, garlic tincture is still an effective means to get rid of some types of ailments.
Wild Lettuce – How to Locate and Use This Natural Pain Reliever
Wild Lettuce Wild lettuce is one of the most important plants to understand if you’re in a survival situation. Wild lettuce is a plant that’s used to make various medications. It’s known for its calming, relaxing, and pain-relieving effects. Wild lettuce is also known as Acrid Lettuce, Bitter Lettuce, German Lactucarium, Green Endive, Lactuca virosa,
Do First Aid Kits Expire: Here’s What you Need to Do
Do First Aid Kits Expire? First aid kits are an important part of being prepared for an emergency. In fact, there are very few things that are more important, but can you just relax once you have one? First aid kits expire between 3 – 5 years from the date that they’re manufactured. You should
What to Look for in a Suture Removal Kit (and How to Use It)
What Should You Look for in a Suture Removal Kit? Have you ever had stitches and wondered if it was okay for you to remove them yourself? What would you need to take them out? A suture removal kit is a set of sterile tools used to remove sutures after a wound has healed. They
Defense / Tactics
Level II vs Level IIIA Body Armor – Soft Body Armor Explained
Level II vs Level IIIA Body Armor At first glance, there really doesn’t seem to be a lot of difference between most level II armor and level IIIA body armor, and there really isn’t. The main difference comes when you compare the stopping power that each one brings to the table. According to the NIJ,
Best Body Armor for EMS – What EMS Need and Why
Best Body Armor for EMS Emergency Medical Services (EMS) have an important, stressful job that seems to just keep getting more and more dangerous. It’s so dangerous now that it makes sense for them to wear body armor in a lot of big cities and areas that are known for gang and drug-related violence. The
Level II vs Level III Body Armor – The Most Common Armor Explained
What’s the Difference Between Level II and Level III Armor Body armor standards are sometimes confusing, especially if you’re not at least familiar with firearms. Two of the most common types of body armor are level II and level III. Level II body armor is soft armor designed to provide a basic level of protection
Body Armor Guide – Hard and Soft Armor/Ballistic Plates and More!
Body Armor Body armor is confusing for most people if you haven’t been exposed to it before. With all of the different levels and different companies coming up with their own special levels that fall in between the National Institute of Justice (NIJ) levels. We’re going to demystify all of these levels and let you
Level IIA Body Armor – Sub Par Defense
Level IIA Body Armor Level IIa body armor has been around for quite a while. In the body armor world, it’s pretty much not considered to be protective enough to be worth your time or money. According to the National Institute of Justice (NIJ), level IIA body armor must be tested to stop a 124
How Much Ammo Does a Glock 19 Hold?
How Much Ammo Does a Glock 19 Hold? Many years ago when I first started getting into firearms, I used to have questions like this. This one is pretty common, so let’s discuss it a little. The Glock 19 is designed to hold a standard 15 round magazine plus 1 round in the chamber. It
