If you’re serious about prepping, sooner or later you’re going to have to think about what food store you lay down, where you put it, and how long those stores are likely to last you and your family or group. The need for food As an article published on Healthline suggests, you could survive a surprisingly long time without food – up to a month or more has been managed by … [Read more...] about Food Storage For Prepping
Clues From The Ground
One single footprint means an outstanding amount of data. Direction of travel, the type or even brand of footwear, the approximate moment the track has been made, the genre and approximate age/height and weight of the owner, the potential presence of rucksacks, bags and heavy objects like weapons. Forensics consider the sole like the DNA. By cuts, erosions, overstress the … [Read more...] about Clues From The Ground
Six Really Useful Books For Preppers
You’ll know how much we’ve gone on about there being no substitute for learning your prepper skills through action. There’s no getting around the need for practical learning, practising what you have learned, and doing those routines over and over again. No amount of shiny new equipment, we argued in a blog on the 2nd of June can be a substitute for practising, enhancing, … [Read more...] about Six Really Useful Books For Preppers
How To Build A Shelter
Many of our blogs have talked about the four fundamental requirements for survival – fire, food, water, and shelter. Whatever you might be thinking about your need for water, food, and fire, shelter is, in fact, likely to be your most pressing, life-preserving need. Indeed, as we noted in our blog on the 27th of May, you might not survive even the first three hours in a hostile … [Read more...] about How To Build A Shelter
How To Treat A Wound
In the confusion and chaos of many emergency situations, it’s inevitable that people are going to get hurt. When they do, the first aid they receive may make all the difference – quite literally – between life and death. So, if you come across someone who has been injured and needs your help, how do you treat a wound? Are you prepped? It’s true in any emergency – the … [Read more...] about How To Treat A Wound