I like to make my own stuff and I enjoy working with wood, so a while back, I got interested in making my own long bow or a (ha!) recurve bow. I figured, how hard could it be? Right? Well, actually, I knew it would be a challenge, but I really had no idea how [...]

Who among us hasn’t experienced the joys of eating roadkill?   What’s that?  You haven’t?  Well, to be completely honest, I’ve never deliberately eaten roadkill (I ate some roadkill bear once, but wasn’t informed of the cause of its demise until after the fact). But when you think about it, what’s the big deal?  As [...]

David Sarti, best known for his prepper videos on You Tube was declared a “Mental Defective” by the state of Tennessee just days after appearing on the National Geographic show: “Doomsday Preppers”.  As a result of this judgement, the state has revoked his permit to carry and confiscated all of his firearms.   Sarti found [...]

This is what I’m talking about! I often stress the importance of people getting together with other folks in their community to get prepared and work with each other to ensure the safety of their families. The lone wolf survivalist is a myth and when the SHTF, we’re all going to need to rely on [...]

The Brits have been getting hip to the whole prepper and survivalist movement that’s been going on here in America and the popularity of the subject has been surging lately. I’m frequently contacted by television production companies pitching one prepper/survivalist show or another (usually with the same questionable premise), and I’ve been noticing more of [...]

This following story came to me from Will Grigg, the editor of our sister publication: Republic Magazine, and it appalled me so  much I had to  share this with the readers of Survivalist.  Because it looks like this is where our police-state society is heading folks… Don’t get me wrong.  I’m good friends with many upstanding police officers who [...]

Here’s a video from Survival Doc with some common sense advice about what you don’t want to wear in a SHTF, societal collapse situation when martial law comes to town. I have always been a proponent of becoming a “grey man” when all hell breaks loose. What is a grey man? It’s someone who doesn’t [...]

One of the dumbest pieces of bad advice I’ve ever heard anyone give in the context of wilderness foraging is: “Watch what the animals eat… If they can eat it, so can you”. That is no way, I repeat NO WAY to determine whether a wild plant is edible or not. Animals have different physiologies [...]

Can you smell the police state coming? Just when I think the attack on our rights and privacy couldn’t get any worse, another entirely unbelievable threat shows up on the horizon. The House and Senate have recently voted for the passage of a bill (H.R. 658) that will allow the use of surveillance drones to [...]

With this post, I wanted to kill two birds with one stone. First off, some of you may be familiar with my friend; Scott B. Williams’ work through his book: “Bug Out: The Complete Plan for Escaping a Catastrophic Disaster Before It’s Too Late”, which is an awesome resource, of not only great information about [...]