In any survival emergency, finding or building a shelter is one of your top priorities. If you’re extra-prepared, you’ll have already designed and constructed a defensible bug-out location where you can settle and sustain yourself until things calm down. Regardless Read More …
Bugging out from your home is going to be one of the most dangerous things you will ever do. Once you’ve made it to safety, you’ll be out of immediate danger but getting to your bug out location or even someplace relatively Read More …
Whenever the words communal living is used around me, the first thing I think of is sharing bathrooms and other living spaces. Many college students understand the concept and most of us will never forget those years. But communal Read More …
Let’s get something straight here folks, we know that not everyone has the luxury of spending 5-6+ hours per day on their preps, and an endless bank account to boot. Which is why at survivethewild.net we’re all about working with Read More …
by Tim MacWelch Aluminum beverage cans and steel food cans may seem like garbage in your day-to-day life. But it’s fair to say that one man’s trash truly is another man’s treasure—particularly when that treasure seeker is dealing with an Read More …
Bill White With wintertime bearing down upon us, it’s time for many of us to make a few changes. Winter coats come out of hiding and we put away the shorts and sandals for next year. Some people drain their Read More …
It’s really simple. When someone comes to take what you’ve got, do you defend it by FIGHTING or RUN TO FIGHT ANOTHER DAY? After all if there are only a few attackers, you’re better ‘armed’ than they are, behind adequate Read More …
If there ever was a miracle product better than spray-on-hair or the ShamWow, it is duct tape. Over the past 70 years of its existence, this staple product of fix-it-yourselfers has been used by virtually every walk of life, for Read More …
Safety pins have been around for quite a while. An American inventor named Walter Hunt was granted a U.S. patent in 1849 for his revolutionary safety pin, which was made from a single piece of wire. Mr. Hunt must have Read More …
Water. It is one of the essentials. As anyone who’s made the mistake of not bringing adequate drinking water with them in the woods can attest to, being prepared to easily filter and purify water is a necessity in any Read More …
