Author: Damian Brindle

  • Camp Tarp Shelter Wizardry

    Camp Tarp Shelter Wizardry

    This guy is awesome! He’s always coming up with neat outdoor survival ideas, and this one is a great one to know for camping. FYI, he also links to a series of other tarp tent videos that may be of interest to you as well. Here’s the tarp shelter wizardry one; it’s a bit hard…

  • How to Set Up Your Garage for Survival

    How to Set Up Your Garage for Survival

    If you’re like most of us, your garage is one of two things: It’s either a catch-all for the junk that won’t fit in your house anymore but that you can’t bear to get rid of, or it’s a place to store and work on your car or your hobbies. Either way, it has a…

  • The Ultimate Backpacking Survival Rifle Build

    The Ultimate Backpacking Survival Rifle Build

    Looking for the “ultimate” survival rifle? Well, look no further than this Ruger 10/22 rifle (featuring the Gemtech Mist-22 silencer) with Magpul X-22 BackPacker stock (holds 3 ten-round mags), and Primary Arms Advanced Micro Dot sight mounted on a Magpul optics mount. All together you’re probably looking at around $1,000 to put this survival rifle…

  • DIY $30 Bullet Resistant Armor?

    DIY $30 Bullet Resistant Armor?

    This DIY armor was hit with 9mm as well as various shotgun loads, including birdshot, buckshot, and a slug… and the DIY armor stayed intact! Unsurprisingly, it didn’t survive any 5.56 rounds, but if it did then THAT would’ve been a miracle and he should be patenting the process right now. In any case, they…

  • How to Heat Your Home in an Emergency Situation

    How to Heat Your Home in an Emergency Situation

    The weather may be warming up, but that doesn’t mean you can stop thinking about preparing for next winter. Whether you’re dealing with a blizzard, floor or the zombie apocalypse, you’ll need to be able to heat your home during an emergency. Here are some ways to heat your home if the world ends or…

  • DIY Solar Tracking System Inspired by NASA

    DIY Solar Tracking System Inspired by NASA

    I just love DIY ideas like this, don’t you? After all, I wrote an entire book about DIY survival projects, so it only stands to reason that I would, lol. In any case, the neat thing about this solar tracker is that it doesn’t need any GPS signal or computers to work but, instead, simply…

  • 9 Best Campfire Foods

    9 Best Campfire Foods

    Microwaves, toaster ovens, stovetops and air fryers are all wonderful amenities that we enjoy thanks to the wonder of technology. Sometimes, though, you have to take it old-school. For the right meal, there’s nothing better than cooking over an open flame. You’ve probably been to a restaurant that specializes in wood-fired pizza or other dishes…

  • Are We Only Nine Meals Away From Anarchy?

    Are We Only Nine Meals Away From Anarchy?

    Even though we’re so technologically advanced in our modern world are we still only nine meals away from anarchy? He ponders this and more…

  • 57 Scientifically-Proven Survival Foods to Stockpile Book Now On Amazon

    57 Scientifically-Proven Survival Foods to Stockpile Book Now On Amazon

    Hi there. I wanted to briefly let you know that a book I’d been working on for quite a while (and which I expected to release last year) is now available for purchase on Amazon. It’s a book that all preppers really need to read in order to get their survival food pantry correct: 57…