Category: Equipment / Supplies

  • 15 Items Every Prepper Should Hoard

    15 Items Every Prepper Should Hoard

    I tend to agree with most everything on the list, especially batteries and toilet paper, as one can NEVER have enough of either, lol. I was glad to see he included items like tarps and cordage since these items can be more useful than most folks realize during a SHTF emergency. I do, however, take…

  • Urban Altoids EDC Kit

    Urban Altoids EDC Kit

    Normally, I’m not a big fan of makeshift EDC kits like this, but The Urban Prepper usually does a good job with this kind of stuff and this project is no different. To give you an idea of the unusual contents, he includes a mini Leatherman multi-tool, USB charging cable, and a mini ratchet tool…

  • 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 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…

  • How To Utilize Trees For Survival: The Ultimate Guide To Surviving Off Of Trees

    How To Utilize Trees For Survival: The Ultimate Guide To Surviving Off Of Trees

    Earth Day always gives us a little time to think about the trees. Planting a tree on Earth Day is a tradition in many places, namely because these life-giving plants help provide clean air and natural resources like wood, as well as habitat for other living creatures. But trees aren’t just worthy of our appreciation…

  • Fatwood 101 for Beginners

    Fatwood 101 for Beginners

    Good and quick tutorial on finding fatwood for fire starting…

  • Self-Contained DIY Fire Starter Kit

    Self-Contained DIY Fire Starter Kit

    Unfortunately, it doesn’t look like this fire starting kit is something you can purchase as a pre-made solution, but you can certainly copy the idea well enough if you’re interested in a wilderness or bug out bag fire starting kit to emulate…