Survival Bug Out Bag
When it comes to emergency preparedness and survival awareness, an individual or family needs to make a plan. The plan needs to focus on the necessities for human survival, which are water, food, and shelter. If a natural disaster strikes your neighborhood, have you made a plan to sustain yourself and your loved ones? Obviously, [...]
Choosing The Best Dive Watch – Some Consideration To Factor Into Your Purchase
If you are a regular scuba diver, then a diving watch is an important accessory that cannot be neglected. Diving watches are designed with the specific purpose of operating under water and under considerably more pressure than a normal sports watch. In order to ensure that a watch can operated under the conditions of a [...]
Buying Multiple Pairs Of Snow Skis
Once you have become an experienced alpine skier, you may begin to think about how multiple pairs of snow skis could be of benefit. Like most things having the right tool for the job is critical and this concept is no different when it comes to skiing. In fact, when you have the right skis [...]
Chain Wallets For Outdoorsmen
For those of you have to routinely perform jobs that require you to crawl around or move in and out of things, losing your wallet is likely a fear that you have often. It’s actually great fear of many men throughout the world, and as someone who has lost their wallet before; I can tell [...]
Emergency Hand Crank Flashlights
For uncertain times brought about by weather interruptions and power outages, it is best to secure at least one hand crank flashlight for emergency purposes. A hand crank flashlight will be a good emergency companion at all times because it is very important to put a great emphasis on high visibility at times when it [...]
Clothing Tips for Outdoors
Choosing the right set of clothing is an essential part of any outdoors trip. Although it may not seem important, you may change your mind if you have to lug around a five pound coat or are freezing cold and wet because of inappropriate clothing. Listed below are some basic tips to packing proper clothes [...]
Prepare an Emergency Backpack – You Never Know When You’ll Need It
What if, after 10 minutes of reading this article, emergency sirens started blaring in your town, and the National Guard began rolling through your neighborhood, giving everyone only minutes to gather their things and leave (possibly without ever seeing their homes again)? I realize that’s pretty dark, and that the chances of it actually happening [...]
How to stay warm in the great outdoors
If you frequently have reason to be outdoors in the cold weather, there are several things to keep in mind. For starters, in the worst case scenario, cold can kill you. You could lose a toe, a foot, or even a whole leg if hypothermia manages to set in to your body. Hypothermia is when [...]
Down Sleeping Bag’s Benefits and Drawbacks
While choosing the sleeping bag, it is important to consider the type of insulation fill. Sleeping bags are usually prepared with down fill or synthetic fill. All these types have both advantages as well as disadvantages. However, it is advisable to choose the down filled one. The reason and the benefits of down sleeping bags [...]
Grab Your Bug Out Bag
OK everyone grab your bug out bag because we got to go!!!! What you don’t have a bug out bag? This is the one thing that everyone should have, and I don’t mean a half empty backpack that you have to empty out before you can use. A bug out bag is essential for survival [...]
Body Armor In Perspective
I found this chart the other day while surfing the net. It is a good example of the different categories of body armor and what type of ammunition that it will stop from penetrating through, and also protect you from blunt force protection. Ammunition From The Chart 1. .22 Magnum 40 gr. JHP (1209 FPS [...]
Emergency Survival Stove
This little emergency survival stove is a must have for any survival or disaster kit. These hand made little stoves are the perfect size, weighing only 0.4 oz and have no moving parts to break or maintain. It runs on Alcohol (IPA, denatured, rubbing and other alcohols available at hardware and drug stores). To use [...]