Emergency Preparedness Checklist: Prepping for Beginners

2020 was a textbook case of the sh** hitting the fan with virtually no warning and really highlighted the need to make preparedness a priority. After all, if a flu that was no danger to healthy people under 60 could bring the world to a stop, what will happen if something like ebola gets loose, or China invades Taiwan, or terrorists unleash a truly deadly biological agent into the atmosphere? It won’t be pretty, that much is certain.

How well you weather the next calamity will depend in large part on how well you prepare today. With that in mind we pulled together this emergency preparedness checklist aimed at helping those with no prepping experience. Enjoy. (more…)

10 Best AR-15’s (2023 Update) Buyer’s Guide

The AR-15 is one of the great American firearms. It’s dependable, versatile, lightweight and can be fully customized. For all those reasons and more it is very popular with the military, range shooters, hunters and law enforcement. While Colt held the exclusive rights to produce the AR-15 until the late 1990s (and still owns the name ‘AR-15’) virtually every major gun manufacturer now produces their own AR-15 style gun.

So knowing which ones are worth the investment and which ones aren’t can seem a daunting task. That’s why we’ve done the homework for you and compiled the following list of the 10 best AR-15 rifles on the market today. (more…)

Top 20 Survival Tips (2023 Update)

The enlightened survivalist/prepper/outdoorsman is nothing if not flexible. Whether you’re faced with the apocalypse or a hunting accident transcending difficulty calls for quick thinking and the ability to improvise. Preppers all hope their years of careful preparation will pay off if the SHTF. But in truth, there is no way of telling exactly how much S will HTF and what form it will take. So an open mind and the ability to think on one’s feet is essential.

The following survival hacks and tips represent a cross-section of our own ideas and those gleaned from others over the years. It’s not a comprehensive list since, again, who’s to say what form your particular challenge will take? But these hacks should be enough to at least get you thinking in non-linear terms. So here they are, the 20 best survival hacks/tips for 2021. (more…)