Every natural or man-made disaster foreshadows the possibility that The End Of The World As We Know It (TEOTWAWKI) could be just around the...
A few years back I learned of how well the Pimsleur language courses worked from a coworker when I learned a small amount of Ukranian in just a...
So, long story short...I went and did some training, and one of the guest instructors offered me an opportunity to do some guest lectures at his...
This is a small "fire kit" used to train the Grandkinder.... [IMG] I catch the spark on the end of the wick. [IMG] Once the fire is started,...
I saw this article and have to agree that learning how to hunt is extremely important. The way the author laid out his reasoning and how he...
I got back from InrangeTV's Desert Brutality 2019 on Tuesday and I'm still recovering. I participated in the 2018 and this year's match. It is...
January 21, 2019 A friend of mine made a comment in passing to me the other day. I had mentioned an upcoming building project I was going to...
FEMA and other groups are pushing for more public access to and training with tourniquets because recent studies show that trained civilians can...
This is a great article that has a good reminder to practice reading nature. These are simple skills that people should have. Reading animal...
A little shamed to admit that I was one of those preppers who bought a decent knife (an ESEE), kept it in the factory sheath without a second...
I have posted several things about Furoshiki - the Japanese 'art;' of cloth folding. Like this: [IMG] [IMG] and this [IMG] [IMG] All great...
Somewhere there was list from the Jeffersonian era of things a young Virginian man should know how to do. I was thinking about what things...
(This is a reprint of an article I first posted back in January. It is a critical point that people are still not getting. There is no point in...
My buddy, Paul Sharp, of Straight-Blast Gym—Illinois, and proprietor of Sharp Defense, posted the following on Social Media: “When people start...
I like to hunt be it with a rifle a pistol a knife a blow gun a David sling a atlatl a spear slingshot or a bow the best way to become good or...
A friend of mine died a few years ago and his widow sold me his 1941 Ford 9n tractor and she kept the 1950"s Ferguson tractor. She mentioned a...
One of the subjects we discuss in this blog, a lot, is the importance of having quantifiable metrics of performance. A large part of that is what...
Does anyone else still fish with a canoe pole occasionally? This was a cool project to do. [MEDIA]
Social issues aside, have you made the preparations that would allow you to thrive/survive during the 1850's? Have you (not could you) retained...
Surf: cleaning a Catfish? Turf: cleaning a armadillo without getting leprosy? Looking for the knowledge not readily available in common print. JMHO.
This is a very good skill to have not just in shtf but in every day uses. [MEDIA]
Any knife throwers on the fourm [MEDIA]
This is a good list. Some skills I have been practicing for a few years now. I have had success and failures. But keep learning how to do these...
We teach an informal class from time to time at Church. They are usually on preparedness, 72 hr kits (bugout bags) family history etc. This one...
As the year comes to a close, we have all learned some nuggets of knowledge and done a little more each day, to be better prepared for what may...
[IMG] It had been too long since I'd last had a fire. The next morning the smell of wood-smoke on my shirt stopped me in my tracks. I didn’t...
[ATTACH] Classes in the “industrial arts” were first introduced to secondary schools in the 1880s, and for the next century, taking a course in...
I love to teach traps and snares
Maybe it's a little early for northern hemisphere folk, but it looks like snow rolling might be easier than snow shovelling... [ATTACH] Via:...
One of the apparently more obscure skills I try to emphasize in my shooting-centric coursework, is the ability to “call your shots.” Generally,...
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