About 400 people die each year from drowning inside their own submerged vehicles. Here’s how to escape a car submerged under water.
How to escape a car that has been submerged under water
Category: Survival
How to break your fall in combat situations to minimize injury and quickly maintain fighting advantage.
It is quite common to fall or be thrown during a combat situation. To minimize the chance of injury, and ensure you can bounce back to your feet quickly, you must use falling techniques to absorb the impact of the fall and allow use of your body’s momentum to quickly return to your feet.
How to make a clay container (bowel) in the wild
In a wilderness survival situation, clay can be used to construct bowels, cups, ovenware, and other utensils. It is especially useful when the need for a waterproof container arises.
Gunshots wounds and stopping power – myth vs. fact regarding bullet impacts will surprise you
Forget what you see on TV. The reality of gunshot wounds and terminal (death inducing) gunshot injuries is remarkably different from what is shown in the movies where the gunman appears to have an unlimited supply of bullets, gunshots knock the enemy off their feet, and gunshot victims make long, drawn out confessions as they…
Genius! Columbia introduces new stainless steel clothing labels that double as survival tools
Popular outdoor clothing manufacturer Columbia knocks it out of the park with new information hang tags, cut from stainless steel, that double as survival tools. The steel tags are templated 4” tags with components that can be snapped out to form tools such as a sun dial, handsaw, water purifier, sextant, fishing kit, and emergency…
How to make a homemade blowgun and darts
Many cultures have utilized the blowgun as a tool to capture or stun wildlife or as a weapon to defend their tribes. Blowgun projectiles for these weapons vary from seeds, clay pellets, piano wire, bamboo skewers, wire coat hangers, knitting needles, to darts dipped in poisonous substances. Projectile sizes range from .40 cal to .625…
How to make a compass in the wild for daytime navigation.
Navigation at night can easily be accomplished via stars and constellations but during the day, you must have an alternative means to determine north and south. The easiest way is to construct a simple compass.
Make your own compact, portable survival/bugout bag – as small as a fanny pack!
When creating bugout bags, a collection of supplies required to survive an unexpected event, most survivalists use a backpack to hold the survival supplies. Their large size however, can be a constraint. That doesn’t have to be the case however. With a bit of compromise, you can create a bugout bag the size of a…
How to make gunpowder in the wild (all it takes is charcoal, sulfur, and potassium nitrate)
In a survival situation, primitive tools will get you by but for maximum survivability, you need mechanical weapons and explosives – and nothing beats the time-tested combustive mixture – gunpowder. Here’s how to make gunpowder in the wild.
A study of assassination- purported CIA guidebook to assassinations provides self-defense lessons for survivalists.
The 19-page document below is a transcript of a file title “A Study of Assassination”. It is believed to have been published by the CIA in 1953 and as the title suggests, acts as a rudimentary guide to assassinations. For survivalists, it serves as a useful countermeasure and tactical guide for self-defense against an attack.
