Start Out with the Right Equipment for Your Survival Kit
You don’t have any wilderness experience, but you want some. So what do you take along to make sure you get back? Where in that urban wilderness maze of outdoor stores, catalogs, websites and eBay...
View ArticleFirestarter Review from Bug-Out Survival
Regular readers of SurvivalCommonSense know that survival firemaking is one of my pet subjects. Regardless if you’re a survivalist, prepper, or just a well-prepared backpacker; if you are making a...
View ArticleOld Style Firestarter Fills Modern Wilderness Survival Niche
The wind blew sheets of rain sideways and the water dripped off the brim of my hat as I hunched over my charcloth and flint and steel. The original idea had been to demonstrate to Boy Scouts of...
View ArticlePeter Kummerfeldt: Preparing to Survive in the Wilderness
In a survival situation, be it urban or wilderness, your gear alone will not save you. YOU must save yourself. There are three major areas a survivor must be prepared in, before you start being...
View ArticleGear For Survival Kits You Should Always Carry!
It doesn’t matter if you’re planning a quick snowshoe trek or an hour-long stroll along a wooded path. Common sense dictates that basic survival tools be taken along. Above all, this gear, or kit, must...
View ArticleSurvival fire making videos: What fire ignition system should you carry?
In elk hunting, it’s always the idea of bagging one that sucks us hunters out in crappy weather into remote mountainous areas. The day was bitterly cold in Idaho’s Selway wilderness, the snow was knee...
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