I have no intention of testing unknown plants for eating. What I did when I first developed an interest in survival is go out and get a couple of goo...

I'm a retired infantry soldier. Before I joined the army I was a martial arts instructor. In the army I taught wilderness survival classes and my la...

Secrecy and security is important for preppers for a couple of reasons. The least important reason is that most people would rather keep their heads ...

Well said Denob, I was in the army and was deployed the Quebec for the '98 ice storm. It was a nasty time but I also saw the best come out in people....

Gotta love NAFTA. But, we were paying more than 25 cents before NAFTA. You're right though, the U.S. would be miffed if we nationalized because they...

Mormons have a strong sense of community, especially within their church. If the SHTF many of them would quickly pull together to form their own comm...

A very large part of eastern Edmonton is covered in oil refineries. Canada has a lot of oil refining capacity we just don't have stored oil reserves.

As has been stated in this forum, we are primarily concerned with a SHTF situation. In that type of situation there will be a lot of frightened, hung...

I have 2 questions that I've been pondering for some time now.When I was 16 years old, gasoline was 20 cents a gallon at the pumps and minimum wage wa...

Actually, ARIES, that just reminded me about something my brother told me awhile back.He said that he once saw an article about RHINO Liner (the spray...

Kind of makes you wonder, how many groups are out there with the same philosophy. More importantly, am I on a similar list, government or otherwise."...

The way I look at it, a Survivalist is someone who is prepping to survive a disaster and a Prepper is someone who wants to survive a disaster by prepp...

We don't have a helicopter so you're right, we may be hooped. We do however, have plans and contingency plans. We have routes that should help us av...

Actually Aries, I do see your point. Just so you know, I live in the city but that's not where our supplies are located. I and those in my group kee...

Don't get me wrong. I'm not worried about the average person coming up from the lower 48. It's the U.S. government and their military that I think w...