The Rifle That Earns Its Keep
Affordable, lightweight and remarkably versatile, the .22 LR rifle can serve many practical roles. Learn how different ammunition types affect its performance, usefulness and limitations.
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When the Roof Starts Leaking and No One Is Coming
Keeping a damaged house habitable after help disappears A roof leak is rarely treated as a survival emergency. Under normal conditions, it means buckets on the floor, a call to the insurance company and a roofer arriving within a few days. That changes after a widespread disaster or prolonged collapse. A windstorm may damage thousands…
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How Much Ammunition Is Enough?
Building a practical reserve—and keeping it reliable Ammunition shortages rarely arrive with a formal warning. An increase in demand, manufacturing interruption, import difficulty or regulatory change can empty shelves remarkably quickly. Popular cartridges disappear first, prices rise, and shooters begin conserving whatever remains. The predictable reaction is to buy as much ammunition as possible whenever…
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Your Water Source Is Downstream From Someone
How sanitation failure turns local water into a shared hazard Canada’s lakes, rivers and groundwater create a dangerous sense of confidence. When the taps stop running, many people assume they can simply collect water nearby, filter it and carry on. That plan ignores everything happening upstream. During a prolonged collapse, the same creek may serve…
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Scavenge, Trade, Return
Every trip beyond the retreat must justify the risk. When the retail supply system is gone, a trip into town is no longer a shopping run. The shelves were emptied long ago. Fuel pumps are silent. Warehouses, pharmacies and hardware stores have been stripped, damaged or repurposed. Anything useful that remains is scattered through abandoned…
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The Latrine Is Too Close
Protecting Your Water Supply from Human Waste A post-collapse latrine can look perfectly functional while quietly threatening everything around it. It may have privacy, a sturdy seat and enough capacity for the group. It may control odour reasonably well and be located close enough to reach at night. None of that matters if contaminated runoff…
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Preserving Meat When the Grid Stays Down
Safe meat preservation after refrigeration fails. A freezer full of meat looks like food security—until the electricity fails. During a short outage, a closed, well-packed freezer may hold its temperature long enough for power to return. During a prolonged grid failure, however, the freezer becomes a countdown clock. Once the meat begins thawing, the household…
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Prepper News Roundup — July 26, 2026
Wildfire evacuation failures, tornado outbreaks, border health measures and mass evacuations dominate this week’s preparedness news. Wildfires, tornadoes, a tropical cyclone and new disease-control measures dominated preparedness news this week. The individual hazards were very different, but nearly every story revolved around the same question: how quickly can people move when remaining in place is…
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Power from the Wreckage
Building small, repairable energy systems from the electrical remains of a dead civilization. Eventually, the last commercially manufactured backup-power system will fail. Generators will consume their remaining fuel or suffer mechanical breakdowns. Lithium power stations will lose capacity. Battery-management systems will stop working. Inverters and charge controllers will burn out. Even equipment carefully protected before…
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HF Where Antennas Are Forbidden
Building a discreet, transmit-capable HF station when apartment walls, limited space and ridiculous property rules work against you The conventional HF station has a tower, a beam and enough property for long wire antennas. That is a fine arrangement—if you own the land, have the space and are permitted to use it. Many Canadian operators…
