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Shopping for an EDC Flashlight: What to Look for Shopping

Chkadels01 May, 2025Business

Once you start carrying an EDC flashlight every day, you’ll genuinely be wondering how you ever got along without one. From checking under the hood to peering into dark cabinets to whipping out the light before you head down a basement or up into an attic, a flashlight is your hedge against power outages and has a million and one other uses.

Lesser-Known Yet Vital Equipment You’ll Need for Bug-out (or Bug-in)

Chkadels01 May, 2025Business

An emergency radio can keep you updated on weather and local events, and other emergency communication devices like walkie-talkies can keep you in proximal communication with friends and loved ones if other communications lines fail. Not just a gas generator for your house - something more elemental that can’t easily be disabled. Think a hand-crank power station or a series of portable solar panels. These are more portable and easier to use, and can’t be disrupted by broken gas lines.

Scraping Together a Bare Bones SHTF Plan

Chkadels01 May, 2025Business

In the event you’ve never heard of such before, an SHTF plan, or more properly, a “sh*t hits the fan” plan” is a plan you put in place for when disaster strikes. Disasters can be either natural or manmade (or some combination of both) but to ensure you ride above the waves you need to be prepared in either scenario.

How Not to Freeze to Death: A Straightforward Guide

Chkadels01 May, 2025Business

You might complain when the temperature drops below freezing, but the truth is, aside from being unpleasant, temperatures in the 30s and even 20s are rarely life-threatening under normal conditions. When it dips below 0℉? Then you can start worrying - unless you’ve prepared appropriately by observing the following protocols.

Using a Ferrocerium Rod Fire Starter

Chkadels01 May, 2025Business

Believe it or not, striking a fire without a lighter or matches is not nearly as hard as you think. A challenge, sure, but with modern fire starters like ferrocerium rods, much easier than it was with real flint and steel in the days of old, and easier yet than friction fire methods.

6 Disaster Survival Gear Items to Stash in Your Bug Out Bag

Chkadels01 May, 2025Business

The thing about disaster survival is that, while you can’t ever really tell what the disaster is going to be, you can prepare for the widest number of scenarios. That being the case, here are 6 essential pieces of disaster survival gear worth keeping in your bug out bag or emergency preparedness kit that will potentially help you pull through the worst.

How to Layer Your Thermal Wear So You Don’t Freeze to Death

Chkadels01 May, 2025Business

Ever been outside when it’s comfortably below zero? If you have, then you know firsthand the necessity of layering properly with thermal wear, not just so you stay comfortable, but so you don’t freeze. When it’s very cold, you need a wicking baselayer, period. It can be made of a performance synthetic but the best ones are made of soft wool, such as merino wool.

What Should an Emergency Kit Contain?

Chkadels21 Apr, 2025Business

Emergency kit is slightly nonspecific as a term, because there are many different types of emergency kits. Some kits are for roadside assistance, others are for first aid, others are for more traumatic sorts of situations. Then there are emergency kits that are more like bug-out bags, helping ensure the safety and security of a user who is forced to stay put under adverse conditions.

Beyond the Survival Manual: Being Ready

Chkadels21 Apr, 2025Business

While a survival manual can teach you methods for starting fire, educate you on how to find or build shelter, and teach you what animals and plants are safe to eat - as well as which are not - you still need to be prepared with appropriate survival gear to ensure you’re prepared whenever the chips are down.

Bushcraft Gear: Creating a Minimalist Pack

Chkadels21 Apr, 2025Business

Broadly speaking, bushcraft gear is the basic stuff you carry when you’re in the woods and need to survive. There’s nothing accounted for in terms of recreation and the extended equipment usually associated with disaster preparedness or bug out bags is largely omitted. With bushcraft gear, often the focus is on getting back to basics.