I'm a fan of solar, but for a survival scenario it doesn't make much sense beyond charging small DC items.
Short run= generator
Long run= wood gasification rig for your generator
Ninja stealth mode= you need to be able to get by without power
Scoped .22 rifle, will take small and large game. (though game populations would collapse within weeks. I imagine less popular animals like racoons and armadillos, and perhaps domestic ones like dogs, would be slower to go) For defense, just carry whatever you currently carry and train with...
Water is life. I keep eyeballing the 275 gallon water storage crates that pop on on craigslist, but the problem is finding ones that you're sure only had food grade stuff in them. They run about 50 bucks. ldsprepper on youtube has interesting video on using some of those.
I always keep a...
If its just an absolute last ditch way to get water for drinking and other VERY minimal tasks, 2 linear feet of 4" PVC will hold 1.2 gal of water. Cut a link that long, seal off the end, put enough weight in the bottom to make her sink under water, and have a hand crank with several hundred...
I've yet to understand the fad of sea salt, what's the general argument for it being better than good ol table salt? Only difference I can think of is possible heavy metal contamination, just like the cans of sartines and tuna I cherish so much as a snack staple.
I've read that about boiling hickory roots.
Also adding up the numbers at one point I figured out that one fifty pound bag of salt would be enough to get a human by for their entire lifetime. Now if you're curing meats its another matter. I've been told Morton's #2 cures meat in a foolproof...
What sort of bugout are we talking about? Roaming warlords and raiders cannibalizing everything in their path when they figure out groceries don't grow at the store? If built as a stationary defensive setup I would think that some provision for going underground and an escape tunnel would be...