Fortify Your Winter Camp if You Bug Out

by suburban | Aug 18, 2010 | Bug Out, Survivalism, Weather

So, I thought this was pret­ty cool, and some good advise.  In the event you have to bug out in the win­ter whether you start out on foot, or start out in a vehi­cle and then end up on foot in the win­ter with an ample lev­el of snow on the ground, you may end up... Read more

Practical and Affordable Prepping, at the SurvivalBlog.com

by suburban | Aug 15, 2010 | General, Preparedness, Self Reliance, Survivalism

JWR’s blog, this morn­ing has a good post on Prac­ti­cal and Afford­able Prep­ping, that I think is worth the read.  Here is a snip­pet and the link. The pur­pose of this sub­mis­sion is to estab­lish that we all have real lives to lead while we remain vig­i­lant... Read more

The Focus of Suburban Survival Blog and, if the SHTF

by suburban | Aug 12, 2010 | Bug In, Bug Out, Bug Out Location, But Out Bag, Preparedness, suburban survival, Survival Gear, Survivalism, Urban Survival

I am writ­ing this post, because, it is prob­a­bly some­thing I should have writ­ten sev­er­al months ago when I start­ed writ­ing a dai­ly blog on my thoughts about sub­ur­ban sur­vival.  I real­ly start­ed get­ting con­cerned about what was going on in the... Read more

Podcast about Urban Survival by Chip Monk

by suburban | Aug 2, 2010 | Preparedness, Self Reliance, suburban survival, Survivalism, Urban Survival

Chip Monk is a new pod­cast­er, pod­cast­ing about sur­vival­ism.  This morn­ing I came across his pod­cast on Urban Sur­vival and thought I would share it with you.  This pod­cast cov­ers the basics, and you may already have them down, how­ev­er, if you do... Read more

Reviews of the Henry Survival Rifle / AR‑7

by suburban | Jul 7, 2010 | Guns & Weapons, Hunting, Survival Gear, Survivalism

So a cou­ple months ago I bought a Hen­ry .22 Sur­vival rifle.  It is an inter­est­ing rifle that packs up into its own stock for stor­age.  I’ve shot it a cou­ple of times and have mixed feel­ings about it.  It seems to do exact­ly what Hen­ry said it... Read more

Staying Aware Of Your Surroundings

by suburban | Jul 6, 2010 | Levels of Awareness, suburban survival, Survivalism, Urban Survival

Whether I am in a sur­vival sit­u­a­tion or not I try to stay aware of my sur­round­ings.  I first became more aware of what was going on around me when I moved to NJ from PA about 10 years ago.  I went from small town to big sub­urbs and big city as well.... Read more