Minimalist EDC in my grandmother's garden. Nope, the CQC-10K is definitely not UK legal, but private property = I get to carry it anyway. Review coming soon, but spoiler alert - it's freaking amazing. As a side note, I removed a lot of my "extra" mini-tools that were on my key chain. It just got too damn heavy! Everyday Carry Item Breakdown EDC Folding Knife Kershaw Emerson CQC-10K > ...
Helle Temagami Les Stroud Survival Knife Review
TV personality knives have always gotten a bad rap from the bushcraft community. Far too often companies overplay their hands and throw in marketing crap into a tool that is supposed to be practical in nature. This pessimism isn't helped with products like the first "Survivorman" knife I reviewed, which if you remember didn't go down so well. When I heard Helle had teamed up with Les to create his ...
Reader’s Choice: High Value Knives Our Readers Recommend
A few weeks back, Thomas asked you guys which knives you found to be some of the highest value on the market. This article is the result of that question post. In it, I've taken the time to compile your responses, grouping your specific knife recommendations into fixed blade & folder categories. Knife value is a tricky subject. As Thomas pointed out, to get a feel for the value of a knife, ...
goTenna Mesh Off-Grid Communication Device Review
In late 2015, I reviewed the original goTenna. It's fair to say that, right off the bat, I was pretty smitten with the concept of this tech, but back then, I felt the goTenna was too far ahead of its time due to the inherent range issues. Communication platforms only work on a mass scale if they manage to get wide adoption. Our current grid is hardly the pinnacle of human technology, but it's what ...
Cancer In The Family & How It Made Us Re-Assess Healthcare Preps
So we've been a little MIA recently on this blog. You may or may not have been able to tell, but from this end of things, it's felt like we've been half in half out for weeks. See, a relative of ours was diagnosed with cancer. Don't worry - 1) It's been long enough for us to have learned that the cancer hasn't spread and, 2) The individual has already had surgery and it appears as though it's ...
10 Things I Love About the Prepper Community & 5 Things I Hate
Every once in a while, someone stumbles on an old article of mine - "Why We're Giving Up Prepping" and doesn't realize that it's actually an April Fools Day joke! I am 100% in this mindset to stay, and would never stop prepping, not ever (which is why I wrote this article as a follow up to my April Fools Day Joke). But being forever-a-prepper doesn't mean that I approve of absolutely everything ...