I recall years ago browsing through studies conducted with children and firearm safety slightly appalled at the data that was being analyzed. Multiple universities had publications stating that children were safer in homes where firearms didn’t exist. Since over 50% of homes in the US have firearms …

Everyday carry changes from one person to the next. Depending on our daily duties and responsibilities as well as our experiences and training, what we carry varies wildly. There are some folks who ground their EDC in fantasy. They carry what they believe will be useful in a hyperinflated sense of t …

At a dinner one night during Overland Expo Mountain West, I sat down across from Brian from @twowolffoundation and discussed a wide range of topics from training, to notable survival instructors, to survival knives, and of course, overlanding. He told me he had an epic camping experience on …

A correlation exists between what is easy to access and how many people you will see there. Think about it, you may run into a dozen people on a particular hiking trail with an Instagram-worthy viewpoint but you probably won’t see a single soul on another trail that just snakes through the trees. Si …

My first experience giving blood corresponded to a day we have collectively agreed not to forget. On September 11th, 2001, I was a senior at Fairfield University and I watched the news come in as I heard neighbors crying through their windows and collecting in common areas consoling one another. Tha …

I’m a sucker for cast iron. Look in my kitchen cabinets and you’ll find a metric ton of cast iron pans, skillets, and pots. Cast iron is old school, like me, and it imparts the best flavor to food. I don’t think there is any fair comparison made between the food you can cook in a cast-iron pan vs th …