I love bad guy reps. That is, I love playing the bad guy in a training scenario. Think about it. We walk around most of the time in good-guy mode. When we consciously make the effort to think like a criminal would to achieve a better understanding of how we can improve our safety, we only temporaril …

The 12 gauge pump shotgun is a survival firearm everyone should own. It is legal in most areas, it is capable of taking any game animal from squirrel to pheasant to bear, and it is an excellent option for home/camp security. The 12 gauge shotgun, as robust as it is, can be finicky and like all tools …

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 …