Survival Skills: Techniques and Skills to Stay Alive

Last Updated on December 11, 2019

Survival isn’t just about prepping or having the right survival gear. Knowledge of survival skills is absolutely crucial to any serious survivalist or prepper. Here are all our posts related to survival skills that we feel are essential to making it through disaster:

• How to Build a Shelter in the Wild
• Top Survival Tools for the Wilderness
• Hurricane Warning – Hurricane Survival Checklist
• Trapping vs. Hunting Post Apocalypse Survival
• Best Guard Dogs: Canine Security and Which Dogs Attack
• Top 10 Best Fermentation Survival Foods
• Wild Horses: How to Tame a Post Apocalyptic Horse
• E-Tool: 10 Surprising Things You Can Do With An Army Shovel to Survive
• The Top 3 Ways People Die in the Wild
• How to Make A Torch When You Need Hours of Fire
• Snakes and Survival: Can Snakes Be Eaten in a Survival Emergency?
• The Top 10 Survival Recipes from the Backwoods
• How to Be A Hero and Stop a Terrorist Attack … As It Unfolds
• U.S. Army Ranger Airborne Combat Medics
• 4 Simple Ways to Dry and Smoke Meat in The Wild
• Survival Composting: Can Human Excrement Be Used as Compost?
• Emergency Communications: Nationwide Blackout, EMP, or Solar Flare
• 15 Essential Survival Tips And Supplies
• Survival Swimming: Navy SEAL Swimming Stroke
• Can You Eat Bear Meat? How to Hunt, Cook, and Eat Bears for Survival
• 10 Ways to Fool the Authorities and Escape Martial Law
• 3 Ways to Build an Emergency Distiller – Survival Water Distillation
• The Top 15 Insects You Can Eat to Survive … and HOW
• If Terrorists Attack Nuclear Power Plants: 10 Ways to Survive A Nuclear Meltdown
• Top 15 Commodities to Barter With Post Collapse
• Survival Electricity: How to Make and Store Electricity When SHTF
• SHTF: 30 Ways to Protect Yourself from Hackers
• The Top 10 Ways to Live Off the Grid
• Rodents, Insect Swarms? Get Rid of Pests, Problem Insects, and Infestations
• Survival Hunting: Top 10 Best Game Birds to Hunt
• 15 Top Wild Edibles That Can Save You in the Wild
• Kerosene – A Light and Heat Source in a Survival Situation
• What You Need to Know About Hunting Elk
• Survival Hunting: Baiting Animals, Large Game, and Predators
• Survival Hunting: How to Hunt Elk – Ultimate Big Game Hunting
• How to Start a Fire in Wet Conditions (and Survive in the Cold)
• Reality Martial Arts: Immobilizing and Lethal Strikes of Special Forces
• Swiss Family Robinson – 10 Ways to Build Anything
• Bulldozers – The Ultimate Doomsday Prep
• Top 10 Deadly Events Where “Fight or Flight” Can Save Your Life
• How to Hunt Elk in the High Country
• Survival Greenhouse
• 3 Survival Tips from U.S. Special Forces
• Family Survival Plan: Why It’s Important to Have One
• U.S. Special Forces Survival Training
• Wild Food – Foraging for Food and Edible Plants
• Insect Harvesting: Edible Flies and (Maggots) Pack a Nutritional Punch
• Survival: Spear Hunting & Spears for Defense
• How to Spot and Stalk Elk
• Off Grid Shelter: How to Get Land and Build an Inexpensive Home or Cabin
• Using a Primitive Weapon in Combat
• Hand to Hand Combat: How to Fight Like Jason Bourne
• How to Make Emergency Water Filters
• Primitive Slingshots: Survival Hunting Skills
• Survival: How to Cross Rivers, Streams, and Rapids
• How to Build a Root Cellar – EMP and Post Apocalyptic Survival
• Survival: Hunting and Trapping Small Game
• Survival Garden: Build an Off Grid Garden for SHTF
• How to Survive Anything Leadership and Teamwork Are Critical Keys to Group Survival
• How to Survive an Encounter with Dangerous Animals After A Disaster
• Hunting Big Game: Final Points About Hunting Elk
• Communications After an EMP
• The Will to Survive: How to Develop the Survival Mind
• Top Medicinal Plants in the USA (and North America)
• 21 Survival Skills That Can Save Your Life
• Survival: How to Find True North Without a Compass
• How to Assemble A Survival Backpack Out of Items in Your Home
• Wilderness Survival: Lost in the Wild and How to Get Out Alive
• Sword Fighting for Self Defense in a Fallen America
• List of National Trails for Emergency Evacuation
• Survival Moving – Protecting Your Family From a Nuclear Confrontation
• Primitive Food Storage Methods For Emergencies
• Moving Before Disaster Strikes
• Rainwater Harvesting – How to Prep for Water Shortages
• George Washington’s Secret of Survival
• Finding Food After the Collapse
• Indiana Jones and the Secret of Survival
• The Top 10 Supplies to Scavenge in a Post Apocalypse
• Spearfishing – How to Survive a Waterworld Apocalypse
• Native American Fishing Techniques for Finding Food
• Tornado Survival Tips
• How to Find Clean Drinking Water After an Urban Disaster
• Top 7 Reasons for Bugging Out from Economic Collapse or Catastrophic Disaster
• Herbal Medicine: How Knowing Medicinal Plants Can Save Your Life in an Emergency
• The Top Ten Edible Insects in North America
• Survival First Aid: Post-Collapse Medicine and How to Use it to Save Lives
• Survival Fishing: 10 Ways to Catch Fish in an Emergency
• 15 Self Defense Tactics that Can Save Your Life
• Economic Collapse Horror Stories
• Escape and Evasion: Surviving Kidnappings and Forced Captivity
• U.S. Special Forces Alpine Warfare Guide
• How to Survive A Tornado
• Shocking Wolf Attacks on Humans – How to Survive Wolf Attacks
• How to Survive A Dog Attack: Self Defense and Dogs
• Surviving A Los Angeles Terrorist Attack: Brutal and Shocking
• Shoulder Fired Nukes? Nuclear Attack Survival Guide
• 15 Steps to Starting a Fire Without a Match – Flint and Primitive Fire Making
• Evacuation Survival Guide – How to Survive a Catastrophic Disaster in a Major City
• How to Evade and Escape Tracking Dogs
• How to Find Water in the Wilderness
• U.S. Special Forces Advanced Mountain Operations School
• 12 Ways You Can Be Seriously Injured in the Wilderness
• Living Off the Land – Are You Ready?
• Survival Resources