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Build An Emergency Survival Shelter
In just about any survival situation or any emergency scenario, assuming you are not injured in any way, and where you are forced to fend for yourself, then your number one procedure is to ensure you can make a good shelter suitable to keep you out of the elements and as safe as you possibly can be
There's Good luck and There's Bad luck in the UK.
Fortunately in the UK we have relatively few beasties that can do you harm - no lions or tigers, no bears or snakes - so we are quite safe out in the wild. Unless you have a fear of hordes of marauding bunnies attacking you, then you're pretty safe here in the good old British Isles.
The bad luck, on the other hand is the fact that we do not have the huge expanses of pure wilderness and terrain that's suitable for 'just disappearing' like our lucky cousins over in the USA and many other countries.
The average UK citizen is very much a town dweller and has probably only ventured out into the wilds of the UK's countryside once in their lifetime anyway. So we might as well forget about them - their buggered when the SHTF.
But for the UK prepper, who should have a bug out plan already in place, survival skills are an essential part of your prepping for such future events which, it would seem, are getting closer by the day..!
Below are some examples of the types of survival shelter.
These can all be easily constructed with a little bit of survival knowledge using basic materials and working with the terrain.
Building a shelter
Building a good shelter that is suitable to give you protection from the elements is not difficult - getting it water tight and warm, however, can be a problem.
So go out and practice. Then practice again until this number one skill set becomes easy for you to do.
There is also a full range of "man made'' emergency survival shelters available, all designed to give a more instant emergency shelter if needed
So, do you think you know How To Build A Survival Shelter,..?
Have a look here > How to build a survival Shelter.
Further articles: Top Ten Survival Skills
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Top Ten Survival Skills
Number 2 - FIND FOOD
If you're in a situation where food is either in short supply or non existent due to the masses stripping the stores bare, and there's precious little chance of any food being distributed, then you're going to have to fend for yourself.
This means ensuring you have the survival skills to live off the land, using your own wits to ensure you don't starve.
You will need all the survival skills to CATCH, KILL, BUTCHER, COOK & PRESERVE any food you can get - and you need to learn those skills now.
Finding enough food will become your number one daily concern - hunting, trapping and fishing are your best options in the short term, preserving will come next, with growing your own food naturally following later.
Ask yourself this question - could I kill an animal - a nice fluffy bunny, hopping around all playful and full of life..?
- If the answer is no, then mate, your shafted...! simple as that and, as nice as berries and leaf tea really are, you're not going to last more than a few weeks in a real survival situation.
Without doubt, once you have a shelter to call 'home', you have to be on a quest to find food by whatever means you can.
That's going to mean using trapping and snares along with hunting using a rifle, catapult or any other means you can.
Learn fishing skills.
This is probably the most easiest of methods to obtain food (and for some, the most 'humane'..?) Fish aren't all cuddly like a rabbit, so it's easier for some people to just bash them on the head and thats it - done..
In fact, you don't even have to put any real effort into fishing anyway.
You can get automatic reels like this one that will sense the fish, strike the fish and even reel it into shore for you while you're off doing something else.
A bit of a preppers dream really - just keep it simple whenever you can.
find out more information here > YO-YO Automatic Mechanical Fishing Reel
Once you have caught your food, you must butcher and prepare it as quick as you can, especially when its hot.
Butchering skills are something that can only really be learned by actually doing that skill - some bits are easy, others not and some bits are essential to know as you can do yourself some serious damage if don't prepare the food correctly.
How to cook your food without a cooking stove.? 
Knowing the correct ways to cook food in the wild is a survival skill that takes practice.
You can easily undercook food, leaving you vulnerable to parasites and to certain sickness and diarrhea for sure - over cook and you might as well eat a bit of charcoal wood - again a simple thing in theory, but this skill takes practice.
next pages here >
Top 10 Survival Skills
- Shelter
- Find Food
- Make Fire
- Find Water
- Sanitation
- Medical Requirements
- Personal Protection
- Grow Your Own Food
- Preserving & Storing Food
- Signalling & Communication
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Number 4 - MAKING A FIRE
Having the skill to make fire is absolutely essential in any survival situation - without this ability will render many other important survival necessities impossible.
In a survival situation having this knowledge and ability are essential for survival. Fire will provide you with heat and light, as well as being a means to cook your food and sterilise your drinking water, to ward off would be predators and also a great moral and physiological booster.
Fire is very easy to make but, can be very difficult without any modern tools, but requires a lot of patience and practice - in fact you cannot really know how difficult it can be until you actually try it.!
Every survival skill requires that you practice and this definitely applies when it comes to making your own fire.
Below are the three main methods of making fire Each one is a skill in its own right, although they are all trying to achieve to same goal: to get amber, from there you can start a fire.
Bow Drill Method
Hand Drill Method
Fire Plough Method
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Now this is not good news if you're in an emergency survival situation.
The difference between your choice can mean life or death - as simple as that.
This is one of the big essential survival skills you MUST learn.
So, do you think you get drinking water..?
So what do you need to do - see next page here > How to get safe drinking water.
Top 10 Survival Skills
- Shelter
- Find Food
- Make Fire
- Find Water
- Sanitation
- Medical Requirements
- Personal Protection
- Grow Your Own Food
- Preserving & Storing Food
- Signalling & Communication
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Top Ten Survival Skills
Number 5 - SANITATION
In normal life we think nothing of washing our hands after going to the toilet, and of having a shower whenever we want to - as keeping clean is easy.
But when the water in the tap drys up and your toilet won't flush. What then.? What if your water is contaminated, you wouldn't want to be cleaning out wounds with contaminated water either..
This is why this subject is so high up on the list of survival skills. Yeah, it's a bit of a gross subject. But learn as much about survival sanitation as you can now - excuse the pun, but learn the ins and out...!
There are really only three main areas to be concerned with:
- Personal
- General Waste
- Human Waste
Personal Sanitation can actually mean both inside and outside the body - Inside will include drinking safe, sterile water that's free from parasites and viruses and water that will not make you sick.
also see: how to find and purify water
Outside the body, eg, your skin requires special attention as it is very easy to get an infected cut that has the possibility to turn septic, if this cannot be treated, the wound can easily escalate into a very serious condition requiring medical treatment and some serious drugs - if they are not available, you are in big trouble and risk potential death.
General Waste concerns the waste products you throw away - in a survival situation this could be anything from a sweet wrapping to an animal carcass - it must be disposed of with care and in the proper manner as to not cause a potential risk to your health, and also reduce the risk of wild animals 'sniffing out' you camp food store.
Human waste is obviously, the most disgusting area of survival sanitation to deal with. Even if you're hunkered down in your home, its going to be a problem - pumping stations need water, man power and electrical power to get rid of your waste and any one of them will mean nothing happens when you flush the toilet.
In a survival situation you have to deal with both areas, as one, you need a toilet area, and two, you have to get rid of the waste itself.
Failure in any of these crucial areas could result in very unpleasant viruses and illness and in a prolonged untreated situation will put you at severe risk of infection.
Survival Sanitation:
- Personal Cleanliness
- Removing General Waste Removing
- Human Waste
Top 10 Survival Skills
- Shelter
- Find Food
- Make Fire
- Find Water
- Sanitation
- Medical Requirements
- Personal Protection
- Grow Your Own Food
- Preserving & Storing Food
- Signalling & Communication
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Top Ten Survival Skills
Number 7 - PERSONAL PROTECTION
In just about any survival situation or any emergency scenario, there will come a time when you have to defend yourself and your supplies.
You have shelter and provisions and are trying to keep under the radar, away from any fuss, until everything calms down enough for you to venture further away from camp, maybe you are looking for more supplies or hunting for food and need to expand your area.
Maybe you are managing very well and quite comfortable in your bug out location keeping yourself to yourself.
That's all well and good... But what about those who are not preppers, and never been preppers - they will be on the hunt for someone just like you, who has supplies and water and can 'help them out'.
Of course, if you don't want to help them, it won't matter - they are going to take everything you've got anyway.
If you have no personal protection in place you're a sitting duck.
Way before the SHTF you should be preparing yourself for the inevitable defence of what is yours. To prepare for your personal protection requires as much of your time and effort as you have put into prepping in the first place.
Personal protection involves four main disciplines:
- Personal fitness
- Personal fighting skills
- Defensive Weapons training
- Situation awareness
*Just a quick note here - personal protection also means that sometimes you need the common sense to just run away from a situation as fast as possible - not every confrontation is do or die...
Personal Fitness
Right at this very moment if you can't do 20 pushups, 20 sit ups, 10 chin ups, 10 dips and run 100mtrs flat out - you, my friend, are borderline dead meat when it comes to survival -
to give yourself even a 50/50 chance in any confrontation you simply must be fitter, quicker and stronger than any, would be, looter or mugger who is hell bent on getting your gear.
Personal Fighting Skills
Learning to actually defend and attack is an essential part of personal protection and an absolute necessity for survival.
Being very skilled at only a few martial arts moves will give you the ability to render an attacker useless - combine that with the fact that learning a martial art will also increase your fitness levels gives you a win-win situation.
Defensive Weapons Training
In the UK it is not an easy job obtaining a firearms license [ FAC ] that will enable you to own a decent weapon to defend yourself with.
That being the case UK Preppers have learned to adapt and use what is currently, readily available.
Its a case of use what's available, practice with those weapons and get half decent at using them - now - before its too late.
Situation Awareness.
This is an odd one when it comes to personal protection - many times you can avoid confrontation and the chance of being looted by simply being aware of all thats going on around you.
Far too many people 'just get on with it', without knowing what's going on around you - you put yourself in danger by not being observant of your surroundings and the people in them.
A typical example of this is the amount of people who just wander along aimlessly texting on their mobile phone, blissfully unaware of anything or anyone around them - make yourself wake up and take notice of the situation your in.
I would suggest you take a look at this article - DEFENCIVE TRAINING FOR PREPPERS - it's very good and will give you a good insight into personal fighting skills for preppers.
As far as weapons go, take a look at this article, LEGAL UK WEAPONS, and see what weapons you can legally own without requiring a FAC.
Top 10 Survival Skills
- Shelter
- Find Food
- Make Fire
- Find Water
- Sanitation
- Medical Requirements
- Personal Protection
- Grow Your Own Food
- Preserving & Storing Food
- Signalling & Communication
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Top Ten Survival Skills
Number 8 - GROW YOUR OWN FOOD
Once you have overcome the initial disaster situation and have successfully bugged out, the next natural progression is to start to consider a long term plan.
The plan must take into account whether you will be remaining in you bug out location for a decent period of time, and by decent I mean a couple of years at least.
In just about any survival situation or any emergency scenario, it may be necessary to move about in order to avoid being compromised. If that's the case then the long term growing of food has to be even more carefully considered. But it is more than possible to successfully grow your own food for survival with a long term plan.
If you intend to move about to avoid detection then it is still possible to start the beginnings of a food source with seeds that are both hardy and will reproduce naturally with the very minimum of human intervention and help.
These 'crops' can be left to grow naturally and can even form part of a food cache that you can come back to - remember, vegetables and crops will find a way to grow naturally. So with the minimum amount of help from yourself they will do quite well anyway.
Basic farming and growing methods are an essential survival skill to learn - even the very basic methods will produce food that is more than acceptable to eat.
As preppers long term food supplies is often overlooked, but it is actually a very essential part of prepping.
The good part is that we can prepare for doomsday survival food crops very easily - seeds are small, compact, lightweight and cheap. Everything a prepper wants.!
You can hold a vast supply of seeds that will produce food in abundance for you, year in, year out - you just have to be prepared with a stash.
Find out how to 'grow your own survival food' in this article
Top 10 Survival Skills
- Shelter
- Find Food
- Make Fire
- Find Water
- Sanitation
- Medical Requirements
- Personal Protection
- Grow Your Own Food
- Preserving & Storing Food
- Signalling & Communication
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Top Ten Survival Skills
Number 6 - MEDICAL REQUIREMENTS
Assessing your personal medical requirements and also the requirements of your family is a very big responsibility when preparing for a disaster scenario.
There are simply so many variables to consider, including the risk of potential death from lack of essential medication.
If you are in good health and do not need to take any tablets or have injections or need medication on a regular basis then you are one of the lucky ones. Your chances of survival have just increased a thousand percent..!
What about existing medical conditions?
It would be very difficult for anyone who requires 'life maintaining' medication to survive a prolonged disaster. Further down the scale there are various other medical problems that can easily result in death if not administered daily.
Typically, diabetes is one of them - as a prepper you would try to have a huge supply of medication available for your needs that would give you some hope of survival in the longer term.
Injuries and emergency medical conditions.
Injuries and immediate medial procedures are very necessary survival skills for preppers. It is very easy to learn and master the basics of first aid and how to administer medial help to yourself and others.
The St John Ambulance have regular first aid courses for anyone to attend and cost next to nothing - as preppers the bare minimum is to get he whole family enrolled and trained on the basics.
Its not difficult to put together a good first aid medical kit that will cater for most emergency situations - you can even buy ready made kits from the very basic right up to full para medic kits - straight of the shelf.
There really is no excuse for not being prepared for medical emergencies.
See my article on First aid safety and equipment here
Top 10 Survival Skills
- Shelter
- Find Food
- Make Fire
- Find Water
- Sanitation
- Medical Requirements
- Personal Protection
- Grow Your Own Food
- Preserving & Storing Food
- Signalling & Communication
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Number 9 - PRESERVING & STORING FOOD
In a disaster situation or worse still a doomsday scenario your main daily chores will be, quite simply, to survive and feed yourself and your family.
The longer you become accustomed to surviving the easier life will become.
You will become far more skilled at hunting and trapping for food. At catching and skinning and cooking fish and animals. You will begin small farming plots and grow your own vegetables and crops - all survival skills that you should know and can improve on.
But there are times during the year when there is an abundance of foods and other times when the land is bare and food is far more harder to come across.
It therefore makes sense to try and preserve as much of that food as you can when its in abundance.
You must prepare for the lean times.
Sometimes it may not be possible to even hunt for your food. When this happens you must have the survival skills to preserve and store the foods that you have caught in the good times of the year.
Building up a supply of food for the 'bad' times of the year is essential for all preppers.
There are many ways to increase the life of your food and make your food safe as well - we all know the beauty of MRE's and dehydrated meals with their lifespan of up to 25 years in some cases, and yes, these are definitely something we should consider stocking up with.
They will help through the hard times, but learning how to naturally preserve your food will help you for ever.
Of course, as a prepper, it is important to already be preserving your own foods in the home - you can make very cost effective food stores that have a good shelf life in your own kitchen right now - and you should be doing this to help build up you food supplies.
One of the most effective methods is to use a Food Dehydrator combined with a Vacuum Sealer
For some more information see my article on Food Storage Prepping Equipment
next page: How to Preserve Food for survival
Top 10 Survival Skills
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Top Ten Survival Skills
Number 10 - SIGNALLING & COMMUNICATION
Communication between fellow preppers is a vital part of setting up a network of like minded people who can help each other other out when the SHTF.
We all know the importance of keeping a low profile and operating below the radar in 'normal' times.
The same applies even more during times of disaster when you have get out quick and survive as best you can, away from the crowds of potential looters and nutters, hell bent on getting your stuff at any cost.
But there will come a time when things start to quieten down - depending on the type of disaster - whether its a meltdown of society or a natural event, it will reach a point of equilibrium where the strongest and most prepared are surviving. Yes, there will still be the nutters, but the most determined and prepared will be majority.
If you are a family who have bugged out together, then having a means of communication and signalling between yourselves is essential to your continued survival.
If you have a 'post doomsday' survival plan with other preppers then you must ensure you have then means to put that plan into operation.
There are many methods of communicating between two people - some covert and some not, but either way communication must be set up at some point.
Basic signalling is an essential survival skill to learn - as with all prepping, the simpler the better. Reduce the risk of equipment failure by keeping the equipment you use as simple as possible.
Signalling and communication between yourselves and others is something you must learn before any disaster situation and ensuring you are prepared with the basic equipment must be part of your bug out bag kit.
Take a look at this article on Basic Signalling and Communication Methods.
Top 10 Survival Skills
- Shelter
- Find Food
- Make Fire
- Find Water
- Sanitation
- Medical Requirements
- Personal Protection
- Grow Your Own Food
- Preserving & Storing Food
- Signalling & Communication
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