By Selco Begovic I usually answer readers’ questions in my articles. Sometimes people openly ask something. More often I answer folks’ questions in terms that I try to bring some reality from my perspective and my experiences. This is in a field where people are…
Urban survival vs. rural survival is a near-constant debate in preparedness circles. Those who live on acreage sometimes scoff at those who live in cities for reasons of business, education, or families. Those who live in the cities feel obligated to defend their choices. The…
By Selco Begovic The competition for the worst prepping advice out there is pretty sharp. It’s been going on for many years and has a tendency to get even more ridiculous as time goes on. One reason is that a lot of the advice is…
By Selco Begovic I often say that survival is about being ahead of other folks around you. If I want to “complicate” that definition a bit I would say that survival is also keeping the ability to cope with everyday tasks, stay alive, and still…
By Selco Begovic Watching how the pandemic stuff worked here around me in the Balkan countries was something like re-learning about prepping, and actually it was a good class (unless you were sick, got fired or similar). Rough times from the pandemic here are pretty…
By Selco Begovic There are some skills and strategies that survivalists and preppers keep bashing on over and over again as important ones for hard times. Some of those are good, others are simply wrong, or miscalculated, or let’s say “built” on wrong the foundations…
By Selco It is hard to bring the mindset of survival to people who have not experienced a hard situation of at least some kind of survival event. Over the many years of being connected with people who are into survival, I realize there are…
By Selco People want definitive solutions, manuals that are gonna help them step by step, lead them from point A to point B. It works in any field of life, so it works too in the field of survival. It is one of the reasons…
By Selco The medical field is one of my favorite fields of prepping, not only because it is my “field of work” for many years but also because it is very often misunderstood in prepping. There are many reasons for that, one of the reasons…
By Selco This is an excerpt from Selco’s book, The Dark Secrets of SHTF Survival. This weekend, you can get all 5 of Selco’s books in PDF for only $25. CLICK HERE. I recently ran one of my newest courses, called “A Mile in My…
