What is the best survival guide?

There is a lot of information here.

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Believe it or not but "The Boy Scout handbook" covers a lot of simple and helpfull topics.

i'd say a u.s. army field manual would probably be your best bet when it comes to a "survival" guide.

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The best survival guide is already built into your human mind. It is a hidden feature that not many human beings know about. When you are in danger, this feature kicks in and helps you to survive. This type of knowledge does not need to be taught. Just use logic and reasoning and you'll do fine.

If you are worried about food and water, you do what the ancients did, they carefully tapped into their bodies for blood and drank each others blood for survival. Sustainable blood harvesting and drinking was a popular thing amongst the ancient civilizations during times of famine. They also ate their dead and made tools and weapons out of their bones. They ate their own feces and used the leftover as caulking to waterproof their huts and bungalows.

Don't worry about it, food will be always abundant even if a famine hits. The weak that rely on clean water and canned foods will die off slowly leaving the us real survivalists to inherit the Earth.

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Get the radioactive water filtered by soil;

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Air Force Manual 64-5 Search & Rescue Survival Guide

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survivalblog.com The best and most extensive.

Get off big cities. Get together with people. That´s about it.

A good water filter is one of the best "survial" items you can obtain.

If you get a water filter be sure to get one with CERAMIC filters that will handle thousands of gallons versus the ones with the other types of filters that will only handle a couple of hundred gallons before they are toast.

For one big enough to handle the needs of an entire family that is also extremely portable I use a Katadyne "Camp" filter retrofitted with their ceramic filters (which have silver in them to keep internal bacterial growth down). I use that filter regularly on wilderness trips since it is a fill it and forget it system once one sets up camp in the evening. It is also less subject to "mechanical failure" than the pump systems since it is just a gravity flow system, though there are some excellent pump systems out there.

Any good water filter system is NOT going to filter out radioactive iodine that is dissolved in the water, volatile chemicals, nor the small viruses (those take a reverse osmosis system, such as the emergency filters sold to sailors that can convert sea water to fresh water ... about $2000 for the smallest one fwiw), but they do clean out most of the stuff that normally makes people sick.

Plan on spending about $200 to $350 for a full size system (with the ceramic filters) or $120 to $150 for a personal pump with ceramic filters.

DO NOT GET ANYTHING THAT DOES NOT HAVE CERAMIC FILTERS THAT FILTER TO A VERY SMALL SIZE FOR IT!! The 200 gal life of the other types of filters will be used up in just a few days.

(enough bottled water for a couple of weeks is also good to store, but doesn't replace a good filter system since you can't store enough)

Wanted to add: As a backup to my ceramic water filter system for wilderness trips I also carry the "Polar Pure" iodine treatment system. It doesn't filter anything, just purifies the water via iodine. Again it is long lived (and small and lightweight), versus just using iodine tablets. About $10 to $15. Good camping stores in most places will have it (banned and not allowed to be sold in some states), or you can order it over the internet.

I have about 15 different survival books, here's my two favorites.

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Paul Tawrell has the absolute BEST one, color pictures and everything in this one.
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Not as good as others, I have all the military survival guides and they are very short and not descriptive like Paul Tawrell's books are.

Zombie survival guide

Probably Rawles gets you ready from off Survival Blog or on Amazon.

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The Sawyer filters are the absolute best out there.Uses dialysis filter technology and is good for 1 million gallons.They have them on Amazon and even your local walmart.Though the ones sold at walmart in the camping section($34.00)say they are only good for 500 gallons.I called Sawyer and they said it is the exact same filter,they did not want to be sued because someone could not learn to maintain it.So in short get a filter for $34 dollars that is good for a million gallons.

You do need to back flush them with clean water every 500 gallons or so.We have used these on some long camping trips(16 days)the easiest way to back flush them is with one of those blue squeeze ball things they sell for babies or ears.One of those full of clean water to back flush the filter and you are good for another 500 gallons.Total weight less than 12 oz.
water filter to save your ass. $34 dollars.
Having clean potable water. Priceless.

has a LOT of valuable videos that teach how to live and survive in a crisis. He does a really good job explaining things

Youtube user "bushcraftonfire" has a lot of valuable videos on survival in a crisis situation. He really explains things well

fm 21-76 us army survival manual .a few buks on e-bay

I bot a stove called the Pocket Cooker for $12.95. Folds up flat and you cook on twigs, branches, pine cones etc. Free fuel found everywhere. Do a search on it.

If you have any that's worth a Fuck. I'd say COMMON SENSE.

This is all you'll ever need


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ignore everythig the news and govt tells you, or do the opposite of what they say and you might survive.

This is my choice [and I have 6-8 survival books]. I would also suggest having "The Big Book Of Self Reliant Living", or the old version "Public Works". You are not going to carry these around as they are the size of an Atlanta phone book but if you are staying put in a shtf then this is a great book to have.