Survivalpunk

Coconut Oil Fire Starter

July 8, 2013July 8, 2013 James Burnette 26 Comments

I was watching a terrible YouTube video this morning about a bushcraft hobo meal. I wont even name the video but I gave me a great idea that I tested out immediately. The video showed a trick of soaking cotton balls in olive oil to use as a fire starter. I use Vaseline with cotton balls to make mine and had never thought to use Olive oil. The guy said he always keeps a little jar of Olive oil in his pack to either cook with or use as a fire starter. I wouldn’t keep olive oil like that to keep it from going rancid but I know of an oil that won’t go bad. My idea was to use coconut oil soaked cotton pads to use. So lets get down to the how’s and why’s?

New Sponsor LPC Survival

July 4, 2013July 4, 2013 James Burnette 2 Comments

Today I’m proud to introduce a great new sponsor to the Survivalpunk Blog. LPC Survival is ran by the awesome Jeff “The Berkey Guy” Gleason. Jeff with his site Directive21 have lots of great prepper items as well as the best in water purification products, Berkey Filters, on the market. Jeff has been in business for over seven years. I googled around and was not able to find a single customer complaint that was not fixed. To be in business that long with no complaints is a huge accomplishment.

Forums as a Survival Tool

July 3, 2013July 3, 2013 James Burnette 4 Comments

I used to be really into a few forums on the net and slowly got too busy to post or even lurk much. I’ve had a feeling of something missing recently and it was the community offered on these online forums. So today I’ll be talking about a few of my favorite forums as well as how to use them as a tool in your preparations. So let’s get this post knocked out so I can get down to lurking on those forums.

Survival Water Bottle Kit

July 2, 2013June 23, 2022 James Burnette

One of my friends is running a contest over on the Zombie Squad Forums and asked if I was interested. I love contests, especially ones that put constrains on you that make you really work hard. For this contest you must create a Survival Nalgene Bottle on the cheap. I like both the limited space of the nalgene bottle and the cost restriction. This contest has the insane budget of everything has to be under $5 except the bottle and one item that may be $10. I figured I had enough gear laying around I could throw one together. I did and I am rather proud of the kit I made. Let me show you what I tossed together and tell you how you can enter this contest.

EDC Made Easy

June 28, 2013June 28, 2013 James Burnette 6 Comments

I had an idea to make edc simple and streamlined but subtle. I didn’t want to be sporting around a Batman utility belt. I also didn’t want to got the fanny pouch route. I know Nutnfancy wears one and says to get over it. Well I’m not getting over it and I think I found a better solution that will not make you stand out as a weirdo or tourist. My solution give you the ability to carry a few extra items that you need everyday.I’m still working out the kinks and on the items that work best but I’ll go ahead and share what I have so far.