Have you ever wondered what would happen if the grid went dark for more than a week? In the last decade we've seen this happen several times. Between hurricanes, tornadoes, wild fires, and earth quakes, one thing is astonishingly clear - Most people have NO backup plan. Are you one of the few that does have enough water and propane to hold out? What happens to those that do save enough supplies? When people run out of basic necessities, they will do things they aren't ordinary capable of. That includes pillaging and plundering their neighbor's home to keep their own family fed. What have you done to secure your home? In my book Prepping: Booby Traps and Hunkering Down, we're going to cover the following: Booby Traps and Prepping Your Property Trip Wires External Deterrents Internal Perimeter Deterrents Internal Deterrents Building A Safe Room

A booby trap is simply any device that is designed to detect, injure, kill, or simply to scare an intruder (or intruders). You can set up booby traps around your home and property to defend it against thieves, raiders, and looters during a disaster scenario. Now in your day-to-day life right now, it's absolutely critical that any booby traps you have set up around your home are non-lethal. But in a disaster scenario, where there will be desperate people who will try to kill you for the supplies you have, you can use lethal booby trap defensive weapons to defend your home, property, family, and supplies. In this guide, we are going to cover the top ten booby traps and a step-by-step process for how to build each one. The specific booby traps that we will cover in this book include: Personal Alarm Tripwire Blast Alarm Trap Entanglement Trap Nail Board Trap Feather Spear Trap Heavy Weight Trap Razor Blade Trap Fish Hook Trap Chemical Bucket Drop Trap Tripwire Trap By the end of this book, you will not any know about the top ten best booby traps that you can set up with your own supplies and resources at home, you will know about the exact steps you need to follow to build each one as well.

Booby traps laid by troops in war zones in World War II are largely neglected in histories and memoirs, and rarely examined in detail. Yet for a soldier, the threat of booby traps had to be at the forefront of his mind, and an ability to find and disarm them was essential. This is the first comprehensive study of World War II's battlefield booby traps, using information from rare wartime intelligence publications to identify, illustrate and describe the tactics of both Allied and Axis saboteurs. Examining all aspects of this secretive subject, from the equipment used to the techniques of placing and finding them, this book uncovers the daily risks faced by soldiers on the ground through the course of the war.

Think and act like a Navy SEAL, and you can survive anything. The world is a dangerous place. You can live scared-or be prepared.

“Tips on how to survive the bizarre—an alien abduction, vampires, and zombies, and how to pack for time travel . . . Humor-filled . . . Enjoyable.” —School Library Journal The authors of the best-selling Worst-Case Scenario series are back with a hilarious (and helpful!) handbook that’s a blast through space, time, history, and the imagination. Adventurous kids can find out how to survive a Mars landing, fight a werewolf, deal with a Bigfoot sighting, outwit a leprechaun, prepare for time travel to the prehistoric, ancient, and medieval world, and more. Peppered with historical and scientific facts along with wisdom from folklore, this book in the New York Times–bestselling series will amaze, amuse, and delight.

The Foundation of All Survival Skills is “Feeder” Mind-Set “Feeder” mind-set means being in control of a situation, proactive rather than reactive. It is an optimistic outlook that reframes any situation as a learning experience. Kevin Estela teaches survival skills from this feeder-based perspective, which is what separates his teaching style from other wilderness instructors. Kevin has written the quintessential guide for an outdoor enthusiast’s “bucket list” of skills—how to make a fire, build a shelter, gather food, find water, use a knife correctly and make cordage. These skills will keep you safe and better prepare you to deal with emergencies in the field, when you’ll need the additional skills of signaling and communication, navigation and crisis first aid taught in this book. Each chapter concludes with more advanced techniques to build your skills in various challenging situations, with tips that even seasoned survival enthusiasts haven’t thought of. 101 Skills You Need to Survive in the Woods is not a onetime read but a lifetime reference you will turn to over and over again. It will become the first thing you pack for any adventure and just might save your— or someone else’s—life. kevin estela, a bushcraft and survival expert, is an avid world traveler and martial arts instructor.