Recoil OffGrid Magazine

Remember last fall? It was getting dark, the cold was settling in, and you shoved your gear into that pack with every intention of sorting it out later. You didn’t. I know, because I’ve done it too. Spring has a way of surfacing those shortcuts. Whether you ran out of daylight or just ran out of motivation, gear that sat all winter tends to develop problems quietly. Corrosion creeps. Batteries die. Leather dries out. Mice move in. None of it announces itself until you’re in the field and something fails.

Having the ability to handle both minor and potentially life-threatening injuries in the absence of trained medical professionals is one of the core needs that crosses into both urban emergency survival and wilderness survival. During an urban emergency first responders may be delayed or unable to reach you and, in the wilderness, you may be miles away from civilization – in either case your survival depends on your ability to be your own first responder.

I recently completed an immersive desert survival course in the Sonoran Desert, where we relied on minimal tools and primitive skills. What I learned changed my perspective entirely: There is an abundance of resources if you know where to look, and plenty of ways to successfully thermoregulate even in extreme conditions. This pack isn’t meant for glamping — you would be roughing it like the pioneers of yore.

A few weeks back we wrote a First Look of the updated Reiff F4 Gen 2 and in true Reiff Knives fashion there is no rest for the weary, because today we are looking at the updated Reiff Knives F3! The F3 is the smallest knife in the Reiff Knives F series designed to be an ideal EDC fixed blade, but don’t let the compact package fool you – the F3 still packs plenty of outdoor and survival utility in an easy to carry EDC package.

Jacks Genega has an MTV Video Music Award, a Cannes Lion, and multiple Clios for her visual effects design and video editing talents. She’s worked red carpet campaigns for American Express, Coca-Cola, and IBM. She spent a decade in New York City, years in Boston, and three years living along Amsterdam’s cobblestone canals.

In the previous article, we walked through the neurobiology of a lethal-force encounter — the breaking glass at 2 a.m., the amygdala hijack, the adrenaline surge, the tunnel vision, the shaking hands afterward. We explored what happens in the seconds and minutes during a life-threatening event. Now we turn to the stress response in the hours, days, and months after.

In the eastern foothills of the Galiuro Mountains in Arizona, on a ranch that has been in the same family since the 1870s, a group of strangers gathered in late February to learn the skills their great-great-grandparents took for granted. Over five days, they would learn the stapes of desert survival – building shelters from sticks and leaves, creating fire using nothing but a wooden stick spun between their palms, navigating without GPS, and processing wild game from field to table.

CANCON East is coming to South Carolina May 8th and 9th and OFFGRID BASECAMP is back and bigger than ever! CANCON attendees have the opportunity to get their hands on some of the latest and greatest in modern suppressor innovations and BASECAMP provides attendees the opportunity to enhance their emergency and survival skills – and to level up their essential survival gear! OFFGRID BASECAMP 2026 is presented by Brushbeater -it is a dedicated section of CANCON that features top tier experts in...

On a brisk February morning in Mesa, Arizona, Americans from across the country gathered for what might be described as the Super Bowl of self-defense education. The AOR Association Conference, hosted by The Attorneys On Retainer Association — packed an ambitious agenda into one and a half days: several sessions covering everything from the psychological mechanics of de-escalating a bar fight, to the constitutional litigation that could reshape gun laws for generations.

Tritium has been used in watches since the 1960’s, but the first watch to use Tritium gas tubes was Traser’s P6500 military watch originally released in 1989. Since then, Tritium tubes have become the cold standard for long lasting illumination in the tactical watch market. The advantages of using Tritium are obvious, long-lasting illumination that does not require any battery or light-based charging that is easy to see in dark environments.