Well, it looks like things are going to be easier than we originally thought. The whole community is offering to help. Family, friends, even our business contacts. My wife and I own a Snap-On...
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Well, it looks like things are going to be easier than we originally thought. The whole community is offering to help. Family, friends, even our business contacts. My wife and I own a Snap-On...
we have unlimited access to as much lumber as we care to collect. my wifes grandparents own a tree farm, over a thousand acres. they have already offered to let us cut as many trees down as we...
probably CPM S30V for general use.
Sandvik 14C28N for skinning and anything else that benefits from a razor edge.
will do. i have already started looking into it and some things may take some doing to get approved, but the people who can bless off on it are family friends... or straight up family. i wouldnt...
so, my father just recently went bankrupt and will be moving in with me and my wife next week. well, my father, mother, and my niece are moving in with us...
anyway, im going to hire my father...
blazing a trail... makes sense.
i always made up stories about what i had seen along my path. as i walk along, i make up some crazy fantasy story. an odd shaped branch would become an old...
i dont know what the stages might be, but i think Rick is right about the last stage being someone caring for you when you cannot care for your self.
my wifes grandparents seem to be big on...
mouse boiled in her own urine...
wow.
so far as necessities, it changes with the season too... in the santa fe swamp in florida, you can just about light the whole swamp up in a day, when its...
i have been lost quite a few times...
i never have enough water or food. one of two always runs out before i want it to.
I would be more interested in learning to improvise firearms. Black powder is easy enough, but I have never made a muzzle loader, let alone my own cartridges.
Given the chance, I would try to...
i used to live in eielson air force base, when my dad was stationed up there. about four years.
on my birthday, the sun never really went down. on my brothers birthday, the sun never really...
DKott25,
when you say "it feels like your talking to yourself", what do you mean?
there are several layers of awareness, and when people start thinking in the next higher level, i often hear...
I have, but it doesnt help. I'm not even sure my feet are sweating... more like they ooze through the skin. Kinda like the skin just liquifies.
And I'm sorry if it makes you sick reading...
i learned a whole bunch of words in farsi and pashtun.
i have a feeling that if this were a modern folk remedy, it would have never been tested. the only reason THIS particular remedy was tested was because it is a thousand years old. and that makes it...
ok, the sweating thing was actually the very thing i was wondering about. my toes always look(from underneath and in between) like they are rotting from athletes foot. nothing i have ever tried...
lol
when i was went through OSUT, one of our drill sergeants gave a guy a dip on one of the marches during the final FTX. talk about motivation...
there was no stopping that soldier!
i never got medivaced for my feet, but the 18D that treated my feet after i got done with selection told me that i would probably suffer life long problems from the damage i had done to my feet.
...
my mother has cataracts, cant hardly see. relatively recently, walked her through the basics, and before long she was nailing dimes set on end at 25 yards, with a .22 caliber round.
if my insane...
i would say i fall into that category. though, its not that its all i have ever known... its just that i have used it SO MUCH, and for some reason, the ruggedness of it appeals to me. i have never...
lol, that reminds me of a time when i was trying to find a point that was buried deep in an insanely huge draw... i beat around in the darned thing for a few hours(vegetation was THICK!) and FINALLY...
im trying to think of infantry survival skills that would apply to a post apocalyptic scenario.
hmm...
reverse order planning...
risk analysis...
knowing what happens if you dont take care...
My main hobby is planted aquariums. beyond that, it's mostly studying language.
If you can call that a hobby. my job requires arabic, which I no longer care to study, but do anyway.
Ah... ...
I do land nav almost entirely through terrain association nowadays. I just want the compass to point north while I am bouncing around, and show me north while I am moving in the dark. The lensatic...
I have never killed a snake that I didn't eat...
Ok, I take that back. one of the first snakes I owned was a hog nose snake. i fed it the wrong kind of food and it eventually died. Sad day.
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