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Agreed completely and I've made some straight bows as well.
When I'm teaching others I need to have enough gear to have multiple people working it simultaneously rather than sequentially due to...

So the focus was actually bums/hobos/runaways, and what they do. Sorry I missed that slant.

I will quickly say that those types do use signals to show others something they know about certain...

Immediately after I learned the levees broke (Hurricane Katrina) I went to New Orleans and mainly south-east of there to St. Bernard parish (where I grew up), to go help rescue family, friends, and...

Coincidentally the Jan 2009 Backpacker magazine has a piece covering this very topic.

http://www.backpacker.com/return_of_the_survivor_qa_with_steve_friedman/skills/12479



You'll have to...

Obviously you wish to be argumentive about my assertion that "spending one night outdoors if you're properly dressed is easy". Perhaps you assume that because I only have a few posts here and you...

You're correct about the common rig where the drill wears into the hearth and creates the coal from that. It can work the other way around as well though.

On that, I've seen people try without...

I was secretly hoping for a pic of a stripper in a canoe.;)

The Boundary Waters trips are great, but expensive. You can take a similar trip along the east coast off NC and VA much cheaper. ...

Welcome!


I went to help find that non-speaking autistic kid who was lost in Dolly Sods wilderness area in WV a year or so ago. I've camped at a few other very nice spots in WV as well. Great...

Thanx for the tip rebel. I'll have to stop by my local outfitter store or some book store and grab a copy.

See this link for a nice list of woods and their likely success rate.
http://survivalinstructor.blogspot.com/2006/08/bow-drill-woods.html

I've used white cedar in bow/drill instructing and can...

I learned a new l33t-speak acronym today.:D

Yes, really. Obviously all those people did not wear "proper clothing" (as I clearly noted), which is always your "primary shelter" in any wilderness survival situation. If you know the temps are...

I don't see a timestamp on the posts, but Mitch must have posted 2 seconds after I did. Oh wait, I do see the time. It was 1 minute after.

Here's a pic of scouts I was helping earn their...

That's true (melting a hole) if you don't fill the bottle to the brim. If you fill it "completely" you can let the flames lick the heck out of a plastic bottle and not burn a hole in it. It "may"...

Enroll those younger boys in scouts. Then they can learn how to camp, survive, be thrifty, and etc., and maybe pass some of that back to you and your husband.

BTW does DH mean "dang husband"?...

I'm on it right now. (wink, heh)

BTW those two guys that tried to rob me using a .357 in Fort Worth TX (mentioned above) were "white". I wanted to mention that (but forgot to), noting the...

Welcome. I think wanting to learn and survive is pretty universal (heh).

Surviving "one" night outdoors is easy. Wear proper clothing and you're set in most cases (barring any serious accident...

Digging near a pond does filter out larger gunk and nastiness you don't want to drink straight from any pool of still water, but not the microbic parasites that can still make you sick. Like others...

Those temps are pretty extreme. Mad props to y'all who not only survive them but almost thrive in them.

That's exactly why I help out in such situations independently. Carrying too much gear only slows you down, at a time where minutes/hours/days could mean the difference between life and death for...

Obviously if you put yourself into any environment where danger is inherent, your chances for self injury or death are going to be higher. In 1996 there were 98 people who made the summit of...

Actually New Orleans (where I was born and grew up south-east of there in LA) has had the #1 murder rate during various years over the past 25 years (since crack cocaine came into the scene).

That...

Obviously this isn't a breathable option, but I've gone out with just a single-width mattress bag (picked up for about $3 from any U-Haul). If it rains you can be quite protected, although your...

Hi checksix. I'm brand new to this forum also, and moved to NC about 7 years ago from way down south. I'm in the RTP area, a couple hours to the mountains and a couple hours to the beach. Which...

I just posted this in another topic where a forum member was asking about books on knots and foraging. Afterward I thought there must be another knots topic here somewhere, where the reference info...