I just bring along a bic lighter or two. Simple, reliable, and they can be used for quite a long time before they run out. Especially if one banks their fire at night to re-use the coals in their...
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I just bring along a bic lighter or two. Simple, reliable, and they can be used for quite a long time before they run out. Especially if one banks their fire at night to re-use the coals in their...
Hi Mad Coyotee, welcome to the site. I've never been to Kansas, so I can not speak for it's tumbled terrain or lack thereof, :-D
Hopefully you'll enjoy the forum,
BSM
Bring something to sharpen your knife. Also a fixed knife is less likely to fall apart on you than a pocket knife. At the same time, a pocket knife has quite a few more functions than a simple...
I know a primitive way of creating fire, but not necessarily natural. You take something steel, like the flat of a survival knife or machete and scrape different types of rocks against it. ...
Boiling your food into a soup or stew really is the way to go nutritionally as well. Most laymen see people on TV cooking strips of meat on a stick over the fire, but this really isn't a good idea...
Hello Vf/mo,
Welcome to the forum,
BSM
Hopefully we'll see more of you,
BSM
Hello Sleazy E,
Welcome to the forums, I look forward to reading your posts!
Ciao,
BSM
Pretty much anything by Euell Gibbons.
The first consideration: What's the pack for? Short walks, full-day rambles, occasional overnights, every-weekend year-after-year long-distance hauls --- the needs differ. As they do for...
My bad, I just used the term already being used. I've always heard all of them referred as pit traps in general.
BSM
Hockey, soccer, and ping-pong :-D.
BSM
We can homemade apple jelly every year. :-D Mmmmm..... Oh, and about the apples. I remember hearing somewhere that they are often kept in a nitrogen rich atmosphere as the lack of oxygen also...
BTW, if they do help to clean the river like tater03 said, it would probably be wise to avoid eating any bivalves from rivers that may be or may have been polluted as mercury and other toxins tend to...
I like Jericho, because it brings up things I wouldn't have thought of on my own. Like the fact that salt would suddenly be valuable for preserving food. Or that some metals would become worthless...
There was a dirty old man who lived on the lake who would catch painted turtles (illegally) with turtle traps. He would take a milkjug and tie a high-pound test line around the handle. The other...
I never go into the woods without a bic lighter and a jack knife. I've started fires without the lighter, and I've managed to use sharp rocks to cut things needing cutting just to see if I could,...
I live in Northern Michigan. There are swamps, mature hardwood forests, jackpine forests (constructs of the DNR to help the Kirtland Warbler, an endangered bird), abandoned farming plots and...
I once got pulled out to sea by a riptide. It took me nearly an hour to get back to shore swimming diagonally to avoid the same riptide. I was exhausted when I finally got to shore, and so nervous...
There are crazy SOB's that put deadfall traps on their property to discourage trespassing and snowmobilers. Illegal, I know. But it is still done. Old mine shafts that aren't filled in or covered...
In China, they sell live snakes in the markets to be bought, brought home, and cooked. In fact, my father once visited China on business, and his guide told him how his mother used to get a large...
The thing that bugs me is the fact that they never bring up stuff like, what to use in lieu of toilet paper. Or, how to live for a few days without destroying your surroundings; for those who want...
Plenty of time to learn to make do and practice your trouble-shooting skills, no? I remember the first time I showed my 7 year old neice how to toast bread over the fire without a toaster; she was...
Boiled wild asparagus along with fried dandilion heads. Wild swamp potatos and wild carrots (very small, lol). If anyone wants to learn more about wild food and how to find it and cook it, they...
Getting in between a Mother bear and her cubs.
Not the best idea.
BSM