Survival Practice?

[fishslayer112]

I like to walk around in the woods, build shelters, set snares, and all kinds of things. Do any of you guys know a way to practice survival for a real life scenerio?

[Winter]

I do.
Walk around in the woods, build shelters, set snares, and all kinds of things

[COWBOYSURVIVAL]

I am practicing for a Gatorhunt....I plan to survive.

[Winter]

Fish, what I mean was, you are on the right track. You can't force a survival situation.

If you really have to, find a place within 1 mile of a phone and do it there. The back 40 is the same as the back 4 million.

[fishslayer112]

oh thats cool.

[randyt]

Sounds like you're getting the skills. Pulling a few overnighters with minimal gear in a safe environment is a good start. Practising and mastering fire making skills in wet conditions is a must. Water collection and treatment is another. Exposure and dehydration can be deadly.

[Winter]

What I like to do, not as much recently, is go camping, with a pack that has all I need.

Get there early, try to do all the jobs that are packed in your pack. Make it for as long as you can or want to. If you get into the pack, you have learned.

On all my trips, I get into the pack. That's where my brandy is.

[JPGreco]

You can't practice survival, you can only practice the skills involved in a survival scenario. As others have stated, just practice the skills. The more you practice, the more second nature it will be if ever in a situation and you won't even have to stop to think about what to do, you'll just start doing it.

[Winter]

JP, you can practice survival.

Hold your breath. Hahaha

[JPGreco]

you know, I posted that and my first thought was someone is gonna call me on that one.

and holding my breath is practice for being dead... lol

[hunter63]

I don't know if was survival or not....guess we didn't call it that at the time, but my back yard in a small town seemed to be a 'camp ground" for my neighborhood friends at a pretty young age.

Although the house was maybe 20 yards away, it could have been anywhere in the world...and was...... in your/our imagination.
The old "fire pit", my fathers back yard home made barbecue pit, made a good "camp fire' location, although the Boy Scout 2 match rule was the way to do it then.

My Red Ryder tent, not so water proof, MF's painting canvas trap, a surplus mummy sleeping bag, (I can still remember the wet chicken smell) and the trusty surplus musette "pack", canteen w/cup and mess kit made up most of the rest of the gear. Oh yeah, must not forget the jack knife....this wasn't a survival knife, just the one you always carried, and the Red Ryder BB gun.

Hobo stoves with the rolled cardboard and wax were common, as well as pots and cups made from cans.

Survival food, ....mostly hot dogs, Hobo hamburgers, and of course marshmallows....and the energy drink of the day, "cool aid", and hot cocoa.
(Note; Please open the can of cherry pie filling BEFORE throwing into the fire....hard to tell cherry filling, from blood.

These summer nights were a regular thing as a group, but it was really something if you could camp out alone....really scary...and for some people still is today, I suspect. Major step in being "older".......You know, when MOM says. "You have to wait till you are older....?

After several expeditions, in the back yard, then there was the state park....(the going in the house option was now too far away)......and it always seemed like some ones father was "getting up early to go fishing"....but I think they may have been checking on us.

While on our camping trips, other activities building survival shelters, (we called them "forts"), ...foraging... mostly picking berries, hickory nuts, raiding the apple orchard.

Hiking to a camping spot, using a compass and map.

Making spears, branch bows and willow arrows, and hunting with them. Never really killed much.

Log rafts for floating down the creek, or fishing on our small mill pond lake with home made fish poles.

Oh yeah, all these activities seemed to have worked as far as "survivial practice" as I'm still here, and still consider the outdoors as part of my "Home".

Learn and practice your skills, and gather knowledge, then use them if you have to "survive".

[Sarge47]

The "2 match rule is STILL a good practice. I remember the same sort of thing, Hunter! I think that the people thinking that the outdoors is ONLY about survival has missed the boat. Fishslayer, check out my thread here: http://www.wilderness-survival.net/forums/showthread.php?16344-How-to-be-good-at-Survival.

Like Hunter says, learn to be an experienced outdoors person, that way you can also be great at survival! This is why I always talk to young people about either getting into the Scouts or at least studying the material that the Scouts use, hence my blog on the subject. Remember, you're goal is NOT to become so desperate as to drink your own bodily fluids, of even questionable water, nor to eat creepy crawlies, but to MASTER the Wilderness; then you become the ULTIMATE survivor! :nod:

Hunter, Rep being sent if I can! :nod:

[hunter63]

I like to walk around in the woods, build shelters, set snares, and all kinds of things. Do any of you guys know a way to practice survival for a real life scenerio?

To me this is a good start.......Why not think of something you would like to practice?

I guess it's hard for me to image putting my self in a survival situation on purpose........?

[Sarge47]

Guys, this thread has given me inspiration for another thread titled: "Survival Practice is:"

Watch for it! :cool2:

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