What made you crave survival?

As a kid I was in the woods everyday.Building forts etc.and cooking food on fires.I hated sports.In the boy scouts I attended summer camp and took the wilderness survival merit badge course.That got me interested.And I have always been fasinated by American Indians.The ultimate survivors.Trapping with my Papa and learning to hunt and fish by pole,fish trap and trot lines made me want to learn all I could.I started buying survival books and now the internet.Many of the old ways have been forgotten by most.Ive been resurecting wilderness living skills for years.Lightweight camping/backpacking is funner if you have projects to do besides eating,sleeping and hiking.Being prepared just feels better.Its like an insurace policy you cant buy.

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Originally Posted by Runs With Beer

Mostly my love of the outdoors, And the lod saying. Its better to have it and not need it, Than to need it and not have it!

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Short, sweet and to the point. I agree.
Since most of this involves a manual skill of one sort or another , and use of the gray matter between my ears, it is just a natural.
Count on yourself before anyone else.

Interesting thread, I have to say I don't know that I "crave" survival. You survive every day or you die. The wilderness? I crave it plenty, don't spend nearly as much time out of doors as I once did or as I still should. But I kind of have to say the opposite of what Doug said. He said "getting away from reality" when he used to go hunting with his grandpa. I think it's getting back to reality.

I just do what I have always done. I worked to live and when I was younger everyone raised a big garden & canned. Nobody gave us a free pass so it became a habit. If that's what you mean. We ate what we shot or didn't shoot it. Only thing that's changed is it's much easier now.

I didn't get on here to learn to survive. I got on here because there's "more than one way to skin a cat". Whether it be starting a fire, making a shelter, cooking food, etc...

The way you do things in Alaska may not work in Arizona. But living in Montana, we get -40 and 100+ degree weather. I might learn something from both those guys in Az. and Ak. You're never too old to stop learning.

Had a real life survival experience when I was 13. Got my self miss placed in the dead of winter when hunting and it was what I had leaned in the Boy Scouts that got me out of the woods. Been hooked every sense.

I don't know. As long as I can remember I've been out in the woods. I grew up on a farm. We hunted, fished and camped. I did the boy scout thing. Played in the woods. Made/ tested kits. The military thing w/ a couple courses. Still planning more adventures.

Making your gear makes the trip more rewarding. Knowing that you can make it with the minimal amount of gear makes the adventure more rewarding. I still carry everything I may need just in case my plans don't work out.

My family was farmers. I grew up stockpiling food, and using my hands and my head.
Hunting, fishing, staying out over night with coon dogs, chasing cows in the middle of the night, snowing, raining or sunshine it was just a way of life.

Picking berries, garden food, apples, Etc were canned by my grandmother and then stored in the root celler for use during the winter, along with home grown pototes, onions. She also canned meat, made jellies and jams.

We also gathered nuts, *black walnuts, hickory nuts Etc, then sat around the wood stove listening to the radio in the winter, cracking the nuts and pulling the meat and storing them in sealed mason jars.

There is nother better then coming in the house after your chores are done in the cold winter and setting down to a meal of crispy fried potatoes w/onions either pork chops or beef steak, home canned green beans/peas/corn, either homemade bread, biscuits (the yeast was kept going in the refrig) or cornbread, homemade butter, Blackbery cobbler and fresh milk.
One thing I sorely miss is her gooseberry pie.

We didn't have much money, but those that did, didn't have what we had to eat, or the
know-how to get it without going to the store.

My grandparents, who raise me, had been through the 1929 era depression.

* We would "hull" the black walnut by tossing them in the driveway by the house and the tractor running over them would break the hulls loose without our hands getting stained. Then we would take a rake pull them into a large pile and store then in wooden bushel baskets or burlap bags until we could crack them open.

When I was 13 or so, the movie, Red Dawn, came out. In my teen years, I daydreamed about being in that group of Wolverines, living off the grid, travelling on horses, waging guerilla warfare against the Cubans/Russians. What a crock! However, tuck that away for 20 years, and I finally got outdoors on a regular basis. I'm not looking to be Les Stroud, and definitely NOT Bear Grylls, but I want to know how to take care of myself and those I am with.

I am an outdoor enthusiast, not an EOTWAWKI guy. Like the Scouts, I want to be prepared.

Good post, by the way.

always like to be pepared like the outdoors so had to learn and help other learn to.

I didn't like the other option. Spent 9 years in the military (Active/Active reserve), scouts and do a lot of hiking though not as much as I'd like. There have been times when I was "a mite bewildered" which always is a motivator for being prepared to spend the night (or more) in the woods.

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