Alright i'm actually going to do it

Now you have more time to prepeare, and maybe the weather will be better when you do go. Remember a lot of the skills you need can be practiced in your yard or even in the home.
 
Liam Ryan said:
Remember a lot of the skills you need can be practiced in your yard or even in the home.
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Heh! My neighbors probably think I'm a nutcase... testing knives (hacking up fallen branches) and building little fires in the driveway... fooling around with tarp shelters in the yard... attempting to heat-treat a small knife-shaped-object in the BBQ grill with a can of compressed air to keep the coals HOT... :o I was REALLY tempted to practice setting snares after seeing all the bunny tracks in the snow in my yard, but I decided not to since there are also domestic kitty tracks around, lol...
 
they think youre a nutcase? thats fine. let something major happen in the state you live in (or even our country) and see how much of a nutcase they still think you are, when theyre asking you for some food or a tool when the times are tight. Most people only close the doors, after the horses get out.
 
LOL hopefully they don't know we're slowly building up a nicely stocked pantry in the basement :D

I don't really consider myself a "survivalist", whatever that means, but I fully understand what you're saying. We chose a house above the flood plain, buy extra non-perishable groceries, squirrel away a bit of cash each payday, stuff like that. Definitely, the idea is to be able to live comfortably for a while if things get nasty, I up and lose my job, whatever.
 
Yep. thats how ya do it. a little here and there.
I always give the people around me one offer. Do you want to share a little of this knowledge? come campin with me, and learn a few tricks? if they say no, or laugh, i say ok.
when the shit hits the fan, i dont care WHO you are. I dont care if its my mother. if you laughed at me when i offered, youre fresh outta fu**in luck with me buddy. Im grabbin my vest, lbe, ruck and rifle, and im out. just that fast.
I hope you guys had some spare canned foods and a bookbag layin around to throw it in, or some shit, cuz im gone.
 
Just got a call from a guy who is sure out there and doin' it. Young man (seems to be in his 20's) left eastern Canada after his marrige broke up and headed for the Yukon Territory. All he owns fits into his truck and a trailer. Lives in the bush in a wall tent heated by a barrel woodstove. Lives on about $10,000 a year. Hunts, fishes, traps, gathers mushrooms, cuts and sells firewood. Heads into Whitehorse every so often to get supplies, get mail, use the phone. He first called me looking for A Roselli Hunter and two Mora knives. He lost his kit when his sled went through the ice. His choice of knives was interesting.
 
My uncle (also my godfather) built a one-room cabin on family land up north when he got out of high school. Grampa and his brothers helped, I was about 5 so my main contribution was snapping the chalk lines when they had them lined up, lol. Anyway he lived there for years while going to tech school to be a carpenter (now he's a master cabinet maker), with nothing but a woodstove and an outhouse. We share a birthday, every year till I finished school he and I would go there and and chill out for a weekend. Other times my Dad would come too. I learned to fish, shoot, sneak up on red squirrels, build a campfire, never kill anything you're not going to eat unless you have to, and all that good stuff up there. Heh, I almost forgot, my one cousin and I learned about hypothermia when we were sledding down the hill and across the creek one time and went through... Good times, man.

I know I'm rambling, my point is, without my uncle and my Dad I'd probably just be another dumbass. At least now I have some appreciation for wilderness and taking care of yourself.
 
Man, excellent recommendations here. Especially the one about not going out until you know you are prepared and the buddy system. Listen to these guys it will save you.

Things you should have mastered before going out:
1. Shelter Building, don't expect to always have your pack. I have lost mine.
2. Always carry a sheath on your person with a mini kit and multi tool or pocket knife in case you loose your pack.
3. Also, don't lay your trust on GPS. Learn how to land nav without it. Using compass and/or terrain. In the forest GPS signals are few and far in between. And when you are deep in the forest, things tend to all look the same, so keep an eye out for things that look odd and remember them, always look where you came from, look back every minute or so, that way terrain will look familiar to you.
4. learn how to make a fire several different ways.
5. If you are about to go into panic mode because you think your lost, STOP and sit and relax a minute. Do not go running. If you do get lost start setting markers.
6. use a stick when clearing an area or searching for food, not your hands. getting bit by something poisonous will ruin your day.
7. know how to make a signal fire, after you have learned to make a fire.
8. learn about your local animals and vegetation so you know what to eat and not to eat.
9. don't lean on trees or anything else until looking at it, you never know what's crawling on it.
10. WATER! take purification tabs just in case you cannot make your own fire to boil water.

I am sure these have been discussed in one way or another.:thumbup:
 
Update:
Ankles doing a lot better. Still limping around on it tho. But i'm back at work atleast.
It helps me put a perspective on what could happen while out in the woods. Twisting an ankle or worse yet, breaking a bone, could really ruin your day out there.
 
Cobalt said:
Man, excellent recommendations here. Especially the one about not going out until you know you are prepared and the buddy system. Listen to these guys it will save you.

Things you should have mastered before going out:
1. Shelter Building, don't expect to always have your pack. I have lost mine.
2. Always carry a sheath on your person with a mini kit and multi tool or pocket knife in case you loose your pack.
3. Also, don't lay your trust on GPS. Learn how to land nav without it. Using compass and/or terrain. In the forest GPS signals are few and far in between. And when you are deep in the forest, things tend to all look the same, so keep an eye out for things that look odd and remember them, always look where you came from, look back every minute or so, that way terrain will look familiar to you.
4. learn how to make a fire several different ways.
5. If you are about to go into panic mode because you think your lost, STOP and sit and relax a minute. Do not go running. If you do get lost start setting markers.
6. use a stick when clearing an area or searching for food, not your hands. getting bit by something poisonous will ruin your day.
7. know how to make a signal fire, after you have learned to make a fire.
8. learn about your local animals and vegetation so you know what to eat and not to eat.
9. don't lean on trees or anything else until looking at it, you never know what's crawling on it.
10. WATER! take purification tabs just in case you cannot make your own fire to boil water.

I am sure these have been discussed in one way or another.:thumbup:
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All good points, Cobalt. One thing that popped into my head when I read #9 is that it would be a good idea to learn to recognize Poison Ivy (Toxicodendron radicans) when the leaves are gone. That ‘vine’ that you’re leaning against could provide you with 10 days of misery. They can climb up trees and the like, to a height of 50 feet or more and achieve a stem diameter of up to 4 inches.

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This is what it looks like.

Doc
 
HA i once got in a fight with some one and i took my knife out and opened it then i ran up and cut a vine loose with my glove on and whipped this person with it like 10 times and he got nice and itchy from it
 
ajcz said:
HA i once got in a fight with some one and i took my knife out and opened it then i ran up and cut a vine loose with my glove on and whipped this person with it like 10 times and he got nice and itchy from it
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You're a bad bad bad bad person..:eek:

That sounds like something I would have done though..:D
 
hey that person was coming at me with a stick so i used 8 foot of poison ivy like a bullwhip
 
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