Helping w/ a Survival Class This Weekend

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TheSharpLife74

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Well guys,
This Saturday and Sunday I am going to be going to out at a survival class down here in south Florida called Green Earth Survival School. This is going to be my second time going to this class, but my first time helping out.
Ya, I know I'm only 14 but I know my stuff pretty well for my age. I'm going to be helping because its a large group of Boy Scouts and explorer scouts. For this specific class will are going to be teaching basic wilderness survival like fire building( I'm going to make a fire with the bamboo fire saw this time...:D), water purification, shelter, lost proofing, finding food, signaling, and navigating.
Just thought I would share and saying as this is a site about knives...
Here's the lineup of the knives I'm brining with me:D
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Oh, and btw. I will be taking lots of pictures while I'm there and will make a thread about my trip with some of the pic's!
 
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Excellent choices. Sounds like a fun trip. When I was your age the adults somehow delegated to me, as Junior Assistant Scoutmaster (I didn't meet the age requirement) to take our whole scout troop on a two week summer camp. It was cushy -- not as hard as your trip. I grew up cowboying out west in the Rockies during my early years and teenage summers, so by the time I was fourteen summer scout camp seemed just one notch down from car camping. What your doing is the real deal. I'm impressed. Good luck to you.
 
richdkao said:
If I were you, I'd only take BK2, Izula, and one multi-tool to save a lot of weight.
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Well, the only knives I'm going to have on my person are the BK2, Izula, PM2, and the Wave. I have come up with a system that I can effectively work all those knives in and not feel like I have to much weight.
The rest of the knives I'm brining are just really cuz I can and they will most likely stay at camp in my bag.
 
pioneertoo said:
Excellent choices. Sounds like a fun trip. When I was your age the adults somehow delegated to me, as Junior Assistant Scoutmaster (I didn't meet the age requirement) to take our whole scout troop on a two week summer camp. It was cushy -- not as hard as your trip. I grew up cowboying out west in the Rockies during my early years and teenage summers, so by the time I was fourteen summer scout camp seemed just one notch down from car camping. What your doing is the real deal. I'm impressed. Good luck to you.
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Thank you! I'm sure I will:D
 
If you are going to use the BSA Merit Badge pamphlet, know that it is full of errors and omissions.

Re fire: The pamphlet pictures a ferrocerium rod and describes (inaccurately - strike flint with stainless steel knife 0___0 ) using natural flint and steel - a good formula for pieces of ferrocerium rod. It suggests oak for a bow-and-drill set - a very poor choice as you probably know. It does not mention charred cloth. Other topics are covered in an equally shoddy fashion, and this low level of quality has been brought to BSA's attention many times, by many people, for many years.
 
Have fun! Glad to see people involved in Scouts in today's world. I was fortunate that the one place we lived for any amount of time growing up, I got to be in a very active troop with a large group of adults who ranged from car-camping fly fishermen to an ex-SF medic who all shared a love of the outdoors, and were mostly hunters, too. Between them and my grandfather, I probably learned more through middle and high school than I have in the 24 years since, and except for the Army, spent more time outdoors than I've made time for until the last three years or so.
You don't know it, yet, but you'll remember the stuff you're doing right now for the rest of your life. :thumbup:
 
Have a great time. Look forward to hearing about your trips and seeing the pics.

Bryan
 
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