Hoping the rain will let up for a while.....

Joe Grimace

Joe Grimace

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I was planning on doing my entry for the shelter contest today.:grumpy: I'll probably still do it as long as my "cameraman" is up for it. Maybe I'll get some extra points for doing it during a downfall of rain.:D

Regards,
Joe Grimace
 
Good luck. I am only going to have two days next week to do mine. I will have to do it rain or shine. I am doing it where I hunt deer and will be curious as how it holds up till this fall when my hunting partner gets back out to the property. He said he would take pics and email them to me.


mlrs
 
I'll be doing mine on land I've never been to. Its a nice patch of forest behind where my friend lives. Figure I would make it closer to a real survival situation since I haven't scouted the land previously.

Good luck with yours too. I'd love to win one of the prizes but even if I don't I'm still going to have a ton of fun. I haven't made a debris shelter since I was a kid. My friends and I would go out and spend the day making teepees and other shelters instead of hanging out inside.
 
I wish I had some new land to do it on. All of the private property I have access to is because I do varmit control and deer control for the farmers and ranchers.


mlrs
 
Get out there you pansies! I won't lie, I did mine for the last contest in November and by mid-morning I was down to a t-shirt and the sun was shining. Just dumb luck there though.

I'm really looking forward to the entries for this one.
 
adaman04 said:
Get out there you pansies! I won't lie, I did mine for the last contest in November and by mid-morning I was down to a t-shirt and the sun was shining. Just dumb luck there though.

I'm really looking forward to the entries for this one.
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oh im not saying we dont/wont do it, it just rains so often that everything is pretty much always wet. hence the more waterproof we have to make it versus some place like california, or arizona...

Im looking forward to going out and making mine...
 
kneedragger650 said:
oh im not saying we dont/wont do it, it just rains so often that everything is pretty much always wet. hence the more waterproof we have to make it versus some place like california, or arizona...

Im looking forward to going out and making mine...
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Yep. The material being wet can actually help waterproof it. The wet material forms to the framework and fills in all the little nooks and holes.
 
adaman04 said:
Yep. The material being wet can actually help waterproof it. The wet material forms to the framework and fills in all the little nooks and holes.
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huh. never even thought of that... good to know.

It doesnt help with firemaking though, as i found out last week....
 
Just started mine on my lunch break, should take me more than a week doing just 30-45 minutes a day, four days a week.
 
So I've got it done. It's not to pretty but it works. The one I'm going to post is my second attempt because on my first attempt my ridge log snapped from the wieght.
 
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