lil survival outing (pic Heavy)

I just wanted to mention. It has been a while since I spent a night out in the wilderness outside of a campground. This was a state forrest with lots of wildlife. The night came to life with some amazing sounds. Owls, Coyotes, tree frogs, and what I believed to be a fox.

Kurrupt and John, listen to the sound at 1:35 of this video. Is this one of the sounds we heard?

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=J6NuhlibHsM&feature=related
 
G'day RR

RescueRiley said:
....Mick there is nothing combustible in that pic... everything was soaked like a sponge, and as you can see was cleared away long before it dried.. but thanks for noticing.. experienced eyes have been the valuable resource to me regardless of what I'm trying to learn.
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Whilst I'm not putting my hand up to having an experienced eye, I will readily admit your response is refreshing and much welcomed :thumbup::thumbup:

I may very well becomming cynical, but IMO it's good to see people getting outdoors & doing, rather than just sitting behind a computer & talking about it :D




Kind regards
Mick
 
Mick, ot trying to blow wind up you skirt..
Its obvious you are a seasoned and accomplished outdoorsman..Folks such as your self, Doc Canada, and a few others. a invaluable resources to us all .. Thanks again
 
I'm not sure what the contest rules are but I suppose this is to simulate having to evacuate in an extreme hurry and only with what you have in your pockets? I very much enjoyed this, and many of you guys' other posts. Should you ever really have to bug out, I hope you have a little more time to at least grab the bag by the door or in your car, although it appears you would survive without it.
Too cool!!
 
Very nice.

Practice is were it's at.

You don't want your first time executing these skills to be when you life depends on it.

My son and I spend a few weekends a year doing the same thing. I guess we need to take a camera.
 
So game proved to be difficult to catch. Were there any opportunities for gathering? I know the lack of green would have made plant identification hard. Plant I.D.'ing and learning how to spot some of the less disgusting food sources is something I would like to work on.
 
Nice photo blog.
One question though. I though it was best to build your shelter or sleeping area off of the ground. The earth always makes me cold.
 
BBQ BOY said:
Nice photo blog.
One question though. I though it was best to build your shelter or sleeping area off of the ground. The earth always makes me cold.
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Not the case when the air temp is cold. You do need to insulate yourself from the ground, and that is why we had the Hemlock bows under us. We had about 8" of hemlock bows, if it was really cold we would have doubled or trippled that..

If we slept off the ground we would have froze our asses off. There have been nights I slept in a hammock, and woke up freezing even with a sleeping bag. The cool air flowing under your body will suck the heat out of you.
 
I agree with Tony.... the hemlock bow bedding we used... kept me plety comfy and warm from below.... it was the ambient air temp I found cold..

as far as game.. I;m confident that if our stay was longer.. another day or 2 we would have been successful on several fronts. as far as gathering, pickings where slim. WHile it wasn;t something we focused spefically on, I always keep an eye out for edibly or useful plants, as does Tony
One thing I think, is that if I o this again I will go for longer.. Honestly the firs t24 hours is all wrok, Making a shelter, getting a fire, and laying the ground work for food and water gathering a prep.. but with that work out of the way.. it only takes casual maintenance to improve and maintain.. which frees you up to start focuing n food and other potentially long term skill sets.
as far as building a shelter.. a hatchet Khukri or heavy chopping tool would have been a godsend.
 
John, would you rather have had your 7" knife or you 9" knife for this? I am talking just knives. Yes, a axe would be grand, but just out of knives what would you rather have had. The reason I ask is I think you have the BK7 and the Bk9. So I am just wondering out of the 2 which one you would take, knowing what you know now.


Bryan
 
While I was amazed at what we where able to accomplish with smaller blades on this trip...In a 1 knife only scenario....... For my particular area, (and that is important) I'g go with a 7 inch blade.. Big enough to chop what we needed to.. Long and wide enough for splitting, and small enough for making trap parts and grooming game...
WHile not particularly stellar in any area, it is good enough for most things in the terrain I encounter.
 
John, Thanks for the info. I was wondering if you might say that 7".
After what you have been carring for the last year or so.

Last year, I was looking at the USROG forum and Harpoon mentioned
that on the Hoodlums forum there was a guy that had just got back
from Norway and went through a Military SERE type school that the
Norway militray has and was telling about his experiences.

It was 2 weeks long:eek:. The students were allowed only 2 cutting
tools plus some other gear and the clothes on there backs. This
fellow took a 7" knife and then a muliti tool as his 2 knife combo.
After I read that post by him I contacted him and asked him why
he chose 7" over any other lengths.

His answer was just about what you said, John.

There is a saying, that says 7 is the perfect number, I believe it.
For many years I carried a 7" knife as my main knife pared with a pocket knife.
I have gotten away from it, but I am going to go back to that
combo for a while just for old time sake. I got the 7" knife started,
all I have to do is put the handle on then make the sheath.

Anyways, thanks John and I will chat with you later,

Bryan
 
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Awesome project. Thanks for posting! I have been trying to get around to doing this with various sets of gear (on-person EDC, EDC pack, trunk gear, etc) Thanks for the motivation. :thumbup:
 
Thanks brian... In an ideal situation wher eyou can have multiple tools.. I would lean towards a medium scandi belt knife.. an axe, and a multi tool of some kind. but in the land of limitations for my area a 7 inch blade is a good bet.
 
Great pics.....Ive really been wanting to do this lately.

You guys did an excellant job on all those skills.:thumbup::thumbup:
 
tonym said:
If anything the shelter was a little too large. We did not rotate, I stayed closer to the fire and fed it all night. John and I originaly had planned to stay away from eachother in the shelter, but as the temp dropped so did our homophobia.. Hell we were practicaly spooning by 5am:p
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This is really a good post; thanks guys...I just had to laugh though Tony; I've spent a few extremely cold nights huddled up with my battle buddy with a single poncho liner in a cold/damp fox hole or some hasty fighting position.

Actually, your plan was pretty effective as it's really an issue with maximizing body heat. If the weather would have been worse, the shelter most likely would have been even smaller and more enclosed. I was just curious about the fire as it's a lot like sleeping next to an open fire on cold night; one side gets toasty and sometimes too hot and the other side gets the chills. You often have to rotate for comfort...I was just wondering if you guys had any issues like that. Thanks for the reply

ROCK6
 
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