New contest for a Junglas & ESEE packs

Nothing special but I think an important one. Fire is such an incredible psychological boost when you're cold and tired. Made with ferro rod, AH-1 and lint. You can see I tried a firebow but I've never gotten it to work. I think the pine I used is just too soft and it gets smooth instead of powdering. Done in the shed because there's several inches of snow outside.
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In the wilderness of the classroom... I was speaking with a few of my students about traps and such while in class and brought up to back breaker since someone posted up a video the other day. They asked for a demo do we used crap from my desk and came up with this. The principles are there and boy did they have fun today trying to replicate it. Its pretty cool to see their faces when they get it to work. Sorry Jeff woods time is extremely limited but practicing the skills is fun. The first is my attempt and the second was their's.

Mine
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Their's
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Mine was done up yesterday and today at the end of class two boys asked if they could try. They said I made it look easy, I told them it was luck. This was my first try too.
 
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Well took a short ride this morning giving Magic some exercise, decided i needed some hot tea to warm up. Fire is one of the most important wilderness skills for me and I practice building them quick and easy. I got caught out over night once in the cold with no skill or equipment to build a fire. Needless to say that hasn't ever happened again.

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thanks and take it easy
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Edited out by Jeff. You're not not a gold or higher member. Please, everyone go back and read the rules! Damn!
 
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I think I will be shutting this down soon. The original post plainly states: Demonstrate your wilderness skills. This ain't a photo contest of the prettiest wilderness. But again, if these are your submissions then so be it. Just a heads up for anyone else wanting to enter this: if you do a wilderness skill and take a picture of it, then you may just win something. ;)
 
Description: Rocky Mountain wild turkey tracks.

Wilderness Skill Demonstrated: Ability to perceive and follow food source in the near vicinity.
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Nice post and could have been a winner here for sure but you have to be gold to do this.
 
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took a few yucca leaves and twisted them into useable cordage. tested it for strength with an ammo can with 480 rounds of 7.62x39.
you can never have too much rope, right?
 
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Here is a trap designed from my dad's rabbit trapping days; created using my favorite RC3-MIL ESEE blade. This trap seems to work well around game trails using bait and by placing it in brush for warmth especially in snowy conditions. It uses a trigger in the back of the trap just in front of the bait. The rabbit (or game) go into the trap for warmth or bait, trips the internal trigger, and the door in the front comes down blocking the exit.
 
I took this as an opportunity to get out, learn and test myself. Im most familiar with bushcraft in WA state. Since starting my business in HI I haven't gotten out much. I thought it would be cool to take what I know and apply it to a completely different environment. I used my 3mil with the led and firesteel that's rangerbanded to it. So...in the dark I started scavenging around looking for stuff to make a fire. Found a old piece of bamboo, dry banana leaf, and some fuzzy crap from a hapu'u fern (similar to dryer lint). Anyways I gave it a shot. The fuzz went up as soon as a spark hit it. Almost a little too fast. Luckly the banana leaf burned slower and the fuzz helped that that light. Then added the processed bamboo pieces. And "I have fire!!"(followed by a tom hanks fire dance).

Here's my 1 crappy cell pic :D
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It's been pretty wet here in Queensland, with lots of flooding and such. Thoughts turned to two problems: getting warm and having safe water.

Everything is saturated, so the fire needed a dry base to sit on, dry tinder and dry kindling. The dry base and tinder was provided by a paperbark tree - dig through enough layers of the spongy bark and you'll eventually get to something dry. It separates easily into sheets and crushes to a great tinder. The kindling comes from the middle of a small branch: shave off enough from the outside and eventually you get some nice dry stuff in the middle.

The container is made from a palm frond I found, the cordage and such came from some woody weed thing: green, the bark of that is pretty pliable and the woody inside seems to work well enough for getting the ends of the container into the right shape.

Now I have the tools to get warm and make some water safe for drinking. Yay me.

Not pictured, the izula II and firesteel. :)

Skills used: situational evaluation, planning, improvisation, bladecraft, firecraft, container and cordage making. And hasty photography.
 
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I am simply amazed at people who just do not read the rules. - entry deleted by Jeff

Edit # 2: Ok, you're not a dumbass after all. :D You had paid for the gold but you are still showing as a basic member. Please wait for it to be gold then re-submit.
 
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Success!!!

Exited the house with some cord, and a 5...made the rest in the 30 minutes between leaving the house and snapping this photo.
 
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My bushcraft haven.
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a lean to
2 sided wind break
Dakota firepit
Fire reflector
Pot hanger for cooking.
 
As far as I'm concerned KNOWING how to use your knife and having the ability to light a fire are two of the MOST important skills.
The knife (ESEE 4) - Allows you to "create". Whether it's shelter, traps, or fire prep.
Fire (Light MY Fire) - Cooks the food, makes the water safe, warms the body, soul and mind.
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-13C (8F) with a 20 km (12 mph) wind from the north bringing the temp down to -20 c (-4F).
I had to shovel through two feet of snow to get a base for batoning the wood.

Good luck everyone.
 
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good old land navigation, no satellites, no batteries, no modern day gadgets. one of the most important survival skills is knowing how to use terrain association to read and interpret a topographic map, conduct resection and intersection, and perform dead reckoning using minimal equipment or natural resources like the sun and stars. in order to survive you need to know where you're trying to go and how you're gonna get there. for anyone who has never lead a long patrol through rough terrain with only a map and compass, this is not something you can learn by watching a youtube video :D

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Here's a demonstration of my skills from today. I was Izula bitten while batoning some wood.

First time I have ever cut myself with a knife so badly I had to go to the hospital. I got lucky and didn't cut through the tendon. At least the hospital was only 2 hours out. That sucker was so sharp it didn't even have any blood on it after it cut through like butter. Man I love my Izula even if it bites back. I'm going to catch shit from my group for a year now.

They already said I'm downgraded to only using rocks and sticks next trip. I guess this shows my lack of skill vs skill but what the hell stay safe with your Izulas guys!

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I tested the sapling to pull/lift over 20lbs. Pictures showing the whole twitch-up were hard to make-out, so here is just the trigger mechanism.

Cheers

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