One item survival

gruntmedik said:
I'm going with a deaf mute swimsuit model.
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OK. Here you go.
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bigghoss said:
There is no wrong answer, it depends on your skill set and knowledge. I can start a friction fire easier than I can make a stone cutting tool or do all the tasks you'd use a cutting tool for without a cutting tool. Other guys may practice flit-napping as a hobby but have never heard of a bow drill. Environment is going dictate the most useful items also.
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That's where I'm at. I can make a bow drill here, I know enough about the environment that I'm confident I could even make a bow drill using shards of broken chert as my cutting tools. We have a lot of Mullein here so I could probably make a hand drill...though I have yet to have success with the hand drill, I have also yet to have a real need to have success with a hand drill. With a durable, well made knife I could make the parts much quicker and more easily, and with the knife I could even use the knife itself with a piece of chert to make fire with the flint and steel method. I could use the knife to make a functional boiling pot from bamboo, from tree bark...or some litter. For me a good knife, hopefully a larger one if wilderness and smaller if urban...which is how I carry anyway...is the most practical answer because I can accomplish the most with it here utilizing the environment around me.
 
Boots. I wouldn't last long in any environment without quality comfortable boots.
Then I can walk home. ;)
 
I'm torn between fire or blade. I can make fire with what I come across, and I can use stone for a blade, but the stone won't do for anything more than a couple days. Around these parts, we've got black bear, bobcats, & such so I think I'd rather have at least a 6" blade over fire.
 
Bowman1911, not criticizing your choices, but just to mention that bobcats are no threat to grown humans. In fact, lucky is the person who sees one at all before they vamoose. :thumbup:
 
My turn! :-) Hmmmmmm....one tool.. Coming from 17 years as a Woodsman, I'll say....my axe!! A fine edge for precise cutting, a stouter edge for felling/splitting. Heh, plenty o' litter in the woods..glass bottles, cans and the like. Plenty of wood to make a bow drill and hearth. :D I'd have to go with my axe.
 
All I need is my magical lamp!!!!

But it that's not around a good sturdy fixed blade like an F1 or Bravo 1 would suit me fine.
 
The one item I'd bring is my brain.
You leave that at home and you're screwed.
 
Codger_64 said:
Bowman1911, not criticizing your choices, but just to mention that bobcats are no threat to grown humans. In fact, lucky is the person who sees one at all before they vamoose. :thumbup:
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Yeah, kinda threw in the bobcat. Nothing to be scared of, but if I'd mention any kitties bigger in these parts, even though I've seen 'em, I'd probably be labelled a nut.
 
Well, it is a DNR accepted fact that there are none in Tennessee or Arkansas, so don't look it up. Oh, and hunters are forbidden to take the non-existant animals since they are not listed as game animals and there are no established seasons or limits. Still, canine, urasline and feline are succeptable to a poke from a sharp stick. I'd personally rather not be in hugging distance of any of those. Or a PO'd bull coon for that matter. BTDT, but had a 12 guage. Dayum near shot my own foot!
 
I find fresh tracks and scat of bobcats here occasionally...but the last time I actually saw one was about 15 years ago.
 
Probibly the mora with the firesteel in the handle! if that counts as two then just a bk16.
 
I have seen a couple bobcats in the last 5 years in TN (while deer hunting). Have seen quite a few in the mountains of KY. I even ran into a baby (about a foot long) bobcat in KY which was a wild treat.
 
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