reading list

skinz0021 said:
Currently reading RYP, License to kill. Bought it and worlds most dangerous places. Also read James Wesley rawles, patriots, Deep survival, and survivors club is next. I like books. I am a literate hillbilly. Unlike some....
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Skinz, just started reading this, buddy from work gave it to me, made it thru to where they are heading west. In the beginning when I got to the part about the hyper-inflation, I thought about the bail-out for corporations last year . . . . . had a very eerie feeling start in the back of my mind for a minute . . . Great reading so far.
Be safe.
 
Has "Light's Out" been mentioned yet? It was an online only read until recently. I think the author is Dave Crawford. Post apocalyptic sort of novel similiar to patriots.
 
'Tunnel In The Sky' by Robert A. Heinlein. Though ScFi, it has interesting insights on survival as well as having a knife as your primary survival tool. In my opinion it's a very worthy read.
 
what books have you read already? i assume you already have mors kochanski's "bushcraft".


Tyrkon Lawson said:
I enjoyed:

Cody Lundin's - 98.6 Degrees: The Art of Keeping Your Ass Alive and When All Hell Breaks Loose: Stuff You Need to Survive When Disaster Strikes
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ditto on both books. he really goes deep into the why's instead of just the how-to's. the filter vs. purifier section and how he designed his house for maximum energy efficiency and other stuff make his book stand out from the rest of regurgitated how-to books.


jumpmonkey said:
Cody Lundin's 98.6 is a great read, just came in the mail yesterday.
Les Stroud's Survive is another good book.
Colin Fletcher's Complete Walker IV (Not survival per-se but a guy with lots of time out and about in the wild. Has some good bits of advice, he turned me on to trekking poles and... umbrellas (finally replaced my old one.)

God bless,
Adam
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as a side note, i'm a trekking poles convert as well. it feels like i have 4 legs since i can use my arms to push up on inclines and generally lean on them to ease the load on my legs.


OREGON FAL'ER said:
Has "Light's Out" been mentioned yet? It was an online only read until recently. I think the author is Dave Crawford. Post apocalyptic sort of novel similiar to patriots.
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i read about that book from the w&ss folks and picked it up 2 weeks ago. i'm a little over half way through it and find it entertaining and educational as well.
 
Tyrkon Lawson said:
Sweet. I'll have to grab one. Thanks. :thumbup:
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I just took mine off the shelf last night, and it's actually called "The Ultimate Survival Guide" by Lofty Wiseman...but it's actually the SAS Survival guide with a different title.
 
Just be careful of believing everything you read in the SAS Guide.
 
Just ordered- 98.6, survivor club, deep survival and a tom brown field guide to nature and survival for children.

thanks guys
 
Don, the book I have says you can pick up any old axe or steel tool, strike it against a piece of flint and make fire. That's total bullshit. There were a couple other things but can't think of them right off the bat. Good book overall though, but it pisses me off that they recultivate the same old compost without ever really fact checking it.
 
Never encountered that because I already know more about fire than ten sonsabitches should know about. :D
 
Don Rearic said:
Never encountered that because I already know more about fire than ten sonsabitches should know about. :D
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But you have to have a batoner's graduation certificate before you can be considered an expert.
 
Seriously, I laugh at most of the stuff nowadays. I burned up more shit in campgrounds when I was a kid, it was unbelievable. I didn't care if it had rained for three days or was currently raining or pouring, it was camping and it was time for FIRE! :D

I think a lot of little boys are like that. If a kid can sneak away a pack of regular matches and start everything up when it is soaking wet, one would think adults could do it.

I would burn every damned thing I could get my hands on. I got my ass busted more than once for burning shit like dead, dried up poison ivy.

But, that's not to say that I would rely on regular matches in my kits. I might be injured or something, my hands might be numb, anything might be going on in a survival situation. But I can tell anyone interested for a fact, most kids that like fire would laugh their ass off at the concept of "having" to split a log to get it to burn. :D

I didn't even know what people were talking about a few years ago when they were talking about "fatwood." I Googled it first, mistake. :D

When I found out what it was, I understood what they were talking about. Some of the kids in the neighborhood used to light what we called Cat Face, the sap dripping down an injured/damaged pine tree...so I knew, obviously, that the sap would light up. There were burn marks all over the woods from that. Just never encountered the Fat Wood, proper.

But I never did that in the woods. The good kids with fire rings always got hassled because of the kids that burned the Cat Face on pines in the same woods.
 
Gary paulsons "hatchet" just a good read from my childhood. I think another good one was called dog song. Could be wrong. Yeah kinda young reading but stuck with me.
 
scotsmanspride said:
Gary paulsons "hatchet" just a good read from my childhood. I think another good one was called dog song. Could be wrong. Yeah kinda young reading but stuck with me.
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i remember reading that as a kid. i was actually wondering if anyone was going to bring it up. i don't really remember much about it, but i do remember it talking about some survival skills and things that were over my head as an elementary school student. i may still have my copy around here somewhere. might have to dig that one up.
 
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