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Training To Survive - At Home

dartanyon

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While thinking about my posts on some of these threads I've thought of an oversight that is a good theme.
We can train to use your skills at home. Some of us don't have access to the environment we so often daydream about but that doesn't stop us from being prepared.
Suggestions of how to train at home ...
Carrying around your favourite kit helps you to remember the contents and if they're approptiate.
Using our blades and testing stoves, pots, eating utensils can be done in the kitchen ... or even on the coffee table providing we take the appropriate precautions. (I do anyway )
Use the saw, sharpen the blade with what you have in your gear, wear your favourite setup to see if it all fits and works together.
This thread is not necessarily for those that can test their skills straight off ... more for suggestions to those of us that dont have the opportunity to access the wilderness but still want be prepared!
Imagination and willpower are a wonderful thing.
 
I'm one of KGD's religious nuts :D :D :D

Seriously, my lifestyle involves carrying a fixed blade with me- and I use it in the kitchen constantly, unless I actually need a chef's knife. I also open all cans (not that many) with an SAK or P38. I try to remember to use a fire kit to light the charcoal grill which we use 2x3 times a week.

my first aid stuff is part of my PSK, so gets used a lot.
 
I do that too - probably not as much as I should. Better to figure out as much as possible before going into the field.

Paul
 
Its funny, I was socializing after a business meeting earlier this week. This one guy is talking about what a freak his Aunt was back in 1999, afraid of the Y2K issue. She stocked half her basement with bottled water, canned goods, rice and beans. He kept going on and on about how futile this was because civilization didn't end in 2000. I asked him if she still had her larder stocked. He rolled his eyes and said yes, she still keeps it stocked, even rotated out all the cans. I then told him its a good thing he has an aunt like that, he should get on her good side.

I think there is a tonne of things we can do at home and admittedly I'm at home a lot more than I'm in the wilderness. A small firepit is a great place to practice firestarting. Backyard bow drill - fun as heck! Setting up your tarp to try out different things - best place to do it. Batoning - oh yeah baton away. First aid - I unintentionally practice a whole lot of first aid at home :D (I'm sorry to say, I have a big bandaid on my ring finger right now.

Of all things, we were making applesauce from one & a half bushels of apples today - yeah to stock the larder - and my fingers were all wrinkly from being wet with the apples and the peeling. I actually took off 1/3 of my finger nail and a chunk of skin with it with a potato peeler. A potato peeler - for crying out loud!!!!

Sorry - bad segway. Pretty much everything you can do in the bush, you can do at home. Make traps, whittle etc.

Religion eh Christof? Maybe, but you are more like a bishop and I'm a fryer in the hierarchy....

P.S. Rick has a bugout trailer. You guys gotta tease him about that some time!
 
Dude, you need an apple peeler! Best kitchen gadget ever!

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http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=-7523472604221832430#


I got one at a thrift store for $4 a few years ago.....
 
kgd said:
Its funny, I was socializing after a business meeting earlier this week. This one guy is talking about what a freak his Aunt was back in 1999, afraid of the Y2K issue. She stocked half her basement with bottled water, canned goods, rice and beans. He kept going on and on about how futile this was because civilization didn't end in 2000. I asked him if she still had her larder stocked. He rolled his eyes and said yes, she still keeps it stocked, even rotated out all the cans. I then told him its a good thing he has an aunt like that, he should get on her good side.

I think there is a tonne of things we can do at home and admittedly I'm at home a lot more than I'm in the wilderness. A small firepit is a great place to practice firestarting. Backyard bow drill - fun as heck! Setting up your tarp to try out different things - best place to do it. Batoning - oh yeah baton away. First aid - I unintentionally practice a whole lot of first aid at home :D (I'm sorry to say, I have a big bandaid on my ring finger right now.

Of all things, we were making applesauce from one & a half bushels of apples today - yeah to stock the larder - and my fingers were all wrinkly from being wet with the apples and the peeling. I actually took off 1/3 of my finger nail and a chunk of skin with it with a potato peeler. A potato peeler - for crying out loud!!!!

Sorry - bad segway. Pretty much everything you can do in the bush, you can do at home. Make traps, whittle etc.

Religion eh Christof? Maybe, but you are more like a bishop and I'm a fryer in the hierarchy....

P.S. Rick has a bugout trailer. You guys gotta tease him about that some time!
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I left and went to a different continent :eek:
Gotta go feed the wabbitz and lock them away before the boa's get active :cool:
 
For me, there's different levels of survival. SERE concepts- which comes into the idea of minimalist wilderness survival- are a whole world apart from group (family, friends, even random associators) survival.

We practice, as much as we can manage, a homesteading approach to survival games. Preserving your own food is probably the biggest single step next to learning local forage. One of the great experiences, which I've only partially managed- is to take a survival kit and build a cottage and get things working. (I've done this to an extent with a child's playhouse, including some toys, swings, and a water catchment.)

The idea in this case is to get to the point where you can survive all sorts of scenarios- some might only require you have a bic lighter and a p38, some might require framing a house.
 
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kgd said:
bugout trailer
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COOL - I LOVE IT!! I'm worried about the effects on my back tho :D

Preparation - I've got my youngest still cooking meals with his camp kit in the kitchen. He's still leaving the fuel close to the stove :mad:
 
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