where did you learn your skills

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andrew7978

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Most of what I have learned has been online or personal practice. Just wondering where you guys learned since there are so many different sources of information available. I have even heard of colleges offering classes in survival.
 
I learned most of my skills from taking coarses from the schools below

Simply Survival
Boulder Outdoor Survival School
Tom Brown's Tracking, Nature and Wilderness Survival School
 
Many base skills learned in Boy Scouts in the 60's and early 70's. Our troop leaders were WWII and Korean War vets.

Almost everyone in the troop learned to repeatedly build a one-match fire.

We'd make our own lean-to's, effective (normally) against rain/elements.

Regretfully I don't practice them as often as I should.....
 
Trial and error :o and a few various courses.

I've also learnd alot from this site, lots on info on here.
 
The military, then through personal study.
 
Most from my grandfather, 2 SERE courses in the Army showed me a bit too, I enjoyed the woods portion but the POW portion was pure hell. Chris
 
From my Grandfather a survivor of the Great Depression, then from his best friend after his passing. His friend was a survivor of Bataan. From my Father whose service included both theaters in WWII, From the Boy Scouts, from a military academy, from the Civil Air Patrol, in Uncle Sam's basic training and service over there, reading a mountain of books, and near half a century outdoors, much of it spent hunting and fishing, and experimenting in woodslore. Internet, believe it or not, is a relatively new thing. Al Gore invented it to pay his $1,500 a month electric bill at the mansion he and his wife own in Nashville.

Codger :)
 
Codger,
That's kinda strange, you just described my grandfather he was a bosuns mate on the USS Taylor and was at Guadal canal and many other engagements. He grew or raised most of his own food and if he needed something most of the time he made it. I don't think there was anything he couldn't do with his yellow handled kissing crane, make me a toy or dress a deer, he was a hell of a man, they don't make them like that anymore. Chris
 
Mostly from my father, military personnel, hunters, outdoors men, books, personal experience, and a few tidbits here.
 
Some from Grandfather, alot from my father, alot from Uncle, personal experience, and some from here.
 
Books and practice.
Tom Brown Jr.
John & Jeri MacPherson
Boulder Outdoor Survival School
Survival In The Bush Inc.
Learned and shared with Les Stroud
Rabbitstick Rendezvous
 
I learned alot from my Father also a WWII & Korea Vet. Cub Scouts and Boy Scouting, Later US military. Many years of hunting, fishing, camping.Lot's of reading i've also picked up many new tip's from all my new friends here on the forum
 
runningboar said:
Codger,
That's kinda strange, you just described my grandfather he was a bosuns mate on the USS Taylor and was at Guadal canal and many other engagements. He grew or raised most of his own food and if he needed something most of the time he made it. I don't think there was anything he couldn't do with his yellow handled kissing crane, make me a toy or dress a deer, he was a hell of a man, they don't make them like that anymore. Chris
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My dad joined up at age 16 in time for D-Day on the new ship CA-71 U.S.S. Quincey, "Mighty Q". The ship carried the president to the Yalta Conference, and moved on to the Pacific. It stood picket in Tokyo Bay when the Japanese surrendered then worked demilitarizing the islands. I have the 7.7 rifle he brought back from Okinawa. He was the first farmer in the Mississippi River Delta to advance to the practice of using chemical herbicides, invented scrapers for disc blades bought by IH, and we were Farm Family Of The Year in 1966. Yup. He was quite a man. And I do miss him, though I'll see him before too long.

Codger
 
Same as you, internet and personal practice for the bulk of it. I did belong to a SAR unit when I was 16 that gave me some basic skills.
 
Tom Brown Tracking, nature and wildernes survival school.
I visit several survival forums, its great to read about and exchange infromation with like minded individuals.
 
Codger_64 said:
My dad joined up at age 16 in time for D-Day on the new ship CA-71 U.S.S. Quincey, "Mighty Q". The ship carried the president to the Yalta Conference, and moved on to the Pacific. It stood picket in Tokyo Bay when the Japanese surrendered then worked demilitarizing the islands. I have the 7.7 rifle he brought back from Okinawa. He was the first farmer in the Mississippi River Delta to advance to the practice of using chemical herbicides, invented scrapers for disc blades bought by IH, and we were Farm Family Of The Year in 1966. Yup. He was quite a man. And I do miss him, though I'll see him before too long.

Codger
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I have a last ditch 7.7 Jap rifle complete with bayonet my grandfather brought back from WWII. Ugly gun but it holds a lot of sentimental value to me.
 
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