Your gear is all gone.........

I think the most important thing is to educate yourself in survival. Learn from experienced people who have been there and done that. Your mind is the best survival tool that you have. Say you loose all your essential gear except your knife. If you don't know how or what to do to survive, your knife ain't worth spit. The mind........that's your ultimate survival tool IMHO.
Scott
 
Great information.

There is an even bigger responsibilty if we have to take care of more than ourselves in an emergency. This would involve a lot of skill and work, can't even imagine what it must have been like during the primitive times.

Scott, I agree with you 100%.......I plan to "sharpen" several of my skills I once had.

I meant to add this link earlier, though I'm sure most have read it, interesting survival info.

http://www.m4040.com/Survival/Survival.htm

Robbie Roberson;)
 
Robbie Roberson said:
Great information.

can't even imagine what it must have been like during the primitive times.

Scott, I agree with you 100%.......I plan to "sharpen" several of my skills I once had.

Robbie Roberson;)


lots of people starved,froze, severly injured, crippled, gored, bit,ate by Grizz...
When I was a kid I dreamed of living with the land, but now I know the cold hard facts. I'm with you. It was simpler back then ,but it sure wasn't easy livin all the time.
 
elvenbladesmith07 said:
tom brown rarely carries anything but the clothes on his back when he goes into the forest. sometimes he admits to carrying a knife.
hes been in much more survival type situations than any of us i bet. hes still alive, yes?
of course his whole life has been devoted to primitive living and tracking, but anyone serious about survival can probably learn the basics of this in a few years.


Serious about what?
Go to the forest naked and come out few pounds more heavy?
I mean are you nuts?
I mean survival is shit and shit happens...
Why I am sopposed to learn something and in the end I can't copy with.


To be or not to be!?
Philosophy not for me thank you.
respect...........................








plan no useless move, take no step in vain.
-----------------------------------------
ishiyumisan
 
Robbie Roberson said:
. . .
I am saying if something terrible happened to cause us to have to use most all our gear.

It should be fairly simple even if our supplies run out, water, fire, shelter and food, right ?

Robbie Roberson;)

It is nice to have the skills and knowledge to do without manufactured tools and supplies in the wilderness.

Water, fire, shelter, and food in the wilderness without manufactured tolls and supplies being "fairly simple"? I suppose there must be places and seasons in the wilderness where that is true. But if you eat of the Tree of Knowledge, you get thrown out into the real world were meeting those needs in the wilderness is typically not simple for the most skilled one in 100,000 -- and is unobtainable for 99%.
 
Shelter and Fire are interchangable and condition/situational dependant.

Water then food.

All these are irrelevant if you are injured so treat mobility or dibilitating injuries first to accomplish everything else in order.

Fire starting sans ZERO equipment is mans biggest limiting factor to survival.

Practice it.

Skam
 
Just in terms of grouping information for purposes of teaching, is it not more logical to see fire as simply a multi-use tool? It helps meet the needs of the objectives of shelter, signaling, potable water, safe food, morale, first aid (by creating sterile dressings and instruments), and defense (fires discourage most predators and a pot of boiling water in the face of most critters is discouraging). You may need to use that tool to reach a survival objective --or not -- depending on the situation.
 
quick thought, even if you are stipped of everything except the clothes you have on, no knife, no fire starting stuff of any sort here's what i would do first, find a good chipping, flaking, and stone for a knife/fire starter, when you start making your knife you use the sparks as you chip at it to start your fire with maybe shredded string from your clothing the straw then something like corn stalks to small twigs, to branches to a lot more branches, to a big fire, you make your temporary knife out of rock then you have two of your major survival items, fire, and a knife with the fire you have you keep warm, cook, clean water and the knife you lash to a stick to make a spear or cut strips of clothing to make a bola to catch small game like birds and rabbits, if you have access to any old car/tractor/plow/anything with a good bit of metal you find suitable size/shape piece of metal and start forging it in the fire and using a big rock as ur anvil and another piece of metal as your hammer, you shape your knife then sharpen it with stone, then you have a good heavy/strong knife that's my opinion in 2 days i'm going in the woods to make my own knife with metal scraps from an old tractor and plow, wish me luck
 
Back
Top