Just a Q&A what is you best bushcraft skill I have many, improvised weapons and tools is one of my favorites.
I often see something or I read about it here and try to replicate. One of the best bush craft practice memories was our tarp tent experiment. It looks so easy and I like to try things in a minimalist way, the wind kicked up and our tent was not as secure as we had thought. Tarp Tents | Survival Monkey Forums Some things are a mental exercise. One of our monkeys says he will eat worms for protein. I have not worked up to that. I did just read that eating bugs could be toxic if they are living in toxic soil.
That tarp tent brings back memories of summers as a girl scout councilor. taking a Troup of 16 year Olds camping isn't too bad but I always seemed to get the troop of 8 year olds. Try setting up camp with a bunch of 8 year old girls. Lol its quite a 3 ring circus. ... and tarp tents are not that easy solo
I'd have to say woodworking is mine. Or finding ways to shoehorn woodworking in as the answer to my problems might be a better phrasing. Haha.
In survival training, we often had to improvise shelter with what ever we could find, the gathering and building part wasn't the problem, it was all the planners on the team with differing ideas of how it should be built! We always joked there was the right way, the Government way, and the AF way. If you wanted it done right, you didn't do any of them, you improvised!
I hate syndicate projects....I tend to build my own individual shelter first, because I know that I can achieve that quickly and easily without help. I then toddle over and give the syndicate a hand, knowing that I can be warm and dry, well before the syndicate get's their s#!t together
When I was a teen and would spend weeks at a time in the mountains my shelters always started off simple but by the end of two week or so they always ended up looking like a fortress lol
I know this is not a skill and I hope there are not bleeding hearts on here but we used to go coon hunting. It was fun. Walking around in the woods (sometimes for miles and miles), zeroing in on the dogs barking, then helping my uncle find it in the tree. Now some say it is cruel but it kept the population down, which kept down rabies. I do not think there was a true bush craft skill but tracking the dog was at time hard because the sound would bounce.
I would call it a skill just like me I am a trapper that is one of my skills, some may think it easy but it is not you have to know how to read sign you have to listen in the woods and watch all of that is a skill I think.
