Aloha Monkeys, Most who know me know I'm always looking at things for their potential... even and especially things I'm going to toss... most...
Ok, it's been probably a year plus since I got the flint and steel kits from Bear and hadn't done anything with them. While I was packing my very...
Aloha Monkeys, Big family reunion with family from all over the mainland and Japan coming for the last two weeks... phew... super busy with...
Digitized (Microsoft) Internet Archive from University of California Libraries. 370 pages in .pdf format. May be used for non-commercial,...
Brokor submitted a new resource: Alone in the Wilderness - Joseph Knowles Digitized (Microsoft) Internet Archive from University of California...
I don't know the origin of this scan but it contains a lot of useful information. Sample illustration page: [ATTACH]
The author of "The 10 Bushcraft Books", Richard Graves, is a member of the Irish literary family of that name. He is also the author of "Creating...
melbo submitted a new resource: The Ten Bushcraft Books - 'The 10 Bushcraft Books' by Richard Graves. The author of "The 10 Bushcraft Books",...
The first thing I do is ordered up some pre-cut and rounded arrow shafts that suit the bow you've got. Ebay is where I get my supply's from BUT...
Take a butchered rabbit a big or small as you want, Season it to your taste. Place it in a baking pan facing down, Cover it with tin foil, Turn...
GHILLIE: The Making of Perfect Concealment [ATTACH] HOW TO MAKE A GHILLIE SUIT / Home Made Camouflage This is an on-going project I have...
[ATTACH] [ATTACH] [ATTACH] [ATTACH] [ATTACH] [ATTACH] [ATTACH] [ATTACH] The first on walk about tools. Above are three types of staffs with...
Had some time this week so worked on a project I've been thinking about and forged some 1095 steel strikers I saw and liked. First the strikers...
Here is a link to a webpage demonstrating how to DIY construct a usable kayak from pretty basic materials. The claim is that with the necessary...
I finished a playlist on YouTube. Ray Mears Bushcraft, Survival, Extreme Survival. I will be adding more as time goes on, but so far I have added...
The Numyth fire piston: http://goinggear.com/numyth-vulcan-fire-piston.html I picked this up at a great price from the website linked above....
The CROOKED KNIFE is a one-handed draw knife and was an invention of the woodland Native-Americans who were canoe, sled, and snowshoe builders....
A while back, I participated in a fire challenge involving using matches and natural tinder to make fire outdoors. It turns out it isn't always...
Over my life time I've made fire using various methods. On this quest to make fire I have used matches,lighters,a magnifying glass,ferro rod,the...
Ive been playing about again and this time I tried making fire using the hand drill method. I used rattan as the hearth and bamboo as the drill...
YouTube - firepen.mpg Website: Fire Pistons Tom at Survival School (dot) com is still selling all kinds of survival merchandise, including fire...
Birch Polypore,Razor strop fungus [Piptoporus Betulinus] [ATTACH] [ATTACH] [ATTACH] Birch polypore is in the family Fomitopsidaceae and is...
Hog and I were talking about different methods of making fire and Hog suggested the fire plow method,I went into the shed and found some bamboo so...
Honeysuckle,also know as woodbine as a fire starter.. An old fella was telling me about how good honeysuckle bark is as a fire lighting tinder so...
Its that time of year again in the UK and the birch sap is rising. I made this thread a couple of years ago for another forum but thought SM...
Any views on bushcraft blades? I was watching a BBC doc bout some fellow named Ray Mears. I noticed his knife right off the bat and took a fancy...
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