Strange bits of survival lore...

A nasty trick for keeping predators out of your camp, take a large knife and cover the edge in blood and stick the knife into the side of a tree about 24 inches off the ground. The visitors will sniff out the blood, lick the blade and cut them selves. Predators will not eat with a bleeding mouth, and may even bleed out if they get a good "Lick!" Most predators will high tail it to shelter while there mouth heals, thus leaving you alone!

 

The last frost of the winter will be three months after the last thunderstorm of the fall

 

If there is debris in the river the level is rising. If not, the water is receding

 

You can catch hogs and coyotes by baiting treble hooks with meat and hanging off the ground. Once lip-hooked, the animal will just stand there wishing for a different reality until a shot from a distance gives it.

 

Never put an FMJ bullet in a lead smelter. Satan's glitter will soon be on everything.......

 

AND HOW does this make ANYONE any MONEY?

 

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Government grants
https://frontiersinzoology.biomedcentral.com/articles/10.1186/1742-9994-10-80Acknowledgements
The study was supported by the Grant Agency of the Czech Republic (project. nr. 506/11/2121)

 

Yes, a cigarette is a survival tool for medicinal purposes and
beyond. Here are just some of the uses of tobacco:

• Bartering. Cigarettes are an excellent prepper's bartering
  supply because of the compact size and value cigarettes
  have as a limited resource and luxury. During World War II
  cigarettes were valued for bartering and survival.

• Cigarettes as an anti parasitic: On page 248 of his book,
  Hawke's Special Forces Survival Handbook, available left,
  Mykel Hawke, a former Captain of the United States Army
  Special Forces, and star of Man, Woman, Wild on the
  Discovery Channel, explains how eating cigarettes can
  shock gut worms out of your system.

• Cigarettes for toothache relief: The properties of tobacco
  include a naturally occurring antiseptic to help prevent
  infection, and also has medicinal properties for relieving
  pain. It could be just the relief you need to get you back to
  surviving.

• Cigarettes as tinder: A cigarette is also called a "smoke,"
  and they don't call it a "smoke" for nothing. Get a smoke of
  fire going with a cigarette. It's certainly a better idea to
  light a fire with one than to smoke one..

• Cigarettes as a relief for bug bites and bee stings. Apply
  a chewed portion of tobacco directly to skin or hold a
  burning cigarette close to the bite.

• Cigarettes can stop the bleeding of small cuts and
  minimize bruising. According to one of our readers: "Take
  the tobacco out and wet it and it makes a superb poultice
  for bruises and injuries."