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Watch the weather closely. Being able to foretell a weather change can help to avoid a potential survival situation.
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Drink before you are thirsty. Once you feel thirsty, you are already dehydrated.
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Have two or more plans or projects going at all times. That way, regardless of weather, materials shortage, or whatever other variables may come up, you will be able to keep yourself occupied. This also helps to prevent disappointment and keeps your spirits up. This is very important in the wilderness.
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One of the best set of books to learn almost all of the survival skills is the Boy Scout Hand Book and the Boy Scout Field Guide. Every thing from making shelters, collecting food, water, to building materials. How to choose a camping site. Which plants and critters to eat, etc. Two other books are the US Army Survival Manual and The SAS Survival Handbook.
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Survival equipment is great, but make sure you know how to use it before you find yourself in a survival situation. For example, if you have a water-still, make sure you know how to use it. Or if you have a GPS unit, know how to save a waypoint and find your way back to it.
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Main > Living > Survival > Fire & cooking
Hobo-style stove: ingredients: an empty tuna can, a strip of corrugated cardboard (1-1/2 x 6 inches) and a box of paraffin wax; roll the cardboard lengthwise and dip into melted wax; let soak; melt some wax in the can and set the cardboard coil in it; fill the can with more wax and let it melt till about 1/4-inch of cardboard remain sticking out. Makes for an excellent cooking stove for two. All you need is 3 rocks around it to set your pot on! Make sure you put in more chopped wax every 20 min. or so, keeping it semi- full, or the wick will burn away; otherwise the same wick will serve you for a long time. the downside of this contraption is the soot buildup on your pan.
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Main > Living > Survival > Shelter
Second roof: When constructing a desert shelter, erect a "second roof" one or two feet above the first. This will reflect much of the heat your first roof would normally pass on to you and it can be removed and used as an extra blanket at night.
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Pine sap, which is easily gathered from tree wounds, makes a wilderness glue and sealant that is hard to beat. To give it some body, heat and mix with a little powdered black charcoal from your campfire. (Then ball it to the end of a stick, let it cool, and it will be easily transportable and ready to melt off as you need it
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Main > Living > Survival > Food
Fish bait: Before throwing your fish bait in the water, douse it with cod liver oil. The smell will make your bait more attractive and attract fish from quite a distance. It is very effective
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Main > Living > Survival > Food
To keep your joints and bones strong, consume the soft bone and connective tissue along with the meat you are eating.
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Main > Living > Survival > Fire & cooking
No matter what the climate is or time of year, keep a supply of dry firewood handy. You will never know when you may need it.
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Main > Living > Survival > Clothing
Wear the lightest footwear possible. It is cooler and less fatiguing on long hikes, dries faster, and interferes the least with feeling the trail, especially at night.
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Sandpaper: The original sandpaper was wet sand on a piece of leather. A rounded sandstone can work well for sanding hides; a squarish stone might work better for wood.
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Main > Living > Survival
Take a couple of compact discs next time you go into the wilderness - not for music, but because they make a great light-weight signaling mirror, double sided, complete with center aiming hole.
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Main > Living > Survival > Fire & cooking
Always carry waterproof matches and a wad of "000" steel wool. If you get into trouble and need to start a fire, you have waterproof matches and the steel wool as one of the best tinder that will start even wet twigs.
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Main > Living > Survival > Fire & cooking
Firestarter: While in the woods, collect the lichen hanging from the branches of fir and pine trees. This moss is found through out the Pacific Northwest. Place it in your pocket to dry. Once dried, you can light it with a simple spark from a flint bar.
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Main > Living > Survival > Shelter
Keeping warm: A sure way to keep warm is to carry a candle with a candle holder and an extra large poncho. Pile a layer of insulation on the ground. Sit down on that insulation pile and have your extra large poncho totally enclose your body, including your head, and light the candle. In this small space the air will quickly heat up.
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Main > Living > Survival > Fire & cooking
Hand-drill for fire: A tip for hand-drill fires that turned 5-6 passes down the spindle to 3-4. I do the sitting position holding the hearth or foreboard with my foot. The notch faces me, so I can see the coal when it comes. Spit on your hands to give them more grab on the spindle. Do one pass with no effort to warm things up a bit. On the first "real" pass, tilt the top of the spindle back toward you about 20 degrees (watch it or it will pop out of the hole!). About half-way down, tilt the top of the spindle about 20 degrees away from you. When you reach the bottom, get your hands back to the top and go again. As I said, this cut my number of passes in half, therefore, doubling my efficiency at the hand-drill. Another tip, start looking in the woods for any long straight and dry "weeds," and try them for spindles.
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Main > Living > Survival > Shelter
Quick Snow shelter: Stomp out a trench or box or round shaped room in the snow, packing the snow and piling it up around the perimeter using your feet and hands. Next take branches, debris, leaves, or bark (whatever is available), and place over the top for a roof. Make sure you have adequate ventilation and remember that any snow overhead can melt and drip.
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Main > Living > Survival
Condoms can make useful water storage vessels. They can be placed in a sock for additional strength.
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Main > Living > Survival > Food
If you hold your chickens when they are young they will be easier to catch when they escape, but when they grow up they will try to follow you more and will give you lots of chicken-friendly pecks that are not too comfortable to most humans.
To hold or not to hold - it's your choice. Wisdom involves being aware of the consequences.
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Main > Living > Survival > Resource wars
General tips for coping with resource wars:
Move to a remote area with access to plenty of clean water. Try to find a climate less prone to the chaotic weather fluctuations, and grow all your food.
Simplify life so as to prevent busyness or tiredness.
Put your harvest surplus and wastes back into the soil.
Help out with communal gardening schemes to turn the vegetation around human habitats into edible produce.
Help intelligent, healthy, selfless folk to move to your area, especially thinkers with masculine psychology and skills. Resist schemes by city-dwelling food-sourcers who will try to put you into debt to maintain their supplies.
Help to cultivate a culture of reason, non-attachment, and freedom from superstition and fatalism.
Hold atheist meetings, and speak out against churches and religious gullibility.
Help people to think to solve problems, not fall prey to depression or other emotion wallows.
Minimise reliance on machinery that is not made with or that can't use plant-based oils for lubrication.
Learn to repair your own machinery and tools.
Minimise non-renewable energy use, ie. try not to create what you cannot use. E.g. walk or use animal-based transport; build passive-heated shelters (heated by the sun); cooking by black-outside, reflective-inside solar boxes; use wind- or turbine-powered electricity. Create community power schemes.
Minimise processing and reliance on energy-intensive foods or artifacts.
Entertainment: musical instruments, sports, writing, reading, reciting scriptures, theatre and stand-up comedy, and animal-training competitions.
Look after books and terrestrial libraries, and improve health education, since the internet may be far less accessible in future.
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Main > Living > Survival > Health
Hypothermia = Heat retention + Heat production < Heat loss
Retaining heat: Increase body mass (Eskimo vs. Masai), use insulation layers, and increase body fat.
Producing heat: Shiver, be fit and exercise efficiently (low fluid loss). Also, consume food, rehydrate, and store glycogen.
Losing heat: Cold temperature, getting wet (rain, sweat, water), and wind (blowing, or moving, e.g. biking)
Symptoms: The "-umbles"
"Stumbling, fumbling, grumbling, mumbling."
Recovery Techniques
(starting with mild hypothermia and progressing to serious hypothermia):
Put on dry clothing, more clothing, find shelter, exercise, consume glucose.
Drink warm sugary liquid (not coffee or alcohol), and get into a dry sleeping bag with a non-hypothermic person.
Wrap in multiple layers, be very dry, insulate the body from all sources of cold, urinate to remove cold water from body, and apply warm towels, packs or hot water bottles to the neck, underarms and groin.
External rewarming techniques dilate blood vessels in peripheral parts of the body, which sends the cooler, acetic blood to the heart and major organs, which lowers body core temperature. So only internal rewarming is used for serious hypothermics, and includes inhaling hot air, and flushing the bladder, stomach, thorax with a warm saline solution.
A profoundly hypothermic person is clinically dead, but still warm. Their muscles will still contract when a limb is bent, the skin is blue, a very slow pulse (2-3 beat/minute), and the pupils are dilated and fixed.
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Main > Living > Survival > Food
Edible insects: ants, crickets, meal worms, bees, cicadas, dragon flies, earthworms, termites, midges, widjuti grubs and many kinds of larvae are edible. It is best to cook them first, to kill parasites that might eat you.
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Main > Living > Survival > Health
Injured: If you are in a survival situation and have a seriously injured or ill member in your party, feed them the stomach contents of any large game you are lucky enough to catch. The body requires water and protein to both heal itself and to digest food. Feeding this particular food source to the injured or ill person, allows their body to absorb the nutrients in it while not having to divert protein from healing to digestion.
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