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Making fire and sanitizing water are perhaps your most important skills to utilize in the wild.  Coming straight out of the U.S. Army Field Manual 21-76, your survival depends upon the “rule of 3’s.” You can survive three minutes without ...

Gathering food (trapping, hunting, fishing, and foraging) is probably the most difficult aspect of bushcraft.  While it is not as difficult as it sounds, it is still something that requires practice.  Where things get tricky for folks who dabble in ...

To help you understand a day in the life of a wild-hearted bushcrafter, here is a schedule (of sorts) from morning to evening… First, you awake from under your tarp to the sounds of animals calling for the early morning ...

In the last City Slicker’s Guide, we discussed “Bushcraft on a Budget.”  Basically, we told you about the items you should have in your kit if you hope to get out there and really enjoy the woods.  Well, you’ve got ...

Extending our discussion of knives, let’s discuss how your knife can help you with bushcrafting tasks. While you might have a “full tang” knife, it doesn’t necessarily mean that you’ve got a knife that will do well for camp tasks.  ...

There are two technological advancements that ushered humankind out of primitive civilization.  The first is fire, which we will cover later.  The second is the knife. In the earliest days, knives were made of either bone or stone.  However, knives ...

You’re just an average Joe –or Josephine.  You didn’t grow up around hunting, trapping, or survival skills.  While you might have dozed off to a fishing show once or twice on a Saturday, you’ve only been fishing a handful of ...