Survival Bow Trap
- A survival bow trap is dangerous to man as well as animals, use and construct with extreme caution!
- To construct this trap, build a bow and anchor it to the ground with pegs.
- Adjust the aiming point as you anchor the bow. Lash a toggle stick to the trigger stick.
- Two upright sticks driven into the ground hold the trigger stick in place at a point where the toggle stick will engage the pulled bow string.
- Place a catch stick between the toggle stick and a stake driven into the ground.
- Tie a trip wire or cordage to the catch stick and route it around stakes and across the game trail where you tie it off.
- When the prey trips the trip wire, the bow will fire an arrow into it.
- A notch in the bow serves to help aim the arrow.
In this video I will be showing you how to make a Bow Trap hope you like it
a bow trap
Some thoughts on Bushcraft as part of your skills base of being more self-reliant
because of your great reaction to my "5 bushcraft myths" vid i thought to make another... enjoy!
Tags: * bushcraft * myths * splitting wood * universal edibility test * body heat * survival * outdoors * wilderness * Survival Skills
Tags: * bushcraft * survival * camping * outdoors * wildermess * survivor * survive * rule of 3 * full tang knives * rat-tail tang knives * stainless steel * fire rod * spruce * bow-drill * cotton
in this vid you can see how i make fire with a clear plastic (PET) water bottle - the kind that you find everywhere (unfortunately... :( ).
i used charred cloth, horseshoe fungus and almost-dry cow dung to get an ember (you can use other natural tinder, too) and some jute twine to get a flame (you can use dry grass, tree bark fibers, dry leafs etc.).
i want to thank to my friend radu (aka m00thman) who gave me the ideea for this vid.
Tags: * bushcraft * bushcraft skills * firemaking * how to make fire * fire * tinder * start a fire * water bottle * plactic bottle * soda bottle * outdoor * outdoorsman * camping * survival * cooking
Brothers Caleb Musgrave and Robert Munilla travel to the Boreal forests of Canada in the dead of winter (January) to film and demonstrate cold weather survival and wilderness skills. In this video, Brother Caleb, who grew up learning and living wilderness skills in this environment, along with Brother Robert show how to make the Sampson Post Deadfall, using a single tree. This trap was used by the Ojibway, Cree, Innu and a multitude of other sub-arctic cultures to catch furbearing mammals such as the mink and marten.
Tags: * Deadfall trap * trap * traps * trapping * survival skills * winter survival * Brothers of Bushcraft * camping * outdoors * educational * BOB * Bob * bob * Bug out bag * Bug-out bag * bushcraft * Canadian Bushcraft * cold weather survival
a day out into the woods after some serious rain, presenting the swedish torch - my way: you don't need to cut and split big logs, and you can do it with your sak saw (although i preffer my fiskars). i cheated a bit, using a mini-bushbuddy burner (made from a tea candle) to light the torch.
How to CLEANLY Field Dress a Deer in under 7 Minutes - WARNING GRAPHIC!
My first time to make an instructional video. Usually takes me 5-7 min to field dress a deer start to finish. However I haven't ever done it while talking before so it took a bit longer :) I made this video for my brother-in-law and decided to post it here. Sorry the camera angle isn't better but I hope it helps you in the field.
Note: If you want to keep your canopy (neck and head skin) whole for shoulder mounting, simply cut the trachea just above the top of the collar bone and proceed from there, or check with your taxidermist, for some the cut doesn't matter.
Tags: * Deed Deer * Deer * Doe * Buck * Rack * 4pt * Hunting * Gutting * Field Dressing * Venison * Safety
Lonnie takes you on a step by step tutorial through the process of how to make a bushcraft bucksaw.
Using the net we made in the netting videos to build a live capture trap for small game and birds.
Changes to the set up we should have made, but didnt were
1- use a bigger net
2 - use a shorter length of cordage between the net and main cordage.
Good practice though and unless you try, you will never know what you need to do make the trap even more effective.
The pine tree has a lot to offer the bushcraft enthusiast from a source of vitamin C to a colander! In the first of 3 films, survival expert Sean Collins demonstrates the uses of pine needles and cones in a woodland setting. In subsequent programmmes he talks about pine string and uses for a dead pine tree.
Tags: * bushcraft * outdoor sports * woodlands * pine needles * survival * pine tree * camping
Tags: * bushcraft glue * pitch pine uses * pitch pine * pine pitch * primitive glue * survival glue * fire sticks * pitch glue
Survival Skills Starting a Fire in Wet Conditions
2 comments Posted by Bushcraft and Survival SkillsSurvival Skills Starting a Fire in Wet Conditions
Making and maintaining a fire in wet conditions can be challenging unless you have the right skills The first thing you need to do is gather the required materials, that is tinder, kindling and fuel. However if it is wet or raining or even with snow on the ground, it can be a bit more difficult, but not impossible, if you know where to look.
Some things to look for and consider:
- Standing dead fall
- Hanging dead fall
- Tree bark
- Inside of mature milkweed pods
- Pine pitch or pine resin
- Underneath rock shelves
- Underneath downed trees or logs or even inside of them
- Inside of thick shrubs or sedges
- Underneath heavy snow pack if the temps are below freezing
- Heavy patches of dead weeds or tall grasses
- Inside or arround old animal burrows, just be cautious with this one make sure the owner is not at home!
- One stick fire method
Another consideration maybe on your person, a piece of your clothing, or even something from your wallet. And yes that does include the paper cash you might have as well, if your in a survival situation then you had better really consider it. It is far better to loose a few pieces of paper money then to loose your life don't you think?
If you are not completely drenched you might be able to find lint in the very bottom corners of your pockets. Dry lint will ignite very easily as long as you have acquired enough to use as tinder.
In wet conditions it is best to build your fire on top of something and if possible underneath some type of refuge. Before creating your fire clear an area, look for a foundation to start it on, a flat piece of wood, metal, debris or a rock. Make use of what ever is in the area to keep the rain or snow off your fire until it gets hot enough to sustain itself.
In wet conditions you will have a very difficult time finding dry natural tinder, this is the very reason why Survivalists and Bushcrafters carry many different types of tinder in their survival and bushcraft kits and practice many different methods of Firecraft.
Here is a very good 2 part playlist demonstrating many of the topics discussed here.
Bushcraft Survival & Nature Quotes
"Bushcraft is what you carry in your mind and your muscles."
- Ray Mears
"My father considered a walk among the mountains as the equivalent of churchgoing."
- Aldous Huxley
"A white man makes a large fire and sits far away, an Indian makes a small fire and sits close."
"Being lost is a state of mind, not a state of place."
"I would feel more optimistic about a bright future for man if he spent less time proving that he can outwit Nature and more time tasting her sweetness and respecting her seniority. "
- E. B. White
"The more you know the less you carry"
- Mors Kochanski
"I once asked my grandfather if he'd ever been lost in the woods. He gave me a perplexed look and said, The woods are my home. How can I be lost when I'm at home?"
"Here is nothing (A Brazilian on seeing the Amazon forest for the first time). Here is everything (An indian who lives there)."
"There's no such thing as bad weather, just inappropriate clothing"
"To poke a wood fire is more solid enjoyment than almost anything else in the world."
- Charles Dudley Warner
"Rabbits are there to feed everything else, and they know it"
- Ben McNutt of Woodsmoke.
“Sunshine is delicious, rain is refreshing, wind braces us up, snow is exhilarating; there is really no such thing as bad weather, only different kinds of good weather.”
- John Ruskin
"The best knife is the one you have with you when you need it."
"I learned how much of what we think to be necessary is superfluous; I learned how few things are essential, and how essential those things really are"
- Bernard Ferguson, Chindits, Burma 1943.
"Everything is edible, even the things that are not... Those kill you... Learn the difference..."
"I went to the woods because I wished to live deliberately, to front only the essential facts of life, and see if I could not learn what it had to teach, and not, when I came to die, to discover that I had not lived. I did not wish to live what was not life, living is so dear; nor did I wish to practice resignation, unless it was quite necessary. I wanted to live deep and suck out all the marrow of life, to live so sturdily and Spartan-like as to put to rout all that was not life, to cut a broad swath and shave close, to drive life into a corner, and reduce it to its lowest terms, and, if it proved to be mean, why then to get the whole and genuine meanness of it, and publish its meanness to the world; or if it were sublime, to know it by experience, and to be able to give a true account of it"
- Henry David Thoreau - (1817 – 1862) - Walden or Life in the Woods
"Take only memories, leave only footprints."
- Ray Mears
"A blunt blade is more dangerous than a sharp one"
- Ray Mears
"Do not mess with the forces of Nature , for thou art small and biodegradable!"
"If you leave the Christian Bible outside, eventually the wind and the rain will destroy it. My bible IS the wind and the rain."
- attributed to an unnamed Native American woman.
Nature Quote
To sit on rocks, to muse o'er flood and fell,
To slowly trace the forest's shady scene,
Where things that own not man's dominion dwell,
And mortal foot hath ne'er or rarely been;
To climb the trackless mountain all unseen,
With the wild flock that never needs a fold;
Alone o'er steeps and foaming falls to lean;
This is not solitude, 'tis but to hold
Converse with Nature's charms, and view her stores untold.
Advice on knife use; "The pink things are fingers"
"Always hike in bear country with someone you can out run"
"Wolves did it!" (a good excuse for when you've burned another persons carefully carved pot hanger on the fire by mistake.)
"Keeping you safe in the wilderness and keeping the wilderness safe from you!"
- Green-Craft
"Fire-wood makes you warm three times; first collecting it, secondly shifting it and third when you burn it."
- Ray Mears
"Two roads diverged in a wood, and I took the one less traveled by, And that has made all the difference"
- Robert Frost's The Road Not Taken
"When the first Europeans landed in the Americas, they described it as one vast untouched wilderness. This was about the highest compliment they could pay to the Native people who had lived there for thousands of years."
- Bill Mason - at the start of Waterwalker
"Only after the last tree has been cut down,
Only after the last river has been poisoned,
Only after the last fish has been caught,
Only then will you realize that you cannot
EAT MONEY!"
- Cree Indian prophesy
"We do not inherit the earth from our ancestors; We borrow it from our children"
"We do not go to the green woods and crystal waters to rough it, we go to smooth it. We get it rough enough at home, in towns and cities."
–NESSMUK (G.W. Sears), Woodcraft, 1963
"Never pick blackberries along the path that are below waist height."
"The best knife you've got is the one in your pocket cos ya always got it"
"The bigger your rucksack the more ya kitchen sink it" (stuff ya don't need)
"The real measure of wealth is how much you'd be worth if you lost all your money."
-unknown
"Give a man a fish; you have fed him for today. Teach a man to fish and you feed him for a life time. Teach a man TO LEARN to fish and you empower him for a life time."
- lao tzu
"Light a man a fire and he's warm for the night. Light a man on fire and he's warm for the rest of his life."
"Take only memories, leave only footprints"
Ray Mears
"In all things of nature there is something of the marvellous."
- Aristotle
"Nature does nothing uselessly."
- Aristotle
"You will find something more in woods than in books. Trees and stones will teach you that which you can never learn from masters."
- Catholic Saint (Bernard?)
"Knowledge is the key to survival, the real beauty of that is that it doesn't weigh anything."
- Ray Mears
"Human subtlety will never devise an invention more beautiful, more simple or more direct than does Nature, because in her inventions, nothing is lacking and nothing is superfluous." - Leonardo da Vinci.
"No ones last words have been 'I wish I'd spent more time in the office"
"A sharp knife in the hands of a wise man is less dangerous than a blunt knife in the hands of a fool."
- Montivagus
"You will last 3 minutes without air, 3 days without water and 3 weeks without food."
- Unknown (quoted by many, perhaps Lofty Wiseman?)
There is a pleasure in the pathless woods;
There is a rapture on the lonely shore;
There is society, where none intrudes,
By the deep sea, and music in its roar;
I love not man the less, but Nature more.
- Lord Byron
"There can be no peace in the world if we make no peace with the earth."
- Satish Kumar (BBC's Earth Pilgrim : A year on Dartmoor)
"Sometimes we have to get lost in order to find ourselves."\
- Unknown.
Bushcraft Bow And Arrow 2 Part Play List
Title:
bushcraft skills: how to make a bow (just a very basic one... yet effective!)
Description:
making bows is a fine art, but one can make a crude bow in a very short time and with little effort. i used hazel, which is imo the perfect wood for this kind of bow: soft enough to be easy to carve, strong (especially if fire hardened) and elastic enough to make a decent bow. i intentionally didn't tiller the bow, just to show that even a not-so-perfect bow can be usable... also, i decided to skip the fire hardening, which would have resulted into a stronger bow. the whole thing took about half of hour an very little effort.
Part 2
Title:
bushcraft skills: how to make an arrow (just a very basic one... yet effective!)
Description:
many say that an arrow is much hard to make than a bow... and they might be right! arrow making requires time, patience, skill, resources and tools. that is, if you have all of the above and you want a really good arrow.
but, if you need an arrow "right now", maybe you can settle for a less-than-perfect-arrow, that still works within certain limits.
in this vid, i try to prove that a very basic arrow (that is easy to make in a short time with just a knife) can be accurate at a decent range and can deliver a lot of impact/penetration, more than enough to take small game (if you can get close enough). bow hunting is prohibited in Romania, so i never shot an arrow to a living target, but i got in numerous occasions close enough to small game to be able to use even such a crude arrow with a fair chance to a clean kill.
even if i prefer a good arrow, it's nice to know that i can make and use a more basic one, too.
Desciption: I demo a simple fishing pole that is built in the wilderness from natural materials and a safety pin. I also show you how to use the pole without the safety pin. Also shown is where to find live bait and how to make a quick fish stringer from local materials.
Bushcraft Survival Long Term Wilderness Shelter 7 Part Playlist
- Pt 1 making a bow-saw handle from hazel
- Pt 2 building a long term shelter
- Pt 3 building a long term shelter
- Pt 4 making a raised sack bed
- Pt 5 making a camp chair
- Pt 6 thatching the shelter with pine branches
- Pt 7 heating the shelter with hot stones
Bushcraft Survival Bug Out 5 Piece Kit
The first 5 items that I might include in an emergency bug out kit.
In this video I demonstrate the construction of a Swedish torch variant. As it turns out, its an easy way to cook outdoor!
Bushcraft Knots Tutorial
A tutorial on knots that I use for bushcraft. I am not an expert really, I just use these knots a lot and this is my way of doing things. Do not use these knots for climbing or any other dangerous activities! Following knots are covered: - Clove hitch with slipped overhand knot (mastwurf mit slipstek) -Trucker's hitch (spanner mit slipstek) -Tautline hitch (stopper stek) -Bowline (palstek) -Butterfly (schmetterlingsknoten) -Sheet bend (schotstek) -? [a knot similar to siberian hitch] (anbindeknoten)
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