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Survival Skills – Primitive Skills for Survival

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Survival Skills - Primitive Skills for Survival

You might have heard this before but it bears repeating the most valuable tool is the one on your shoulders and this can be exactly why learning primitive skills is so necessary. What would you are doing if you had nothing? What would you are doing if you had to leave everything you own and begin from scratch?

The good news is that we’ve created some advancements in the last million years, and we don’t need to live like a cave man. We have alternative materials available to us apart from rock and bone.

Regardless of the materials used the principals remain identical, you need a spark or friction to begin a fire, you need sharp correct weapons for hunting and defense and you need the simplest way to carry all your provides.

In a post collapse or post-apocalyptic scenario we might have to revert back to a time when we couldn’t simply flip a switch and the lights came on. And we may find ourselves having to go out and hunt or fish for our own food, as a result of we won’t be ready to just hop in the car and obtain that pre processed meat in the pretty package from the shop.

If we don’t know how to making a fire without briquette or we don’t know how to forage for food what are we going to do when everything will disappear?

This is a reality that some folks ignore, but if everything goes downhill everybody will be searching for food, water and shelter. And everybody who is unprepared can by any means necessary attempt to get what they need, even if that means stealing from you, and leaving you with nothing.

I’ll say it one more time just to be clear, everything we own could be taken away, leaving us with nothing but the tools in your head. This might be from marauders, hungry people and even our own government.

If we simply open our eyes and use our critical thinking skills we can make weapons, begin a fire and build a shelter using the resources around us.

If you’re in an urban area during or after a SHTF event the odds are that everything will be in ruins. Buildings and roadways may be folded, homes may be abandoned and there may literally be junk all over.

When I think about a situation like this, I don’t see junk, I see opportunity. With a little bit of critical thinking and ingenuity we can use these materials to make shelter, weapons and tools. But if we don’t understand the principals of primitive tools and skills we might end up throwing a rock at a squirrel hoping for dinner.

Today when we attempt to create a fire using a bow drill it’s simple to get annoyed and quit as a result of we can pull out our lighter and start a fire.

Back even just some hundred years past this wasn’t an choice, if you didn’t have the talents to start a fire, build a shelter or look for food your probabilities of survival were very slim. It wasn’t a alternative for these people, it was a necessity.

We don’t need to be an skilled outdoors man or woman like Les Stroud or Dave Canterbury, but each piece of data we can put in our head will offer us better odds when life as we know it changes.

Most of the primitive skills listed below may be practiced whereas you’re camping or perhaps in your backyard. These also are a good way to get kids involved and making the outdoors a lot of enjoyable for them.

Think of these skills like enjoying guitar or something you have gotten good at over time. When you 1st begin out all you can do is pluck some strings, but after a moment, you begin to really play music.

Making Fire

Have you ever tried to use a bow drill or hand drill to begin a fire? It’s not as simple as some of these videos make it out to be. I try and do it every time i go camping, a lot of often than not, I fail. There are plenty of variables that come in beginning a fire from friction like the wood you utilize, the development of the drill and your strength and stamina. This is one of those things that defiantly takes apply, so apply now while you have that lighter in your pocket.

Filtering Water

Many things can happen leaving us without a way to filter water and make it safe to drink. Learning skills like how to create a field expedient water filter or how to boil water in a bowl you created out of wood with hot rocks. Water is dangerous because it can look clean but you can’t see all of the microorganisms like cryptosporidium or giardia.

Building Shelter

There are quite a few ways to make a wilderness shelter just like the lean to, a snow cave or a debris hut. These for the most part are for wild survival, but once you learn these techniques you can apply these to a rural setting also. Think just like the homeless. These folks live in town and use some of these survival techniques, to some extent, on a day after day.

Land Navigation

Land navigation applies to wilderness setting also as urban settings. In the wilderness you won’t have any street signs or as several navigation options to decide on from, but it’s even as simple to lose your direction in a town especially if you’re attempting to avoid dangerous areas or hot spots.

Understanding direction and navigation can be the distinction between getting somewhere alive and finding yourself in a scenario you didn’t need to be in.

Hunting and Foraging

Learning the way to build snares, traps and primitive weapons will offer you better odds of finding dinner than just throwing a rock at something and crossing your fingers.

Even in urban areas there are still opportunity’s to catch small game. There are lakes, parks and different areas with wild animals. I wouldn’t recommend practicing these skills in the town though, you may get in some trouble with the local authorities.

There are wild edible around you no matter where you live. Doing alittle analysis regarding what’s in your area and what time of year these wild edibles are available is information you can keep in your head and save for later.

Primitive tools and Weapons

I said it before, but I’ll say it once more, you may end up with nothing and then what? What would you are doing if you needed a hammer to make a shelter? What would you are doing if you found a good water supply but you didn’t have a container to put it in?

Using your vital thinking skills and knowing how to utilize the resources available to you given your scenario might end up to be priceless.

Knowing the way to create a bowl out of the resources around you or knowing the way to create a spear for fishing are just a couple of primitive skills you should be working on just in case of a disaster.

John Turner
John Turnerhttp://www.patriotdirect.org/
Dedicated to upgrowth, developement and prepared for the "worst" to come... Simple guy, simple skills, simple attitude. Just an ordinary guy who tries to survive!

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