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Syle
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I need a survival book! Please!
#8988696 - 09/26/08 09:29 AM (15 years, 6 months ago) |
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Can anyone recommend me a good handbook on wilderness-survival and all that kind of stuff? I need something that has a good checklist in it of stuff one would need.
Any thoughts? Thanks!
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Re: I need a survival book! Please! [Re: Syle]
#8988706 - 09/26/08 09:31 AM (15 years, 6 months ago) |
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This isnt peratining to your question but, why are you buying survival equipment?
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Re: I need a survival book! Please! [Re: Syle]
#8988725 - 09/26/08 09:39 AM (15 years, 6 months ago) |
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I have some good ones, but I can't remember what they're called and they are currently on the other side of the state from me. It would be better if you could take up with a survival expert and learn from him/her, it's hard to learn that stuff from a book. If I can find the names of my books I'll tell you.
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Re: I need a survival book! Please! [Re: SvampViking]
#8988846 - 09/26/08 10:08 AM (15 years, 6 months ago) |
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Saw one at Barnes and Noble the other day called something like US ARMY survival handbook or somesuch name. It was a pretty thick book with military survival techniques for MANY things. Skimmed through i and looked good to me.
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Re: I need a survival book! Please! [Re: Cubenisseur]
#8988877 - 09/26/08 10:16 AM (15 years, 6 months ago) |
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this is what you need.
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Re: I need a survival book! Please! [Re: Syle]
#8988946 - 09/26/08 10:33 AM (15 years, 6 months ago) |
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I have gigs of stuff like that. Book scans, PDFS , even a couple of videos and such. I'll trow it up on MegaUpload again soon. send me a PM someday soon and remind me to send you the link. Shit, you will have more then you need.
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Re: I need a survival book! Please! [Re: Syle]
#8988959 - 09/26/08 10:38 AM (15 years, 6 months ago) |
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Re: I need a survival book! Please! [Re: Syle]
#8989153 - 09/26/08 11:27 AM (15 years, 6 months ago) |
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Syle said: Can anyone recommend me a good handbook on wilderness-survival and all that kind of stuff? I need something that has a good checklist in it of stuff one would need.
Any thoughts? Thanks!
The SAS Survival Handbook is the one I'm using right now, and I'm leaving into the wilderness on Monday. It covers almost absolutely everything.
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Re: I need a survival book! Please! [Re: norml840]
#8989165 - 09/26/08 11:28 AM (15 years, 6 months ago) |
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Quote:
norml840 said: this is what you need.
Yeah, that's the one I have! Get it Syle!
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Re: I need a survival book! Please! [Re: Poid]
#8989546 - 09/26/08 01:14 PM (15 years, 6 months ago) |
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The Army survival FM was pretty good. FM 10-26 or something.
I'd stock up on anything by Tom Brown (the tracker) and the Audubon Society guides to everything.
The SAS manual is pretty good, but no book is going to save your life, as "Into the Wild" demonstrated.
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Re: I need a survival book! Please! [Re: Crasher]
#8989606 - 09/26/08 01:29 PM (15 years, 6 months ago) |
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Crasher said: but no book is going to save your life, as "Into the Wild" demonstrated.
Exactly. You have to gain as much hands on experience as possible before throwing yourself out there. And even so, you'd be an idiot to not bring rations.
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Re: I need a survival book! Please! [Re: SvampViking]
#8989620 - 09/26/08 01:32 PM (15 years, 6 months ago) |
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SvampViking said:
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Crasher said: but no book is going to save your life, as "Into the Wild" demonstrated.
Exactly. You have to gain as much hands on experience as possible before throwing yourself out there. And even so, you'd be an idiot to not bring rations.
I'd learn to skin, gut, clean, and either salt or jerk every animal you can get your hands on.
Practice making fire from tinder up.
Practice making water collection tents, or boiling water.
Practice making shelter, in all possible weather conditions.
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Re: I need a survival book! Please! [Re: Crasher]
#8989800 - 09/26/08 02:27 PM (15 years, 6 months ago) |
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Crasher said: jerk every animal you can get your hands on.
That's one way to make friends with mother nature. You'd be the king of the forest! Or at the very least, highly regarded.
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Re: I need a survival book! Please! [Re: Psilocybeingzz]
#8989899 - 09/26/08 02:56 PM (15 years, 6 months ago) |
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Psilocybeingzz said:
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Crasher said: jerk every animal you can get your hands on.
That's one way to make friends with mother nature. You'd be the king of the forest! Or at the very least, highly regarded.
LOL, or used and tossed aside. He meant make jerky btw.
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Re: I need a survival book! Please! [Re: SvampViking]
#8989965 - 09/26/08 03:15 PM (15 years, 6 months ago) |
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Re: I need a survival book! Please! [Re: Syle]
#8990999 - 09/26/08 07:36 PM (15 years, 6 months ago) |
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I have Ray Mears - Essential Bushcraft ..
Its a pretty decent book, it shows you in detail how to make all sorts of shelters in all sort of terrain, seasons etc. It shows you how to use all the basic survival equipment properly and how to live off of the land.
Its a pretty decent book .
If anyone has that SAS survival handbook in pdf form I'd appreciate it .
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Re: I need a survival book! Please! [Re: Syle]
#8991015 - 09/26/08 07:40 PM (15 years, 6 months ago) |
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Tom Brown?
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Re: I need a survival book! Please! [Re: John Nada]
#8991022 - 09/26/08 07:41 PM (15 years, 6 months ago) |
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The tracker that the movie "The Hunted" is based off of. He is the premiere woodsman and tracker in our country.
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Re: I need a survival book! Please! [Re: Syle]
#8991024 - 09/26/08 07:42 PM (15 years, 6 months ago) |
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Re: I need a survival book! Please! [Re: Seuss]
#8991032 - 09/26/08 07:43 PM (15 years, 6 months ago) |
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Seuss said: http://www.equipped.com/fm21-76.htm
There we go. Now I have to figure out what 10-26 is, if anything.
The ranger handbook is another good one to have.
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Edited by Crasher (09/26/08 07:45 PM)
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Re: I need a survival book! Please! [Re: Syle]
#8991033 - 09/26/08 07:44 PM (15 years, 6 months ago) |
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I thought this book was really good.
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Re: I need a survival book! Please! [Re: Crasher]
#8991061 - 09/26/08 07:51 PM (15 years, 6 months ago) |
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Crasher said: The tracker that the movie "The Hunted" is based off of. He is the premiere woodsman and tracker in our country.
I'd like to challenge him to a track off in a deciduous forest. I know I wouldn't win, but it would be cool to see how I would stack up. It's amazing how you can read the environment like a book.
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Re: I need a survival book! Please! [Re: SvampViking]
#8991072 - 09/26/08 07:52 PM (15 years, 6 months ago) |
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Take a class from him.
I plan on attending one.
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Re: I need a survival book! Please! [Re: Crasher]
#8991080 - 09/26/08 07:55 PM (15 years, 6 months ago) |
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Crasher said: The tracker that the movie "The Hunted" is based off of. He is the premiere woodsman and tracker in our country.
I know who he is. I was suggesting him
I didn't even see you had mentioned him.
I don't don't usually post much in the pub, so I know how to reply properly.
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Re: I need a survival book! Please! [Re: Crasher]
#8991087 - 09/26/08 07:57 PM (15 years, 6 months ago) |
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Hey thanks for the link. I do need a winter course.
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Re: I need a survival book! Please! [Re: Crasher]
#8991088 - 09/26/08 07:57 PM (15 years, 6 months ago) |
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I like all the traps for animals he showed in the book, and the huge index of edible and medicinal plants. I need the one with the actual color pictures of the plants
Oh, and the structures. The part about building the different types of houses was good.
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Re: I need a survival book! Please! [Re: SvampViking]
#8991122 - 09/26/08 08:04 PM (15 years, 6 months ago) |
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SvampViking said: Hey thanks for the link. I do need a winter course.
Yeah, as soon as I can scrap the 900 bucks together to go, I'll be in one.
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Re: I need a survival book! Please! [Re: Crasher]
#8993980 - 09/27/08 02:43 PM (15 years, 5 months ago) |
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Crasher said: The Army survival FM was pretty good. FM 10-26 or something.
I'd stock up on anything by Tom Brown (the tracker) and the Audubon Society guides to everything.
The SAS manual is pretty good, but no book is going to save your life, as "Into the Wild" demonstrated.
What did "Into the Wild demonstrate? Someone gave me that movie but I never bothered to watch it as I don't really like movies too much.
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Re: I need a survival book! Please! [Re: Poid]
#8994034 - 09/27/08 02:59 PM (15 years, 5 months ago) |
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Quote:
Poid said:
Quote:
Crasher said: The Army survival FM was pretty good. FM 10-26 or something.
I'd stock up on anything by Tom Brown (the tracker) and the Audubon Society guides to everything.
The SAS manual is pretty good, but no book is going to save your life, as "Into the Wild" demonstrated.
What did "Into the Wild demonstrate? Someone gave me that movie but I never bothered to watch it as I don't really like movies too much.
I demonstrated that if you dont I.D. your plants correctly, you could end up smiling while you die in an old short bus in a blizzard.
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Re: I need a survival book! Please! [Re: satyr]
#8994056 - 09/27/08 03:02 PM (15 years, 5 months ago) |
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The FM21-76 manual is a really good one to have around. In my bag I carry it, and some select pages from The Trappers Bible.
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Re: I need a survival book! Please! [Re: satyr]
#8994117 - 09/27/08 03:15 PM (15 years, 5 months ago) |
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The Trappers Bible, eh? Do you suggest that I buy or check that out?
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Re: I need a survival book! Please! [Re: Poid]
#8994274 - 09/27/08 03:46 PM (15 years, 5 months ago) |
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For sure man Trapping is the way to go when it comes to obtaining meat, and you can never know too many trapping methods. The book goes in depth to many different methods, to simple, yet effective, to elaborate, high yield traps. I carried the entire book in my 2 month stay in the ozarks, and have employed quite a few of its techniques with great success.
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Re: I need a survival book! Please! [Re: satyr]
#8995281 - 09/27/08 06:52 PM (15 years, 5 months ago) |
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satyr said: For sure man Trapping is the way to go when it comes to obtaining meat, and you can never know too many trapping methods. The book goes in depth to many different methods, to simple, yet effective, to elaborate, high yield traps. I carried the entire book in my 2 month stay in the ozarks, and have employed quite a few of its techniques with great success.
I'm going to look into it. Thanks for the reference!
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Re: I need a survival book! Please! [Re: satyr]
#8998901 - 09/28/08 04:40 PM (15 years, 5 months ago) |
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What select pages do you think I should use?
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Re: I need a survival book! Please! [Re: Poid]
#8999507 - 09/28/08 07:11 PM (15 years, 5 months ago) |
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It really depends on your intent and purposes. I carry just a few select pages of traps that work well for me, and keep them in in the FM21-76(which Ive printed and shrunk down to save space). But Ive been trapping for quite a while, and am very familiar with the skill. I would recommend carrying the entire book, as its only 72 pages and doesnt take up much space in your pack. Besides, I've found that having some informative reading around after being in the wild for several months brings some comfort to the lonely traveler.
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Re: I need a survival book! Please! [Re: Syle]
#9012052 - 10/01/08 04:16 AM (15 years, 5 months ago) |
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Syle said: Can anyone recommend me a good handbook on wilderness-survival and all that kind of stuff? I need something that has a good checklist in it of stuff one would need.
Any thoughts? Thanks!
I recommend this one.
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