Fletching Arrows with Duct Tape


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Yep... from Backwoodsman Magazine, the journal of the 21st century frontiersman.

Note the URL "mag" not "magazine"

http://www.backwoodsmanmag.com/

Not my usual reading material, but everything is interesting; and this was in a ready room at a site I guarded over the weekend. I also read about "Dugout Dick" a guy who lived in ice caves in Idaho until he was 95. A lifelong vegetarian, he lived well on what he found in nature. He made cash money by renting out the rooms he carved and by other forms of barter.

The current issue also has a good heads-up piece on Staying Lost Seal Style. The first advice about living on your own in the woods is "don't do it!" If you are in the woods, your primary task must be to get rescued. If rescue is not coming, then you need to be evasive, like a Navy Seal. The preferred hunting weapon is a slingshot for taking down squirrels. However, running through the woods shooting squirrels is a big expenditure of calories; and survival depends on Intake being greater than Outgo. It is better to build traps; and deadfalls are the easiest.

I am not an outdoors kind of guy at all. I grew up in a city and cities are civilization by definition. That said, the challenge of living off the land with whatever you happen to have is intellectually interesting. I once worked for a firm that set up management training sessions for us that were capped with a survival scenario. We were lost on a Caribbean island. My compatriots voted to toss out the Christmas candle and bring the golf clubs. They also vetoed my insistence on leaving both the handgun and the bottle of rum behind.

When we got the "answers from the back of the book" the Army Ranger told us no matter what, always have a knife and a way to make fire. I do. Always.

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