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Make Soap from Yucca Leaves

Make Soap from Yucca Leaves How to make soap from Yucca leaves is a primitive skill to make natural hand soap, shampoo, disinfectant wash, laundry...

Maintaining a Straight Course in the Wilderness

Maintaining a Straight Course in the Wilderness How to practice maintaining a straight course in the wilderness can be a life saving skill when lost...

Keyhole Campfire Cooking Technique – Camping

Keyhole Campfire Cooking Technique The keyhole campfire cooking technique is a combination of a campfire and a cooking fire. As the wood burns and creates...

How To Make A Cot Style Hammock Camping Project

How To Make A Cot Style Hammock DIY Project This how to make a cot style hammock is an amazing way to make a camping...

WSK Tracker Knife Use

Great video showing all the ways you can use the WSK tracker knife. From chopping wood to making fire this is one handy knife...

Survival Skills: How to Cook in a Steam Pit

See how to cook in a steam pit like they do for luaus or clam bakes. layers of rocks, dirt and vegetation create steam...

Building A Wooden Raft

Building A Wood Raft This group of friends experienced the adventure of building a wooden raft while on a camping trip in Karlstad Sweden with...

An Old Fashioned Way Of Staying Warm

An old fashioned way of staying warm during an emergency situation, power outage or living off the grid has been used for hundreds of...

Fox Walking and Wide Angle Vision

Videos on how to have more awareness of your surroundings. Hedgehog Leatherworks shares tips for this to help you stay alive in a survival...

How To Build A Survival Shelter

Learn how to build a survival shelter. In this article you will learn of various ways to build a shelter to help you survive,...

Quick Hide ! A Skill That Could Save Your Life

Creek Stewart author of "Build the Perfect Bug Out Bag: Your 72-Hour Disaster Survival Kit" and "The Unofficial Hunger Games Wilderness Survival Guide" shares...

How to Make Aspirin from Willow Trees – Natural Remedies

Prep For Shtf website shares how to make aspirin from willow trees. Homesteaders for hundreds of years have made a compound  by boiling the bark...

Primitive Funnel Basket Trap – Made From Items in the Woods

Willow Haven Outdoor website shares how to create a primitive funnel basket fish trap from items you find in the wilderness. If you are in...

How to Make Moccasin Boots Project

Learn how to make your own moccasin boots with this great tutorial. Wilderness Survival Skills and Bushcraft Antics website shares how to make moccasin...

How to Identify, Harvest, Extract and Process False Tinder Fungus

Long video showing all the different types of false tinder fungus and how to harvest,extract and process it for use. Bushcraftbartons shows you how.

Primitive Fire Starting: The Bow Drill

Instructables website shares how to start a fire with a bow drill for when you don't have matches, a lighter or a flint fire...

Cooking A Grand Feast Over An Open Fire – Campfire Cooking

Prof. Michael Fuller, St. Louis Community College shares how to cook a grand feast of a meal over an open fire. This collection of dishes...

How to Make a Fire in the Rain

How to Make a Fire in the Rain.The infographic explains a few strategies for getting a fire going when you have nothing but a...

How To Make Primative Weapons. 3 Videos

Kilgoreoutdoors has 3 videos to show how to make and use primitive weapons.  Interesting to see.   Part 2 - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IYdhnK7he4g&list=TLFRB8ldiDrAE   Part 3 - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CLbtsX6qo-8&list=TLaGH9K1-vKfE    

Survival Fishing: How to make a trotline from paracord

Nice how to with pictures from Prepforshtf on making a trotline for fishing. If you ever need to fish for survival you would probably...

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