Archive for: March 2010

How to make a water filter Knowing how to make a water filter is important, if the only water you can find is dirty muddy water. There are a number of different ways to make a water filter

Winter survival gears for your car by Theora55 (Maine) A jar with candy and chocolates serves as emergency food. The candy is leftover from Easter, and it would take an emergency for it to get eaten. Another jar has a …

Canadian Belt Knife by cal (Slave Lake, Alberta, Canada) My favorite survival/ bush knife hands down is the Grohman #1, also known as the DH Russel canadian belt knife. The knife was invented in Nova Scotia by DH Russel. His …

Be careful slinging absolutes… by: Tarditi Ka-Bar is a fighting knife – 7″ is too long for many bushcrafting tasks that survival requires. It’s too light for chopping, and the clip point chips pretty easily

My survival knife by Country Boy (Rockmart Georgia) Mine is a Gerber LMF II ASEK. I did some adding to it to make it fit my wants more

The art of keeping your ASS alive by Wesley (Tulsa, OK) 98.6 The art of keeping your ASS alive by Cody Lundin is probably one of the best and most entertaining survival books I have found. The author treats survival …

Making Rope (Bellingham, WA, U.S.A.) The most basic rope is made from bark. I find disceduas trees tend to work the best. The less branches on the tree, the better

Top five folding knives by Jack Blade (Northern Rockies, USA) Tried and True: Folders Here is a list (not in any particular order) of my top five folding knives which I believe would work in an emergency for survival:- Cold …

Additional knife by: Dustin Tarditi Good list overall – I would recommend the RAT Cutlery (now ESEE Knives) offer the Ontario RAT series. Ontario knives made survival knives for RAT (Randal Adventure Training) survival school. RAT did not renew the …

Spelunking survival knife by Joel (Chicago) I enjoy spelunking, but find a fixed blade can be a bit much. I’ve found that a fixed blade knife will get in the way.