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What skills can a person with common sense teach themselves? Skills that are valuable for survival in a grid down world and links to info about learning those skills.
I will start:
Water,
E 'Honey Badger Militia' Sleep, the anti woke adote.
All you really need is a 25 pound bag of brown rice, 25 pounds of pinto beans, some water and salt. Then just hole-up for about a month, and when you come out the world will be pretty much yours. Most of the problem people will have taken care of themselves. Sort of a selfish position to take, but survival is about surviving.
Yes, being able to problem solve while your heart rate is jacked....you can train some of that. Get heart rate up and do math in your head...
Work the problem till it is solved.
That's a bit different than a life or death situation. I do some of my best thinking when working out due to the increased blood and oxygen flow. But that's not the same as fearing for your life.
Maybe having the wife chase you around with a rolling pin while doing the math would be effective.
Depends entirely on your location. An example, some of the things that would be valuable for you, like water purification, would be worthless to me. I can and do drink from any water body I come across. The ability to build a fire in any and all conditions is far more important in my environment. My rule of thumb is to always have 3 ways to build a fire with me at all times. One of those is always in my pocket. With a fire I can survive...and even purify water if I had to for some reason.
After fire, I would say navigation. Map and compass stuff. I taught my kids to do it when they were old enough to understand. We played games with it to make it fun. I would set up a course and have a big bag of candy, cookies or something at the end. They had to follow a course to find it. This was all done at our lodge 200-miles from the nearest town, so they understood it was serious stuff. When my oldest joined the US military and was in combat medic school the instructors couldnt believe she could use a map and compass as good as they could.
Helped my brother-in-law butcher one of his hogs today... We had been putting it off trying to find a place we could take it to but everybody is booked up. So we had to bite the bullet and do it ourselves... Just about waited too long. He was a big boy... Once we got him killed and hung up he was 500+ lbs. We put around 340 lbs of meat in the cooler.
For a couple of novice first-timers it went pretty well. We learned a bit and the next two should go even better.
Mike
One man with a gun may control 100 others who have none.
Helped my brother-in-law butcher one of his hogs today... We had been putting it off trying to find a place we could take it to but everybody is booked up. So we had to bite the bullet and do it ourselves... Just about waited too long. He was a big boy... Once we got him killed and hung up he was 500+ lbs. We put around 340 lbs of meat in the cooler.
For a couple of novice first-timers it went pretty well. We learned a bit and the next two should go even better.
Mike
Oh boy my grandpa enjoyed raising a few pigs. He was born 1884, he didn't have to but he did. Butchering time was a mini family reunion and cookout. Everyone had a task and it went well. Then another weekend gathering a few weeks later to pass out the cured bacon, ham, sausage and a jar or two of his homemade kraut.
you're only allowed so many sunrises... I aim to see every one of them!
My son and I enjoy butchering together. Two people makes it lots easier. No mystery in what your eating. I cooked catfish Saturday evening. Family was here. I cut about a pound of home made bacon up in little pieces. Fried home canned green beans up with that bacon and some chopped up scallion. It was pretty tasty and went well with the catfish we caught last weekend.
Boiling water is good but it takes a LOT of fuel. You need to drink a gallon, minimum a day. If you start with clear water a ceramic filter system that goes from one five gallon bucket to another, will last a long time. If your plan is well water that filter will really last a long time. A deep well is useless without electricity and a shallow well with a hand pump will get contaminated with human waste once toilets quit working. That clear, shallow well water, wont plug up your ceramic filter quickly.
You can pre filter your water with a layer of charcoal, a layer of sand, and a layer of gravel in a five gallon bucket with a small hole drilled in the bottom. the gravel goes in the top layer. It wont be safe to drink but even pond water will be pretty clear and your ceramic filter system wont plug up so fast when you put the pond water in.
If you have to run and live in a hedgerow under a poncho, you need to be 12-50 years old. If you have a family to take care of it wont work. Resources will be too hard to acquire in sufficient quantity's. If you dont think so load up your family for a weekend backpack adventure. Sunday afternoon you will know what I am talking about.
Those who would give up essential liberty, to purchase a little temporary safety, deserve neither liberty nor safety. Benjamin Franklin (1706-1790)
Puts me in mind of the scene in the movie Lone Survivor when the team is trying to get down the mountainside under heavy fire. Even during executions there's no panic.
Helped my brother-in-law butcher one of his hogs today... We had been putting it off trying to find a place we could take it to but everybody is booked up. So we had to bite the bullet and do it ourselves... Just about waited too long. He was a big boy... Once we got him killed and hung up he was 500+ lbs. We put around 340 lbs of meat in the cooler.
For a couple of novice first-timers it went pretty well. We learned a bit and the next two should go even better.
Mike
Oh boy my grandpa enjoyed raising a few pigs. He was born 1884, he didn't have to but he did. Butchering time was a mini family reunion and cookout. Everyone had a task and it went well. Then another weekend gathering a few weeks later to pass out the cured bacon, ham, sausage and a jar or two of his homemade kraut.
It's unpleasant work but we still had a good time... One of those little ironic things in life.
Mike
One man with a gun may control 100 others who have none.
WATER is no. 1. Snare making, trotline making, & shelter basics were next for me
Nope. Of the non trauma related causes of death, thermal regulation is #1. In other words, hypo/hyper-thermia kill faster than dehydration. Hydration is #2.
Doesn't anyone remember the wilderness survival Rule of 3 chant?? You can live: 3 weeks without food, 3 days without water, 3 hours without warmth, 3 seconds without hope.
"All that is necessary for the triumph of evil is that good men do nothing." -Edmund Burke "We are fast approaching... rule by brute force." -Ayn Rand