Priorities of survival – Food

Your next priority of survival is food, here you need to be thinking will the calories gained outweigh the calories spent. Trapping requires less energy than hunting, traps should be placed on game trails or near dens. Do not place them too close to the dens as animals are most wary when entering and leaving them, look for bottlenecks or funnel the prey to your traps. Try to mask your scent, bait them and set more traps to increase your chances of success. Should you find yourself near water this would be a good place to look for food.

Never turn down an opportunity, a good survivor is a scavenger. Sometimes nature does the hard work for you and you should try to eat anything you happen upon that is safe, you never know when or what may make up your next meal so you cannot afford to be picky. Your brain should be bigger then every animal or insect, so put that grey matter to good use and Think smart!

Make sure that if you have food spare to store it is out of the reach of any insects or animals it may attract, as the last thing you would want is unwanted attention from something that would also appreciate your meal such as a bear.

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Lofty Wiseman’s hardest thing!

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Podcast Episode 1

Welcome to the Urban Bushcraft Podcast.

In this show we talk about how we got into Bushcraft, an introduction to Survival Kits, talk about a Bushcraft Course we went on and have a competition to win a BCB Trekker Survival Kit.

Links:
Adventure Medical Kits
Gearpods
BCB International
David Willis Bushcraft
Grog Knots App

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Lofty Wiseman’s Difficult Situation!

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Primus Fire Ignition Steel

Being able to start a fire quickly when needed can be very important, in a survival situation it might even be a matter of life and death. Do you carry a method of fire lighting with you? If you do its most likely a fire steel.

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The Primus Fire Ignition Steel is not only an effective way to start a fire or stove it is a great value ferrocium rod, ideal if you want the most sparks for your buck.

The rod and striker are held together on a loop of elastic, I found that this loop was too small to get the striker into a position I felt produced the most sparks. I will be replacing this with some paracord or a larger loop of elastic in the future

Like many of the other fire steels on the market the primus fire ignition steel gives off a shower of sparks of around 3000C giving you a safe, reliable shower of sparks when needed.

Available in 3 different sizes – Producing between 3000 and 10,000 strikes depending on the size. A suitable alternative to a Light My Fire fire steel and will give the same quality of sparks. With the modification of replacing the small loop in will be a 10, however straight out of the box it rates a 7 out of 10.

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