Where's everyone bugging out to?

[Scythe13]

(22 April 2012, 00:07)WetandCold Wrote: Scythe this KBSHS is something you’re going to build up over years of trial and error?

Just recieved a drunk call, so I'm awake at 3am.

The KBSHS is something I'm slowly building up.

The shelter issue is minimal, considering the rule of 3. I have enough capabilities to build a pretty reasonable shelter from my BOB, which should last long enough until I have at least a roof, if not much more build in a permenant basis. I've had 5 weeks where I've built my own home using just a machette, and that proved really effective in tropical storm level of rain, in the Cook Islands. So I'm pretty happy about that.

Fire is a pretty easy one, but I'm practicing that nearly daily. Next up I'm going to be trying a fire in the woods on a damp day. That'll be an interesting one.

The water thing is not an issue, as I have already built systems, and practiced them, in place for that (fire starting, condensation/steam collection, hot rock in a pot to heat the water and remove bacteria, and things like that)

Food in the main issue, however the next Bristol Meet will be a help towards that. Also, befriending the local butcher and having him teach me to skin a rabbit (which he has already agreed to do) will be a huge help. I'm going to learn about skinning other animals (birds, fish, etc) and also learn about snares and other such things over the next few months.

It's an ongoing thing, but I'd highly recommend things along the lines of knowing the skills!

Knowing you can get up and off into the woods, and not need anything but your knife, is a huge benefit in confidence and the alike. I'm not pretending I'm at that level yet. But with much practice, I'll be there. Having these skills means that I can occupy an abandoned home, I can start farming, I can dig up caches, and all these kinds of things. But also, I can vanish into the woods, then come out a couple of years later with a big smile on my face. I don't have to worry about my BOL being damaged, caches being compormised and things like that.

The skills are a kind of insurance that doesn't have a sell by date, can't be lost, can't rot or be damaged by the weather.

Knowledge when combined with much practice, leads to supreme confidence that you'll be okay. Supreme confidence without practice means you're going to die!!!

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I just reread that message, and you can tell I only started to wake up later in the post haha.

Anyway, what I meant to say was that even if I do go to a BOL and do things like that, the same as most other people plan, I can survive there and do perfectly well. The main difference is that the skill base, I'm working on, will also give me a greater level of condifence in my ability to survive, should a BOL not become an option.

My KBSHS allows me all the usual prepper things, but also something not many of us have considered. Actually genuinely going pioneer and living 100% off the land.