GO to a museum....

[Prepper1]

Just as a bit of a side note, if you have one near you, or not it'd be worth the travel to a local or city museum.

My local museum has a wide variety of primitive weapons, clothing from the American plains Indians etc.

Also tools and weapons from prehistory onwards.

Why am I telling you this?

Well for example, even though you may have an idea of what a flint arrow head looks like from tv or pictures, seeing stuff in the flesh so to say gives you a new perspective on how the thing should look once youve tried making it.

As an example I looked at some flint arrow heads at my museum, now whilst I thought they were small anyway, they were in fact relatively tiny.

So you might say.

This gave me the idea of what size I should be aiming for if I were to make them myself.

Because truthfully my efforts before I had seen them would have been huge and as such I would have failed.

Failures not really an option during a survival situation is it.

Also there was a selection of skinning tools, spears etc...

All very useful stuff to take pictures of for your own knowledge bank.

The plains Indian clothing as well was a fascinating insight on how to make clothes from buckskin.

Theres a full bank of knowledge at the museum that we can learn much about primitive living and also survival skills.

Well worth a long drive or bus ride, make it a day out, dont take the kids if you fancy long looks at stuff, they run round like blue arsed flies....

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As a side note, seeing things in the real world even if its behind glass is better than just reading about stuff.

Look long and hard at stuff there, you can see how it was made or if not what a water carrying jug should look like.

Probability is it wont look like the one you tried making.

I think knowing what something should look like is sometimes half the battle.

A bit like an apprentice ship if you like.