(20 January 2012, 09:57)Scythe13 Wrote: (20 January 2012, 09:49)NorthernRaider Wrote: You need to focus primarily but not totally on fieldcraft such as Navigation using map and compass to 8 figure grid references, shelter building, cammoflage and concealment, field hygiene, first aid, camp cooking, patroling, obtaining water, identifying edible flora and fauna, evation techniques, obsticle crossing, fire lighting etc, Get the SAS survival guide and read it properly, but courses and lots of practise will help, as I said before LSG and the like have ran some good courses according to feedback.
That's a pretty good list.
Things I can already do from the list:
Navigation using map and compass to 8 figure grid references
first aid
camp cooking
obtaining water (solar stills, boil catchment, streams/freeflowing water, leaf extraction, fluid recycling, etc)
Those are ones I'm good with.
Shelter building, depending on what's around, I should be okay with. I can build a log cabin, a frame, tin roof, bamboo roof and gutters, connifer Aframe, and even as far as an Earthship (if using urban reclaimed materials).
Excellent now imagine you have your extended family with you, Ma , Paw, Cleetus, Brandine
, Cousins, Grans, Baybees, etc and they are cold, wet, tired, hungry and pissed off.
Thinking back a lot of years I gained a heck of a lot of field and bushcraft skills in the army etc, I was almost smugly confident about my " expertise" !!!! Hah what a laugh, I've never called myself an expert at anything since after doing courses under the control of guys like Eddie McGee , I would say at best i was an advanced NOVICE !!!. Please guys Prepping and planning can be mastered easily by intelligent people like you lot, thinking laterally, planning logically, working out options, studying current events etc, BUT Fieldcraft and Bushcraft must never be hurried.
(20 January 2012, 10:16)uks Wrote: Rushing thing's may make you a jack of all trades and a master at none. As someone who has been doing it for 20 years plus i still learning new skills. While learning new skills don't forget the lessons you have already learnt.
Rushing Fieldcraft gives you wings, Angels wings.
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