Long Term Survival - Bulletproof Bushcraft on a Budget II

Here's more from Wilderness Outfitter's Dave Canterbury. He discusses different "Cover", one of the 5 "C's" of Bushcraft and also "Containers" another of the 5 "C's". Go ahead and watch, then use your imagination as to what you can use to improvise your own of these two of the 5 "C's"

Long Term Survival - Bulletproof Bushcraft on a Budget

Practicing Bushcraft is practicing survival skills. You don't have to learn the primitive skills to enjoy Bushcraft, but they are valuable to know. Collecting simple and and low-cost tools to outfit yourself for Bushcraft/Long term survival does not have to be prohibitively expensive, just keep an eye out and haunt the yard sales and flea markets for your gear.





Even if you do not like Dave Canterbury, he has a wealth of knowledge and experience to share.

Selous's Gear - The Ka-Bar/Becker BK-2

One of my many hobbies is collecting "interesting" and functional knives. Since one of my favorite activities happens to be camping and bushcrafting, I am always on the lookout for the perfect camp knife. One of the best for non-kitchen chores is the BK-2.

Now this is a serious hunk of steel which you can feel in its heft the 1st time you pick it up! This blade is more than adequate for light chopping such as would be needed to build a brush shelter. If batoning your firewood into bite size chunks is required, I have no fear this blade will perform adequately. It has a black coating that protects it from rust, but may make it a bit more difficult to clean if used for certain chores.

The blade is 1095 cro-van steel and it shares the same Grivory handle as it's big brother, the BK-7, and probably the BK-9. The blade is at least a quarter inch thick!! Monster!  The blade measures 5.5 inches long and the knife measures 10.5 inches long overall. It comes with a hard plastic Kydex sheath with a nylon web belt loop that is removeable if you wish to use the integrated lashing slots to attach it to whatever you desire. It can also be purchased with a Heavy-Duty Polyester sheath with front pocket, similar to my BK-7 sheath.

If you prefer a leather sheath, they can be found on evilbay, where I purchased mine. The BK-2 sits deep within the sheath to eliminate a keeper strap.

1095 Cro-Van Steel is an easy to sharpen, plain carbon steel used in knife making. Proven to be one of the most popular steels used in KA-BAR knives. Here is an excellent review on YouTube.


I bought mine from Amazon as it was the best price I could find at the time. It's not cheap at $72.98 (free shipping) but you get what you pay for and it is made in the USA. It now resides in my GHB along with my Mora.

More Whoa!

Here's more from those talented young folk that we saw in my last post!









Thank you Aaron O'Keefe!

Enjoy!

Whoa!

Now this is pretty damn good. A damn fine product of Aaron O'Keefe.


"Borrowed" from The Feral Irishman.

More from them.




Now for the finale


I hope you have enjoyed this young talent as much as I, for this talent could go very far indeed!.

Another Date With Alice

One of my readers has asked for some more info on how to setup a Alice Pack with the Molle straps so I hit the trail to find some more informative posts on how to do this. This link is perhaps the best pictorial method I have found: Share your cheap yet potentially valuable tricks

Here is a YouTube video demonstrating the installation, I would do a few things differently but his method gets the job done. The video is dark in some places but I think it stills gives a pretty good tutorial on this mod. Keep in mind that the ACU Molle II mounts differently.


Good luck Fernando, I hope this helps!

X2-FLARE BLASTS EARTH'S IONOSPHERE

X2-FLARE BLASTS EARTH'S IONOSPHERE: Electromagnetic radiation from today's X2-class solar flare had a significant effect on Earth's upper atmosphere. As a wave of ionization swept across the dayside of the planet, the normal propagation of shortwave radio signals was scrambled. In Alachua, Florida, electrical engineer Wes Greenman recorded the effects using his own shortwave radio telescope. Click on the frequency-time plot to view an animation:

During the time that terrestrial shortwave transmissions were blacked out, the sun filled in the gap with a loud radio burst of its own. In New Mexico, amateur radio astronomer Thomas Ashcraft recorded the sounds. "This radio burst was a strong one and might be too intense for headphones," cautions Ashcraft.

Solar radio bursts are caused by strong shock waves moving through the sun's atmosphere. (Electrons accelerated by the shock front excite plasma instabilities which, in turn, produce shortwave static.) They are usually a sign that a CME is emerging from the blast site--and indeed this flare produced a very bright CME. Solar flare alerts: text, voice. 

Angry sun spits two million-mph tongues of fire

By Tariq Malik

Published October 25, 2013

Space.com

 Click on picture to watch video

The sun erupted with two of the strongest solar flares it can unleash Friday, just days after blasting an intense solar storm at Earth.

The sun fired off a flare that registered at X1.7 on the space weather scale at 4:01 a.m. EDT (0801 GMT) Friday, then followed with an X.2-class event at 11:07 a.m. EDT (1507 GMT). NASA's Solar Dynamics Observatory captured video of the X1.7 solar flare, which came after several smaller sun storms over the last few days.

Both powerful flares erupted from a new sunspot cluster called Region 1882 and sparked temporary radio blackouts, officials with the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration's Space Weather Prediction Center (SWPC) said in an update. But neither eruption is likely to spark major geomagnetic storms in Earth's magnetic field, they added.

Feathers of the Sun indeed! 

Any bets as to a realationship with this?

No reports of damage after 7.3 magnitude earthquake hits Japan

  An earthquake of magnitude 7.3 struck early Saturday off Japan's east coast, the U.S. Geological Survey said, and Japan's emergency agencies issued a tsunami advisory for the region that includes the crippled Fukushima nuclear site.

Tsunamis of up to 15 inches were reported at four areas along the coast, but the advisory was lifted less than two hours after the quake.

There were no immediate reports of damage on land. Japanese television images of harbors showed calm waters. The quake hit at 2:10 a.m. Tokyo time about 170 miles off Fukushima, and it was felt in Tokyo, some 300 miles away.

 I think this might be a good weekend to practice your Earthquake drills!

  Wikipedia: Solar Flare info

 

 

October Surprise!

Just in time to take the heat off Obama and his Goons and to switch the National Discourse back to Gun control. Some perceived Obamanoid (perhaps) shoots up another Gun Free Zone.

2 dead, 2 in critical condition after shooting at Nevada middle school

Two people are dead and two boys are in critical condition after a shooting Monday at a middle school in Nevada, authorities say.

Angela Rambo, a spokeswoman for the Renown Regional Medical Center, said both people injured in the shooting at Sparks Middle School in Sparks, Nev., were males.
Washoe County School District Police didn't immediately offer details of the identities of the dead. They said the suspect is "down," but offered no further details.

 
So awfully convenient, wouldn't you say? Nothing that happens anymore surprises me. The Government manipulation of the press and these horrific attacks against our children all point back at those who dominate this Nation. They don't want our children safe, if they were, what else would they manipulate us with? I guess we will just need to watch and see how this develops. 

Update: Seems it was a student.
Perhaps a case of revenge for Bullying?
Or???

Whatever the cause, two people will never see another day. So sad.