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Survival skills are essential tools that can help us navigate and overcome unforeseen challenges and emergencies. From natural disasters to unexpected situations, knowing how to handle yourself in a survival situation can mean the difference between life and death. In this blog, we will explore the many different aspects of survival skills, from the basics of wilderness survival to more advanced techniques for urban survival. We will cover everything from shelter building and fire starting to first aid and self-defense. Whether you’re an experienced outdoors person or someone looking to learn how to be better prepared for unexpected situations, join us on this journey to discover the essential survival skills that can help you stay safe, calm, and in control in any situation.
Tater Junction is your Survival Skill How To Home.
I really started a deep dive on this topic because I am super interested in this. I know a little bit about a lot of things. Which in some ways is good. But, when I start thinking about trying to go deeper and learn more and then trying to share it with others I realize that there is so much to learn concerning survival skills.
So, here’s a list of topics I intend to cover related to survival skills, and I know it’s not exhaustive, but truly there is a lot to surviving!
Friction Fire
Tying Knots
Stone Blades and Tools
Trap Making
Rock Boiling
Building Shelter (Skills such as knowing what materials to gather and how to put them together, techniques like ribbing sticks is a great example of this.)
Foraging
Navigation (make and use a compass, sun, stars and shadow)
Fishing
Tracking
Metal Work
Carpentry
Sewing
Gardening
First Aid Focus on simple things like cleaning wounds, preventing infection, setting broken bones, stopping bleeds and CPR.
Communication
Healing
Hunting
Campfire Cooking
bowmaking, basketry, pottery, hide tanning
blacksmithing, canning, gardening, flint and steel firemaking, knife and axe craft
carving
self defense and how to hide (having a plan of escape, staying aware, facing doors)
Read the weather
Simple things like being able to access water, washing clothing, lighting a room and even entertainment would all change forever.
Braiding
Preparedness period
Livestock
Clean food/Preserve (smoking, drying, harvesting, griding, canning)
Clubs, spoons, mortar and pestle, bows, arrows, hoko knives, wooden spoons and many, many more can be made with only a good knife. Sure, in order to make something of quality, you’ll need more than that but, nevertheless, “primitive woodworking” is a great skill to learn
Knife sharpening
Cordage
Estimating daylight
Know the Rule of 3’s: You can survive three minutes without breathable air (unconsciousness generally occurs), or in icy water. You can survive three hours in a harsh environment (extreme heat or cold). You can survive three days without drinkable water.
The double constrictor is a slightly stronger knot with an extra riding turn. This is particularly useful for tying the knot in a slippery line like baling twine, because it adds friction. On the other hand, it can be more difficult to tighten properly. Check out the quick animation below, then you can go ahead […]
A good knife is one of the most important purchases that any prepper will make for their survival kit. The knife is one of the most versatile and elemental of tools, and will be used for all kinds of tasks in all kinds of situations. But most of us have much more to buy than […]
We are moving to a paperless society, so why keep a bookshelf with survival books? Well, it’s fine to have the digital options, but in case of power failures, or an EMP, the knowledge contained in print can last for generations. Plus, you can access books at any time without having to worry about whether […]
The first time I ever hit the tropical flats — armed with my finely tuned small-stream trout cast — I didn’t catch a single bonefish. Not one. But my failure started me on an odyssey that will likely never end. Chasing bones on the flats, from the Bahamas across the Caribbean to the Mayan Riviera, […]
Any prepper with even a modicum of first-aid training will pay close attention to the status and shelf life of the items in his first-aid kit. These things wear out over time. Ointments lose their potency, medications go stale or expire, and antibiotics can spoil. But what about the other, more mundane supplies in the […]
Most folks, including preppers, are inseparable from their cell phones these days and it is not hard to see why; even now people take for granted just how much capability is packed into such a tiny device. All of the many apps and functions are certainly handy but far and away a cell’s most critical […]
Automobile fires are no joke. Every year in the United States, more than 170,000 automobile fires occur on the highways across the country, with these fires resulting in nearly 350 deaths, over 1,000 injuries and a staggering 1.1 billion dollars in damage to property. Problems with the engine, drivetrain, electrical system, and other components of […]
Learning how to build a fire and maintain it for heat, light and cooking is an essential prepping skill, and often one of the first primitive or austere environment tasks that a beginning prepper will learn, often times right after establishing their three-day supply cache. There are all kinds of ways to create a fire, […]
Duct tape is one of those marvelous all-purpose tools that all preppers love. It has seemingly endless uses, from the mundane to the creative, and everyone you talk to will have one or more “duct tape stories” where the miracle adhesive tape saved the day, or their project. But there is one set of circumstances […]
People have a way of procrastinating, even about really important stuff. Problems very small and very far away on the horizon quickly grow in magnitude the closer they get. Suddenly, what appeared to be about as threatening as a tiny newt has taken on positively draconian proportions when it is staring down at you, breathing […]
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