10+ Outdoor Survival Skills & Bushcraft Tips 

Fresh herbs from the garden make a wonderful tea that help with colds

I hope you're feeling 100% by new years

It’s been doing the rounds the whole flu thing! Got caught out with it myself just before Christmas. Hope you and then family are doing well. Keep up the great work. 👍

Glad you’re better Mike. Great timing for being ill! Love your vids!

Thank you for the tips. I could not find the 10x loupe via the links to your shop nor on your Amazon page. Please could you link to that? I have been trying to find a nice large one like that for fieldwork, mostly just find those with a crazy small diameter. Thank you so much.

Perhaps heating your knife and using the plastic from the cartridge left over and sealing it!

Indeed. He also makes the comment that you should use a respirator if you melt it down. While always prudent, this is a bit of overkill, and something that should not dissuade you from doing so in a survival situation. The amount of airborne lead that you could inhale, in an outdoor situation, over a fire (where you aren’t likely to have your face anyway) is minutely small. Ask any plumber who’s been sweating pipes with lead-based solder for 30 years; it’s not really a thing. Also while not great for anyone, lead poisoning is really a serious problem for children in developmental years, not adults. Lastly, you’d need to make sure any mask had the correct cartridges for fumes. Most dust masks and particle respirators aren’t going to do much for toxic fumes. Also be sure to see if it is lead shot! Many shotgun shells use steel shot now. And, commonly, “lead” shot and bullets are not pure lead anyway. They use an alloy (mostly lead). Not saying this would have anything to do with melting them for fishing weights. Just saying.

@@JohnSmith-gs4lw I’m a journeyman in the union. The only time I see a risk is if we are removing lead paint from old drywall. It can be very painful. And have some seriously negative effects on the body. But from birdshot? I don’t see it.

😂 I did think that, hence why I had to explain about size reference for the video.

Typical boys always exagerating 🤣 Now if he had pulled out my larding needle lol

I have bigger leather sewing needles than that one. LOL

Thanks! Yep that works well, and usually a plentiful supply of it in our house!

Many thanks! Glad the videos have helped.

"Staple"!?

Thanks! More to come

Cheers Erik

Cheers Ant 👍🏻glad you enjoyed it!

It certainly dovetails well with some of the "survival shotgun" material you can find on the web and on RU-vid.

Cheers! Glad you enjoy it 👍🏻

Happy new year for you and I hope you enjoyed you new year

Id love to know you better Matt, thats if you dont mind

Happy New Year to you too. Hope you enjoyed your new year

Id love to know you better, thats if you dont mind

I liked that he don’t pollute. Burning plastic maybe necessary in extreme circumstances, but no need to do it for the sake of it.

@@Jonc85 Have you ever had a campfire? Do you drive an automobile? Have you ever ridden on a bus or flown on an airplane? Do you own an iPhone or a cell phone or even a computer? Do you buy prepackaged food? Do you throw your garbage into the landfill? Do you have a plastic toothbrush? Do you buy bottled water? Do you wear shoes? Have you ever used a can of hairspray or spray paint or WD-40? Do you live in a house that was made out of building materials? If the answer to all of these questions is yes, which it IS… Then don’t make yourself out to be some patron saint with a green recycling logo on his forehead. This is a really brief snippet of a non-exhaustive list…and let me also add, None of these things are extreme and yet they all pollute barring none. So when you say - “I liked that he don’t pollute.” You are making an assumption that’s entirely fallacious. Show me ONE person that isn’t polluting… And I’ll show you a person that doesn’t even exist. So for the sake of your argument that - “burning plastic may be necessary in extreme circumstances but no need to do it for the sake of it.” In what kind of circumstance are we talking about where you would necessitate it being an extreme circumstance worthy of burning plastic? Riddle me that Batman. And why would that be any different from every day normal circumstances - whether you’re eking out your existence while roughing it in the woods, or living in a third world country, or making a video as some RU-vid influencer practicing survival skills? Do you know what happens to a shotgun shell when you’re done with it? It’s thrown away. “Away” has both a name and a place. What do you think happens when you recycle a plastic water bottle for instance? Does it get melted back into water bottles over and over again ad infinitum? Absolutely not. The number of uses that that plastic water bottle is good for exponentially deteriorates every time the polymers get heated back up. Every time it goes through a recycling plant, more plastic polymers are added to it in order to get it to bind together and therefore more virgin plastics go into it. Did you know those virgin plastics largely get dumped into the ocean in the form of “nurdles” which chokes out the sealife and kills sea creatures, all for the sake that we can generate more plastic product? It might be helpful for you to understand the “green agenda” which is quite superficial in and of itself. When the world’s industries produced upwards of 250 million metric tons of polymers in 2016, its rather telling when only 9% got recycled. Do you think much has changed since then? And therefore with this in mind, one must consider the fact that the plastic water bottle has to turn into something more dense like playground equipment or plastic lumber until it’s finally thrown away into the landfill - where it gets BURNED. In other words, it’s only temporarily diverted from the landfills. This is the same with all plastic items. And you’re worried about burning plastic in order to get a fire started…. just because you’re caught up in this idea that your Greta Thunberg trying to save the planet? You’re straining at a gnat while swallowing a camel. You can’t save this planet. It’s going to be destroyed in the same way that it was created - in the hands of God. That doesn’t mean you shouldn’t be a good steward of it…. But you’re setting standards for yourself that are so low bar while expecting everyone else to be anal retentive and high bar in their own standards. That’s called hypocrisy. So get over yourself, go ahead and shave down one of these shotgun shells… And you can certainly use it as a flame extender without being so caught up in the minutia that you can’t even keep consistently. You’re welcome.

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@@Jonc85 I’m sure you had more to say. Perhaps try posting it again. It didn’t seem to send.

​@@jeremiahyeo5863 Hi Jeremiah, I'm fairly new to You tube interactions, so I apologise for the slow response. I would like to state that I am not on here to offend anyone, However I found your response to my (I thought) innocent statement genuinely intriguing! (from a mindset/cultural perspective) I wonder (pure interest as to whether I am right in assuming) Are you American, Mormon, landowner, NRA supporting Gun owner? Drive an enormous pickup truck, (one of your multiple over sized vehicles) Do you buy plastic bottles instead of filtering your tap water? These plastic bottles you talk of, is your fridge full of large soda bottles? Is drive though McDonalds your idea of a meal? Do you instinctively hate anyone you don't understand? and completely over react to anyone challenging your point of view? Do you think a prophet (whatever that means) decided to give up being an arab (whom of course you hate) and somehow travel to America, turn himself white, because Amercan's are the true chosen ones? Do you believe that the world was hand made only a few thousand years ago by a “being” that only wanted straight (usually white) male humans to enjoy it? I am not inferring that you are any, or all of these things, I'm just genuinely interested to know the answers, thanks. In response to your questions (only fair) I am as guilty as the rest of humanity for polluting our planet. Yes to pretty much all that you asked. (obviously) I even fly 747's as a job! so you can add 40T (metric) / hr to your sin list. (i'm probably far worse than you! - its ok, you can ask your personal god to keep hell warm for me:) However............... To say, what you say (and may I add, with such "gusto") (Paraphrased / Summarised) "we should feel free to pollute, because we always have" Is utterly self centred and Moronic. (sorry I could not find another way to put it more politely) NOW....(and I mean this) I like tree hugging Hippies about as much as Eric Cartman (one of the best things to come out of America:) However, I Still believe it is our human responsibility - to each other! (not Santa Claus) to make effort wherever we can, to improve and look after our world , now that we are capable of doing so. I am only just getting into watching this particular guy on You tube. I think he is brilliant and its nice for me to see the UK for a change (as alot of this kind of content I find is USA/Russia (I think). And one of the reasons I like him so much is that I can see he genuinely cares about leaving no trace. - This (and not your way) is true survival that can be traced to our ancient ancestors. I would indeed melt a bit of plastic, if I needed to (as I am sure the man above would) - but my point was, that he didn't need to and he showed us that neither did we. he even collected the lead "shot" because it would leach poison and hurt wild life that might eat it. To sign off, may I just add that although I have not been innocent of what you claim above, I do still try. I can honestly say that I don't use plastics where I can avoid, (which is a lot when you try) I have recently quit flying Jumbos and moved to a sustainable house that I can heat with wood and manual labour. I drive an electric car, but I still intend to buy a diesel motorhome. I scuba dive and take part in surveys and I see the damage to our planet up close. I intend to install solar and reduce my footprint as much as possible whilst still enjoying all that life can offer. In short. I disagree with you at almost every level. But I do enjoy a good debate, so thought id reply to your questions and ask a few of my own. Have a nice day.

Go outside into the wild for a hike with a parent/guardian once in a while (better twice a week)

The most valuable 'tool/weapon' that you have is your mind.

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Thx like I live on a farm I have a lot of tools and hunt and that kinda stuff but I kinda suck at the other stuff

Learn local plants and trees around you. Find out about their uses for both Bushcraft and medicinal/edible. Once you open your eyes to the natural world the Bushcraft type stuff will soon follow. Plenty of “crafting” stuff you can do with sticks/trees etc too. Also, check out my survival skills playlist on my RU-vid channel which is packed full of tips

I use it to pull the skin surrounding the splinter to break it back so that I can get to the splinter without it snapping.

I see your point of view and I understand you and I totally agree with everything you have said. You seems to be a cool person

Id love to know you better, thats if you dont mind

Yes you are

Just a small magnifying glass. Type it in on Amazon and it should pop up.

It’s a Silva compass. Arguably the most reputable company for good quality compasses. You can find them online easily enough.