Bushcraft Gold in Your Own Backyard
With only 24 hours in a day, you can't always trek to your personal space in the woods to practice bushcraft. Hectic schedules and time constraints eat away at your availability.
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WILDERNESS SKILLS
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How To Make Fire With Flint and Steel
Read nowThis special guest post was written by Sam Kelly of Twin Hawks Outdoors. Sam is a primitive skills practitioner with extensive experience in flint knapping, bow building, hunting with primitive equipment, and much more. He was also a vendor at...
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Top 10 Land Nav Myths
Read nowI am very thankful that I will work with the Georgia Bushcraft crew again for some in-person training. In the last class we covered Nature Immersion, which included tree identification, animal tracking, and many more skillsets related directly to bushcrafting. This...
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Best Bushcraft Coffee Methods
Read nowCoffee is near the top of the packing list for just about any adventure. So regardless if we're heading deep into the backcountry or just spending the day on the back 40, a pick me up via your favorite brew is a must-have.
How we brew our coffee depends on the day, the gear loadout, and sometimes just our mood. Here are some of our favorite ways to get our coffee fix in the woods.
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Wood and Fire
A common yet very true statement in bushcraft is the more you know, the less you have to carry. This really is our core belief, with the goal of many to be reaching the point of heading out a knife, pot, and wool blanket, then making it back home again days later! One thing key to this wild survival is fire. This has been a core skill, possibly dating back to 1.5 million years ago. Fire is one of the things that made humans human and played a huge role in our expansion around the world, even into the most inhospitable environments. If we could build a fire, we likely survived.Read now -
Understanding Blade Angles
If you have spent even just a moment on the internet trying to understand what angle to sharpen your knife, you've probably encountered millions of "experts" that claim their way/method is the ONLY way to arrive at sharp. Bullspit. ANGLES are less important than APEX. We are going to uncover a sharpening reality that will help you make a genuine breakthrough in your quest to have the sharpest knife possible.Read now -
Intro to Handline Fishing
Handline fishing is a great way to have the ability to catch fish in a small and easy to carry package. There are multiple styles of handlines, but regardless of the design, they are all intended to keep your line tangle-free and easy to manage. Here are some of our handline fishing methods.Read now
