Bushcraft 2.0: 101 Tips, Tricks, and Secrets About Traditional Wilderness Survival Skills to Survive, Thrive, and Master the Art of Bushcraft from A to Z!
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• Learn the basic principles of bushcraft
• Learn how to choose the perfect bushcraft knife
• Learn how to choose all the tools and equipment for a successful bushcraft experience
• Learn about wild food
• Learn about poisonous plants and fungi that you will need to avoid
• Learn how to pack for a wilderness expedition
• Learn the skills for traveling and navigating the wilderness
• Learn the history of bushcraft skills
• Learn primitive technology skills
• Learn about the experiences of the frontiersman, mountain men and trappers
• Learn about primitive trapping
• Learn how to improvise using your basic equipment
• Learn to make shelter and fire in the wilderness
• Learn to stay warm even without modern sleeping bags
• Learn about natural shelters
• Take advantage of 101 expert tips about bushcraft and wilderness living
• Learn about the dangers of large mammal predators
• Learn how to deal with first aid and emergencies in the wilderness
• Be inspired to get out and experience the outdoors
• Be inspired to get closer to nature and away from the hustle and bustle of the 21st Century
• Learn where to look to learn more advanced bushcraft skills
• Understand why people love bushcraft
• Learn how to manage a fire to cook your food, warm your shelter and keep you safe
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101 Tips, Tricks, and Secrets About Traditional Wilderness Survival Skills to Survive, Thrive, and Master the Art of Bushcraft from A to Z!
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Table of Contents
Recommended Resources
Chapter 1: What is Bushcraft?
Chapter 2: The History of Bushcraft
Stone Age Bushcraft
Bushcraft tip #1: Recognizing and gathering useful resources
Bushcraft Tip #2: Recognizing knappable stone
Bushcraft Tip #3: Making microlith cutting tools
Bushcraft Tip #4: Flint scrappers
Bushcraft Tip #5: Getting used to doing without modern tools
Bushcraft on the Frontier
Bushcraft Tip #6: Possibles Pouch
Bushcraft Tip #7: Flint and steel fire lighting
Bushcraft Tip #8: Adopting first nation skills
Bushcraft Tip #9: Trapping
Modern Bushcraft Revival
Bushcraft Tip #10: Bushcraft literature
Bushcraft Tip #11: Ferrocerium rods
Chapter 3: Bushcraft Priorities for Wilderness Living
Bushcraft Tip #12: The 5C.s
of survivability
Air
Shelter
Fire
Bushcraft tip #13: using rawhide for cordage
Water
Bushcraft tip #14: Tracking to find water
Food
Chapter 4: Don.t Get Rescued!
Bushcraft Tip #15: Summoning Rescue
Bushcraft Tip #16: True emergencies
Chapter 5: Bushcraft Knife
Blade
Bushcraft Tip #17: Rockwell Hardness
Grind
Bushcraft Tips #18: Holding your knife
Bushcraft Tip #19: Knife skills (batoning)
Bushcraft Tip #20: Knife skills (truncating)
Bushcraft tip #21: Knife skills (chest lever)
Bushcraft tip #22: Knife skills (feather sticks)
Blade Shape
Tang
Handle Material
Sheath
Bushcraft Tip #23: Carrying your knife comfortably
Pocket Knives for Bushcraft
Bushcraft Tip #24; Flint Burin
Bushcraft Tip #25; Bone Awl
Bushcrft tip #26: Lanyard
Multitools
Chapter 6: Tools and Consumables
Chopping tools
Choosing a bushcraft axe
Bushcraft Tip #27: Using an axe safely
Choosing a bushcraft saw
Bushcraft Tip #28: Splitting wood without square ends.
Other Chopping Tools
Bushcraft Tip #29: Sharpening your tools
Making and improvising tools
Bushcraft Tip #30: Grinding stones for food preparation
Bushcraft Tip #31: Antler pressure flaker
Bushcraft tip #32: Antler soft hammer
Cord
Bushcraft tip #33: Paracord fishing line
Bushcraft Tip #34: Snares
Bushcraft tip #35: Paracord sewing thread
Bushcraft Tip #36: Plants for natural cord
Bushcraft tip #37: Improvised cord and rope
Bushcraft tip #38: Natural glue
Navigational Equipment
Bushcraft Tip #39: Using your watch to navigate
Bushcraft Tip #40: Planning your bushcraft trip
Bushcraft Tip #41: Orienting a map
Bushcraft Tip #42: Measuring distance with paces
Bushcraft Tip #43: Pace counting hacks
Bushcraft Tip #44: Waterproof your map
Bushcraft Tip #45: Improvised compass
Bushcraft Tip #46: Magnetic declination
Bushcraft Tip #47: The North Star
Bushcraft Tip #48: Celestial Navigation
Bushcraft Tip #49; Trees and plants for navigation
Bushcraft Tip #50; Ants nests for direction finding
Packing and Carrying your kit
Bushcraft Tip #51: Improvised Pack
Bushcraft tip #52: Waterproofing your pack
Chapter Recap; Full Bushcraft Kit List
Chapter 7: First Aid
Avoiding injury
Bushcraft Tip #53: The triangle of death
Bushcraft Tip #54: Hey Bear!
First aid kit
Bushcraft Tip #55: Keep your casualty warm
Catastrophic bleeding
Bushcraft Tip #56: Casualty evacuation
Bushcraft Tip #57: Be careful with improvised tourniquets
Bushcraft Tip #58: Tell someone where you are going
Traditional medicine and remedies
Bushcraft Tip #59; Natural Remedies
Chapter Recap
Chapter 8: Shelter
Clothes:
Bushcraft Tip #60: Getting warm after being soaked
Shoes
Waterproof Clothing:
Spare Clothes
Sleeping bags and blankets
Bushcraft Tip #61: Trash bag bed
Tarp shelters
Bushcraft Tip #62: Ridgeline
Bushcraft Tip #63: Super Shelter
Natural shelters
Bushcraft Tip #64: Saving energy when shelter building
Bushcraft Tip #65: Warming your shelter
Bushcraft Tip #66: Heated bed
Bushcraft Tip#67: Snow shelters
Bushcraft tip#68: Hammocks
Bushcraft tip #69: Shelter from insects
Bushcraft tip #70: Shelter from predatory animals
Chapter 9: Fire
Firelighting with sparks
Bushcraft Tip #71: Selecting natural tinder and fuel
Bushcraft Tip #72: Making char cloth
Bushcraf Tip #73: Fire lighting with fungi
Bushcraft Tip #74: Fire lighting with chemicals
Bushcraft Tip #75: Fire lighting with electricity
Building a fire
Bushcraft tip #76: Long log fire
Bushcraft tip #77: Fire reflector
Bushcraft tip #78: Fire lays
Extinguishing your fire
Chapter 10: Friction fire lighting
Chapter 11: Water
Carrying water
Bushcraft Tip #79: Dry bags for water collection
Collecting Water
Bushcraft Tip #80: Following vegetation to water
Bushcraft Tip #81: Collecting dew for water
Purifying Water
Digging wells
Chapter 12: Food
Packing food for a bushcraft outing
Bushcraft Tip #82: Packing your food
Bushcraft Tip #83: Protecting food from scavengers.
Wild food
Bushcraft tip #84: Poisonous plants
BushcraftTip #85: Poisonous fungi
Bushcraft Tip #86: Staple foods from the wild
Bushcraft Tip #87: Edible greens
Bushcraft Tip #88: Edible fungi
Bushcraft Tip #89: Berries and fruit
Bushcraft tip #90: Wild food in winter
Trapping, hunting and fishing
Bushcraft Tip #91: Paiute deadfall
Bushcraft Tip #92: Figure 4 deadfall
Bushcraft tip #93: Snares
Bushcraft Tip #94: Tracking
Bushraft Tip #95: Bird Lures
Bushcraft Tip #96: No waste
Bushcraft Tip #97: Fishing lures
Preparing game to eat
Bushcraft Tip #99: Pannasing
Chapter 13: Cooking
Bushcraft Tip #100: Cooking with hot rocks
Crafting your camp kitchen
Chapter 14: Getting Started
Bushcraft Tip#101: Get Outside!
About the Expert
Recommended Resources
Chapter 1: What is Bushcraft?
Bushcraft is the .craft. or skills of wilderness living, of sustaining life, finding food, traveling and surviving out of doors.
.Bushcraft. is a modern word, occurring in literature for the first time in Henry Favencs 1888 Book; The History of Australian Exploration from 1788 to 1888. In this book he recounts the period when native born Australian explorer Hamilton Hume was learning his .bushcraft. prior to exploring the Australian interior. The word was used fairly regularly in Australasia and Africa as the term .bush. is commonly used there to describe rural and wilderness areas. The .craft. element was added just as it would