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Category Archives: Bushcraft
Cooking Colonial Style Fire Cakes
Jas. Townsend and Sons is one of the best re-enactment sutlers in business today, and not just because of their large selection of colonial error re-enactment supplies. The store has a innovative web presence that includes video presentations ranging from … Continue reading
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How to Set Up a Primitive Camp
This was first published on Red Alerts in September of 2010. I am a big fan of historical trekker and living history enthusiast “Le Loup” who runs the excellent re-enactment blog A Woodsrunner’s Dairy. “Primitive” survival skills are something people … Continue reading
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Making Woodland Indian Moccasins
If civilization ever collapsed (or just the economy) one skill that people would find particularly useful was making low tech foot wear like the moccasin. Most are made out of leather but you could use any material in a pinch, … Continue reading
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Lex Rooker’s Pemmican Manual
The Preparedness Advice Blog linked to this online manual that deals in depth with the manufacture of pemmican. Pemmican, properly prepared, can keep for years without refrigeration and ounce for ounce beats most other stored foods for providing energy for … Continue reading
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Trapper Jack Processing a Copperhead
YouTube legend Trapper Jack is a true neo-primitive hunter gather. Here his camp – which is dangerously close to a railroad – is invades by a copperhead who clearly didn’t know who he was dealing with. The snake is killed, … Continue reading
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