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Announcing the 2010 Course schedule |
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Feb 20th
Primitive Fire Skills
$60 |
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Feb 27th
Making Cordage
$60 |
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March 20th
Primitive and Campfire Cooking
$60 |
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There is a $5.00 State Park Pass Fee if held at the Park. Note books are
available for $10 with class notes. Class is from 9:00 am - 5:00 pm. For
those wishing to spend the night, there are cabins and camp sites in the
Park.
See course descriptions below. |
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SURVIVAL BASICS |
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"What to do when lost" |
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"The survival mentality" |
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"Natural hazards and risk management" |
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"Preventing injuries and treatment" |
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"Camp site selection" |
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"Natural shelters" |
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"Water collection and purification" |
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"Outdoor hygiene" |
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"Modern survival kits" |
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BEYOND THE BASICS |
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"Fire materials selection" |
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"Fire making methods"
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"Fire making 'Outside the box'" |
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"Using fire In survival" |
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"Fire lays" |
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"Knots and where to use them" |
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"Signaling and navigation" |
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"Trees and plants and their uses" |
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"Gathering food" |
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"Making traps" |
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PRIMITIVE FIRE SKILLS |
"The
importance of fire" |
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"Friction fire materials selection" |
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"Friction fire making" |
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"The bow drill" |
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"The hand drill" |
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"The pump drill" |
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"The fire piston" |
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"Flint and steel" |
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OTHER PRIMITIVE SKILLS |
"Making stone tools" |
"Natural glues" |
"How to tan hides" |
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MAKING CORDAGE |
"Uses for cordage and string" |
"Cordage material selection" |
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"Cordage fibers from trees" |
"Cordage from plants" |
"How to make cord" |
"Knots for natural cords" |
"Making fishing line and hooks" |
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PRIMITIVE COOKING
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"Making stone bowls" |
"Making wooden bowls and utensils" |
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"Baking and steaming" |
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"Fire lays for cooking" |
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"Cleaning and cooking game and fish" |
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| Welcome to Georgia Outdoor
Survival Skills! |
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| Outdoor skills are fun, practical and build confidence in
the woods. Learning skills will not only enhance your present
outdoor experiences, but the hands on approach will provide a
huge advantage in an emergency situation. |
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Psalm 56:3
"When I am afraid, I will put my trust in You." NASB |
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| The above picture is a cat tail (Reed Mace) stalk on a
poplar board. The black band on the drill is the way I mark my
hand drills as being the right density for hand drill fire
making. |
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| "When you go into the outdoors, take at
least two means of making a fire with you, necessary medications
and an easy to carry knife." |
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Below is a bow drill set and the bow string is made from
a single leaf. This cord was used to make 4 coals. I have come
up with a unique method using a "finger loop" to provide tension
for soft spindles such as the cat tail.
If lower quality materials are used
or the materials are damp then go the extra effort and use
several leaves to make a longer cord and a heavier duty bow
drill set. See video using the finger loop method. |
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The materials used are a pine knot (also known as "fat
lighter", "fat wood", or "pitch pine") for the bearing block,
split willow limb for the base board, cat tail stalk drill, yucca flaccida leaf,
and a stick for the bow.
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Using the harder board and softer drill enables you to make more fires
and spend less time cutting new depressions and notches in the fire
board. |
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Example of a debris shelter I made and slept in for several days in
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I am using a credit card lens to focus the sun
light on "pine straw" to make a coal and blow into a flame.
Here I am using reading glasses 1.5x magnification to ignite saw dust to
form a coal for making a fire. Sand a stick on a rock to make wood dust.
(I love to experiment!)
See video |
| Click on picture to watch videos |
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| Contact
me at jcmtnhill@aol.com |
| Please put "survival"
in subject line |
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Three
Class Locations:
FDR State Park in Pine Mountain, GA
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| Harris County,
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| Talbot County, GA |
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| When making a fire with
the hand drill or the bow drill, watch for smoke rising from the
wood dust pile rather than from around the spindle. When smoke
comes from the pile you can stop spinning the drill. |
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"The earth is the Lord's and all it contains;
the world, and those who dwell in it." Psalm 24:1
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This modified Paiute trap uses a single leaf cord that I
previously used to make a bow drill fire. I looped the cord over
the trigger because I did not want to cut it. |
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The angle of the long trigger stick causes a downward pressure on the bait
stick. |
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A pan fish (blue gill) broiled on a sweet gum basket over coals. |
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Using a soda
bottle filled with water and a piece of fungus to make a coal. See video. The
indentation in the side of the bottle is where I "burped" the air from the
bottle so as not to further distort the light
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