There is more to harvest from a big game animal than just the meat. With a little thought and ingenuity, you can find useful projects that will use most parts of the animal!

An unexpected and dangerous situation can happen to you and your family at any time, on any day, and despite the need to use common sense, most people panic and are completely unprepared. Most people never think about the need to survive anything. But you, the average person, could easily be one slip, journey, natural disaster or crash away from real trouble.

This website, written by Leon Pantenburg, is about proven common sense survival techniques that any of us should know whether we live in a large or recreate in a rural area or near a wilderness. Use your common sense to survive any unexpected calamity and turn a potentially dangerous situation into a mere inconvenience. Pack the right tools with the confidence to know how to use them and you and your family will survive any emergency.

Most of us can’t take all the survival field classes and seminars we’d like to, and only a fool would create a real emergency to see how he might react! But these five books will help you develop the most important part of any wilderness survival kit: the survival mindset!

Amanda Ripley’s book “The Unthinkable” is not about disaster recovery: It’s about what happens in the midst of one – before emergency personnel arrive and structure is imposed on the loss. It’s about the human reaction to disaster and how you should act if you want to survive.

The Altoids tin prototype kit was field tested in the summer of 2007 by two experienced backpackers, Josh Sullivan and Jeremy Cline of Bend. Prior to a weekend hike in the Three Sisters Wilderness, they were given the kit with no instructions, but to use it as best they could.
The Altoids kit is intended as a five-ounce backup, not as the primary collection of survival gear. Both men carried complete survival gear with them.

An Altoids tin survival kit is by no means all you should carry for survival!!! But you need to have something in your pockets, in the event you are separated from your gear, or are in an area where carrying your complete setup is impractical.

It was a perfect setting for a tailgate party: We were parked next to the Lochsa River in Idaho’s Clearwater National Forest. My brother Michael Pantenburg, hunting buddy Phil Walker, and I had just emerged from a several-day backpack elk hunt in the backcountry, and everybody was hungry. by Leon Pantenburg We were somewhere between [...]

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To me, the bottom line on the moss directional theory is this: Moss grows everywhere in the wilderness. There is not enough consistency, that I could find, to lend creditability to this “survival tip.”

Many areas have a basic survival ration made from flour. The requirements for a survival food are ease of making and cooking, simple ingredients and good taste! Damper is Australia’s contribution to survival bread, and here’s how to make and enjoy it!