Anything really from how to tie knots to preserving food or hunting any tips ?
>>2831039I just finished the SAS Survival Handbook, but it was really just kind of an overview of things, not very in depth, but still a good baseline for everything you need. Info was kind of normalfag coded though, things like "Remember to always obey the law and trust authorities" and shit like that.Other people here recommended a few I'm looking into you might also find relevant:>Wilderness First Aid Fourth Edition>John Plant: Primitive Technology>Don Paul: Everybodies outdoor survival guideThen I just have some misc books on my list for star mapping, weather reading, animal/insect/plant/tree identification, etc.
>>2831039I bought an ex gf the book 101 Deadly Skills by a former SEAL. She laughed and did not like it. i told her to turn to any page and she would find something she could use. She flipped to a random page - "how to hide stuff in your butt". I said see, that is something right there.
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>>2831039Having read plenty "survival guides", I can't recommend a single one without restrictions. Most of them will focus on compass navigation (which doesn't work in the woods, where you can't see landmarks bcs. of the trees or in the desert, bcs there's no landmarks, and is pointless in densely inhabited areas, where you could just walk along roads), building shelters (which takes way to long - in the modern world, you're probably 2-3 days from civilization at most, so why spend 6h on collecting leaves and branches? Just walk, idiot) or how to build traps (again, why stay around to catch animals? walk to safety, and diet for those few days if there's no edible plants around).The closest things, mostly for SHTF scenarios, would be John Seymour's books about living off the land, which are 90% about farming, though, Gerhard Buzek's books on survival (not sure if those are available in english), which focus heavily on longterm, stationary survival (going into stuff like basic surgeries and checking cars for bombs, but neglecting basic navigation except the memey compass and map shit), and Hans von Dach's "Total resistance", which covers basic movement in enemy territory, dealing with oppressive authorities, as well as basic survival, but is about half tactical, outdated things like how to sabotage planes or how to tell phonelines from power lines.
>>2831039Im writing one, and will upload it here for free when Im finished. Guaranteed to be better than 99% of whats out there. The goal is to only need one book and be able to effectively burn the rest of my "survival" library.
>>2831039This was compiled from several good sources. So its pretty in depth on almost every topic you can think of.
They still sell these, right?
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>>2831540Anywhere I can get updated about this anon? I'm interested but I don't really check this board often
if its has survival in its name it aint good
>>2831039Laurence Gonzales has some pretty good books about Survival: Deep Survival, Everyday Survival, Surviving Survivalworth a read or listen
>>2831788this guy has a lot of shameless imposters
>>2831039No one has mentioned the original Camping and Woodcraft by Horace Kephart, 1916
>>2831039The Tim Macwelch Books, Dare to be prepared And Back to the Basics by Reader Digest is what i recomend
If you need to learn survival techniques from a book, then you're already dead.
Most of the shit I've read or come across were retarded and would foreseeable get people into more trouble than they would be any use.Significantly more education needed in the normal behavior department, common sense book, rocky mountains Kathmandu jacket and water bottle. How not to get stranded at a trail head, how to change a car tire, how to jump start a car battery, how to use google maps, how to avoid getting lost by staying on the trial, not wearing new shoes on long hikes. telling people you are going hiking, mosquito repellent. Severe mental illness and why you shouldn't take it solo hiking. How not to take drugs in the middle of nowhere, 35 reasons not to light fires. Being civil to other people: in wallmart and innawoods
>>2835255Nonsense, however you should be reading these before SHTF.>>2836334Your comment is ESOL but good overall point. More important than survival skills is critical thinking and "expert wisdom". If you lack this, than no better time than now to talk to people about it, ask them questions and let them know you've implemented their advice; they'll be happy to share more.
>>2835255>If you need to learn survival techniques from a book, then you're already dead.Bullshit.Everything I ever did in the military and in college and in grad school I did first in a classroom, in a powerpoint or a book.What you SHOULD have said was:>If you learn survival techniques from a book and you never go outside and practice them at length and regularly in a simulated real world scenario, THEN you're already dead.
I'm curious too. Bump
