thanks. i'll search for the boy scout book @DeetSkythe404 , and i'll look into the SERE book @EliteBeret

snares would be very useful knowledge. i hunt, but i haven't created snares. i really want to try it sometime

There is some good deadfall stuff you can buy that are flat

Put em in your pack and forget abt them

@John Cavil the scout book is free online as a PDF so don’t sweat that

is "deadfall" an official term?

Wdym

What’s official

like do i google for "deadfall survival book" lol

I was talking abt something else

Deer sky was talking about some survival book, and I just said you can look up a deadfall trap or how to make them. They’re fairly easy

future survival plan: our baby is going into boy scouts. wife is onboard

the scout handbook contains very useful information survival information, i kept mine even after quitting

@John Cavil i can’t recommend it enough. if your kid becomes an eagle scout and wants to join the military, they instantly get the rank of E-3 upon enlistment.

I was literally about to do my project and I have to cancel it because of Corona since it’s on my school campus and I’m pissed.

how long do you have till you turn eighteen? nat’l council is approving a shitload of extensions for all kinds of deadlines

you could definitely push it back and be just fine

2 years but I wanted to get out of scouts since the girls have joined. They’ve ruined the principles of it

you know girls have been in scouts since ‘98 right

I mean in actual troops

Not venturing

the only thing they changed was allowing girls to have separate patrols and troops so that they could get eagle

Umm. They literally camp with us eat with us I have 2 in my patrol

okay so that’s um

literally against the rules set by national council

Well idk what to tell you

idk what to say that’s straight up not the way it’s supposed to be

I’m getting my eagle and dipping

They can figure that out

yeah i’d say get out of that troop ASAP

As soon as I’m eagle

okay one thing

at your final eagle board, they’re probably gonna ask you whether you’re cool with girls being in scouts

i don’t know whether that question determines whether you’ll get the rank or whether it’s just an opinion thing but like

i’d tread carefully there

I’ll say I don’t mind except that they are fully integrated with my patrol

perfect

I’m 16 and they are like 12

It’s not cool at all

so that’s bad

I don’t even go camping anymore