Salomon makes a great hiking boot got me threw a crap ton of miles in the white mountains. And that hiking is rugged.

@Admiral Tolwyn - NH#5491 Bro. White Mountains are no joke right? They turned me back twice in the middle of May because of ice storms

@Brandon Ironside- ND @Mark Vandal Hey lads was just scrolling back through your lessons and wanted to tell you again how impressed I am. The community thanks you.

Sure thing man. Been slacking lately, but I'll try to post some more stuff soon

😃 I wasn't being passive aggressive I swear lol

@Deleted User Thanks, I'll be posting another one tonight, I know you like your old school gear so this one will be a treat 😀

I'm taking it way way back

haha i look forward to it

Ha! You weren't kidding @Brandon Ironside- ND

@Deleted User No i wasn't haha. I have been fasicinated with Otzi since i first heard about him. How he died is extremely interesting too. Makes me ponder how much I would really need to survive with, also spurred my interest in making primitve tools. Have you seen the youtube channel "primitive technology" guy has 6 million subscribers here's one you would love being a Celt. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BN-34JfUrHY

I love that channel.

You may like this guy. He was required reading when I was a freshman.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tom_Brown_Jr.

Yep haha I read his book back in the day I think it was called Pathfinder, good read.

Is that a beech sapling he's using for the handle?

At about the 3 min mark I'd worry the area around the head would splinter

Ah!

He says "Don't let the sides of the head touch the sides of the hole or it will split." Smart!

And to put it between two knots

I think he said hes using Ash for the handle. The shawn woods guy is pretty interesting he made reproduction Otzi longbow and arrows and went out and killed a deer with it, it was extremely effective.

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=3fShizDT3pY

This is one of my favorite channels

@Thomas Morrow That was neat, thanks for sharing I'll be checking out some of his other videos when I get time!

👍🏻

Watch "Scissor Deadfall Survival Trap In Action. Trapping Killer Skunks. Primitive Technology" on YouTube
https://youtu.be/09mS_OcpL1c

This guys channel is awesome

Watch "Paiute Deadfall Trap in Action! Catching Rats and Mice. Bushcraft Survival Skills." on YouTube
https://youtu.be/89GNUnn-8KQ

Watch "Making a Blue Glass Arrowhead from an Antique Canning Jar (HD)" on YouTube
https://youtu.be/_I8jWGg8yi8

Anyone @here an expert on rawhide?

@StrawberryArmada you talking about tanning skins or doing leather work?

No I need untanned rawhide

I just wondering about removing the fat, fur, etc.

If you buy rawhide all the good stuff is already off the hide. It just hasn't gone through the tanning process so it dries to be hard.

I'm planning to get it from my brother since he hunts anyway

Oh word, that's above my pay grade. I only kept the meat. Haha, sorry

RIP. Is fine. I've just never worked with a carcass before. I'm sure it's not that hard

These next few weeks I’m going to test how my two wool army blankets perform in 30 degree weather, then 20. Then hopefully this winter I’ll test them in the teens. @Brandon Ironside- ND

@Deleted User i made a bed roll out of some heavy duck cloth that i treated with linseed oil then lined it with 2 surplus wool blankets. Used an old sheet that i sewed down the side and bottom as a removable liner. I never got cold sub 30 degrees. Never got below 0 though.

Dude linseed oil is crazy flammable. It's spontaneously combustible.

I use almost everday.

@Deleted User You know I was thinking about comparing our sleeping set ups during the trip. You by far had the fastest setup/packup sleeping system and lightest overall so heres my thoughts.

Note: On Saturday near the river it dropped down to high 30’s and low 40s at night according to an online weather archive search.

USGI MSS Patrol bag (mine)- Weight 2.3 Ibs – rated to 30 – 50 degrees. Dressed in full clothes and in a grid fleece pullover that was the most I would push it with that bag and honestly would have appreciated an additional fleece blanket.
USGI Wool Blanket (Yours)- Weight 3.5-4 ibs (best I could find googling) – seemed like you were pretty comfortable in full clothes also.

Thoughts: It will be interesting to see how far the blanket will go with the tests. Once there is complete weight/temperature ratio for the wool blanket we can compare them better.

Additional note: we both had ridgerest sleeping pads and my “tent” was really just a bugnet that didn’t provide weather protection.