SecureLife-Primitive Survival & Living COURSE

An extremely useful tool is an axe, and with the right material, it's not that difficult to build. Add this one to your tool kit.

Oak trees are everywhere, and so can be a dependable food source. In fact, many indigenous tribes depended on them completely for thein main source of carbs. Be sure and leach the red and black acorns very well. The white oak has much less tannin, and some can even be eaten without any leaching. White oak tend to have rounded leaves, whereas Red oak have pointed ends, and even some have share points. Cook them directly on the ashes, and what a meal.

A useful skill for adding additional shelter protection, for thicker sleeping mats, or ground cover. Replace the paracord with natural cordage, and you remain completely primitive.

Professional long term living trap to guarantee that there is always food for the next meal. Takes some time and work, but will last a very long time, freeing you up to take care of other essential chores, and make your living hours more comfortable.

A necessary tool in any primitive camp is pitch glue. Used as a filler or to mount an arrowhead of a blade of a stone knife or axe. Great skill to know.

Ready for a more advanced shelter, but not permanent. This shelter takes about the same amount of time and material as the debris hut but with much more living space and comfort. The only shortfall is that it needs fire to stay warm. Try it!

Clay pots can be very durable long lasting tools for cooking and storage. They are very much part of the essentials for primitive extended living, and survival. With careful practice and repeated use, they become stronger and a great step in making a camp a home.

The Piute trap is an all around great trap, and it's sized up to catch midsized game, You'll get to see it in a action, plus a number of mistakes to avoid and some trips to make it more effective.

With stone tools the squirrel is an easy dress, and provides between 200 and 400 calories depending on the size and species. Don't forget how to snare them, and hunt them with the bow and the throwing stick.

Without the right size and species of wood it can be difficult to make an adequate bow. But with the bundle bow, you can use what is at hand to make a surprisingly adequate hunting weapon to take a wide range of game in a survival situation.

A really handy basket to mount on a back frame, or for longer term food storage. Don't forger to use your hand drill to make the holes. Use cordage, bark strips, roots or vines to sew the sides together. The rock tools you learned in video 2 is just right for removing the bark from the tree.

Bones are everywhere, and stones are too. Together they can make tools that will save time, energy and frustration, while making the wilderness experience much more enjoyable.

Live catch trap to catch and hold, or to practice catching, especially around domestic animals. Catch the wrong animal, send the pet home to jr.

This is a slow process, but uses the same techniques as with steel tools. Handy to know how to make hunting tools for longer stays in the wild.

This is basic, yet allows one to make most any tool necessary in any primitive situation.

Handy skill combined with cordage making to make straps, belts, clothing decoration, and more. Easy to learn, great skill to know.

Another survival shelter, where there are few trees. Grass is very common worldwide and is an extremely warm insulation, and if it's thick enough, can even be waterproof.

Grows widely from Canada to South Florida, and from coast to coast. Wonderful source of starch to round out the diet.

A quick easy build that is very effective, when time is of the essence. The more traps you have out the greater chance of catching food. With this quick trap, its possible to set a dozen of traps in the time it takes to build and set one or two conventional traps. If you're familiar with the Piute deadfall trap, this is and extremely simple and fast trap to build. A great skill to know.

Bones can be found around a fresh kill. Bones can be used for much soft work...clothing, kitchen and meal preparing, cordage and craft working. And with water the stone work goes much faster and easier.

This is the most basic one stick bow. It gives a simple primitive weapon for food gathering, and from here the more advanced designs are built. Don't forget, what is made with a knife can be built with a stone sharp edge.

This is a trap designed for larger game, which provide more food, hides and larger bones for other tools. Most importantly, the trigger mechanism is extremely useful for many other types of traps.

Easy to catch, and fair amount of nutrition, especially if you come across a bull frog. Free tasty delicacy makes survival a little more survivable.

Very valuable skills taught here. Great for building other tool, but also essential for being able to make useful arrows and hafting of other stone tools. Learn it well.

Here the locust is used, but citrus, hog Plum, Bougainvillea and many more will work. Get to know what's available in your area.