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| Peter demonstrates firemaking by rubbing two sticks together. |
I finally got around to reading this book and, for the most part, thought it a useful addition to a person’s survival library.
And then I got to the part where Les writes:
“A good signal mirror can also serve as a fire starter by reflecting the sun’s rays.” (Page 28)
How do you do that?How do you concentrate the rays into a spot hot enough to ignite tinder using a flat surface? A highly polished parabolic reflector can be used, but not a flat surface!
On one level, this kind of miss-information just irritates me. On a more serious level, it angers me since it confirms for me that the writer hasn’t tested the process and has just accepted someone else’s information as factual!
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ReplyDeletePemmican was used by Indian scouts as well as early western explorers.
These people spent a great deal of time on the go and depended on having portable, high-energy, highly nutritious, and filling foods that would last for long periods of time without refrigeration.
Click HERE to Learn How to Make Pemmican The Ultimate Survival Food !
People really should avert their gaze from the modern survival thinking for just a bit and also look at
How folks 150 years ago did it!
These guys were the last generation to practice basic things-for a living-that we call survival skills now.
Survival Things Our Great Grandfathers Did Or Built Around The House!