A map can help you tremendously with planning any trip to a new area. A map reconnaissance is a common technique used to get a lay of the land, before you physically go there. This is commonly used by the military and others as a first step in planning activities in a new area. If … Continue reading Maximize Your Adventure: The Importance of Map Reconnaissance
A foot path is an obvious example of natural lines of drift, making a lastly impression over time. One of the basic tenets of fieldcraft is being able to locate and observe both people and animals. When we do this, we don’t want to wander aimlessly about. Rather we are best served to use a … Continue reading Natural Lines of Drift
How much weight do you want or need to carry in a bug out bag? After I left law enforcement I worked for a brief period at a ranch store, in the sporting goods department. One day there was a couple in the backpack aisle, and I asked if they needed any help just to … Continue reading The Bug Out Bag
The basics of blood tacking to recover game.
Depending on who you follow on the internet and YouTube there is a great deal of varied opinion on how important the ability to start a fire is, especially with any tool past a cigarette lighter. There seems to be two main camps that have become popular: 1) The Bushcrafter - someone that has fifteen … Continue reading Is Bushcraft Fire Starting a Waste of Time?
Image source: https://idfg.idaho.gov/hunt/bear-info/overview Its spring black bear season in Idaho! One consideration for those in either northern Idaho or in the southeast corner of the state is the presence of grizzly bears. Thankfully there are ways of telling both types of bears apart, based on visual characteristics and on the type of sign (tracks) left … Continue reading Bear Track Differences
A prominent terrain feature makes it easy to keep your location in check. Psalm 107:4 ESV Some wandering in desert wastes, finding no way to a city to dwell in. Everyone that has had to navigate anywhere will reference landmarks. Those obvious features around that you can use to tell your general or exact location: … Continue reading Terrain Association
A scuff mark on the log, from where a deer brushed again it in the snow. Why consider tracking? It is mostly a dying art, kept alive in a few circles. Military scouts, African anti-poaching teams and hunters, the Border Patrol, search and rescue teams, and die-hard hunters and trappers are keeping the art alive. … Continue reading Why Consider Tracking?
One of the basic tenents of fieldcraft is entering an area and remaining there unseen. Not only getting from on location to another efficiently, but also in a manner that doesn't attract undue attention to yourself. We find this skill put to practice in 1 Samuel 26:3-4 "....When he saw that Saul came after him [David] … Continue reading Blending In
Set up the standard on the walls of Babylon; Make the guard strong, set up the watchmen, prepare the ambushes. For the LORD has both devised and done what he spoke against the inhabitants of Babylon. Jeremiah 51:12 In preparing for battle with Babylon Jeremiah describes the actions to take place, specifically saying to establish … Continue reading Observation
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