homade buckskin

feeds@yuku.com (willym) — Sun, 06 Dec 2009 19:33:11 GMT

i was reading somewhere how you can use the brains from a deer and soak the hide in it to make buckskin. does anyone know how its done? and how do you get the hair off? thanx....willy

CVA at Walmart

feeds@yuku.com (Tim Wieneke) — Fri, 04 Dec 2009 14:24:12 GMT

CVA's are on clearance at Walmart if you were ever thinking of picking up a muzzle loader. I got one for a hundred bucks. Opens up another season for me and one less ammo concern. You can get shotgun primers everywhere - even in countries like the UK. I know they're not historically accurate or top of the line but they work.

Pemmican?

feeds@yuku.com (KenKincaid) — Mon, 26 Oct 2009 13:45:00 GMT

I was just at the website Marksdailyapple.com and they have a pemmican recipe there that is extremely simple to make. It seems that pemmican has been regarded as a superfood for quite a while. Energy from the fat, protein from the meat, stores for a very long time. Thought that this might be worth discussing in this forum. Ken

Emergency indoor heat

feeds@yuku.com (B Finnigan) — Thu, 15 Oct 2009 14:08:51 GMT

Now that winter has decided to come a bit early the potential for power outages increases. The last major windstorm here killed over 100 people and most of them from carbon monoxide poisoning. Many of them were using charcoal briquettes in small grills to heat their houses. Even though the bags warn not to and the news media nightly warned against not doing it they still did.

I have a wood stove for heat all winter not just for backup. Our neighbors use a pellet stove and never...

A riddle for you

feeds@yuku.com (B Finnigan) — Sat, 03 Oct 2009 14:56:58 GMT

Think out of the box, multi use items. How could a bird feeder provide a very needed function after all the stores have either been looted or run out of food?

I just built this for my wife but had an alternate use in mind if needed.

Hint

Growing winter rye

feeds@yuku.com (B Finnigan) — Sat, 03 Oct 2009 14:43:26 GMT

After our house was built the yard was all bare dirt. This was in Oct and regular grass would not grow. Most of our yard was on an incline and I wanted a grass that would grow in the winter and provide some erosion control. After a little research I decided to initially seed it with winter rye. It's also a nitrogen fixing plant, one that makes more nitrogen then it uses. It grew just fine over the winter and by spring we had a very nice lawn. Around the outskirts where I didn't...

A different angle - Robert Kiyosaki

feeds@yuku.com (Tim Wieneke) — Mon, 24 Aug 2009 14:49:59 GMT

We're not really a financial/investing forum but I had to post an article by this guy. I've read all of his work voraciously and have even met him and his wife. He knows what he's talking about when it comes to predicting markets going to crap. When all the knuckleheads were trying to flip real estate in 2007, he was telling them to buy silver because it was going to all crash down on their heads. Anyway his next prediction is that medicare and social security are going to...

Drying/Smoking vs. Canning

feeds@yuku.com (Tim Wieneke) — Mon, 24 Aug 2009 14:39:28 GMT

Ok, the title's a bit deceptive because I'm not presenting this as an either/or proposition but I was looking into some canning supplies and ran across the dehydrator section as Bass Pro. My mind got to whirling (dangerous) and I began to wonder if I wasn't going about the way of making a survival food stash the wrong way by focusing on canning first rather than drying. I thought about everything that could be canned and with the exception of jams, jellies, and soups - it...

How NOT to fertilize your garden.

feeds@yuku.com (Tim Wieneke) — Sun, 02 Aug 2009 00:52:36 GMT

http://buzz.yahoo.com/buzzlog/92869?fp=1

It seems the geniuses in our federal government and the EPA have taught us a valuable lesson on how NOT to fertilize your garden. Don't shit on your plants. I know, I know. The first thing I think of when planting food for myself is, "Hmmmm I think I'll take a shit right here where I'm going to take something and put it in my mouth." Using other...

aboman's book?

feeds@yuku.com (Thomas Malabar) — Fri, 05 Jun 2009 03:13:01 GMT

Is this the same aboman that used to grace us with his unique perspective on things?
http://www.amazon.com/Abomans-Guide-Survival-Self-Reliance-Interesting/dp/1586850385

Hear ye, hear ye, a knife raffle to benefit Brent!

feeds@yuku.com (Radharc 59) — Thu, 30 Apr 2009 19:35:01 GMT

I recently found out that Brent has to have a couple surgeries, along with the accompanying meds, etc. He has no insurance, paid time off, or what have you, it's all coming out of his pocket. Many of you know Brent, and I imagine many of you can understand or sympathize with this sort of situation. I'm personally in good shape, physically as well as financially, and what the heck, have some unsold inventory sitting around, so, I decided to raffle a knife off to help him out. The...

Neat site for canned meats

feeds@yuku.com (ThreeToedWolf) — Wed, 22 Apr 2009 06:16:56 GMT

At least it looks good from the web. I havent ordered as of yet.

www.mredepot.com

Trapping for meat

feeds@yuku.com (ThreeToedWolf) — Mon, 20 Apr 2009 21:01:52 GMT

Quite a few weeks ago i was out walking around my pasture and scared up several rabbits. Looking around, I noticed several trails leading through my fence into the next pasture over, so I went back and got a roll of 18 gauge wire and set up several snares. Since I was unemployed at the time, I would be able to check them every morning before daybreak.

Disclaimer: Texas DPW regs have rabbit open year round in Texas, and you can take them with firearms or snares year round with no...

Speaking of Archery

feeds@yuku.com (ThreeToedWolf) — Sat, 18 Apr 2009 08:57:15 GMT

I dug this one out of its storage case today

A mongol Short Bow i had made by Grozer Archery in Hungary

#52 pounds @28". I chrono'd it when I first bought it (I was still stationed in Okinawa)and it shot 282 FPS; a real rocket for a non-compound bow.

it used to piss the guys at the archery club off on the base there. I could shoot circles around them and...

Ground beef

feeds@yuku.com (ThreeToedWolf) — Wed, 18 Mar 2009 18:58:39 GMT

Has anyone checked the price of ground beef lately. A few months back I went to the grocery store and took a look at Lean Ground Beef....$5.99 a pound

Right below it was whole brisket at $1.99 a pound

After buying two brisket I went home and broke out the meat grinder...

Hard Tack Tutorial

feeds@yuku.com (Tim Wieneke) — Mon, 26 Jan 2009 00:58:47 GMT

Found this simple hard tack tutorial. Will be trying this out. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mHIK5E9hwsU

Securing firearms agianst possible confiscation

feeds@yuku.com (B Finnigan) — Sun, 18 Jan 2009 00:07:43 GMT

We need to be discussing ways to secure or hide our firearms with the new administration taking office. Most of the cabinent members and a large chunk of congress would like to see a whole lot less firearms in the hands of law abiding US citizens.

In a disaster scenario law enforcement most likely will not be able to protect the citizens from looters and other criminals. Our well stocked food caches will not do us much good if we can't defend them against people that did...

Storing ammo

feeds@yuku.com (ThreeToedWolf) — Mon, 03 Nov 2008 11:38:09 GMT

Howdy folks,

You see all over the net recommendations on how much ammo to store for what. To the uneducated it would seem that you would need another entire building to store the ammo needs for a set of common firearms.

Alot of experts recommend storing 1000 rounds per firearms. If you have a half dozen firearms, thats 6000 rounds. Sounds like alot, doesnt it?

Here's what 1000 rounds of 5.56 looks like

UFC Fighter doesn't survive the desert....

feeds@yuku.com (Tim Wieneke) — Tue, 09 Sep 2008 21:20:19 GMT

It's not just about the fall of civilization....sometimes it's just about running out of gas in the wrong spot and not having your head in the right place.

http://sports.yahoo.com/m...p;prov=yhoo&type=lgns

Now, I'm not privvy to all the...

Water Purification

feeds@yuku.com (ThreeToedWolf) — Sat, 06 Sep 2008 08:40:31 GMT

What does everyone use?

I personally use a Katadyn Combi-Filter

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