Survival Scenario

Tiny insects are stinging and biting you all over your body and driving you insane. How do you protect yourself from the insects?

Cover yourself in mud or try to start a fire and cover it with evergreen branches to make smoke

2009-05-22 13:12:50 by systemofadown75

Should you ever drink your own urine in a survival scenario? Say you’re in the desert without water, and you’re going to be there for 3-4 days before help comes, so it’s going to get dicey. Then, say, you just drank a lot of water before getting into this predicament, so the first time or two you urinate, the urine is going to be pretty clear. In this case, should you recycle this urine as drink, back into the body?

Thats what a lot of explorers have done when they are trapped and have no water, if you had no fluid going into your body in the heat of a deset you'de be dead within 20 hours

2007-04-02 10:19:49 by Timmbbo

How would you go about preserving deer meat using common tools, and without the use of a freezer or other tool that requires power?

Its almost alarming to me how few people understand some simple primitive ways of preserving meat and yet say it cant be done, and I didn’t mean you but rather some of your answers here.

Mountain alder and cottonwood with the bark removed makes for good smoking wood in the north as does wild apple and hickory in the southern states. Then there are some desert plants as well.
You cut up the meat in strips a quarter in thick and about 1 ½ inches wide and dry it on a rack that the smoke permeates. A sort of tepee is draped around the rack to concentrate the smoke and heat. Native Americans used no salt in this process and dried fish the same way many times with out smoke but just sun dried in fair weather. If its damp and rainy then heat from a fire must be used to dry the meat or it will get rancid.
There are plants that are toxic that you don’t want to use for smoking fish or meat. The list is so long that its best to learn about them from one of the sites below. And I might add there is tons of information in the links below.

Links; http://www.aircav.com/survival/asch08/as ch08p15.html

http://www.wilderness-survival.net/food- 5.php

http://www.survivaltopics.com/survival/f ood/

http://www.wilderness-survival.net/Appc. php

Note;
I meant no insult to randkl, but the fact is millions of people preserve meat and fish to this day by drying or smoking. He is correct that if you get the smoke area too hot and actuly cook the meat it will reduce its preservation time. This holds especially true if there is lots of fat in the meat, lean meat works much better.
However I know many tribes of Native Americans that smoke cure or dry fish for the winter. The Aleut, Tlingit and Haida people of Alaska have taught me some of their methods. And boy are there lots of different methods! I have right now about 50lbs of smoked salmon and 30lbs of smoked deer meat, plus a bunch of different dried critters people gave me.
Here are a few things I have; dried black sea weed, smoked ling cod, trout, sockeye salmon, smoked king salmon, Halibut, Sitka deer, black bear, moose, Dall sheep and caribou. I even have some smoked seal meat a native friend gave me.
And all of that stuff is fine to eat because it was done right. I soak all my meat and fish in a brine slution over night before I cold smoke it in my smoke house. But I could improvise in the woods and do the same. It’s a primitive technology that is still going on today.
All that said if you do it wrong it will rot and make you sicker than hell! Also smoke has carcinogens in it, even clean hickory has such in its smoke. Its not enough to consider if you eat smoked products now and then. But I think is a real consideration if it’s a major part of your diet. The store bought smoked jerky has nitrates as well as low level carcinogens. So I think my brine solution is much more natural.

2009-01-22 05:30:32 by Eskimo

For a class we're supposed to come up with a survival scenario and ask people as a survey.

SCENARIO: You're conducting a train that's heading into a tornado. The tornado de-rails the train and you survive without injury, but a gas car is leaking lot's of gasoline and sparks are shooting everywhere. In the meantime the tornado is still blowing incredibly strong winds outside the train car you're in.

What do you do?

personally i would say jump out of the car holding onto the railigs, and move your way down to another car on the train and get underneath it.

2009-10-13 11:54:47 by Eric

You spot a pond up ahead, and you remember that the Hannah Montana survival knive you always pack has fishing line and hooks in it. The only question is, what do you use for bait?

Well...since it's a "Hannah Montana Knife," I would, of course, use...

"Jailbait..."

2008-06-02 21:29:43 by STFU Donnie