I love spending time in the woods but getting lost is always a risk. It can be easy to get turned around even when following clearly marked trails. Every year thousands of hikers and campers get lost in the woods, some of them never make it out alive. The scary part is that most of…

For much of my life, fishing was very hit and miss. I remember plenty of frustrating times fishing with my father and my uncle and catching nothing while they pulled in fish after fish. I never understood what I was doing wrong. Then we purchased a property with some good bass water on it. I…

When you get into a survival situation, you will have several priorities.  The four pillars of survival are food, water, fire and shelter.  You see plenty of survivalists go after food right away, but why?  You can only survive three hours from exposure to the elements.  This means shelter and fire are vital.  You can…

Lake Puskus Survival Challenge Being a wilderness survival expert puts me in some pretty interesting situations.  Every year I pick several locations around the country to test my skills and document the experience.  Survival knowledge is worthless if you do not take the time to practice and test yourself. Over the years I have had to…

When you find yourself in a fighting for survival  in the wilderness, there are a few tools that are tough to build yourself. It is difficult to build a knife blade, it is difficult to build a fire starter, it is difficult to build a truly waterproof shelter, and it is difficult to build cordage….