What survival skills do you have?

[seemunkee]

If you were stuck in the bayou when the hurrican hit, or anywhere for that matter and suddenly were on your own what skills do you have that would help you survive?

Mine:
I can build a boat with hand tools.
I can identify some edible plants.
I can start a fire with flint and steel or a bow drill.
I can fish and know how to build a primitive fish trap.

[Shell Beau]

1. Before I knew I'd be roughing it in the hurricane, my husband

and 2 of my friends went camping in a cabin. We forgot fishing bait, and the nearest town was a good bit away. I dug in the mud for bait and did a pretty good job. All of the bait I got caught us some fish. Of course we threw the fish back, but I can do that at least. I thought I found grub worms, turned out to be big horse-fly maggots. Yuck!!!!!

[Rising Phoenix]

2. eew, gross...

but good for you...I can start a fire with a lighter, so basically, I'm screwed, those girl scouts didn't prepare me for anything...grrrrr

[Shell Beau]

4. I can do that too! I hope I have a lighter handy if that

time ever comes. I guess we're too girly-girl! :shrug:

[Rising Phoenix]

7. nothing wrong with that...

[Shell Beau]

9. Of course not!

[OldEurope]

3. I know how to

kill a chicken, and to gut and pluck.

But I´d prefer to do not.

[Rising Phoenix]

6. damn, that is hard core

[OldEurope]

11. Why?

My mother preferred her own chicken, not those from the supemarket.
Adn I must confess: there was a bíg difference in taste.

But I really really prefer to NOT do it

[SarahB]

46. I can do that!

I spent a lot of time on my grandpa's farm growing up, so I'm not too shabby in terms of butchering knowledge. I don't want to, but if I had to I could kill chickens or other small animals for food, gut 'em, and prepare them. I can grow things. I can sew stuff. I have enough medical knowledge to treat minor wounds, (and of course CPR and other basic first aid). I could probably be a decent lay midwife as well.

I look like a candy ass, but I'm not. :7

I wish I knew how to distill water somehow, but I suppose I know enough to be able to start a fire, boil it, and make it safe for drinking that way.

[flvegan]

5. None. I'd be a looter.

I can't hunt nor fish, nor build anything. I'd be cold, wet, hungry and in the dark.

[Shell Beau]

8. I bet those survival skills would kick in if they had to!

[ElsewheresDaughter]

10. i know all the wild edible and medicinal plants in the northeast

and the knowledge needed to administer.
I grow and preserve all my own veggies, and built my own root cellar can make clothe, card, spin, weave, and knit
i keep chickens and sheep,
i can track and trap wild animals (if i had to),
i am excellent with a bow ...
oh and can start a fire with a wooden hand drill and fireboard

i am chock full of many more wildlife survival talents

[Shell Beau]

12. Damn! You're a regular Daniel Boone!

[seemunkee]

16. Damn, I'm taking you with me

[ahem]

13. I do a lot of primitive camping, so I think my skills are

pretty good if I can make my way to a forested area :)

[BamaGirl]

14. I can

hunt, fish, and grow stuff. I need to work on starting a fire without a lighter. :P

[magnetism]

23. Easy Fire Starter if the Sun's around

Use a magnifying glass or a Fresnel Lens.

[anarch]

15. nunchuck skills

bo-staff skills

[underpants]

17. My head fits under the hot cheese machine at 7-11

chili too

[GoddessOfGuinness]

40. ...

:spray:

[xmas74]

18. I could make a basic lean-to shelter.

I can cook over an open flame. I can make fire w/ flint. I can gather (I've been mushroom hunting so I could get mushrooms at least). I garden. I can fish. And I've killed and prepared a chicken (also helped prepare a deer twice-strung it up, gutted, skinned, etc).

We could live but it'd suck w/ no power.

[Texasgal]

19. I can tie a square knot

start a fire with sticks, identify several plants, wrassle a bear with my bare hands.... heh heh. :evilgrin:

[northzax]

20. I can clean and gut

another human being after they build shelter and gather food that I can steal.

[SOteric]

21. I can make a fire

using sticks, or a broken shard of glass.

I also know how to cook food without fire just by using the heat of the sun and a sheet of glass or plastic.

I can gut, clean, bone out, prep and cook just about anything.

I know what most plants and herbs in this area are, which are used in traditional native cooking and which are curative or poisonous.

I know where to find drinkable water.

I can plant and grow vegetables and herbs.

I know how to build a still and distill grain alcohol.

I know how to ferment grapes and berries into wine.

I know how to create a yeast culture using just grapes and a little flour.

I have large passages of books committed to memory and endless stories I could tell around the campfire.

I know the rudiments of engineering, physics and chemistry and can apply them to projects when necessary.

I know how to conserve water and still stay within the bounds of hygiene.

I know how to dig a latrine.

I know how to fashion a canoe.

Golly, there's more. I may be fragile but I'm not useless. :hi:

[Deep13]

22. got a merit badge in panicing.

I live in the Cleveland area, so I am already good at living in a polluted, toxic environment.

[eyepaddle]

24. I know how to make a solar water collector/distiller

I can make snow shelters
I can start a fire with steel and flint (never tried the bow drill though)
I can survive in extreme cold environments.

[Misunderestimator]

25. I can loot...

the things I would need to do all those things you listed... like hand tools, flint, steel, a bow drill, etc.

[magnetism]

26. I can make clothes out of leaves

I am pretty good at making smores too.

[Greyhound]

27. My main expertise is in mountain survival, but I've made much progress

in developing desert survival.

Excellent shot, pistol and rifle (no weinee scopes for me).
Know which plants/cactus are edible, store drinkable h2o, will kill or make you sick.
Can dress and safely prepare whatever I shoot.
overland navigation (in case there is someplace to go).
Archery.
Good bareback rider.
Find/make shelter anywhere.

[rbnyc]

28. I can re-lactate!

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=105x3969244

I'm sorry, but I expected at least 3 snarky replies and a half dozen copy-cat threads ny now!

;-)

[Lilyhoney]

29. When I stop laughing, I will tell you what I can do.

:rofl:

[khashka]

30. I can butcher and clean some other unlucky victim

for some good eatin'

Khash.

[wakemeupwhenitsover]

31. I can run screaming for DH who has tons of survival skills. n/t

[XemaSab]

32. I can identify birds

So I can tell you you're about to eat a European Starling (Sturnus vulgaris) with a garnish of House Sparrow (Passer domesticus).

I can also tell you that a city bird can host 42 different KINDS of ecto- and endoparasites, so you better cook that shit good.

[Solon]

33. I can bow hunt, make arrows and a bow out of materials at hand...

Start a fire with either flint and steel, bow drill, or magnifying glass. I can also use my sword, self defense in mind and all that, daggers etc. Also could make makeshift shelters out of materials at hand, lean-tos etc.

[Telly Savalas]

34. I'm pretty good a multi-variable calculus

Ya know that comes in handy.

[Left Is Write]

35. Pretty few, to be frank.

[leftylady]

36. I am a good beggar.

Other than that I am pretty helpless.

[AVulgarianHue]

37. I can throw a tomahawk and do serious damage..

if threatened. As long as it is not armoured "personnel" doing the threatening.

[Lilyhoney]

38. I can...

Shoot a gun well,
Make necessary tools out of available materials,
Use the sun as a clock and compass,
Go long periods of time without sleep,
Use my dog to find food,
Prepare meat,
Loot,
Seduce the enemy,
Lead and organize,
administer first aid / CPR,
Whistle,
Play dead,
Sew,
Make shoes,
Make a raft,
Climb a tree,
Dig a hole,
Lie,
Spy,
Cry at will,
Build shelter,
Think outside the box

Other than that I have my husband who would do anything humanly possible to keep me safe.

In our home we have books on every subject imaginable, which will do us no good if we are not there or they are all destroyed.

In any event I would hope that alot of people like yous would be there. :grouphug:

[GoddessOfGuinness]

39. Would you really want to fish in that water now?

[HEyHEY]

41. I can be very entertaining

So the survival guys would keep me around for kicks.


Truthfully, I'd be okay, I can start fires, scavange food and all that

[enigmatic]

42. Drift

I've been a drifter/on the road all my life, so I can get by on little..

[Scooter24]

43. LOL

I'd be doomed. Seriously, I really don't have many "skills" in the survival dept. However, I do have a mobile satellite phone for emergencies. My parents got me and my brother one earlier this year just in case. In case of emergency, I simply call my parent's personal concierge and she will take care of any travel or housing arrangements I need. Never had to use it, but after recent events, it's nice to know it's there.

[Porcupine]

44. I can make a kiln!! Gather acorns and pine nuts...

build a shelter out of branches, or mud or wattle and daub or cob.

Build a house with hand tools.

Make a water still. Find clay seams and throw a pot.

Make a rope or a boat with hand tools.

Make a knife from a leaf spring.

Grow food. Coppice firewood so we don't run out.

Survival is not a huge problem in the Sacremento Valley. We send you all mountains of food. In my town if society collapses we will all sit around fat and happy eating almonds, peaches, walnuts and olives. Not exactly a challenge.

[Allenberg]

45. I have some basic survival skills

I learned in the military, but I'd say my best skill is the fact I'm a crackshot with an M-16 up to about 100 yards.