Surviving Out of Your Backpack: A Guide to Survival

By David Skipworth

This book helps to prepare your backpack with essentials that will give you the advantage needed to survive. It will show you how to use these important essentials in time of need. This book explains different animals for food, cooking and preservation. It explains hunting skills, trapping, skinning and field dressing game meat for the nutrition needed to survive. It explains how to build shelters, fires and how to beat the elements of harsh weather. This book explains how to dress and clean game, how to cut up the game meat and how to preserve the meat for long term usage. This book explains how to tan hides to be used for clothing and shelters. This book talks about animals and what to look for to prevent sickness or disease. It shows tracks of important animals and what they look like for tracking. This book discuses animals from the southern part of North America to Canada and Alaska.

Being a simple guide for a "Bug out Bag" is not the purpose of this book. However, having such a bag is of great importance when talking about survival for you and your family. This book goes much farther than helping you to transform a simple backpack into a life saving instrument of necessity. "Surviving out of your Backpack" is a survival guide that will sustain you and your family's life when all else fails.

"Surviving out of your Backpack" is more than just a quick fix for survival; it is for sustaining life as long as you need it.

This book was intentionally written to be short and compact for the purpose of carrying in your backpack without causing a lot of weight. This book is like a stick of dynamite; it's small but packs a lot of power. The main focus of this book is to SURVIVE! It is a MUST HAVE BOOK!

• Language: English
• Publisher: eBookIt.com
• Release date: Apr 26, 2016
• ISBN: 9781456622008

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INTRODUCTION

Surviving out of your back pack is written to help people survive with the bare essentials. What would happen if you had to leave your home and could take nothing with you except what you could carry on your back? What would you take with you to survive? How would you survive? We’ve all seen this on TV and it has happened in other countries; but what if it happens in your own back yard? You can’t survive at your home because of the rioting, theft, killing and crime sweeping the streets with panic. You can’t pile everything into the car because there is no gas for it and if there were, you would probably get mugged in the process. How are you going to survive when the odds are against you? The only thing we can do is even the odds or put the odds in our favor! We survive by preparing and being ready!

It is my hope that this book will help you and your family to survive if such events should ever arise. I pray to God that they never do; but I would rather you be safe than sorry. Many people are stocking up food and supplies and this is good, but what happens if people come and want to take it from you?

In America there is a department in the Federal Government called FEMA (Federal Emergency Management Association). What happens when FEMA comes to your house and takes it all away. I know that there are some of you saying that you will shoot them and that they do not have the right to take your food. There have already been laws passed and signed into orders which make it legal and give the government the right to take whatever food you have. Below is that executive order:

Executive Order 10998 -- ASSIGNING EMERGENCY PREPAREDNESS FUNCTIONS TO THE SECRETARY OF AGRICULTURE

SEC. 2. Definitions. As used in this order:

(a) Food resources means all commodities and products, simple, mixed or compound, or complements to such commodities or products, that are capable of being eaten or drunk, by either human beings or animals' irrespective of other uses to which such commodities or products may be. put, at all stages of processing from the raw commodity to the products thereof in vendible form for human or animal consumption. For the purposes of this order the term food resources shall also include all starches, sugars, vegetable and animal fats and oils, cotton, tobacco, wool, mohair, hemp, flax fiber, and naval stores, but shall not include any such material after it loses its identity as an agricultural commodity or agricultural product.

"The President has the power to seize property, organize and control the means of production, seize commodities, assign military forces abroad, call reserve forces amounting to 2 1/2 million men to duty, institute martial law, seize and control all means of transportation, regulate all private enterprise, restrict travel, and in a plethora of particular ways, control the lives of all Americans...

Most [of these laws] remain a potential source of virtually unlimited power for a President should he choose to activate them. It is possible that some future President could exercise this vast authority in an attempt to place the United States under authoritarian rule.

While the danger of a dictatorship arising through legal means may seem remote to us today, recent history records Hitler seizing control through the use of the emergency powers provisions contained in the laws of the Weimar Republic."

--Joint Statement, Sens. Frank Church (D-ID) and Charles McMathias (R-MD) September 30, 1973

This is a book to keep you alive, not get you shot by some trigger happy federal agent. This is why this book is so important because of the simplicity of Surviving out of your backpack.

You may not be able to pack up all that food and start driving down the street, because if the riots don’t stop you the check points will. At this point you might get by with just carrying out a backpack, at least if you do, you can survive with everything in it. When worst turns to worst, take care of your back pack and this book because they will save your life. Everyone in your family needs to have their own backpack. Some people call such a bag a bug out bag. Other names for such a bag are a 72-hour bag, a grab bag, a battle bag, a Personal Emergency Relocation Bag, a go bag or a GOOD bag (Get Out Of Dodge).

The primary purpose of a bug-out bag is to allow people to evacuate quickly if a disaster should strike. It is therefore important to gather all of the materials and supplies that might be required to do this into a single place, such as backpack. The recommendation that a bug-out bag contain enough supplies for seventy-two hours arises from advice from organizations responsible for disaster relief and management that it may take them up to seventy-two hours to reach people affected by a disaster and offer help. The bag's contents may vary according to the region of the user, as someone evacuating from the path of a hurricane may have different supplies from someone one who lives in an area prone to tornadoes or wildfires. However, I would like to see people live longer than seventy-two hours and that’s why I am putting much more information in this book for you to use. Backpacks come in many sizes for different people. This makes it convenient to own one for every member of the family. This way, everyone is helping in the survival of their family. Even if all of your backpacks were confiscated, the information in this book will help you to survive. People may have to resort to the most primitive methods of survival and in today’s technology people simply do not have these skills.

Being prepared doesn’t make a person an idiot; it simply makes a person prepared for any scenario that might leave you vulnerable. It could be an unexpected layoff from your job. It could be a natural disaster. It could be something even worse. Surviving out of your Backpack is a hand guide for survival.

CHAPTER ONE

COLLECTING ESSENTIALS

Most people depended on the convenience of driving down to the local supermarket or phoning up the local pizza parlor and having a Super Supreme delivered to their door. However, when it comes to real survival, they don’t know how to get started. Survival is quickly becoming the number one concern in the world today. When I speak of survival, I’m not talking about having all the comforts of home; I’m talking about what it takes to stay alive. One word that you and your family should brand into your mind is SURVIVE!!

Everything that I will be talking about can fit into a medium to large hiking back pack that weighs only 50-75 lb. Think about it, everything you need to survive in an easy-to-carry pack. It wouldn’t be a bad idea to have this in your vehicle especially when you go on long trips or anywhere else for that matter. To survive means to be prepared at all times and having this survival pack handy for a quick bug-out bag or emergency is a plus. Many people today have a 72 hour bag and carry it in the car at all times. This is due to so many people working a long distance away from home. If something caused them to be unable to drive their car home such as electronic problems or backed up traffic, this bag would sustain them until they reached home.

First, find a sporting goods store that carries backpacks and buy a good one. Purchase a good backpack that is comfortable on your back and has nice padded shoulder straps and a padded belt to help with the weight on your waist. Also make sure it has several pockets and compartments. For example, having a separate compartment for your first aid kit so you’ll know exactly where it is. This way you won’t have to unpack everything else just to get to it. A separate compartment for your knives, pliers and any other tools you may want. Your backpack should have a separate compartment for your coffee pot, cooking utensils, fire starter and other necessities. Remember, if you departmentalize your gear you will always know where to find it. That makes it easy to inventory what you’ve used and need to replace. If you use anything out of your pack always replace it. Also, if things have been in it for a few years, you may want to check the market to see if newer and better products have come out to replace the old ones. At least once a year update your supplies.

The things that I’m going to share in this book are things that I’ve used and proven in the field, the high country and the Rocky Mountains wilderness. I have over forty years of experience as being a guide and outfitter, hunter, an avid outdoorsman and survivalist. This experience has taught me a few tricks on staying alive down through the years.

I hope they can help you when you need help the most. An important secret is how to pack your bag properly. When I was working as a guide and outfitter I learned how important the art of packing is. I could put a pick-up load of equipment and supplies on the back of two pack horses and pack back into the mountains for miles. It’s all in how to pack your load, what you need to carry and what you do not. When it comes to weight, pack as light as possible because you may have to carry it a long ways. For example: dehydrated food is much lighter than can foods. Products made from carbon fiber may be wiser than things made of metal. One small secret is wrap your sock or shirt around metal containers such as