Bushcraft 2.0: 101 Tips, Tricks, and Secrets About Traditional Wilderness Survival Skills to Survive, Thrive, and Master the Art of Bushcraft from A to Z!

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• Learn the basic principles of bushcraft
• Learn how to choose the perfect bushcraft knife
• Learn how to choose all the tools and equipment for a successful bushcraft experience
• Learn about wild food
• Learn about poisonous plants and fungi that you will need to avoid
• Learn how to pack for a wilderness expedition
• Learn the skills for traveling and navigating the wilderness
• Learn the history of bushcraft skills
• Learn primitive technology skills
• Learn about the experiences of the frontiersman, mountain men and trappers
• Learn about primitive trapping
• Learn how to improvise using your basic equipment
• Learn to make shelter and fire in the wilderness
• Learn to stay warm even without modern sleeping bags
• Learn about natural shelters
• Take advantage of 101 expert tips about bushcraft and wilderness living
• Learn about the dangers of large mammal predators
• Learn how to deal with first aid and emergencies in the wilderness
• Be inspired to get out and experience the outdoors
• Be inspired to get closer to nature and away from the hustle and bustle of the 21st Century
• Learn where to look to learn more advanced bushcraft skills
• Understand why people love bushcraft
• Learn how to manage a fire to cook your food, warm your shelter and keep you safe

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• Language: English
• Publisher: HowExpert
• Release date: Oct 16, 2018
• ISBN: 9781949531190

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Bushcraft 2.0

101 Tips, Tricks, and Secrets About Traditional Wilderness Survival Skills to Survive, Thrive, and Master the Art of Bushcraft from A to Z!

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Table of Contents

Recommended Resources

Chapter 1: What is Bushcraft?

Chapter 2: The History of Bushcraft

Stone Age Bushcraft

Bushcraft tip #1: Recognizing and gathering useful resources

Bushcraft Tip #2: Recognizing knappable stone

Bushcraft Tip #3: Making microlith cutting tools

Bushcraft Tip #4: Flint scrappers

Bushcraft Tip #5: Getting used to doing without modern tools

Bushcraft on the Frontier

Bushcraft Tip #6: Possibles Pouch

Bushcraft Tip #7: Flint and steel fire lighting

Bushcraft Tip #8: Adopting first nation skills

Bushcraft Tip #9: Trapping

Modern Bushcraft Revival

Bushcraft Tip #10: Bushcraft literature

Bushcraft Tip #11: Ferrocerium rods

Chapter 3: Bushcraft Priorities for Wilderness Living

Bushcraft Tip #12: The 5C.s of survivability

Air

Shelter

Fire

Bushcraft tip #13: using rawhide for cordage

Water

Bushcraft tip #14: Tracking to find water

Food

Chapter 4: Don.t Get Rescued!

Bushcraft Tip #15: Summoning Rescue

Bushcraft Tip #16: True emergencies

Chapter 5: Bushcraft Knife

Blade

Bushcraft Tip #17: Rockwell Hardness

Grind

Bushcraft Tips #18: Holding your knife

Bushcraft Tip #19: Knife skills (batoning)

Bushcraft Tip #20: Knife skills (truncating)

Bushcraft tip #21: Knife skills (chest lever)

Bushcraft tip #22: Knife skills (feather sticks)

Blade Shape

Tang

Handle Material

Sheath

Bushcraft Tip #23: Carrying your knife comfortably

Pocket Knives for Bushcraft

Bushcraft Tip #24; Flint Burin

Bushcraft Tip #25; Bone Awl

Bushcrft tip #26: Lanyard

Multitools

Chapter 6: Tools and Consumables

Chopping tools

Choosing a bushcraft axe

Bushcraft Tip #27: Using an axe safely

Choosing a bushcraft saw

Bushcraft Tip #28: Splitting wood without square ends.

Other Chopping Tools

Bushcraft Tip #29: Sharpening your tools

Making and improvising tools

Bushcraft Tip #30: Grinding stones for food preparation

Bushcraft Tip #31: Antler pressure flaker

Bushcraft tip #32: Antler soft hammer

Cord

Bushcraft tip #33: Paracord fishing line

Bushcraft Tip #34: Snares

Bushcraft tip #35: Paracord sewing thread

Bushcraft Tip #36: Plants for natural cord

Bushcraft tip #37: Improvised cord and rope

Bushcraft tip #38: Natural glue

Navigational Equipment

Bushcraft Tip #39: Using your watch to navigate

Bushcraft Tip #40: Planning your bushcraft trip

Bushcraft Tip #41: Orienting a map

Bushcraft Tip #42: Measuring distance with paces

Bushcraft Tip #43: Pace counting hacks

Bushcraft Tip #44: Waterproof your map

Bushcraft Tip #45: Improvised compass

Bushcraft Tip #46: Magnetic declination

Bushcraft Tip #47: The North Star

Bushcraft Tip #48: Celestial Navigation

Bushcraft Tip #49; Trees and plants for navigation

Bushcraft Tip #50; Ants nests for direction finding

Packing and Carrying your kit

Bushcraft Tip #51: Improvised Pack

Bushcraft tip #52: Waterproofing your pack

Chapter Recap; Full Bushcraft Kit List

Chapter 7: First Aid

Avoiding injury

Bushcraft Tip #53: The triangle of death

Bushcraft Tip #54: Hey Bear!

First aid kit

Bushcraft Tip #55: Keep your casualty warm

Catastrophic bleeding

Bushcraft Tip #56: Casualty evacuation

Bushcraft Tip #57: Be careful with improvised tourniquets

Bushcraft Tip #58: Tell someone where you are going

Traditional medicine and remedies

Bushcraft Tip #59; Natural Remedies

Chapter Recap

Chapter 8: Shelter

Clothes:

Bushcraft Tip #60: Getting warm after being soaked

Shoes

Waterproof Clothing:

Spare Clothes

Sleeping bags and blankets

Bushcraft Tip #61: Trash bag bed

Tarp shelters

Bushcraft Tip #62: Ridgeline

Bushcraft Tip #63: Super Shelter

Natural shelters

Bushcraft Tip #64: Saving energy when shelter building

Bushcraft Tip #65: Warming your shelter

Bushcraft Tip #66: Heated bed

Bushcraft Tip#67: Snow shelters

Bushcraft tip#68: Hammocks

Bushcraft tip #69: Shelter from insects

Bushcraft tip #70: Shelter from predatory animals

Chapter 9: Fire

Firelighting with sparks

Bushcraft Tip #71: Selecting natural tinder and fuel

Bushcraft Tip #72: Making char cloth

Bushcraf Tip #73: Fire lighting with fungi

Bushcraft Tip #74: Fire lighting with chemicals

Bushcraft Tip #75: Fire lighting with electricity

Building a fire

Bushcraft tip #76: Long log fire

Bushcraft tip #77: Fire reflector

Bushcraft tip #78: Fire lays

Extinguishing your fire

Chapter 10: Friction fire lighting

Chapter 11: Water

Carrying water

Bushcraft Tip #79: Dry bags for water collection

Collecting Water

Bushcraft Tip #80: Following vegetation to water

Bushcraft Tip #81: Collecting dew for water

Purifying Water

Digging wells

Chapter 12: Food

Packing food for a bushcraft outing

Bushcraft Tip #82: Packing your food

Bushcraft Tip #83: Protecting food from scavengers.

Wild food

Bushcraft tip #84: Poisonous plants

BushcraftTip #85: Poisonous fungi

Bushcraft Tip #86: Staple foods from the wild

Bushcraft Tip #87: Edible greens

Bushcraft Tip #88: Edible fungi

Bushcraft Tip #89: Berries and fruit

Bushcraft tip #90: Wild food in winter

Trapping, hunting and fishing

Bushcraft Tip #91: Paiute deadfall

Bushcraft Tip #92: Figure 4 deadfall

Bushcraft tip #93: Snares

Bushcraft Tip #94: Tracking

Bushraft Tip #95: Bird Lures

Bushcraft Tip #96: No waste

Bushcraft Tip #97: Fishing lures

Preparing game to eat

Bushcraft Tip #99: Pannasing

Chapter 13: Cooking

Bushcraft Tip #100: Cooking with hot rocks

Crafting your camp kitchen

Chapter 14: Getting Started

Bushcraft Tip#101: Get Outside!

About the Expert

Recommended Resources

Chapter 1: What is Bushcraft?

Bushcraft is the .craft. or skills of wilderness living, of sustaining life, finding food, traveling and surviving out of doors.

.Bushcraft. is a modern word, occurring in literature for the first time in Henry Favencs 1888 Book; The History of Australian Exploration from 1788 to 1888. In this book he recounts the period when native born Australian explorer Hamilton Hume was learning his .bushcraft. prior to exploring the Australian interior. The word was used fairly regularly in Australasia and Africa as the term .bush. is commonly used there to describe rural and wilderness areas. The .craft. element was added just as it would