Andrew is the “real deal” how he has time to give such knowledge with his schedule is amazing. I love how he makes everything so simple as he explains. Please Andrew keep these videos coming.
I seriously used those techniques in my 20s. The best I got was success about a 1/4 of the time. Using a 22 and conibars I'm about 90% or better success at bringing home food. I can see why the older techniques got abandoned so quick. You are a great presenter none the less. Any outdoor school would be lucky to have you as an instructor.
Great to see someone not just putting these kits together but going out in the field and showing people how to use it in a no nonsense language and straight to the point. I myself aren't big a brand names and gadgets rather spending my time outdoors practising these methods and techniques and refining my gear as needed. Great videos keep em coming.
As always, an interesting and practical film by Mr. Andrew. It was nice to watch and listen to. I learn a lot from your films. Best regards from Poland. 🇺🇸🤝🇵🇱
I think this is one of the best done videos on some of these skills by far in a long time. Everything you went over was explained, shown and done with no long, drawn out extra babble. Like one of the next few comments mentions, your channel is becoming one of my favorite channels to visit. The way you teach and explain is done with just enough "Show & tell" but no extra BS that could cause further confusion or questions, in my humble opinion. Keep up the great work and thank you for your service!
I really appreciate your videos. Your YT channel is one of the very few that illustrates what it would take to forage calories off the land in a survival situation. Thank you.
Fantastic video , But then again that's what your viewers have grown to expect and you have never let us down. Also You are GREAT for Kids to watch as you are knowledgeable and CLEAN . Thank you for being a true Gentleman.
You’re probably familiar with Grim’s Workshop and their selection of credit card-sized survival tools. I’m curious what your ideal card would look like if you designed one.
@@RAINSMAN79 I've got a 85' 84lb. Test Kevlar line in my pocket as well as 50' hank of #18 bank line. I need to get that card sir. I've seen it, debated it, I just need to go ahead and buy it.
The Grims cordage card goes on the premise that you'll find a discarded straight sided liter soda bottle in the middle of nowhere. However they sell a wallet sized Line card, the cordage is like dental floss. Easy carry.
Your videos take that next step using and making tools necessary for the second day of survival. Really useful information delivered in an uncomplicated method. Thank you!
That Osage Orange is the strongest wood in all North America and it is excellent to make longbows from. There is or used to be a free bow making school in Marshall Mo . The teachers there are all the old pros from the primitive archer magazine. These guys love to do this too. All this info is about 20 years old now, but it is still worth checking out .
You have a nice kit but you can add one more light weight item to your kit that will come in real handy for attaching spear points and arrowheads. That item is Glue Sticks. You can melt a glue stick in a fire and use it the same as pine pitch glue. This will let you easily attach points to spears, arrows and even darts that can be shot from a slingshot. Glue sticks are water proof so they work great for attaching points to darts to be used for fishing that are shot from a slingshot with a line attached to the dart for retrieving the dart and fish after shooting it. Also add a few phillips head wood screws for attaching the frog gigs easier without having to drill holes. The wood screws can be used sort of like a drill bit to put holes through wood for attaching lines too.
Great video Andrew, keep em coming bud. Looking forward to the next one. Good luck getting the new job. Stay safe and be well brother. Strength and Honor...
i consider your channel the best for survival and fieldcraft there is. you come in with a clear goal, lay down the knowledge without snarkiness or douchbagerry, and remain fixated on your task at hand. as always, thank you Sir.
In my opinion your channel is certainly among the top 5 in survivalism here on UA-cam. You demonstrate various techniques, in different areas of the art of survivalism, and you do it in a very didactic way. Thank you very much. Hug from Brazil.
Never miss an episode…love them all… So much “food for thought “… Thought provoking and fresh with new information that a person wouldn’t necessarily think about… Thank you for all you do for your viewers… 😊
One of the best I have watched so far! Recomend your channel, have lived in the bush most of my life, and you hit most of the good points, and trained those points even further. To everyone:If your serious about survival, watch this channel!
More great knowledge major. I carry cheap mini throwing knives as spear heads. Also flat steel arrow heads fletchings and a real bow string from a 25# practice now. I also keep a telescopic fishing pole and an AR-7 in my pack at all times. I have the British purse hill net. Much more compact than the one you showed but I've never used it. As for coffee creamer sugar I use little bottles from Welches juices. About 6 or 8 ounces they're absolutely air tight lightweight and very tough.
Excellent as always 👍 I like to keep a few different sizes of the smaller eye screws in my food procurement kit lol, they come in handy for an improvised fishing pole or can be used for traps/triggers etc.
Great video Andrew, thanks. A survival bow and arrows is a great way of extending your hunting range and ideal if you're not going firm and staying in one place. Also, put those nails through the head of the club and turn it into a mace
Excellent class Andrew, as always. Essential, valuable, and necessary skills to know. I would be very interested to know your thoughts on the mindset ones needs to have in a survival situation. Being able to stay calm, think clearly and make tuff choices. Much respect for your knowledge and experience, thank you.
You got ahead of me with the spear tip, I was thinking as you started itemizing the contents of the kit that a couple simple delta arrow heads would be handy so you could fashion a spear.
Andrew that was Outstanding!!! I do appreciate the detail in making the traps, such as the dead fall. The oldest known tool is said to be the club or stick , again very nice to see you implement these Items in a survival hunting kit! Outstanding !!! Keep the videos rolling!!!
On the rain stick, I’ve found going into a shaded area with lots of ground debris yields the best results. Also clearing out an area around you, say a foot in any direction, to dirt makes it a lot easier to actually spot worms. Cool to see someone else doing this though, thought it was a mostly lost art.
You made a lot of tools to hunt with in a relatively short amount of time. Plus it’s getting that time of year a lot of critters will be moving around. Big thumbs up thank you for sharing this.
Andrew, Great vid!👍 Thanks for all the useful info. Especially the Choctaw stick and Osage orange war club. I love primal or indigenous peoples gear. So simple yet useful. Alot to be said about Nature and Simplicity it equals harmony and tranquility 👍😁🌟
Major ... Once again you demonstrate the skill level we all aspire to ... Another phenomenal video , you're the real deal sir. Thanks again for taking the time to educate us . Kind regards from England (where only criminals carry guns ) 😬
What I would like to see is how you attach rocks to the bottom of a gill net. I struggle with attempting to get a rock to stay without it falling thru or using too much cordage just to keep one rock from falling out. As always great videos. Peace, Mo
In my other video on fishing, I did end up tying rocks to the bottom of a self-built gill net. I used a dead, dry stick as a float which worked very well and stayed afloat for over a week in the water. I used paracord on the rocks with a simple lash and it stayed. Albeit the water was an isolated pond with little movement.
Excellent video...learned another thing or three...very helpful to know trick with the nail as a gaf...and I liked that troutline too...got a few creek areas with pools to try that one out on...not sure what kind of fish are in those creeks...have a river nearby too but it has sturgeon and walleye and big snapping turtles 🐢 😀
Stock up on Honey, salt, sugar etc. Raw Honey straight from the comb never ever goes bad. Salt and Sugar can be used for trading in a community if things go south in the near future. Hunting might not be such a good idea if a lot of people are doing it. Animal and fishes population in lakes might reduce pretty quickly.
Andrew You obviously practice what you teach... Thanks! for demonstrating your knowledge.. Many UA-camrs tell you to carry snares but don't actually teach the where and the how?
Turning my ‘ooo-rah’ into a ‘whoooha’!!! Amazing vids and massively refreshing. Thank you brother 🙏 You’re wayyy ahead of me my friend, damn…lol Much respect and thanks sincerely !!! - USMC (Iraq 2003)
"We have to be ready for anything...". I'm glad you said that. I have spent over 20 years raising my sons always reminding them that "Anything can happen to anyone, anywhere, at any time!". Not that they listen to me (they think their parents are just crazy for all the time put into being prepared).
Just found this channel and 5 minutes in to this first video I'm watching from you I immediately subbed. You have skills I will develop from watching your videos. Thank you so much for making this very educational useful content and putting it in video format for anyone /all of us to learn from. Great job!! I am no stranger to having to survive in the woods. I was hit by a drunk illegal immigrant, and was in a hospital bed for 18 months and 14 months in physical therapy. I was buying a house on land contract and lost it because I couldn't work to earn a living laying in a hospital bed. I was homeless for over 6 years fighting to get disability. I have dogs always and at the time I had a 120 pound mastiff mix. Refused to get rid of my dog and refused to go tp a homeless shelter so I either lived in the national forest or a campground.- mostly national forest as I didn't have money to stay at a campground very often - no consistant/regular income. I live in northern Michigan and I did 3 winters in a tent and 3 winters in a camper. God provided and made me a way to get through it all. But God didn't just rain down manna from heaven or miraculously drop frewood next to the tent for me.I say all that to make the point of I do have some skills to survive in the woods.Was just me and my dog and we NEVER went hungry and we NEVER were cold. That being said I do not have the skills this man has.So I will be laerning from these videos adding to my knowlege and experience. Thank you again and GOD BLESS
One of the cool things about your channel is it's not just the same old thing. Very few channels talk about food gathering. Outstanding
Andrew is the “real deal” how he has time to give such knowledge with his schedule is amazing. I love how he makes everything so simple as he explains. Please Andrew keep these videos coming.
I seriously used those techniques in my 20s. The best I got was success about a 1/4 of the time. Using a 22 and conibars I'm about 90% or better success at bringing home food. I can see why the older techniques got abandoned so quick. You are a great presenter none the less. Any outdoor school would be lucky to have you as an instructor.
Top of the line skill presentations from a well experienced Survivalist, Hunter, Woodsman, Soldier, and Instructor. Thank you very much, Sir!
Excellent instructions .
Great to see someone not just putting these kits together but going out in the field and showing people how to use it in a no nonsense language and straight to the point. I myself aren't big a brand names and gadgets rather spending my time outdoors practising these methods and techniques and refining my gear as needed. Great videos keep em coming.
I’m a broken record, but it’s true. Always top shelf instruction. Clear, concise, and easy to understand. Cheers major.🤙
Outstanding video
As always, an interesting and practical film by Mr. Andrew. It was nice to watch and listen to. I learn a lot from your films. Best regards from Poland.
🇺🇸🤝🇵🇱
I think this is one of the best done videos on some of these skills by far in a long time. Everything you went over was explained, shown and done with no long, drawn out extra babble. Like one of the next few comments mentions, your channel is becoming one of my favorite channels to visit. The way you teach and explain is done with just enough "Show & tell" but no extra BS that could cause further confusion or questions, in my humble opinion. Keep up the great work and thank you for your service!
Agreed...less is more!
I really appreciate your videos. Your YT channel is one of the very few that illustrates what it would take to forage calories off the land in a survival situation. Thank you.
Hello from British Columbia Canada
🇨🇦👍👋♥️😎...nice🎣
You’re one of my favorite UA-camrs. Keep up the great work man
Agreed
Fantastic video , But then again that's what your viewers have grown to expect and you have never let us down. Also You are GREAT for Kids to watch as you are knowledgeable and CLEAN . Thank you for being a true Gentleman.
Thanks for another awesome video!!!
Awesome channel! Cheers from Ontario Canada.
You’re probably familiar with Grim’s Workshop and their selection of credit card-sized survival tools. I’m curious what your ideal card would look like if you designed one.
Great products. I've got two in my wallet as I type this.
@@charlessalmond7076 same here! I get a couple of cool things the first week of each month on the subscription plan.
I have their cordage card cause cordage is hard to make in the field
@@RAINSMAN79 I've got a 85' 84lb. Test Kevlar line in my pocket as well as 50' hank of #18 bank line. I need to get that card sir. I've seen it, debated it, I just need to go ahead and buy it.
The Grims cordage card goes on the premise that you'll find a discarded straight sided liter soda bottle in the middle of nowhere. However they sell a wallet sized Line card, the cordage is like dental floss. Easy carry.
Awesome good luck with the fish 🐟
Steel fishing leaders work for snares.
Your videos always the standard. Thanks for taking the time and effort to share.
Another good vid !
Excellent video
Your videos take that next step using and making tools necessary for the second day of survival. Really useful information delivered in an uncomplicated method. Thank you!
Man, a new episode is best news this weekend. Superb way to end this Sunday. Liked it before I watched it. And all the comments.
I've following you since the first and you are the best in my book .
That Osage Orange is the strongest wood in all North America and it is excellent to make longbows from. There is or used to be a free bow making school in Marshall Mo . The teachers there are all the old pros from the primitive archer magazine. These guys love to do this too. All this info is about 20 years old now, but it is still worth checking out .
You have a nice kit but you can add one more light weight item to your kit that will come in real handy for attaching spear points and arrowheads. That item is Glue Sticks. You can melt a glue stick in a fire and use it the same as pine pitch glue. This will let you easily attach points to spears, arrows and even darts that can be shot from a slingshot. Glue sticks are water proof so they work great for attaching points to darts to be used for fishing that are shot from a slingshot with a line attached to the dart for retrieving the dart and fish after shooting it. Also add a few phillips head wood screws for attaching the frog gigs easier without having to drill holes. The wood screws can be used sort of like a drill bit to put holes through wood for attaching lines too.
Great video Andrew, keep em coming bud. Looking forward to the next one. Good luck getting the new job. Stay safe and be well brother. Strength and Honor...
Another enjoyable watch, good clear information, good pace and run time. Thank you for making it, I really appreciate your channel
i consider your channel the best for survival and fieldcraft there is. you come in with a clear goal, lay down the knowledge without snarkiness or douchbagerry, and remain fixated on your task at hand. as always, thank you Sir.
Awesome content. It makes me realize I don't keep up with you primitive trapping skills like I should.
Excellent video sir, as always!
Great video!
In my opinion your channel is certainly among the top 5 in survivalism here on UA-cam.
You demonstrate various techniques, in different areas of the art of survivalism, and you do it in a very didactic way.
Thank you very much.
Hug from Brazil.
Thank you, good video.
Never miss an episode…love them all…
So much “food for thought “…
Thought provoking and fresh with new information that a person wouldn’t necessarily think about…
Thank you for all you do for your viewers…
😊
Thanks for the the videos, Major!
Love the beard.
I Love it ! One of your best to date, of course all your videos are outstanding.
Great tips on using the landscape as survival items....always good to see your videos...freedom for all people..
Great info
I enjoy watching this knowing Andrew has experience in all he talks about.
One of the best I have watched so far! Recomend your channel, have lived in the bush most of my life, and you hit most of the good points, and trained those points even further. To everyone:If your serious about survival, watch this channel!
More great knowledge major. I carry cheap mini throwing knives as spear heads. Also flat steel arrow heads fletchings and a real bow string from a 25# practice now. I also keep a telescopic fishing pole and an AR-7 in my pack at all times. I have the British purse hill net. Much more compact than the one you showed but I've never used it. As for coffee creamer sugar I use little bottles from Welches juices. About 6 or 8 ounces they're absolutely air tight lightweight and very tough.
Genius 😎!
Great, very informative video. A lot of knowledge, tips and tricks. Stay strong Andrew!
Great video Andrew! I think that kind of stuff along with foraging are vital skills to be proficient in this current world climate and situation.
Get the latest .750 cal turtle gun and avoid the sneaky buggers. They are most dangerous in the spring at dusk.
Excellent as always 👍 I like to keep a few different sizes of the smaller eye screws in my food procurement kit lol, they come in handy for an improvised fishing pole or can be used for traps/triggers etc.
Would be handy to attach the frog gig.Use the nail to screw it in.
Great thought thanks for sharing that
@@donlange1491 hey no problem lol I have a good idea every now and then 🤣
Sweet video Andrew. The more you know. Terrific editing 👌....Pete from Minnesota.
Great video Andrew, thanks. A survival bow and arrows is a great way of extending your hunting range and ideal if you're not going firm and staying in one place. Also, put those nails through the head of the club and turn it into a mace
Excellent class Andrew, as always. Essential, valuable, and necessary skills to know. I would be very interested to know your thoughts on the mindset ones needs to have in a survival situation. Being able to stay calm, think clearly and make tuff choices. Much respect for your knowledge and experience, thank you.
Try Josh Enyart's book "Surviving The Wild".
@@jamescrowe7892 Thanks for the info, I'll look into it.
Go try it out, get some skill practice now while there's always a safety ...👍🏻
Great information as always. You have an easy way to get the information across unlike other channels. This is the only chanel I need.
Great video, Andrew! Thank you!
Always great videos you do, & your kits are a guide to go buy or measure against, your information is so useful.
Thank you for sharing
Thank you andrew for teaching me how to setup snare line and fishing line God bless you
Great info. Thx. Keep up the great work!
Another great video, really appreciate your skills that you pass on….never boring always great….
You got ahead of me with the spear tip, I was thinking as you started itemizing the contents of the kit that a couple simple delta arrow heads would be handy so you could fashion a spear.
Andrew that was Outstanding!!! I do appreciate the detail in making the traps, such as the dead fall. The oldest known tool is said to be the club or stick , again very nice to see you implement these Items in a survival hunting kit! Outstanding !!! Keep the videos rolling!!!
Great video
Thanks
That’s a fine shillelagh you made of Osage orange. Great video. More hunting stick types please.
Very good video, explaining different types of survival techniques and collecting food sarsess 👍
Superb video Andrew and many thanks 🇬🇧👍😊
Cool video..Gave stuff to think about to do to upgrade my kits. Thank you for another great video!!!!!!
I love your way of being prepared.Thank you for so many brilliant videos!!
Excellent, Andrew. Very topical for me. I'll watch this one many times.
Great video as always. Looking forward to the next one.
On the rain stick, I’ve found going into a shaded area with lots of ground debris yields the best results. Also clearing out an area around you, say a foot in any direction, to dirt makes it a lot easier to actually spot worms. Cool to see someone else doing this though, thought it was a mostly lost art.
You made a lot of tools to hunt with in a relatively short amount of time. Plus it’s getting that time of year a lot of critters will be moving around. Big thumbs up thank you for sharing this.
Thanks for all the tips, Andrew. I learn a lot in your channel.
Andrew, Great vid!👍 Thanks for all the useful info. Especially the Choctaw stick and Osage orange war club. I love primal or indigenous peoples gear. So simple yet useful. Alot to be said about Nature and Simplicity it equals harmony and tranquility 👍😁🌟
Major ...
Once again you demonstrate the skill level we all aspire to ...
Another phenomenal video
, you're the real deal sir.
Thanks again for taking the time to educate us .
Kind regards from England
(where only criminals carry guns ) 😬
I really should be paying you for all this!
Brilliant!
Great video can't wait for the next I've learned a lot from you thank you
That rain stick is awesome info. Thank you.
Always informative! Always entertaining!
Your videos are packed with information. Thanks for sharing.
What I would like to see is how you attach rocks to the bottom of a gill net. I struggle with attempting to get a rock to stay without it falling thru or using too much cordage just to keep one rock from falling out. As always great videos. Peace, Mo
In my other video on fishing, I did end up tying rocks to the bottom of a self-built gill net. I used a dead, dry stick as a float which worked very well and stayed afloat for over a week in the water. I used paracord on the rocks with a simple lash and it stayed. Albeit the water was an isolated pond with little movement.
You and Corp got it going on . great video keep them coming
Excellent video...learned another thing or three...very helpful to know trick with the nail as a gaf...and I liked that troutline too...got a few creek areas with pools to try that one out on...not sure what kind of fish are in those creeks...have a river nearby too but it has sturgeon and walleye and big snapping turtles 🐢 😀
Stock up on Honey, salt, sugar etc. Raw Honey straight from the comb never ever goes bad. Salt and Sugar can be used for trading in a community if things go south in the near future. Hunting might not be such a good idea if a lot of people are doing it. Animal and fishes population in lakes might reduce pretty quickly.
I like the KISS principle...Well done.
Great video Andrew, highly knowledgeable and very practical for self reliance.some great food for thought.
Excellent ideas to make kits much more effective
Andrew You obviously practice what you teach... Thanks! for demonstrating your knowledge..
Many UA-camrs tell you to carry snares but don't actually teach the where and the how?
Turning my ‘ooo-rah’ into a ‘whoooha’!!! Amazing vids and massively refreshing.
Thank you brother 🙏 You’re wayyy ahead of me my friend, damn…lol
Much respect and thanks sincerely !!! - USMC (Iraq 2003)
"We have to be ready for anything...". I'm glad you said that. I have spent over 20 years raising my sons always reminding them that "Anything can happen to anyone, anywhere, at any time!". Not that they listen to me (they think their parents are just crazy for all the time put into being prepared).
You teach and tell your boys. In time of need...your words and teaching WILL COME BACK TO THEM. They are listening!😊
Awesome and informative as always Andrew.
Well done Andrew, another informative video!
My granddad showed me some of your trapping technigues in the 1960's, but I forgot most of it. Very interesting video.
Learn something different every time! Thanks!❤️🙏
Nice well rounded kit Andrew I may have to put a similar one together for myself. Awesome video as always, very informative without dragging on.
The water is still water... Luv it! I'm going fishin too
Another great video major, thank you much .Looking forward to another one soon.
A lot covered and covered well. Nicely done.
Thanks for another outstanding episode. I always learn something here. 🙏🇺🇸🙏🇺🇸
Well done ... like the "deadfall trigger" demo 👍 !
Awesome AF
Excellent class. Thank you!
Just found this channel and 5 minutes in to this first video I'm watching from you I immediately subbed. You have skills I will develop from watching your videos. Thank you so much for making this very educational useful content and putting it in video format for anyone /all of us to learn from. Great job!!
I am no stranger to having to survive in the woods. I was hit by a drunk illegal immigrant, and was in a hospital bed for 18 months and 14 months in physical therapy. I was buying a house on land contract and lost it because I couldn't work to earn a living laying in a hospital bed. I was homeless for over 6 years fighting to get disability. I have dogs always and at the time I had a 120 pound mastiff mix. Refused to get rid of my dog and refused to go tp a homeless shelter so I either lived in the national forest or a campground.- mostly national forest as I didn't have money to stay at a campground very often - no consistant/regular income. I live in northern Michigan and I did 3 winters in a tent and 3 winters in a camper. God provided and made me a way to get through it all. But God didn't just rain down manna from heaven or miraculously drop frewood next to the tent for me.I say all that to make the point of I do have some skills to survive in the woods.Was just me and my dog and we NEVER went hungry and we NEVER were cold. That being said I do not have the skills this man has.So I will be laerning from these videos adding to my knowlege and experience.
Thank you again and GOD BLESS