SecureLife-Primitive Survival & Living COURSE

Live catch trap to catch and hold, or to practice catching, especially around domestic animals. Catch the wrong animal, send the pet home to jr.

Bones are everywhere, and stones are too. Together they can make tools that will save time, energy and frustration, while making the wilderness experience much more enjoyable.

This is a slow process, but uses the same techniques as with steel tools. Handy to know how to make hunting tools for longer stays in the wild.

This is basic, yet allows one to make most any tool necessary in any primitive situation.

Handy skill combined with cordage making to make straps, belts, clothing decoration, and more. Easy to learn, great skill to know.

Another survival shelter, where there are few trees. Grass is very common worldwide and is an extremely warm insulation, and if it's thick enough, can even be waterproof.

Grows widely from Canada to South Florida, and from coast to coast. Wonderful source of starch to round out the diet.

A quick easy build that is very effective, when time is of the essence. The more traps you have out the greater chance of catching food. With this quick trap, its possible to set a dozen of traps in the time it takes to build and set one or two conventional traps. If you're familiar with the Piute deadfall trap, this is and extremely simple and fast trap to build. A great skill to know.

Bones can be found around a fresh kill. Bones can be used for much soft work...clothing, kitchen and meal preparing, cordage and craft working. And with water the stone work goes much faster and easier.

This is the most basic one stick bow. It gives a simple primitive weapon for food gathering, and from here the more advanced designs are built. Don't forget, what is made with a knife can be built with a stone sharp edge.

This is a trap designed for larger game, which provide more food, hides and larger bones for other tools. Most importantly, the trigger mechanism is extremely useful for many other types of traps.

Easy to catch, and fair amount of nutrition, especially if you come across a bull frog. Free tasty delicacy makes survival a little more survivable.

Very valuable skills taught here. Great for building other tool, but also essential for being able to make useful arrows and hafting of other stone tools. Learn it well.

Here the locust is used, but citrus, hog Plum, Bougainvillea and many more will work. Get to know what's available in your area.

Without fire, or the ability to make one, you still need protection from the elements, whether cold, heat, rain or snow. The debris hut will take a few hours to make, but will shelter you from the elements, and with a little bit of upkeep, it will last a long time. Try one yourself.

Bones are everywhere throughout the wild as many wild hunts leave the bones behind from their kills. Bones are a great source of tool materials and should be considered as part of our natural tool kit.

An extremely useful basket from pint to several gallons in size, made very easily and quickly. This is made from willow which is ideal as it is very pliable when green and very solid and quite strong when seasoned, which only takes a few days.

An excellent resource for starting fire under the most difficult conditions, and also as a light source in an alone situation as a psychological comfort.

i trust you have learned all the skills so far, if not, go back, review and master each as they keep building on the previous ones taught up to that point. Now its time to do some self teaching as is shown in this video. Begin exploring and reviewing each aspect of nature and how it can meet your needs, in each skill area you have mastered so far, so that no matter where you find yourself you can be confident that each location is familiar and your friend not your enemy.

Crawdads are a good source of food, but in deep or off shore water, can be hard to come by. simple to make and easy to use, this can be a game changer. Also it's construction primitively, helps the skills strengthen.

Another weapon in your arsenal, which when mastered is capable of taking big game, which is important for longer term food supply, and necessary for various tools and clothing among many important survival items.

This is a crude, basic basket made of any common vine found near where you my be stranded. It is also the basic building block for many advanced basket forms calling for more advance skills. Practicing this design will lead to many other essential tools like pack baskets to arrow quivers. Enjoy more of providing for your needs with only your Head and Hands!

Just the water's edge, some sticks, a little bait, and go about your business, and the weir will do the rest. Very effective.

In tropical or subtropical areas, this is a handy quick way to get out of the seasonal deluge on the short term. Just a rock or shell is adequate to work the material, and the the edges of the frond make instant ties to secure the shelter. Well worth the time in the effort in the tropics.

The Cattail is one of the most diverse and useful plants found throughout the world. It is a wonderful building material, fire tinder and fire drill, mat and insulating material, but here it really shines as both a complete food source and a medicinal.