Survival habits and skills

[old salt]

I know that most of these tips come my escape and evasion training
and experience , but most of it can be used in a survival situation
I would like to have anyone who wants to add points  that will help


I have fallen back into some of my out survival habits.
1. One of the hardest to learn is to let the body flow like water as you walk and move.
2. Next is to listen and read the night, to be aware of what is happening by sound and smell, or the lack there of.
3. Next to lean to read the day not only by sound and smell but you sight. You must learn to watch and under stand what you see or do not see
4. Personnel comfort


1.   For the body to flow like water, you must learn to move threw and around things with the least amount of sound or disturbance. In other word learn move like a shadow, make no sound and leave no trace.

2.   To read the night by sound and smell you must know sounds and smell should or should not be in your area and be able to tell the difference .

3.   To read the day, you not only use sound and smell you now have sight. You must learn to look for things that are out of place, a broken twig or arock has been recently turned over. Any thing that is there that should not or any thing that is not there that should be. Watch the movement of animals, Are their movements natural  or do they seem disturbed.

   4.   Personnel comfort. Watch for places to camp. Dose it have a good supply of water, dry wood and tinder, will it give protection from wind and cold in a cold areas, or shade in hot areas

[BO CRETY]

What is yalls opinion one the # 1 thing needed to survive?

[Red Badger]

What is yalls opinion one the # 1 thing needed to survive?

My opinion is #1 thing needed to survive is a realistic knowledge of your own limitations...

There are things I would never attempt because I do not have the required training or physical ability to try... even when faced with a survival situation there are things I can not do but other things i can which will accomplish the same thing in the end - Me staying alive!

[pathfinder]

Jim's answer is spot on! I live in Michigan's U.P. and there are some mighty fine area's to hunt and some really remote one's too. I hunted alone most of the season and limited myself on where I went because of some temporary Orthopedic issues(which are being dealt with on Monday)that if something happened,I would be able to either,1,crawl out, 2,Be easily found,no more than 100 yds from the road. Let more than 1 person know about where you will be and leave a note to that effect in your house. I hunt as primitive as possible. Dieing is period correct,but just not yet!

[BO CRETY]

I think the #1 thing is attitude.I you are not determined to survive then you want do the necessary things to survive.Ive heard people say they couldnt eat a grub worm or a raw snake ,then you aint got the attitude to do what it takes.Alot of people today will just lay down and give up.The other day in the news a family following the GPS got lost ,the news said they had already made a good-bye vidieo.They was found the next morning,just lost over night.Im glad our forefathers had more guts than most people or the west still wouldnt have been settled.Each generation gets worse,i am not near as tough as my grandmother,born in1889.

[BO CRETY]

A survival situation is something that happens even after all careful planning and precautions.so you really cant plan against having a situation.For example , you went to the gro.store and you was carjacked ,took out to the backwoods and left for dead only you wasn't, could you  survive?will you lay down and just give up or fight to live, there-in doing whatever you got do do.

[Red Badger]

  "you went to the gro.store and you was carjacked ,took out to the backwoods and left for dead only you wasn't, could you  survive?will you lay down and just give up or fight to live, there-in doing whatever you got do do..."

me I'm climbing back in the car and leaving what is left of the dummy who tried to carjack me where I hid his body... 

[BO CRETY]

What if the carjacker was a really mean woman with a big stick?No offence ladies.

[Micanopy]

"you went to the gro.store and you was carjacked ,took out to the backwoods and left for dead only you wasn't, could you  survive?will you lay down and just give up or fight to live, there-in doing whatever you got do do..."

me I'm climbing back in the car and leaving what is left of the dummy who tried to carjack me where I hid his body... 

"Sheet he sez, meats meat".........................................................................................

[DandJofAZ]

Carry a nice meat cleaver between the front seats and a survival bag behind seat..no reason to look for trouble, but doesn't hurt to be ready!!  Course that's just when driving...out hiking I usually leave the cleaver behind and wear a belt knife, still carry survival gear bag with me...Learned that lesson years ago when I slipped off a slope and landed in rocky creek miles off any trail in Golden Trout wildernes on solo trip of a week. Fell on second day, but still managed to get out on time so nobody was worried but me.