Doomsday Skills

Should disaster strike and you find yourself trying to survive in the wilderness or without any of the modern commodities that we’ve all grown accustom too would you have what it takes to survive? Here is a list of basic, essential skills needed to survive in the worst case scenarios.

Hunting

Hopefully you have set aside some food for disaster, but even if you have you will eventually run out and when you do you must have a plan of action for gathering food. Learning how to hunt before you need to actually hunt for your food can be the difference between life and death. So I suggest learning how to shoot a gun, use a bow and arrow and learn how to make and use traps.

Killing your food is only the first step. You’ll also need to know how to skin your kill, drain the blood and cook it.

Fishing

If you are fortunate enough to live next to a body of water then you have an extra source of food. That is, if you know how to fish.

Fishing is relatively easy and requires little equipment. Essentially, all you need is bait, a hook and some sort of string or rope. You can also use a net to try and catch fish.

Here are some tips from WikiHow for catching fish.

Fire Building

You’ll need a heat source whether it be for keeping warm, cooking food or sterilizing water. There are a few different ways to go about building a fire. The easiest approach will be if you prepared and have some lighters or matches stored up for such an event, but if you don’t then you’ll need to make one form scratch.

One method for a matchless fire is the lens method. All you need is sun light and some sort of lens like that from a pair of eyeglasses, binocular lenses or even just a piece of glass.

All you have to do is angle your lens so that it focuses the sunlight into a direct beam. Aim it towards your tinder and in a short amount of time you’ll have a fire.

Another method for starting a fire from scratch is the bow and drill method. You’ll first need a bow, which is easily made with a flexible piece of wood and a shoestring, tinder, a fire board which is simply a board with a v-shaped notch and a socket. A socket is either a stone or piece of wood that is used to place pressure on top of the spindle.

To create the fire place the spindle to where it is wrapped up in the string of the bow so when you saw it spins. The spinning will create friction that will create heat, which will make a fire.

These basic survival skills will be essential to survival should you find yourself lost in the wilderness or in a post EMP town or city. Don’t count on these skills to be acquired once disaster hits because you won’t have time to learn or practice. It will be too late.

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By Henry H. Hernandez

Henry Hernandez is an Army veteran and father of two. Henry is a survivalist who works for www.risingsbunkers.com. Henry can be found on Google+.