Bushcraft Review - Primitive, Wilderness Living, Survival Skills Book

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okay primitive wilderness living and survival skills but John and Jerry Macpherson this is a no BS no kidding around straight to the point throne of skills book we're not talking about line drawings we're not talking about anything like that Oh could be done like this oh it's usually done like this nope no no not here all you get to find these pictures of them actually doing it incredible book for primitive skills this is a no messing around book so the only colour photo in the whole book is this one on the cover I can't apologize for the plane in the background near the ocean near an airport hantavirus and let's get into the table of contents okay so the way this book is set up is that he actually wrote they actually wrote the books separately and that's what the chapters are and then they just put it all together into one single book this is whole bunch of books put together kind of him so the first one its first one he did was buckskin was a big deal a lot of people know especially back when he's published it so he does hair off for almost the whole thing and then he just goes over hair on at the bottom framing flushing all of it out of brain the whole nine yards we'll get into that in a minute

then he goes into permanent fire and cordage so bold row and row how to make the cordage making meet bow and arrow right part 2 goes into trapping gathering the atlatl incest preservation it's a pretty comprehensive book okay so cooking methods coals broiled baking boiling everything you'd expect now this is really cool they take a deer and they bring it all the way from the field to the freezer very cool

butchering it field dressing skinning all that stuff alright so the seventh book there that they wrote which is the seventh chapters all about containers baskets coiled bark I mean woven all sorts of stuff as you can see animal wood stone part 2 is pottery I mean they really hit it all this book this book is unbelievable for primitive skills this is really cool a bunch of different tools serious tools serious tools not a joke what's really cool about this chapter is that they make a full a bow bow are you kidding me man that's awesome 10th chapter they go over shelters alright go over shelters ok so going from here introduction talks about 1986 he first published the brain tanning book he found nothing a print that was to be of much help and mostly through trial and error so yeah he talks about kind of his like journey his story like how he ended up this way where he started and where he got to so pretty cool stuff a little history in there which is you know obviously really good to know helps you get into the mindset of the book 1993 ok so here's the beginning of the first book brain tan buckskin you know talk about knowing what you're talking about you know this guy knows what he's talking about you know the best part about John in my opinion I suppose if it could be a best part is that it's legit it's just what it says it's no drawings this is how it was done no he takes a picture of himself doing it every single step of every single task you know you can't beat that and as he says it do work his way might not be you know the only way to do it there's always another way to do something but it's a way that he knows works for him it do work it's funny the way they though the wording is in this book so he goes into layers of the hide dermis and all that stuff talks about tools talks about how to design by hours and all that here's his schedule and he really breaks it down yeah go to the tool to learn materials everything you need get it done different frames out of flesh and specifics he just gives picks on what he's talking about he just doesn't mess around it really doesn't know how to fix holes this side is all sanded ready to go brings them to the braining pictures of him doing it of course wringing it out so if the holes finishing it up stretching it this is a really cool I think she actually says his favorite picture the whole book something like that here it is uh if I was a limited to only one photo to illustrate this book brain tan this would be it this is the detail the fibers that we are working with interesting huh okay so I'm not gonna take too long on this goes over smoking different styles TP or not Stover not things like that talks about seen you kind of turn it to cordage how to make clothes alright how to actually make something this is some pictures of his stuff it's made excellent so the next chapter fire in cordon cordage this is the bow drill chapter this is funny that's a picture of in front of an old computer back in the day it will be no more difficult for you to learn to apply the lessons put forth here than it was for me to learn to run the computer that put it here he always a stuff like that in his book it do work oh man he's funny yeah bolt ro hand ro all that stuff he goes into tinder bundles okay here's something interesting miss important in this book talk about primitive skills he seems to use one tool I mean used to file things like that things like that right he did show some other things then completely primitive there's the file right there right so he does show some non 100% primitive stuff but for the most part this book is very a bow he just uses a little folding knife however at the end of the book he does make here it is doesn't make a bow and arrow legit with stone tools completely a bow so it's not like it's a primitive skills book that it's sort of primitive skills but you know uses of steel knives and the files and no I mean this guy's savage he uses storm tools as well so for some of the book he has metal tools but he goes all the way into a bow later on so yeah he goes into all this stuff you know we've all made permanent fire I think at this point those are different cordage types wasn't a hand drill this is school was in the splicing I've seen guys talk about that before he gives nice pics how to do it three-step process shows you the notch shows the not doing it shows it finished always seen you by the way if you notice right on we get into cordage goes into splicing goes into pounding fibers using different types goes in to hide something I'm not a fan of it all the fake hand drill all right phone when I ro work this is cool stuff reminds me of stuff I've seen it not in another work but was viable and things like that some other boat books this is really cool he has this in here for Cain arrows kind of a step by step I'm at Cain arrows you see who wrote it of course you ever read anything in the society of print of Technology bulletins you'd certainly recognize that style and you'd recognize that name as well Steve Watts talk about a solid dude used to be the president Society of Renault technology he goes into making this Bose drying them all all that yes Steve wants a solid okay right on using heat eventually of course you know goes into tillering then you send you back sit oh yeah seen you back sit yeah oh yeah yep string arrow bundles right yep so they do a really good job on this and they really just show would jet techniques fantastic stuff there's the mystic it right there bouquets quiver all that that falls snares fish traps that laterals and more a story that I read somewhere during the last century ship was ice Locker in the Arctic and the crew was taken him by the natives come spring all about one or two were dead the authorities the first thought that the Inuits had murdered them took him to light that the white man ate only the red meat where the natives ate about the entire animal stomach contents in the mouth of the bum didn't appeal to the whites and they starve to death with full stomachs to something else for you to be thinking about before taking to the wilds also hope that you're a critter hasn't been munching on poison ivy

volker sumac ouch that's pretty funny interesting huh

this book is just loaded right on put on the trap lines goes into traps triggers now he does something really cool here that I've actually experimented with he has this really cool engine first trap but I used in a completely different way made a video years and years and years ago about it call it the well treeless spring-trap McPherson engine something like that using his his engine I mean super cool it's like using a stick bent so instead of bending it over from a sapling he pins a sapling bent on the ground incredible so you can just set this up on a field so I did something similar this is really cool is also from Steve Watts he added this to the book you can see how obviously a little weight on that dawn see you later grease the lightning I think like greased lightning

Steve mentions believe he talks about somewhere in here here it is he got it from a little trapper or rather he got it from let's see I think he got it from a guy a trapper that was local to him near the museum he worked yeah let's check it out okay we ran across this deadfall trigger new to me it's Chris lightning got it from Andrew Ryan a local old-time trapper and he got it from an old trapper in Alaska in the 40s so pretty cool specifics

all sorts of traps going on details with pictures showing them a lot of details in this book we got bird trap way that are you serious dude look apart oh my can you imagine can you imagine you catch a lot of birds with that I just sat in that huh thanks - so Canadian geese oh man catch five or six of them fish traps something that I teach at my first level class pull the fish traps atlatl I mean you know this book is just I'm halfway through this book this book is crazy I mean it's just crazy goes he even has a counterweight on the atlatl I mean they were they not he Dantas he'd Jerry's in here as well there she is actually with the atlatl I don't mean to say just he she's in here as well loaded all over the place

they just wrote an absolutely critically important book on primitive skills I mean you just can't define the importance of a book like this so easily and readily available and primitive skills I mean it just smashes other books that just have little drawings and stuff I mean oh my god unbelievable unbelievable see a Bobo some making it the ax

that's Jerry holding digging stick finished product fire hardened oh yeah ass is pretty not so he goes into I'm gonna just skim the rest of the book I mean it's just there's so much stuff here they go into this is the butchering chapter you know how to field-dress pictures of them working on and feel the freezer right you go into gathering plants you go into cooking baking you know frying on raw kebabs roasting you got some mouse yeah field mouse she's eating whole pack rats venison meat hanging all sorts of stuff so this is some some serious info on flint knapping how to build proper platforms angles of striking the key goes into conchoidal fracture is the 100 degree yeah here it is yeah yeah 14 cones I mean that's like flint knapping 101 right there it's just it doesn't get better than this well it might get by miss there's a there was a book I have on flint knapping that's like a V book this book seems to be like like he read that book and he based his whole flint knapping as everyone did I have and pretty much Bobby everyone has based their information off out of the book and I'll show that in a different video that guys since passed away but the book he wrote was like unbelievable anyways this book is on bleeding there's no question about it so here's the tools section flint knapping man oh man it's the pottery chapter so this is the book goes into pottery meat how to put them in the fire I mean really you just step by step yep this is what we did mm-hmm that's how we covered it we lit the fire it sort of look like that's the end result yep got it that's the free heat you know I mean they just they just did it step by step they just took pictures of himself doing it until the task was finished every single time this doesn't matter what it is they just started a task took pictures of every single step this is working on the clay gathering it Jerry rocking the clay you know just step by step it's getting it done wood containers animal containers on and on and on and on and on

hides I mean that looks like a like a hide haversack really oh yeah oh yeah dude yeah yeah yeah we've been making hide haversacks for you know 35 years it's something like right now like oh yeah that's my that's my hide have a sock that I carry at rendevouz you know Wow would you make they did you buy that no I made it back in like 1982 yeah crazy love it absolutely love it bar containers this is a really big deal a lot of people use these skills they cut they they they like copy these skills they use them and I've seen people use these exact make these exact containers you know like as if it's oh yeah that's what you do that's that's what everyone does right is the coiled baskets it's like well no I mean that's yeah there's a lot of people that do this stuff but this is the book that pretty much everyone learned it from a lot of people anyways there are books before this clearly you've been doing this stuff for a long time but like the Society of printer technology and that's that's really something something special I tell you what I'm telling you for a book all-in-one it really is hard to beat this book wilderness living and survival skills all primitive they absolutely smashed it with this book smashed it a lot of pages here like 400 pages over 400 pages this book is gonna show you some stuff it's gonna show you some stuff I mean butchering pottery bow and arrows on and on and on and on just brain tan buckskin hair on hair off I mean there's some serious stuff in here you know shelters felt those are cool you know but traps me brain tan dissing me really that's why I mentioned brain Sam all at once because brain tan is kind of what separates the men from the boys not too many people do that a lot of people make shelters and can make fire everyone can do bow drill a hand drill these days 1986 or something he started publishing these these chapters it's been around a while so it's been Mitchell Denise Fievel school check out my website it's all calm and if you have a primitive book a primitive skills book that you like that you think is awesome

that's different from this one right down below in the comments let us all know in the community so we can check it out and maybe add that to our library as well enjoy the outdoors you