21st Century Longhunter Mentality and the 5C's

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morning guys Dave Cadbury fab motor school we shoot a little video today about 21st century long learner mentality a little bit about what that means to me and we're going to go ahead and set up when I consider just a quickie 21st century lone hunter camp stay with me guys you know I think what's important for us to understand is that the 21st century long hunter mentality is based around the five-and-ten see the survivability of course but what it means is that you are able to become comfortable at least in the short term without all of the trappings that you have at your house you're not going out into the woods with a ton of gear you're taking those five-seat of survivability and everything else that you need you should be able to obtain from the landscape fairly easily like this tripod that I'm making to stabilize my shelter and if we understand that and we understand how to utilize our five C's to the best of our ability then we should and not too long the time of being out in the woods and practicing our skills get what Mark Baker coined as our doctorate in woodsy knowledge and guys like Daniel Boone and Isaac Bledsoe and Caspar mascar and the dirty brothers those guys all had their doctorate and onesy knowledge and they could go into a wilderness environment and not have to have a whole lot of stuff with them save what they needed for the direct survivability and I think that if you look at those items that were carried back then they boil down to the five seas and that's why I created that concept they boil down to having cutting tools a way to make fire a roof over your head and microclimate like shelter and then a basic container of some sort for disinfecting water cooking food making medicines and things of that nature and beyond that if you've got some cordage you're in pretty good shape and you can see we're using cordage right now to affect our tripod now what's important to understand here is that we're not trying to duplicate the 18th century longer than are down to the T of his equipment what we're trying to do is we're trying to make it so that we have that long hunter mentality or that pioneering mentality and we can't get by with the things that they got by with on a basic level and if we can find things that are improvements on what they had then it's okay to carry those as long as we understand the rudimentary z-- of using items that they use as well so that we understand why those items were effective for them in that period and that's why you see me carry things like modern cordage --es but a flintlock gun sometimes or a cap blanc gun or single-shot 12-gauge all of those are steady improvements over time but basically the same concept of a smoothbore shotgun and that's the key element in that whole thing is when you take away the variables of okay this just needs a two a nine shotgun primer and a shell this just needs a two a nine shotgun primer or a priming cap and black powder and this just needs a rock and black powder the improvements over time to that still boil down to the same thing it's a single shot shotgun and I think that's where you need to understand and separate the variables and get down to the root core of what that twenty-first century long term mentality is okay so this is the bedroll you can see there's just a brass bucket attached to that a very simplistic container something to collect water from a water source that I'm right beside now and cook in as well I've got a tin cup in my hammer sock that I can use to drink water out of ok so inside my bedroll

I have my fine for stacks I have a squirrel cooker this is very unnecessary and s-hook but it makes it very convenient if I'm cooking meat over the fire or I just want to boil a kettle or whatever the case may be and I can use this for a fire poker as well it's just more convenient and trying to carve a bunch of stuff to me and then I have a pretty good hank of hemp rope in here and then my wool blankets rolled up inside so having our wool blanket on the inside keeps it fairly dry spare clothing could also go inside here an extra pair of socks an extra shirt whatever the case may be I generally don't carry out your pants but those things could also be rolled up inside here as well and take up not very much more room at all now I know somebody's going to ask me about weight and people seem to worry about weight all the time I'm not really sure why if you're not carrying that much equipment the weight of what you are carrying shouldn't be that much that it's going to affect you this bed roll as you saw it weighs about 14 pounds stripped it weighs 12 with nothing in it but this it weighs 12 if you put the squirrel cooker the ax the bucket in there that bumps it up to around 14 close to 15 pounds I didn't get a very good accurate weight on it but it was pretty close to 15 pounds I think with everything in it and that includes the harness itself so 15 pounds isn't that much weight and you've got a lot of things that affect your survivability or that will help you with your doctorate and woodsy knowledge with you you have your cover element you have part of your container element if that's all you had then you could get away with that easy enough you have a spare cutting tool in there and you have some cordage so you have a lot of your survival needs met your basic survival needs met just in this bed roll so take up 15 pounds of weight for that when I look at it that way it's not so much okay so the first thing we're going to do is we're going to drag our corner of our tarp on we've got to stay in diamond configuration which

there's no new shelter inventions as far as setting up a tarp guys they've all been used for centuries this is just one way to do it and I'm going to show you how to set up a plough point or a wedge using a frame with a tarp gives you a very structurally stable shelter that will stand up the wind you can adjust the pitch on it as you wish and it's it's just a really good all-around shelter so I'm just going to stick a peg right through there

and draw that tight and that's going to keep that I'm coming out of there there's no way that come out now now you simply sew a toggle it's going to hold that in there okay guys I've got the back stake down back here and then this two corner stake down now this tarp has got some tie out loops along the centerline of it so what I'm going to do is I'm just going to run a toggle right through this loop right there's my toggle I'm gonna run that through this tie out loop which is right in the seam there just like that pull that up over the top of the center Ridge pole just like this and hope I've given myself enough rope to play with and I'm just going to latch that around there a couple times and half hitch it off that was just a short piece of rope I had left over I didn't want to cut another piece but that stuff binds to itself good enough that that should work now that lifts that center line up and you'll see what that looks like on the inside so now you can see where that center line is lifted up right there and you can see the corner staked out I've got a nice high front which is the tripod in front of it and I can adjust that pitch by spreading those legs if I want to and then stake it out again on the sides the length can stay the same but that gives you a real stable shelter that's going to keep a lot of weather off of you and this is a classic classic shelter that was used all on the frontier as this style and design now this oil cloth tarp you can see on the go the other side so I can get out of my own shadow here for you guys but the way this thing is built tinsmiths does a great job on these things you see it's got a triangle sewn in here right there and here's your loop and the loop is actually a sewn loop you can see it stitched on both sides and the fabrics doubled over you're not going to rip that loop out and then on the bottom it's got another triangle sewn on the bottom side so that thing's completely stitched in there these loops that are on the seams are actually stitched into the center seam so you're not going to yank those out either and those would work really well if you were this runs along the center line if you're using in a square configuration so like if you're using it for a tarp over hammock or something like that or just a tube style tent pup tent design those would look really good for your ridge line and keep your Ridge line on the outside that way so this is the tent smith 8x8 trail tarp made out of oil cloth and I want to show you guys how to set that portion of a camp up in a more eighteenth century style or fashion not to say that it's been was invented then because it was around long before that it's been used and modified long since after that but this is a very classic design that you'll need to cut three poles for and then three stakes and it's pretty versatile as far as quick up and down and you can make it fairly permanent fairly quickly just by making sure you've got good structural ability with your poles you

there's just a really quick tip for you take off a piece of clothing you hang it somewhere before you put it on check it there's a tick crawl on this thing right there throw him over a fire check to make sure there's no moron here before I put it on inside now that was a good practice especially in Eastern woodlands turn tick season like right now guys you know I think it's important for us to understand in 21st century longer mentality that the five C's of survivability is really the drop dead draw the line that's what we have to have and if we have good types of cutting tools and we have a good element of cover multiple ways to start fire a couple different containers and several types of cordage we can do a lot with just those items and then anything beyond that really you know boils down to procuring food and our forefathers that had their doctorate in woodsy knowledge those guys understood two things very well they understood how to sleep and how to get a good night's sleep and they understood how to secure food and I think those are the things that we need to concentrate on because I think those are the things that are really left out in the community today as far as teaching is what do I need to do to effectively get a good night's sleep when I'm in the woods and what can I do to make sure that my belly's full because of my belly's full and I get a good night's sleep I can suffer through a whole lot during the day and still be pretty comfortable and still be smooth it guys I appreciate you joining me out here for another video today I appreciate everything you do for me for my school for my family for my affiliates my friends and my sponsors I'll be back to another video as soon as I can thanks guys you