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Goldenage Bushcraft Campout - Venison Stew, Onion Rings, Bannock, Chicken Soup

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nabob hanging strangers I probably should but I don't mine are definitely wet yeah soak my wool socks right you saw me dude I got my truck and change my socks yeah I learn wool socks every day that's tough ma'am I think just sweat so much through the summer yeah yeah the thin marina wool actually is not bad I've got a ring I've got a couple of in pairs no no I think I want to brown that chicken actually real quick yeah you could do it in the yeah actually thinking yeah you kind of like that yeah but there's no other what about this one right here in the fire yeah I'm the final beer yeah [Applause]

let's go a shady shade caster know if there is any going there somewhere [Music]

that's a pretty good story why we do that one never have never seen a flames set a campfire without actually like burning things like burning wood like it came from Lou okay thanks dude that looks like the dim sum spoon that's awesome he left the birch bark I don't know where the bark on it that'll go right in my coffee kid yeah dude I love that you leave the Berk on a bark on any leek does that you follow her I'm check her stuff out that's the first time I've done there yeah no it's really cool she doesn't like on the back side or something yeah yeah oh yeah real quick make some soup out of it we catched you that spoon show it to the the masses

it's so hard carving with with axe that doesn't have black rhino yeah I agree with that and that's like 85% of your spoon should be done by the time you grab your knife yeah it leaves out yours don't fall over go private you're just counting down until you pull it off all right

oh I'm gonna do a huge wipe yeah go down to like I don't know maybe when you're hit 10k work just raise every single one another joke right on Mitch you're losing it

my first time I go down to birch hollow at the Gary's camp no see they're roasting a duck over the fire on a spit Oh stick is burning and the duck fat is running right down his ass right down the spit right into the fire leaning up against that lip right when that log right into the pot beautiful and then I just want to brown them up a little bit yeah and then I'm thanks them up and throw them into my paw [Music]

planking duck fat yeah from like probably when you work in a restaurant you have like a special exhaust just think you have special exhaust and a special fire extinguisher just in case there's an oil fire oh my god I usually like I you could just carry like a like a bandana and use that to grab everything and finally I'm just like fuck it I'm taking like the thickest leather gloves I can find they're just gonna stay on my hip pretty extensive yeah I started using like a boss I pick up embers with them yeah oh yeah oh you can move anything in the fire with these things and they're like 12 bucks a pair so I'm I'm finding you sorry about that Nick Matt was back here somewhere serious

that would be someone that was crazy that's why you're gonna like a girl you like insane amount to cast irons look a mountain had to give up its blood for that right I actually like enjoy like take I like take pride and like seasoning my casts on like every time I go good the Queen that's a beautiful piece and it's got some some rough on the bottom so I've got the same ones that I've had and then I have like a she sees and I'm like oh that sucks yeah it's not like perfectly glazed every single square centimeter of it I don't have a lid for it but I think what I'm gonna do just for transportation yeah yeah like simple cooking I'm sure it'd be fine you can probably get a lid for it you know like after I got I want like an actual like go ahead out the legs and Ramona smoking here it's like okay we're being able to carry anybody and Kelly was like what about launch cast our house no I got cast iron already I don't need any new cast have you heard of best booty no bitch that blankets so epic we gotta get Dana there's one stake out there that we've got his companies need stake out there like Pam again under quote on one check your warmth on my Etsy 90 bucks military-grade thread military velcro whoa oh yeah yeah I would like if I didn't love it I wouldn't use it when I certainly wouldn't sell it amazing yes it's it's so busy it's anything anyone since dude that's a fire that would break my heart really that's like a ten gallon and if this was snow instead of haven't been double up like that four layers unfolded the other day I would be like my feet would be on top the middle out of it all the way out but would be on the blanket - oh yeah yeah it's just a cherry but well thanks for appreciating it that's cool you dig it yeah I remember it like remember when I first asked you about that blanket I was like why is it velcro and why this and why that is like first time you sleep next to a fire anything hot you're like oh that's why because anything metal just burns the shit out of you couldn't be a zipper you know my original one had a zipper you know I I learned three years how to have the best set up it didn't happen overnight it depends you have to be careful when you fold it or else it'll like just stick to itself you know that's what it's just it's like dummy you know you just get in it and close it you're done sure like a little I keep breaking them so I bought my god shockproof one foot one good looking shoe bomber version yeah I was - master it's a both we carry films HD video super fun it's waterproof unit stage music we're doing all the moments I broke like four camera yeah I dry my socks off my clothes yeah mine too

you happy to be able to use that knife now maybe because you're like which and maybe like I gotta take pictures first I got a car stuff with this thing I have a thing like when I get a knife like I don't I don't like put it away and I'm all happy in all this haze like I open the package and I go to my porch grab a stick and just start carving with it like yeah the package like I just right away I have to see how feathers I accept I have to do it it's like it was the very first thing I did and I want I just carved a feather before I took a picture of it yeah yeah and so on leaf well like the last time I did that like what that night a week made me a knife and carve anything with it yet three seconds he's amazing well whatever he was like hah thank God I'm so glad he's like a lot of people buy my knives they don't even use them cuz they think they look so nice that they don't want to use them he said it really bums him oh fuck I get better with age definitely he puts scripture on the spine of that insane absolutely amazing I like the scroll with this brueski yeah I'm trying to get help of my eyes yeah or the knives making I told you you have to have I said I did hear that it was that to you yeah company I guess I told officer Doug officer Doug was half of our half our police force interesting I don't know what you're up to you're not being sarcastic you know ya know officer Dave yeah I know yeah loves camping that's the whore might be a hickey that might be good I'll be that way so make it yours no no no there's somebody that new here yeah yeah there's no one ever just like there's no one that can hear us probably never know unless you walked in before you got the trail that that's why I like Mikey you're like don't go on the top of that Hill cuz of all that wood you could see the trail from that shit you walked on the top of the hill dude it is like a review in another trip there's a nice drop over there GSG sweet make it some chicken stew or chicken soup rather I mean still bullion in there carrots potatoes display those embers a mover I put a grommet on the underside of them throw my mat bell yeah did you get the girls this is like the third grommet I ever put grommet site I was people asking for the bottom for drainage I don't like grommets because it's tougher a yeah it's a first thing it's gonna break and wonder what South Pole is it'll hold you back no they shift around to if there is like well honestly I think if you're if you wanted the aesthetics of a grommet I think the best way to do is cut the hole around the hole methane question it goes up more the new packs I make this will be at the door string yeah no I mean Miami I've only ever oh yeah it's like a little campout that's cool you play guitar for a while played guitar bass awesome starting to pick up mandolin awesome I didn't play guitar for 25 years I taught for seven professionally mess around and yeah get my fingers right on school I never took a lesson is one of those I'm self-taught all across the board everything I do I was for the first four years and then I meant uh let my buddy Dan and he was like better than anybody at any style it was like picks up the guitar to play blues and he's like in a blues band he was like Stevie Ray Vaughan quality like legit well we just like do metal band like Dimebag Darrell he just like no matter what it was like Tom Petty style we wanted to play rock and roll like just so he didn't do so good it's just scary he just he's just one of those dudes yeah yeah yeah scales and all that stuff he would just jump on is drumset no good friend yeah yeah we still sent each other our demos like I'm like dude I just recorded this tonight also nice dynamic when you're trying to learn exactly my our drummers older brother does anyone need an onion with other older brother using one of the most insane basis I've ever ever seen you know aside from like you know the masters right hey you started teaching me different techniques and my confirmatory analysis

telling me different different things that I would never let you learn on my own

mm-hmm and then he got real famous moved to Nashville nice what's his name was he do I know him he's Rhys Williams you know Jamie Kent Noel American you've heard I've heard them yes yeah they're all from from the county oh cool so they were like

I think God the guys from shadow falls if I'm like Franklin massive something because a bunch of my guys were a bunch of my friends were over time or telling me that they knew them because I live in America for a while they're telling me about a tree I kinda don't listen to that stuff anymore yeah my music is like kind of like Christian grunge people don't know it's Christian unless they like I guess like really study the lyrics but yeah for sure there's always always an angle in there and every time I played major blues like a de but all major and stuff yeah Johnny Cash was really good at that stuff I had a student that wanted to learn cash and the stuff that guy played was awesome he had like very shifty very shifty bass lines like Molly strumming like a he was inside his chords and then it'll be you know I'm da so it's like he's doing the blues it's the gallop it's just so cool dude yeah that's cool man guiding forces lives to fly all right so we have wheat pasta oh five garlic's in there where's that garlic garlic onions garlic pasta and chicken potatoes don't think that one unit it's yours man potatoes carrots fry in the girls ever since you said you can't have milk cheese I can't have cheese now a cheese pizza no problem okay I'm telling you that it's I've just had a very very heavy diet you got tapeworms bro but don't telling you your body's being consumed from the you ever seen the thing in Antartica bro I'm telling you that's what it is if the rest of the world didn't it like when you saw except about it like experience especially doing things like this yeah we live like we're in third world country food that's not the neighbor

very nice to meet you nice to meet you it's going on a Mitch nice to meet you right on welcome to camp this is the den that's the living room yeah the bedrooms are spread all around all right so this is what I got so far fatty goodness floating in there poured some of that oil that fried the chicken in and this kind of a kind of a stock sort of exactly in the Billy can alright that sticks still pretty solid is it I'll just go check it out on you not too bad oh shit oh sorry dude noise [Applause]

we'll find out make a break maybe make a break to it it's just such a hack talk hook it's ridiculous

I love hacking stuff sometimes be like this but that's so sad the coffee went on my hair it's so sad you like whatever dude BAM not even touching wood all right show you guys this ridiculous pothole

I mean Shane just put together here just stabbed underneath rock there I hit it with a stick I think a couple times that stick is stopping it from falling right so she is making earrings onion I mean that's not a ring it's an onion ring and you bought yeah an onion wing onion thing

nunya thing awesome that's a good idea yeah it's no one right now that's crazy I stopped me me put my jacket on mm-hmm looking kind of red in the face man is that from the fire is that from yeah probably

okay the firewater I haven't tried that moonshine yet milk a little petals though so like onion petals yeah that's beautiful yeah such a good idea that's gonna be good you're right though Mitch we're definitely happy yes preheat that well we're drop it in there should be enough though is there is I still have more right there if you just top it off oh it is snowing holy shit yeah it's snowing bro better than rain I'll take it of course magic water was falling once all right now come on what's that nobody that would suck

nobody wants it I should probably yeah clean up my saw I have it it's like the air for someone to die on it I'm like blades up axes and saws hanging around hunting games until an artery gets cut yeah its own trips and like puts it in the face or something their neck live trading a lady i'm t-bo than an ambulance it dude I'll save your life to cut your leg off without my equipment and when it's amazing a lot of people getting you into training though it's crazy yeah I just got it for the knowledge ya know I have a buddy who like ended up just kind of finding work that way description who's taking potion a first aid course and then what's that I said did you say you had the shine stuff before it's good ya know I love the dress on for sure it is this way sweet to be speaking EMTs and then you think of something one time at a party we're all crazy jacked up and stuff I'll just let you fill in the spaces on that multiple substances and and so the cops came and so we're all we're running into my buddy's like basement door to get inside and hide they take great it came in anyways but we're running and I put my hand through the window of the door trying to get it open and I still have unfortunately I still have little scars and stuff on my wrist I was told that I would never play guitar again and all that I went home with bandages from the hospital and started playing them you know hurt like holy crap did it hurt after they stitched it up and everything hurt bad but my reasoning was like I want it to heal knowing that like it's enforcing it so it won't be stiff I'm forcing it to like do those angles she trained it to do workouts heals yeah yeah and I played every day and it got better but that does something about that so I put my hand to the window right and so eventually the EMTs come and so let's checking it out like oh yeah man you need stitches like I could III put my my pinky up to my first knuckle in to my juice you know just right it didn't touch anything you know it was legit dude it was bad and so um like yeah you need some stitches like all right I'm like I don't any health insurance it's gonna cost you any money or like to ride with you the hospital and I he's like yeah something like that

I'm like oh no no oh oh I'll meet you there

you call I'm running I'm coming guys well yeah we're picking you up like no no no I'm like I'm following you like you're gonna drive like yeah and and they're like well it's good thing that you know the stick shift the mic I do have a 5-speed don't worry dude you kidding me right now oh my god I'm not paying $240 to drive three miles it's not gonna happen so I just like kept my arm up like this and was like drive up my knees and shifting them all right here

like scared bleeding everywhere and there's madness

well it wasn't up to them I just got my car serviced man just be careful well did you hear about that as it may have heard this shit I'm an EMT training about that guy who had a tattoo that said do not resuscitate on his chest I didn't hear about no he got electrocuted and they they like we're debating resuscitate this guy and you know like you only have minutes you're losing function you come back and maybe that's why you got a tattooed on his chest right so no wanted to be resuscitated it was just like some fucking hardcore shit yet like biker tattoos so do not resuscitate why'd you do that you need some oil well there's a ton of stories about oh yeah Mike could you make this Karos I got like 24 arrows oh wow just left them and that's lovely I've shot it a few times but I must have played that game I always make a on Empire Emperor Empire guy and make him like a skull I like each sneak around but then if I really just wanted to smash things I think I'd make it walk there that with with the heavy armor I just make a native guy and I'm always like against the Empire I would go to the Hawkgirl holds I never played this I would go to the auch hold and on and if I lived live and play the game out of the off Holsey Gimli they have traitors they're actually never sold that crazy now the version of the version that you bought me had the expansion he hooked me up huge with that game he bought me like the crazy

a limited edition that had all the expansions in a game of the paper map on my wall I used to play Libya that's how he was like super I heard that morrowind is epic the third one it just it's really deep when you stop playing skyrim when you go back to playing I got really into I made up blacksmithing to use to set up in my basement of my house and I got really into making like crazy epic glass bows with like abilities that were like beyond epic legendary insanity fire bows everything else I was so mad I was hope some one day I was completely maxed out

I came back to my house and there was two giants raided my house and killed my wife and then he was my kid my kids what because if you if you get the house that side north of the castle it's a little north of the maincity dragon castle house a little north but it's from a different different province yeah gonna get you're gonna get these small cars gonna get the house

well there's a giant camp right next to that house so I'd be so often Giants would like get mad that you're next they live next door neighbor come over to your house and kill your manor guys yeah I always equip my family and my like donkeys are pretty guards yeah I always equip them to you know I always try to save and stuff like that enough where I can go back if I have to and things like that I can't stand this that's one game can I don't wait it's so glitchy - the most glitched out game of my life I'm sorry I keep saying bad things about this game I play that game for so many like 300 hours probably you know so glitched out that like whenever our travel like a dead dragon was just short before I was there just got crazy there was a quest that would just be dead and I had to like figure out oh I I de close look our kill bond you and you in couldn't finish yeah exactly exactly remember weeks I'm really calm you like I just want to make stuff in my house I don't want to go outside anywhere this vampire is it what kind of dragon kill me all the time they just drove me nuts and I ended up figuring out how to fix that quest by going to the the keep door and closing it and then after I came back that like made him come back because the door was closed was open for some reason it would like it wouldn't wouldn't repopulate so weird dude you know but yeah I played that game for several hundred hours for sure again to a certain level business challenge you wandering that's awesome some guy we higher than you any I think he comes knockin like you're telling me he's from a different game I found a guy like when I snuck up next to him I just leveled up like in my sneak going crazy apparently like he's from some other some of the game and like if you if you're able to sneak up next to him just like blows out like your ability because he's like someone super crazy sneak or something and you go to see next because he's so high your XP goes that's why he's such a high level yeah and dude it was just like every second and a half I'm over like a zeldo guy I'm like I need bright greens and colors and like you know not a cartoony you be a dear kind of cartoony characters not like super blood gore madness

decapitation in my socks the super black just not my speed you know socks are okay it's too much of like a adult game alright we're gonna check the soup out see if it's doing anything yes yeah we did Johny Lever it I'm an Amherst that's I mean originally that's where we meant we worked in Conway together to do you know no works it's like a stone company oh yeah there is a there's a little fucking boy

but there's a couple of guys that Irish shop there that I know Chris cockiness he he doesn't he owner he's a part of the school to Alaska I'm with the high school with the mindscape in his lawless situation that's fine I never even heard his father we find who's caught it wasn't father here he comes what do you got man chitthi what kind of meat you got in there got venison a little bit of bacon to get the fat rendered in the beginning peppers and onions

all right here we go you got onions your peppers your venison steak in there a couple kinds of tomatoes no Southwest spicy tomatoes corn beans and then all the stuff come and get it guy yeah whoo who wants some me oh yes do this looks magical I can't wait to try oh my a little bit of spice take give it a taste

I put some hot sauce in it when I made it Wow if you could only smell this this is so good I mean there's plenty to go around it's a special man meat super-tender seared it on and then I just sprayed the beer while I was cutting onions I seared it off and braised it in beer believable thank you so much thank you well done and this is the best thanks for having us ma'am really hope you're coming out next weekend eh Oh

ne quittez job it's gotta have like a midlife crisis and he builds a birch bark canoe in his backyard maybe like you're crazy and builds oh I saw that oh yeah well this was a book I read and oh they had a documentary for a small airport I read this book in like 82 so they might have made a documentary out of it like yeah kind of like a mockumentary but he goes up to them he goes up to the headwaters for the Connecticut River with his canoe and he comes down and he basically lives off the river and fishes and he tries to keep it all his authentic as he can living off the river and he makes it all the way down to the sound it does reportages over the dams all the way yeah that was a cool book but the guy just like no idea what he was getting into his like I'm gonna build the birch bark and oh yeah I'm gonna sweat everything and bend it and I'm gonna do it and it's like thinking about what you do if you broke that hand axe and half after hours of napping at it and then he got up and walked right to it and found the other part of it right where the guy threw it 3,000 years ago and they do and it's amazing to the thread on his properties living on and the dudes a tool maker you know and like he didn't know he was living on a ranch where a tool maker lived 3,000 years ago cool stuff I was so jazzed he was talking we're on like a chat group on Instagram and he was talking about it I was freaking out just losing my shit so cool one of the guys who lived there came across the cachet yeah and that's like for over 10,000 that was glacials receiving yeah and I guess they fence it all off because it's like it's a site yeah it's a fish haha yeah that was woolly mammoth still hanging out around again what they're mounting without al attles Yeah right down in Sunderland at the basics that's right where I was a little other on the other side of the in between those waterfalls and nice yeah yeah friend of ours a guy work with his wife grew up but he never wanted to say anything because he was always worried about getting this farm shut down because we find so many yeah I was like I love dad sometime and just look at them in a gym you know cuz I know all the different styles of the end well my grandfather had a shoe box with all his collections from when he was a kid yeah there's an old timer looking around to it it's kind of swishing his gums around a bit hit and I was a kid so I was like what are you doing and he points to the ground and it's kind of charred just fart he's got something in his mouth yeah opens his mouth and he spits in his hand and he's got three arrowheads Oh immaculate yeah Wow beautiful arrowheads see it's like fire pit they throw up just food discarded arrows and things in there you find pieces in there that's where you want to dig Oh puts him back in his mouth and walks away aren't interested yeah those people hard to find there's some of us are addressed like to help me to make new productions I had a little antique shop about dating arrowheads as as a white cover and has just like styles where is good gradient that's gonna kind of bake it change my designs and it's the metals just baked I usually try to get my officer what I like to do is get a good hard sear on one and then flips out of using I started doing and then same one radiant heat Vegas like for as long as whatever you know and then do another flip somewhere along the way because it's easy to flip once you've got to Sears I'm gonna making like three or four different designs that were like drawings or artifacts so they're all legit so you can see on the old stuff how like on your edges the first time an old-timer showed me like where they they cut hard on one side so you got your feathers on the back and a feathers got a natural curve so and depending on which wing you use it use all three and you have to put the cork on of the corkscrew with them to match those with that particular wing but you can see on the point where they start the NAP one side heavy or light in the opposite side you got the cutting edge they do that off to we can look down the point and you can see it where they were starting to figure out like yeah we got to change the point to match the spin of it huh what they accomplished was what they were working with - up in morning there was these huge caches were found in the 20s I read the history book making one of these huge caches all lined with huge old like old growth pine bark and they found corn and this was like in the twenties like these big old hummock sand stuff that they somebody was like God they come off and they found shit like boots boys went it's called bears then up on the Miller's River up a bit up there and use y'all use coconut oil bears dance if you're doing it then I turn the ring time to bring her on an assembly opto and my first successful Bojo fire bears dead yeah I make bowls out of pints um has SAP in it so it's already water-resistant so but it's like it doesn't like leak through any of the birch sweat like crazy my preferred wood is maple that's what I try to carve everything out of the pleasure for fun and stuff outfit of complying and make some stuff maple is my favorite tree of all time yeah I mean I make syrup out of it make sugar out of it and make tools out of it I make two handles you know out of it it's like it's like the DAO sight of wood to me it's not obsidian it's not that fragile to Dowe sight I've got a lot of cherry trees blackboard just fell down just in the backwoods so that's gonna be amazing dude good call on the cherry yeah I really birch a lot too and if I don't use making a maple spoon usually making birch coming into the point so when you're carving down there that's true I agree

birch can get shockingly hard when it when it dries out it feels much harder than you think mm-hmm like translucent we put those some

don't worry not too bad make the smallest one let me know 12 centimeters I think it was 12 14 16 doesn't it stop my path and kind of rough on that myself pretty good pretty good a new pretty it pretty I'm such a golfing dude I well it's Peter Sam was like a weird little woman there's still some more if anyone wants a chicken noodle soup nice meeting you ma'am is a pleasure to meet you I can I can hook up with you somewhere cuz which I'll do this next fall I'll be smoking so I would love to help you with any and stuff I love that man a little ball that's not sugary you

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NativeSurvival

NativeSurvival

Mitch is a Wilderness Living Skills Instructor, he has been featured on The History Channel's program "ALONE" and written articles for Outdoor Magazines; he owns and operates The Native Survival School which provides woodland living and survival classes, as well as offering quality outdoor gear he's designed. Defintely, he is a master at bushcraft's techniques.

You can find all his videos on his YouTube channel.

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