This vintage book contains a complete manual for the sportsman, game preserver, gamekeeper, and amateur on the art of taking animals and birds in traps, snares, and nets. Profusely illustrated and full of invaluable tips, this timeless handbook will be of considerable utility to modern readers, and would make for a worthy addition to collections of allied literature. Contents include: “Animal Trapping and Snaring”, “The Dorset Trap and Its Varieties”, “Humane Traps”, “Tools, Etc., For Trap...

This vintage book contains a complete manual for the sportsman, game preserver, gamekeeper, and amateur on the art of taking animals and birds in traps, snares, and nets. Profusely illustrated and full of invaluable tips, this timeless handbook will be of considerable utility to modern readers, and would make for a worthy addition to collections of allied literature. Contents include: “Animal Trapping and Snaring”, “The Dorset Trap and Its Varieties”, “Humane Traps”, “Tools, Etc., For Trap...

Fire Skills for the Northern ForestKnowledge Helpful in Lighting FiresMany factors participate in the process of combustion. If these factors are identified and understood firelighting may be less of a challenge and skills may be acquired more quickly.Written by Mors Kochanski

Basic Safe Travel and Boreal Survival - Gems from Wilderness Arts and Recreation MagazineThis manual covers the following - Clothing-Sleeping Bag-Axe-Saw-Knife-Fire-Shelter-Bush Bed-The Most Edible Boreal Plants and Mushrooms-Cooking-Signal Fires-Current Survival Knowledge-Survival Kits for Pedestrian, Vehicle and Aircraft-Map and Compass-River Crossing-High Altitude Travel-Insects-Bear Safety-Lightning-Quicksand and finally Basic Ropework.Written ...

Map UseWith a topographic map in front of you and the basic information in this booklet to augment it you may get more out of using the map.Written by Mors Kochanski

Knife SharpeningThis is a training booklet that applies to all walks of life, including the sharpness of the knife one chooses to use in survival. The time taken to master knife sharpening is highly variable. Once you know what to do the fast learner takes about 4 accumulated hours to put a shaving edge on his or her knife the first time, after which it takes moments to re-establish your edge.Written by Mors Kochanski

The Two Kilogram Survival Kit Field ManualThis booklet is a training manual that is also useful to include in a survival kit as a reference. To learn to construct the survival kit component super shelter, the ski shoes, bucksaw and packframe require two days of training, three for slow learners.Written by Mors Kochanski

Top Seven Knots and the Use of the WindlassJam, 2. Constrictor, 3. Non-inverting Slippery Bowline, 4. Slippery Sheet Bend, 5. Slippery Figure of 8, 6. Prusik, 7. Reef. As knots are found in families, there are a few bonus knots included. Favour the ones you find most useful. The jam knot made with 550-200-7 paracord is one of the most useful knots in creation, let along survival. To properly master all the knots and their application in this booklet requires ...

Basic NettingThis training booklet covers basic netting as practiced by the Grand Banks fishermen. This booklet was brought out as it is not easy to locate information on netting techniques. The knowledge or direction for constructing functional fishing nets is left for another booklet. There is directions for construction a hammock. The time to learn how to net as discribed in the booklet is about four hours. To build a hammock requires more than a day.Wri...

Basic Weather KnowledgeThis booklet is meant to help you determin today's weather in the morning and tomorrow's weather in the evening as what may occur within your immediate horizons, so that you may act accordingly to improve your chances of survival.Written by Mors Kochanski

Tools of Survival and Survival TrainingThis is a training booklet that applies to all walks of life, including the sharpness of the knife one chooses to use in survival. The time taken to master knife sharpening is highly variable. Once you know what to do the fast learner takes about 4 accumulated hours to put a shaving edge on his or her knife the first time, after which it takes moments to re-establish your edge.Written by Mors Kochanski

Survivalists of all levels can use Ultimate Guide to Wilderness Living to learn primitive living skills, tools for optimal self-sufficiency, and how to better be prepared for any and all adventures into the wild!Packed with in-depth instruction and photos, this guidebook teaches the skills needed to survive and live in the wild using only those things found in the woods or in other natural landscapes. Learn how to ignite a fire with a two-stick hand drill, erect temporary and semi-permanen...