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Hone your basic outdoor and survival skills with help from qualified and experienced survival pro, Tim MacWelch. Each week Tim hands out priceless information on everything from essential gear to wound care, primitive hunting and fishing traps to cooking over hot stones and much more. Don’t rely on basic human instinct to save you in a precarious situation, plan and prepare with help from the survival pro who knows.
There is a man with a glorious beard and an infinite amount survival know-how who makes Bear Grylls look like a preschooler. He’s a regular contributor here at The Revolution and an awesome mentor. Move over MacGyver, Tim MacWelch will school you while fastening your school laces and umbrella into a hot air balloon and lifting to you safety while you cry. Seriously, Tim is a walking, talking, living, breathing, hard core primitive living and survival expert. He’s the man with the plan, the one that can teach you the skills you need so you don’t end up in a survival situation to begin with and if you do, how to make it out alive.
By Tim MacWelch
Even if you have a high degree of primitive survival and bushcraft skills, you still need to carry a survival kit. Just image how hard it would be to survive if you are very ill or badly hurt. You won’t be grinding out a bow drill fire with a shattered shoulder, or building a shelter when you’ve broken your hip. Injury and illness have a way of leveling the playing field, leaving you just as vulnerable as a novice outdoor enthusiast. Beginner or expert, here’s a basic breakdown of the gear you need to be carrying.
By Tim MacWelch
The word “self-reliant” has become synonymous with emergency preparedness in so many circles today. And since none of us seem to have a working crystal ball, we never know when we’ll need to be at our self-reliant “best”. But is there more to the word – self-reliance – than its obvious meaning?
What comes to your mind when you think of survival? Tim MacWelch – survival instructor, author of multiple New York Times bestselling survival books and writer for Outdoor Life Magazine – says that most people think about survival in terms of the wilderness and wild places on land. However, in reality, the majority of our planet is covered in water making the water the ultimate wilderness.
Foraging for sustenance has undoubtedly caught momentum in recent years. Half-witted self-described naturalists, and woodsmen, have taken to nature to procure edible funguses and plants all in a feeble attempt to try their hands at survival, or living off the land. Our resident survival expert and smartest friend, Tim MacWelch, says ingesting any type of mushroom or indigenous plant that isn’t 100% dissected, studied and confirmed, is foolish.
By Tim MacWelch
It can be a real pleasure to practice your favorite outdoor and survival skills on a beautiful day, especially when you’re rehearsing your favorite skills.
Whether it’s lighting fires, foraging for tasty wild berries or building a kick-ass camp – practicing your preferred skills can be a delight and I say “go for it!” Get your friends or your kids involved, and enjoy honing your skills. But don’t forget to train when it’s not so nice outside.
The Dos Equis guy can move over, there is a new beard in town, Tim MacWelch. Trust me when I tell you that he truly is “the world’s most interesting man”. Tim MacWelch is a survival instructor, the author of multiple New York Times bestselling survival books, a writer for Outdoor Life Magazine – do you really need to know more? The man knows his survival stuff!
By Tim MacWelch
Twisters can happen day or night, any day of the year – but spring marks the official kickoff to tornado season, with April, May and June being the most active months. So what do you do if the howling winds come for you? Read on, my friend.
If you’re in a house with a basement: By all means, go in the basement and crawl under some kind of sturdy protection. This could be a heavy table, work bench, a mattress or whatever. Stay keenly aware of the position of heavy objects (like refrigerators, waterbeds, pianos, etc.) on the floor above the basement, and don’t hang out under those spots. Don’t stay near windows or sliding glass doors.
If you’re in a house with no basement, a dorm, or an apartment: Stay away from the windows. Go to a bathroom, closet, or a space under the stairs on the lowest floor. Failing that, get to an interior hallway with no windows. Alternately, jumping into a bath tub may offer partial protection, but cover up with some sort of thick padding like a mattress or several blankets, to cushion you from falling debris.
In a mobile home – Run for your life! No mobile home or trailer is as safe as a permanent, sturdy building (or a storm cellar). If you live in trailer or similar dwelling, make tornado evacuation plans ahead of time, by selecting a nearby permanent structure for your shelter site. Even small tornadoes can destroy tied-down mobile homes. Don’t take any chances.
In a church, theater, mall or large store – seek shelter as quickly as possible to an interior bathroom, storage room or some similar small enclosed area. This should also be away from any windows. I once got notice that there was a nearby tornado while I was shopping in a large home improvement store. The management made the right call, by ushering all of the staff and customers to the back of the store and away from the large front windows. I hung out by the bathtubs, just in case things went bad. Thankfully, they didn’t.
At school – follow the staff’s instructions. This should be to go to an interior hall or room. Avoid windows and large open spaces like gyms and auditoriums.
By Tim MacWelch
Fighting the cold? Need help cooking? Don’t underestimate the power of hot rocks! Stones can hold a lot of heat, and radiate that warmth for a long time when properly insulated. Start with rocks from a high, dry area. Never use rocks from a wet area. They may have trapped moisture which can cause them to explode when heated. Avoid glasslike or crystal filled stones. Don’t use slate or shale either. These are prone to explosion and breakage near heat. Just grab some plain old ugly rocks from a high dry location, heat them up and enjoy the results.
Hello spring. Hello storm season. Spring is a temperamental time of year that has a tendency toward instability, a time that is susceptible to severe weather outbreaks. For outdoorsmen and women, it's also prime time to get out and enjoy the great outdoors. But what happens when a severe storm pops up and surprises you while you're outdoors? Survival guru Tim MacWelch tells Jim and Trav there are precautions that should be taken in different weather events for your safety.
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