Its camping season, so I figured its time for a repository for all of the cool tips and tricks to be found out there that can make your experience easier and more enjoyable... don't wanna pack a tent so you can really rough it? theres a lot of different shelter designs out there, need to start a fire but forgot the lighter? there are tricks out there for that as well.
It can also branch out into cool knowledge that's useful around the home and in life in general, which is why I threw "life hacks" in there... this thread is for outdoorsmen and everyman.
Tell us your trick for saving money around the house, building a fire, catching food, making a field expedient water filter etc. [Reply]
Originally Posted by Radar Chief:
Here’s something everyone should have in their camping gear, or at least something like it.
After you’ve been stomping around in the woods wash your arms, legs, hands and feet down with this stuff. I don’t know about you guys but poison ivy/oak is thick around here. I’ve gotten much better at recognizing it but I’ll still come down with it at least once a year.
If it’s too late and you’ve got blistering rash move on to this stuff.
Or just use Dawn dish soap. I shower with that after I've been in the woods and haven't got poison ivy in years.
Got my sack covered in it twice, then went about finding a way to make sure I never had to endure that shit again. [Reply]
Originally Posted by Bewbies:
Or just use Dawn dish soap. I shower with that after I've been in the woods and haven't got poison ivy in years.
Got my sack covered in it twice, then went about finding a way to make sure I never had to endure that shit again.
That’s a good point. The stuff that does the damage is oily so anything that will break it up and wash it away is good.
I’ve had it so bad it was more like a chemical burn than a rash, literally turn the effected skin purple, though I’ve been fortunate enough to not get it on my boys so I’ve got that going for me. [Reply]
Originally Posted by Radar Chief:
Since Fish's post in the Nope, nope, nopity topic got me thinking of it I thought I would post this hook removing technique here too.
I've done that down on the current river with a treble hook on a Rebel crawdad. It hurts like a SOB, even if you have several beers in you. Believe it or not, I've tried the cut the hook and push it through method, and it seemed less traumatic. The reversal method tore more tissue, and in reality, pushing it through was much "smoother". Plus, my pulling line broke the first time I tried to reverse it out. Not good. [Reply]
Originally Posted by tooge:
I've done that down on the current river with a treble hook on a Rebel crawdad. It hurts like a SOB, even if you have several beers in you. Believe it or not, I've tried the cut the hook and push it through method, and it seemed less traumatic. The reversal method tore more tissue, and in reality, pushing it through was much "smoother". Plus, my pulling line broke the first time I tried to reverse it out. Not good.
I've actually had pretty good luck with that method but I'll admit it was with smaller hooks, like around #12-16. [Reply]
Who needs a $200 dollar tent went a $10 tarp works just as well?
All you need is some paracord and a few cheap stakes, and even those are optional, you can use sticks if you want to... there are a ton of great ideas for tarp shelters out there but I really like this one because she has incorporated a fireplace into it, the first that I've seen. I've been using a tarp for several years and it beats the heck out of some expensive, hard to pack around tent.
Next up, Survival Kit in an Altoids Tin, one of the craziest but hottest fads out there it seems, there are hundreds of different versions but this one is probably the best...
I always figured altoid cans were just for a weed stash. [Reply]
My best shot. No beer bottle opener? If you are wearing a class ring or a fairly thick ring... place your ring under the cap edge (6:00 position) arranged to where most of the cap is towards the finger nail (12:00). Then pivot/rotate your finger upwards. This mimics the action of a bottle opener.
Originally Posted by scott free:
Who needs a $200 dollar tent went a $10 tarp works just as well?
All you need is some paracord and a few cheap stakes, and even those are optional, you can use sticks if you want to... there are a ton of great ideas for tarp shelters out there but I really like this one because she has incorporated a fireplace into it, the first that I've seen. I've been using a tarp for several years and it beats the heck out of some expensive, hard to pack around tent.
This is a much better version of the same kind of shelter, because there is far less risk of melting your tarp.
Also, speaking of Dave Canterbury videos, he REALLY makes me want this knife. Hard to justify the price tag, but man . . . that thing looks like it can take a SHIT-TON of abuse and still keep a nice edge.
