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Good evening! I was walking the dog today and I stopped by an old church surrounded by field and let him off his leash to run around and frolic as he is want to do. We ran around, playing, rolling, and wrestling for a bit. I walked to the other side of the field, him following me, to...

Hello all While on my rural survival scout I found this plant. I've been finding rabbit scat in the area with what looks like this plant's material in it. After a quick look through my Peterson Field Guide I think it looks like a type of Sumac,(a weak on the verge of death sumac) which I...

Hello all. I can't always head into the wilderness to practice our survival skills, so I try to practice as often as possible. Before work today I had some free time so I took a walk around. It’s a small community still being built surrounded by cow pastures and wide open fields. I decided...

Hello all. I only know a little about tracking, don't have much experience but I have some videos, books, and websites to go on. So today on my lunch break I did some track and sign reading in a big field near my work site. Its a pretty rural area, big cattle fields next to neighborhood being...

In relation to my previous topic where I made some pine pitch. Has anyone here ever successfully made turpentine from this distillation process? I can only assume its as easy as trapping the steam from the boiling of pine resin, condensing the steam, then boiling down a little further to...

Hello all, made some pine pitch this weekend after finding a tree that was practically a faucet for the stuff. MAJOR insect activity here. Collected about a pound of resin, could have collected 20 more if I had a ladder. This is about 20% of what I collected, I only work with little amounts at...