Longstrider said:With the site filled with folks doing their stuff, using edged tools of all sorts and sizes, practicing archery and the like, the possiblity ( thankfully avoided I believe) of someone badly injuring themselves or someone else was ever present. Why then, did the group of archers I interrupted by emerging from the bushes to ask "Who blew three?" seem so surprised that I had left what I was doing to respond to the internationally known distress signal of three successive blasts on a whistle ? It turned out to be a small boy who had been allowed to do it by a parent "as practice".
We are suposed to be bushcrafters, outdoorsmen (and ladies). Would we think to set off a red flare at sea "as practice", then look surprised when the lifeboatmen arrived ?
You've made a valid point regarding safety Longstrider.
Going off topic. If I may make a correction: The International Distress Signal is 6 shouts OR torch flashes OR whistle blasts repeated at one minute intervals. The reply is 3 shouts, flashes or blasts at minute intervals. However...in the USA its 3 whistle blasts...etc....so much for the "International Distress Signal"
It would have been better to allow the kid to do one load whistle and then be told that if in trouble repeat that 5 more times.
