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Weare going off on Thursday and doing an all nighter. Dave isn't keen on the meat idea. He doesn't like the style chosen...
I think it would look OK with a sausage boa.
I told you Jon, the heels arent high enough for me, nor is the hat big enough. If you want to attract attention you need to be more bold with your style choices. 
It's unfortunate that the OP chose such a strange scenario, since the topic is pretty interesting and indeed necessary. You might loose a knife, or you (more likely) may find yourself in a survival situation without your BOB, PSK, insert-acronym-as-needed etc.
I did a course on survival without a knife a few years ago, and if you happen to find something similar I recommend taking it. It is really an eye opener. For most tasks in a survial situation you don't need to have a knife, but it saves soooo much time. Just imagine shelter building. Fire lighting sure is tougher too, a lot tougher. I barely made it on the course, god sure knows I probably couldn't make it today (are your fire-by-friction skills up to it? Can you make the materials and prepare tinder without a knife?). Makes you understand why the stone age people carried smoldering fungae everywhere they went.
Try to do a weekend without a knife, you'll learn a lot, and you'll hopefully take your skills to another level.
If I found myself somewhere close to the so called civilisation, or the remains of it, I would likely go with glass or ceramics knapping, as some already suggested. I think I will put this on my 'skills to learn'-list.
I did a course on survival without a knife a few years ago, and if you happen to find something similar I recommend taking it. It is really an eye opener. For most tasks in a survial situation you don't need to have a knife, but it saves soooo much time. Just imagine shelter building. Fire lighting sure is tougher too, a lot tougher. I barely made it on the course, god sure knows I probably couldn't make it today (are your fire-by-friction skills up to it? Can you make the materials and prepare tinder without a knife?). Makes you understand why the stone age people carried smoldering fungae everywhere they went.
Try to do a weekend without a knife, you'll learn a lot, and you'll hopefully take your skills to another level.
If I found myself somewhere close to the so called civilisation, or the remains of it, I would likely go with glass or ceramics knapping, as some already suggested. I think I will put this on my 'skills to learn'-list.
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The practice of carrying a fire around (in a tin can on a wire handle) continued in Poland, and perhaps other places, well into the 20th century.
This is where I get burned at the stake for being a heretic or stoned (and not in a good way 
) for the following sacrilegious commentary:
My knife use is minimal at best, and usually confined to food prep or triggers for traps, and I can think of other stuff I'd be far more concerned about losing which include but are not limited to limbs or any other appendage, my boots, the clothes I am wearing and...
I have to say that if I was safe in the knowledge that by walking a mile I can be reunited with my pack, shelter and sleeping equipment, I'd feel pretty darn smug about that, despite my bruised pride.
I'd also be trying to work out two things:
1. how 'they' managed to so easily take what was mine given my size, shape and two black belts
2. where 'they' might happen to have gone to ground so I could return the favour tenfold (thus resupplying myself in the process)
Best way to replace the knife is to go and get it back - I imagine a fencepost, young tree or traffic sign would be uprooted en route, just to lend a little weight to my persuasive argument for the full and safe return of any and all personal effects.
Since the offending individuals made the fundamental error of ignoring my one golden rule in life (otherwise know as "don’t p**s me off") I'd have absolutely no problem in finding them, getting the sneak on them, and making sure they all adhered very closely to rule number 1 from then on in.
) for the following sacrilegious commentary:My knife use is minimal at best, and usually confined to food prep or triggers for traps, and I can think of other stuff I'd be far more concerned about losing which include but are not limited to limbs or any other appendage, my boots, the clothes I am wearing and...
I have to say that if I was safe in the knowledge that by walking a mile I can be reunited with my pack, shelter and sleeping equipment, I'd feel pretty darn smug about that, despite my bruised pride.
I'd also be trying to work out two things:
1. how 'they' managed to so easily take what was mine given my size, shape and two black belts
2. where 'they' might happen to have gone to ground so I could return the favour tenfold (thus resupplying myself in the process)
Best way to replace the knife is to go and get it back - I imagine a fencepost, young tree or traffic sign would be uprooted en route, just to lend a little weight to my persuasive argument for the full and safe return of any and all personal effects.
Since the offending individuals made the fundamental error of ignoring my one golden rule in life (otherwise know as "don’t p**s me off") I'd have absolutely no problem in finding them, getting the sneak on them, and making sure they all adhered very closely to rule number 1 from then on in.
Given that there is some sort of disaster type situation but I have had time to get some stuff, I would have taken my shoulder cannon and large qty of cartridges with me also...
"put the bat down mate, or I remove your knees.......)
Seriously though, If I could find a dead something I would remove a couple of bones. Snapped bone is quite sharp and shoulderblade can be sharpened on stone/brick etc
"put the bat down mate, or I remove your knees.......)
Seriously though, If I could find a dead something I would remove a couple of bones. Snapped bone is quite sharp and shoulderblade can be sharpened on stone/brick etc
I made a bone knife (many years ago - check out SWAT) that I could fillet mackeral with!
Bone can be very sharp...but not as good as flint....
Bone can be very sharp...but not as good as flint....
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