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BXC
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Picked it up last week. It's from the military so you know it's quality stuff, though I laughed at the fact that it says Noone knows survival better than the US Army. Little known fact is the Army, Navy, and Marines ALL train under the AIRFORCE in Arkansas for their survival training 
Anyway, the book has pretty much everything under the sun. Chapters cover as follows; Mentality, planning, medicine, weapons and tools, water procurement, wild plants for food, shelters, firebuilding, water crossings, direction finding, signaling, desert survival, tropical survival, arctic and subarctic survival, sea survival, and knots. It also has apendicies of poisonous snakes, using clouds to foretell weather, edible plants (pictures of them and what parts you can eat) and poisonous plants.
I give it a 5 out of 5. It has EVERYTHING. Check it out at Barnes and Noble.com
http://search.barnesandnoble.com/US-Army-Survival-Manual/US-Department-of-Defense/e/9781566190220/?itm=2
You can buy it online for only 8 bucks 
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Survivor Kid 909
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Got it, its decent, but not my fave by far!
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BXC
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 | | Got it, its decent, but not my fave by far! |
Which one is your favorite? They make an illustrated version of the US Army one, but its 5 bucks more 
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Survivor Kid 909
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I like some of the bigger ones that have tons of pictures, I think one is ultimate survival, there are others like it too. Tons of pics with how-to's.
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-Till shade is gone, till water is gone, into the Shadow with teeth bared, screaming defiance with the last breath, to spit in Sightblinder's eye on the Last Day.
-Life is not a journey to the grave with the intention of arriving safely in a pretty and well preserved body, but rather to skid in broadside, thoroughly used up, totally worn out, and proclaiming, "Wow, what a ride!!!" |
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survivorman_survive
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yep...i own this one. not much to say. its the Army so they have good info in there and most of it is applicable.
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Mystik Spiral
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If they train under the Air Force why didn't you buy the Air Force survival manual.  They have that at B&N too.
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BXC
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Uh price. Its 5 bucks more, but when I get my paycheck I'll probably end up picking that one up too 
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Mystik Spiral
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I thought about getting it, then I vered over to the CD section and um.......
I'm not one for reading though.
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flashlightfreak9
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Am I mistaken, or is this the same thing you can download for free at various websites? 
Probably not.
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Survivor Kid 909
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Yes, you can  http://www.wilderness-survival.net/ heres one place. Tonight I am pretty sure I get to go to the book store, yay books! I have a lot of money to spend too!
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-Life is not a journey to the grave with the intention of arriving safely in a pretty and well preserved body, but rather to skid in broadside, thoroughly used up, totally worn out, and proclaiming, "Wow, what a ride!!!" |
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BXC
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Right.... Have you ever tried to read a whole book on the computer? It sucks. We were supposed to do it for my science class and I only read it after the teacher gave me a hard copy. Books still win over reading on the internet... for now. Sony has made this thing where you download the books from your computer and then put them on what looks a lot like a palm pilot. Backlighted, light weight, and it doesnt suck to read off of for hours on end
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linsleyk
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oh I hate reading on the computer.well the long stuff.
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Mystik Spiral
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| | oh I hate reading on the computer.well the long stuff. |
me too. One paragraph is too long for me.
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BXC
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Exactly mp point, now imagine a WHOLE BOOK. This would be me -> 
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flashlightfreak9
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Yeah, I don't like my eyes to hurt either, but what can I say? I'm cheap.
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BXC
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I guess if you read it sections at a time and took breaks it would be fine, but when I have a job and since I dont drive I dont pay for gas. I can throw a little money here and there into some books 
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linsleyk
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hey I saw this book at Jo's today. didn't get it.
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flashlightfreak9
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| | I guess if you read it sections at a time and took breaks it would be fine, but when I have a job and since I dont drive I dont pay for gas. I can throw a little money here and there into some books |
Yeah, and besides, it's not like you're going to carry your computer around in the woods to check how to make that figure-4 deadfall, are you?
That is a good enough reason to buy the book. It's easy to bring it with you.
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Azarcher
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| | | | I guess if you read it sections at a time and took breaks it would be fine, but when I have a job and since I dont drive I dont pay for gas. I can throw a little money here and there into some books |
Yeah, and besides, it's not like you're going to carry your computer around in the woods to check how to make that figure-4 deadfall, are you?
That is a good enough reason to buy the book. It's easy to bring it with you. |
Not when you can put it on your phone for less weight, and less girth than the book itself. 
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