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Teaching Survival Skills
Teaching the Canadian Army
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Allan "Bow" Beauchamp |
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INTRODUCTION: Many people tend to think of wilderness
survival skills as a hobby. However, for some people it is a
deadly serious business, and can mean the difference between
life and death. The men and women of the Canadian armed
forces fall into this category.
[Civilian Allan "Bow" Beauchamp does training for the
Canadian Army in wilderness survival and tracking.] |
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Here one of our troops has just made
his first coal from a conventional fire board. We used many systems
on this course:
four variations to the conventional bow drill fire board, some fire
plows, some hand-drills, and the list of fire starters went into
many levels.it is always nice to see someone complete the
learning phase for traditional fire boards and see the look on their
face when it's complete.
This photo shows this final stage. |
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Here some men are using my crafted
solar fire starter, and a pop can fire starter. These are two
great ideas for the sunny days of the season. Both worked very well
and turned some doubters into believers! |
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Here I am showing many variations of
fire starting systems. This particular segment was on the fire plow.
Incidentally, they got fire in three minutes -- great job!!
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Troops learning the fine art of fire
pistons. |
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Here the fine art of flint and steel
fire-making is being preformed. And a great job they made of it! |
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On this basic course, everyone has to
do the same fire starting skills. Here some fine leaders are showing
their capabilities of making fire with knife and stones. |
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Here I'm teaching how to make bush ash
bows during a basic course. |
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Here they are discussing what I have
taught them thus far: bone tools like arrow tips and their new
crafting skills of bush bows.
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Here I am explaining some fungus
tricks to the troops. |
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Teaching some tricks for trapping.
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Tracking instruction. |
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Here I am teaching them how to add to
their food supplies -- a nice cattail lunch. |
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