Wilderness Survival and Bushcraft

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   Arizona Bushman is a wilderness survival and primitive skills web site. It is geared to demonstrate these skills and in some cases even push the envelope. By doing this I can more effectively demonstrate what will work and what will not. The setting of most of these skills are set in a desert environment. The Sonoran desert is a hot place in the summer and a cold place in the winter with temperatures ranging anywhere from 128 and higher to -7 depending on the time of year and location. Some skills from all over the world will work here but not all.  Knowing the skills to stay alive here should an emergency arise will give you the confidence to make it home alive. The desert southwest is definitely a place were the average survival book may not save your life.

  Every year thousands of people take to the desert, many do not make it back alive. They have in a few cases found the lost hiker dead with a half a canteen of water. It is an unforgiving place. It is not a place to be unprepared or to let your guard down.

  As the revamping of this site continues I will be demonstrating skills that will save your life should you ever become lost in the southwest. A lot of my skills are done with limited gear. I will demonstrate ways of improvising your entire tool kit.

  Please note that primitive skills are just that. They are the bare beginnings of civilization. We all come from them, and all our ancestors used these skills to live day to day life. In a survival situation these skills can be very difficult and in some cases almost impossible. Survival is Life and death! Plain and simple. There is a huge difference between survival and primitive skills. This being the fact that primitive man was not surviving, he was living. He had already had his fire and shelter built long before the rains or snow came. He had the time to sit and weave mats and baskets, knap out a perfect arrow point and hunt and stalk his dinner. Why?? Because he was living. We being put into a survival situation need to work up to the level of living. We need to conserve body fluid and calories. We need to find ways of making survival easier for us and tools to aid us in doing this.

  I am not saying that  it is impossible to survival using primitive methods. I takes years of practice and a lot of patience. Most in today's world do not have the patience or the time to devote to learning these skills. If you are in a primitive survival situation you will notice the rules are a lot different. The priorities are the same but the order in which to accomplish the tasks is different.