There are a couple knots that everyone needs to know. The Clove Hitch is one such knot. A clove hitch is used to tie a rope to a cylindrical object (like a fence post or tree). However, it is unreliable when tied on a square post. What makes it useful is that if you feed […]
Category: Outdoor Life
How to Make Arrow Fletching With Duct Tape
Several years ago I tried out Dave Canterbury’s sling bow. It was fun and I saw that it had potential, Unfortunately, arrows are expensive. The short arrows I bought just did not develop enough energy to be useful. I decided to look into making my own arrows. Arrow-making has obviously been around a long […]
Organize Fishing Hooks With Safety Pins
This simple project of learning to organize fishing hooks with safety pins takes less than a minute, and can make your fishing trips much less stressful. Simply sort your fishhooks by type, and then run a safety pin through the hook’s eye. This not only keeps your fishhooks sorted, keeps them in place, and it […]
How to Make a Bottle Cap Fishing Lure
I saw this brilliant idea on YouTube and had to share it. A very smart guy figured out how to make a Bottle Cap Fishing Lure out of a discarded beer bottle caps. He even made a business of recycling buckets of beer caps harvested from local bars until he was sued by beer […]
Knots: Bowline (Including Tying One-Handed)
I had an interesting childhood – my Dad and I were a lot alike, and when I was growing up he jumped with both feet into the world of rope courses – he single-handedly built several small courses in Tennessee which, coupled with his work as a Park Ranger fed my infatuation with survival techniques […]