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Can we survive without a knife or axe?
Yes.
Do I want to try and survive without a blade, and try to fabricate field replacements?
No.
I feel the same way about friction fire starting.
I am okay down to the firesteel, and then I draw the line.
If I am rubbing two sticks together to make a fire, I hope at least one of them is a match.
Runningwolf, I think you are largely on the right track.
There is need to have, and there is want to have. I think you have drawn a good line.
If it was going to be cold, there was large game, or I was going to build a substantial shelter for a long stay, I would want the axe for sure. Not sure that the hawk is practical when I can have a hatchet or small axe for the same size and weight. They look cool though.
I might pass on the traps for some good snares.
The bungee cord and 550 make for great cordage that is hard to replicate, though it is good to know how to do it.
The space blanket is a good reflector and a passable rain shelter. It will not really keep you very warm.
TR
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"It is not the critic who counts; not the man who points out how the strong man stumbles, or where the doer of deeds could have done them better. The credit belongs to the man who is actually in the arena, whose face is marred by dust and sweat and blood; who strives valiantly; who errs, who comes short again and again, because there is no effort without error and shortcoming; but who does actually strive to do the deeds; who knows great enthusiasms, the great devotions; who spends himself in a worthy cause; who at the best knows in the end the triumph of high achievement, and who at the worst, if he fails, at least fails while daring greatly, so that his place shall never be with those cold and timid souls who neither know victory nor defeat." - President Theodore Roosevelt, 1910
De Oppresso Liber 01/20/2025
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