A lightweight easy to pack stew that adds good calories to your meals out in the backwoods.

Perhaps one of the best new innovations in outdoors gear in a while. The Valtcan 1.8 liter pressure cooker.

An easy to load premade compressed powder charge caseless cartridge for black powder Walker Colts.

The Bemco oven is IT ! A must have for motorcycle adventures.

Weaving an Algonquin style back pack to carry my gear in the backwoods.

Make a pair of tongs in the backwoods to help you with camping chores around the fire pit.

A way to bake a quick bread in field conditions.

With deer season coming up soon, take a look my load out for a week spent in the hunting woods.

Part 1 of the gear that you would see in the Possibles Bag of a mountain man or eastern long hunter to keep his flintlock rifle running in the field.

What goes in a haversack for the 21st century mountain man ? the possibilites are endless.

The Kephart style knife is a simple must have item for bushcrafting in the backwoods.

A better dry biscuit mix for making field expedient quick breads on bushcrafting trips.

Quick reference to outdoor cooking stoves

Starting a fire the traditional way.

Baking your own pies, brownies, pizzas, casseroles in the middle of nowhere.

It seems like flat top griddles for cooking are all the rage these days. I perused the ads and saw the prices. Some are within reason as...

Cigars — one of my favorite forms of tobacco, second only to a pipe or a dip of snuff. There’s all sorts of tobaccos and shapes, but I’m...

For this summer’s hiking season, I decided I wanted a slightly different approach to backpacking. I opted for something different. I’ve lightened my load considerably and I built myself a new back pack to carry everything in. I’m going “retro” so I decided I wanted an 1860’s Trapper Pack and Frame. I made my frame out of solid red oak for strength. According to the instructions this frame is rated for up to 120 pounds of freight. As for me ? I only carry about half that weigh

Here's a quick view of the process I use to make char cloth tinder. It's great for starting fires.

Here's a hack on how to process naturally occurring tree fungus into great firestarter tinder