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Flint Knapping and rock flaking in order to make spears or arrows for a bow is harder than I originally anticipated when I started doing it three months ago.

The object of creating rock blades is somthing like this below:

My poor attempts at it so far look alot like this:

Maybe I am using poor rock materials. ( Shrugs.)

( Which is possibly the problem considering that there isn’t much rock materials where I usually hunt at.)

For now in constructing spears and arrows until I get more accurate at it I am using whole hunting knives along with the tips of knives.

It is my goal this summer to successfully stalk a group of deer in hunting with a spear where afterwards I will skin them for their furs where I will also take their flesh to make jerky and most likely I will use their bones or antlers in order to construct more spears afterwards. ( Nothing goes wasted.)

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Most people in wilderness survival, in constructing shelters will create huts, teepees, or usually they will find a cave as a base for their hunting activity.

Currently I am doing none of the above ( Although I could if I wanted to.)

At this moment I am studying the art of ground tunneling like they used in the Vietnam war conflict.

What is great about tunneling is that it is warm during the winter and cool during the summer inside the ground.

The only obstacle in making a good tunneling system is that it is difficult to make air vents or vents where smoke can escape from in starting a indoor fire.

Flooding during the rainy season along with snow melting during the spring would also pose it’s own obstacles.

Viet Cong Tunneling System:

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Maybe I’m being presumptious, but I hope you really know what you’re doing. “Nothing goes wasted” is a wonderful sentiment, but I can think of nothing more tragic than for waste of a life to happen despite your best intentions. If you saw “Into The Wild” there’s a scene that perfectly illustrates my point. Make sure you really know what you’re doing. Do you even have a freezer large enough to hold the meat of an entire deer? Are you already a hunter, or is this an entirely new enterprise? I apologize for my presumptions, but I’d rather speak up and look stupid than not say anything. You just sound so young and idealistic to me…

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I am a expirienced hunter. ( With deer, fowl and rabbits anyways.) ( The occasional snake too.)

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Well folks after being marginalized, outcasted and exploited all these years I have finally come to one single conclusion in saying, “fuck civilization” with all their civilized dependencies along with all their civilized bullshit.

I simply no longer have the patience with anyone outside myself.

You heard me right I am becoming a fulltime angry mountain man amongst the wilderness and harsh landscape that is the indifferent natural landscape that we call earth. ( Of course where I am going there is no mountains.)

( Calling me a fulltime savage would be more practical in the sense of where I am going in semantics.)

What about food? I will hunt and scavenge for food.

What about women? I will be content with erotic dreams or fantasies until I can find me a excellent opportunity to abduct and rape a actual woman.

What about shelter? I will construct my own.

What about health care? I will take care of myself and die appropiately in how I see fit if I am lucky.

What about rules? I will construct my own.

What about civilization? Fuck civilization.

What about god or morality? What about them?

What about disgrunted civilized people? What about them? :laughing:

People will say my chances of dying early amongst the natural world are increased. My response to that is that I no longer care about life or death.

I have been completely cut off, desensitized, isolated and alienated in this world to care about such superficial dilemmas or concepts.

Life or death is all the same to me. ( Either I will survive in the wild or I will die. I shall be content with both scenarios.)

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So, where is Joker going? I will not be too specific but I will leave clues.

Clue number one: There will be alot of these where I am going.

Clue number two: The area will consist largely of swamp land which has alot of rainfall. It is mostly humid and during the winter the climate remains in the 50’s or 60’s.

There is alot of fish and game there to hunt along with wild plants to survive off of.

( You have to be careful what body of water you swim in. :laughing: )

I am not sure if where I am going there will be a place to use the internet near by or not. If there is one I will keep people updated in what goes on with my savage existence here on this website. If there isn’t internet access, oh well!

I basically plan on fully integrating myself in the swampy wilderness in about a year’s time.

( Needs about $3000 dollars in order to make this work which Joker needs to find out where he can get that kind of dough from.)

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Good luck on your journeys! =D>

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Why don’t you just chill out for a second and consider a very simple long term goal. First, what is it that you need the most, have the least of, and takes all your time to get?

Money.

Next, if you absolutely had to keep a shitty job to save up some money, and you also wanted to get the most for your buck, what would you do?

You would work in the US, save your money, and go to Mexico for six month periods at a time. You would repeat this until 2012, when the aliens or a meteor comes…can’t remember which it is.

Anyway, if you are willing to reduce your life style to such primitive accommodations…why not just set it up one notch and live that way comfortably in a foreign country? I can tell you this- there is no cheaper paradise on this planet. And the culture is nothing like US culture. All the factors that frustrate and anger you in society here are scarce in Mehico.

I’m going man. Old Gobbo says maybe he will too…but he would be going to escape the Illuminati reptilian chem-trials over Canada where he lives. You and I know that’s a bunch of BS, but whatever.

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Thanks. If I hunt and eat a alligator I’ll make you a necklace out of it’s teeth. :wink:

( Assuming a alligator doesn’t hunt and eat me first.)

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Don’t go to Florida man. Florida is like a giant swamp full of mosquitoes with air so humid you have to peel it off of you.

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Been there, done that.

Which I can never seem to get enough of.

Rob a convenience store? :stuck_out_tongue:

No thanks. Not practical in my situation.

I wouldn’t fit in Mexico. I’m French. :laughing: People would just look at me strangely and I don’t even speak Spanish.

Besides I don’t want money. I am not materialistic.

I just want a woman to have lots of sex with, a family and rudimentary long lasting friendships.
( Somthing the BS American dream has not supplied.)

( I want lots of power too.)

The way I see it, I can get all those things in the wilderness if I play my cards right. :laughing:

( If I don’t get caught and if I remain hidden.) :wink:

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I won’t tell people where I am going. ( It wouldn’t be a secret if I did.)

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Here is a taste of what is possible in Mexico, Joker.

The following are coastal cities on the gulf side: tampico, vercruz, coatzacoalcos, campeche, cancun. In any of these cities (cancun being the most expensive) you can live comfortably on twenty-five US dollars a day…and this is if you pay for rooming at a hostel and public transportation…which is absurdly cheap (day passes in some cities will cost twenty-five US cents). A large delicious meal can be bought from street vendors for under two US dollars. All beaches are public and you can literally camp on them for as long as you like. Camp fires included. All the fishing you could possibly handle. There are tourist attractions everywhere.

Sometimes you can find locals who will give you accommodations in exchange for help around the property. Really, I’m not kidding. They are completely old school down there. If you walked up with a sack of clothes hanging from a stick, they wouldn’t think anything of it. They are extremely polite and courteous. Most are Catholic…and don’t ruin it for them. Religious Hispanic people are dead serious and it would be in your best interest to let them remain ignorant. An ignorant catholic mexican will go to great distances to help you if you let them. None of this talk about anarchy and meaninglessness when you are around them.

Now, traveling great distances with a vehicle will cost you about the same, because gas is about the same price. But inner-city travel is very cheap.

You could stay drunk all day on tequila and write entries in your journal from atop a mayan ruin beside a waterfall. You would be like the jungle version of Thoreau. Eat fresh fruit and swim is crystal blue water. Dude, are you seeing this in your head? Just google some pictures of the gulf regions of Mexico. You’ll see.

Or you could tour the historic downtowns of each city. Beautiful architecture is everywhere. At worst you could stay at the hostel all day and play foos-ball or something. You will always meet americans wherever you go, granted you stay on the coast.

Your possibilities are limitless, Joker.

Go Mexico!

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You only get sharp edges from breaking up obsidian rock. Here’s a Wiki clip on it:

Obsidian is a naturally occurring glass formed as an extrusive igneous rock. It is produced when felsic lava extruded from a volcano cools rapidly through the glass transition temperature and freezes without sufficient time for crystal growth. Obsidian is commonly found within the margins of rhyolitic lava flows known as obsidian flows, where cooling of the lava is rapid. Because of the lack of crystal structure, obsidian blade edges can reach almost molecular thinness, leading to its ancient use as projectile points, and its modern use as surgical scalpel blades.[1]
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Obsidian

Most of the stuff you see around you is sedimentary or metamorphic.
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rock_%28geology%29

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Yep. There is no obsidian where I am at currently.