The following are basic but obscure survival tips. You never know when you will need the benefits these skills teach us! Read on:

1. Paracord: From Fashion to Practical Uses: From tying down your tent, for survival bow and arrows, setting up traps, use as a tourniquet to sutures. This lifesaving cord has tons of uses that can certainly be a life changer.
2. Learn to Cook Off the Grid: Learn to cook your food or boil your water without the use of electricity. Unless you want to eat your meat raw and your water unsterilized.
3. Learn to Open a Can Without a Can-Opener: Forgot or lost your can opener? Learning this skill will help you have your fill whenever you get hungry.
4. Identify Different Types of Wood for Your Fire: Different firewood types have their respective pros and cons. Having the ability to determine which ones make the best firewood will surely make your stay around the campfire enjoyable.
5. Start a Fire With a Gum Wrapper: These little fire starters are often in your pockets anyways. Refrain from throwing them away as they can still come in handy.
6. Learn About Survival Archery: Being an all-around tool, one can use it in different scenarios. Being as stealthy as it already is, your target will never see what’s coming
7. Alternative Fishing Technique: Knowing which technique to apply depending on the body of water and type of fish you wish to catch will not leave you starving for hours while waiting for a catch. Having the proper tools will surely shorten the waiting time.
8. More About Fishing: There are so many ways and tricks to catch fish. With these unique tips you’ll soon be fishing like a pro.
9. Handle Knife Safely: Learning the different safety tips in handling fixed-blade knives begins when you reach for it. Basically, you just have to put just two things in mind to be safe: the point and the long edge.
10. Why and Why Knot? Why not learn more about tying different knots? Start from the most basic ones which have more than a handful of uses in a survival situation. Then slowly progress to advanced knots as you master each one.
11. Learn Survival Tactics Like No Other! Learn to bake your own ration bars and use duct tape in 10 different ways. This may be the cream of the crop of survival tactics that will give you the highs if you want to learn more than what is already out there.
12. Learn to Keep Your Cool In Stressful Situations: It is easier said than done but like every skill it can be mastered. The ability to stay calm under any situation will definitely be a key to your survival.

Now, don’t tell us this was a useless list because you have practiced and know it all already. You may have heard of these but do you really have them locked away in your mind or on paper, ready for use when the time comes?

Eight out of ten of you probably would not get to #12 before losing it so do not merely look at those and push them aside. These are skills to live by. Learn them now, before the SHTF, and you really will have a foot up on other potential survivors!

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