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These squid demonstrate 3 survival techniques. 1. Color Change (Note the eye spots) 2. Freaking out/Panic? – Actually I think the flaring of their tentacles like that may startle predators/make the squid look bigger possibly? I’m not sure on this one …and 3. Ink and get the hell out of there. Don’t forget to watch my other squid video to see how they behave when they don’t feel threatened. www.youtube.com

Are you someone who likes adventure? Then, outdoor activities like camping, hiking, mountain climbing, kayaking and much more will surely enthrall you. If you like spend your vacation close to Mother Nature, all you need to do is to plan a camping or hiking trip. Before planning a camping trip, you need to pack the right kind of apparels, tents, sleeping gear, headlamps or flash lights. These camping accessories will sure to make your trip a memorable one. But, your camping backpack is still incomplete without an emergency survival kit. Emergency survival kits will protect you in all kind of unfavorable situations, like rain, power cut, injuries and much more. These safety kits are not only for outdoor activities, but deserve a small space in your car to help you in case of road accidents.

Tupelo Super Store has a wide range of emergency survival kits that helps you protect your family and friends in adverse situations. A complete protection package, the Deluxe Emergency Survival Kit from Tupelo Super Store has all you need to have a memorable and safe camping trip. Designed based on the advice of experts, this camping survival kit is a real life saver. Food and water are the essentials of life. What will happen if you get stuck on a dense forest on your hiking trip? The Deluxe Emergency Survival Kit will help you survive such life threatening situations. It comes with 12 boxes of Aqua Blox water boxes and 24 – 200 calorie food bars. This camping survival kit also has water purification tablets and each tablet can purify up to 1 liter of water. The Deluxe Emergency Survival Kit also has an emergency sleeping bag, respirator dust mask, and AM/FM radio with headphones and batteries for communication. A 30 hour emergency candle and a rechargeable squeeze flashlight will light up your way at night. It also integrates a first aid kit with all essential medications that lets you treat injuries, burns, and infections. Temperature is unpredictable when you go for camping, hiking, or even driving. Deluxe Emergency Survival Kits have body warmer and poncho to keep you warm in extreme cold and protect you from rain. Above all, to keep you entertained on your trip, this kit also has a deck of playing cards. If you are planning to go on a camping trip with your partner, then the Deluxe Emergency Survival Kit for 2-Person from Tupelo Super Store will be a great choice.

To fit well within your budget, Tupelo Super Store also has the Essentials Emergency Survival Kits. You can also get camping survival kit for children at this online store. Make your vacation outdoor not only fun, but also safe with Emergency Survival Kits.

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There is nothing more frustrating than buying gifts for the male species. You want them to feel manly and get something they can really use.

Consider and Ultimate deluxe emergency survival kit. This is a kit that includes everything he could possibly need in any emergency, outdoor, medical, disaster, or accidental situation. A great thing for any family, career, work, or sporting man.

Survival kit tips:

What your survival kit should include:

Food and Water:

6 Boxes of Aqua Blox Water Boxes

12 – 200 Calorie Food Bars

10 Water Purification Tablets – each tablet purifies 1 liter of water

Light and Communication:

Am/Fm Radio with Headphones and Batteries

Rechargeable Squeeze Flashlight – contains lithium batteries which last up to 30 hours and also is able to generate power through squeezing

30 Hour Emergency Candle – can also be used as a stove

Green Emergency Glow Stick – lasts for 24 hours

5-in-1 Survival Whistle – compass, signal mirror, flint starter, waterproof container, lanyard, and shrill whistle Box of 50 Waterproof Matches

Bic Style Lighter

Shelter and Warmth:

Emergency Survival Sleeping Bag (Recommended over common “space blankets”)

16 Hour Body Warmer

2-Person Tube Tent with Rope

Emergency Poncho with Hood

Tools:

16 Function Knife

Leather Palm Working Gloves

N95 Respirator Dust Mask

60 Feet of Nylon Rope

Hygiene and Sanitation:

Hygiene Kit – Includes soap, toothbrush, toothpaste, and 9 wet wipes.

3 Tempo Pocket Tissue Packs

First Aid:

42 Piece Bandage First Aid Kit – Contains 42 Pieces – 10 Spot Bandages, 10 Sheer Junior, 5 Sheer Medium, 5 Sheer Strips, 2 Antibacterial, 3Clear Strips, 2 Fabric Strips, 1 Extra Large, 2 Alcohol Pads, and 2 Gauze Pads& Guardian First Aid Essentials Kit – 1 Trauma Dressing (5″x9″), 3 Sunscreen Lotion Packs, 1 Sting Relief Prep Pad, 1 Burn Cream Pack, 4 Non-Aspirin Tablets, 4 Antacid Tablets, 4 Ibuprofen Tablets, 1 Lip Ointment Pack, 1 Antibiotic Ointment Pack, 1 Pair of Vinyl (non latex) Gloves, 2 Finger Splints, 10 Cotton Tip Applicators, 1 Roll of First Aid Tape, 1 Roll of Gauze Dressing, and a First Aid Instruction Guide Other:

Deck of playing cards for entertainment

Infectious Waste Bag

Make sure the kit you get your man is designed using advice from experts in the emergency preparedness industry. It should also follow guidelines given by government agencies and non-profit preparedness organizations.

Any man would love a practical, useful, and thoughtful wildness survival kit!

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This is Part three of a series i am doing on you tube, The series is titled outdoor survival, I will be taking you through some of the basics of surviving if you are injured or lost, This video will document clothing, How to implement and how to survive if you become lost. This video series is an absolute essential if you love the outdoors and want to enjoy a safe experience. Enjoy!

You may have the skills and the knowledge to make a fire, navigate in the wild, construct shelter and find food, but there is more to wilderness survival than just those things. It takes a strong mind to make it in the wilderness. There have been a number of people that have survived situations that were life threatening with little or no knowledge of how to survive in the wilderness.

Survival Starts with the Mind

When someone finds themselves in an environment of survival, there are a number of stresses that can have an impact not just on the body, but on the mind as well. Emotions and thoughts if not properly understood can transform someone that thought they were well trained and filled with confidence into an individual that is ineffectual in a survival situation. Understanding your reactions to such stresses can make the difference between success and failure in order to survive in the wild.

Stresses can Affect Performance in the Wilderness

Stress is a necessary evil. When one encounters stress, it challenges the individual. Knowledge about your strengths are often gained when one meets the challenge or particular stressors. Stress will test how well you can adapt and it often pushes one to perform at their best.

When one lets stress affect their performance a few things can happen. One is that you might find it difficult to make any decisions. Another might be outbursts of anger at your companions. You may experience forgetfulness, have low levels of energy and you may worry on a constant basis.

Others may find that they are withdrawn or cannot get along with others. Mistakes are more prevalent when you let stress get to you and sometimes you may seek to hide from your responsibilities.

When we are faced with stress, our typical response is to fight or take flight. Your body has a biological response to stress and reactions from even the most confident people may take them by surprise.

How to Deal with Stress and Wilderness Survival

The most important factor in anticipating stress when surviving in the wild is, know yourself as to your strengths and weaknesses. Concentrate on your strongest qualities and before going into the wild, develop those qualities you think you are lacking. Never pretend you are fearless. When you face up to your fears you can work on the skills that will enable you to become confident. Training and learning skills that relate to a particular fear will allow you to become more secure and better able to handle a situation should one arise.

Have a Realistic Attitude about the Situation

It is vital for survival in the wilderness that you see the situation for what is really are and not for what you would like it to be. It is advised that you keep all your hope and expectations grounded in reality. When you put yourself into a survival situation with expectations and hopes that are unrealistic you are leaving yourself open for disappointment and failure.

It may take a number of skills to survive in the wilderness, but your most important skill and tool is your attitude. If you believe in yourself, keep your feet firmly grounded in reality and have faith in your skills, your chances of surviving in the wilderness are much greater.

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It is better to spend a night in the dark wood than getting yourself more confused when you are lost. And it always safe to know some survival tips when you are in that situation. There are many factors that could lead us to get lost in the wood even in the daytime. Reads more on how you could survive in those kinds of situations.

There are times when even the best of woodsmen are forced to spend a night in the wilderness. A man might travel so far into the woods, after a deer that it might be unsafe or impractical for him to try to find his way to the camp in the darkness. He might become lost as to direction, and prefer to camp out instead of risking the chance of becoming more confused by aimless traveling. If, for any reason, it is necessary to spend the night in the woods, knowledge of some of the fundamentals of woodcraft will aid in the comfort and even the survival of the lost person.

People seldom become lost on a day when the sun is shining, so the chances are that cold, wet or stormy weather has to be dealt with. If a person becomes lost early in the day, it is all right to travel (unless he finds that he is traveling in circles) with the hope of stumbling onto some tote-road, which could be followed to habitation. Otherwise it is best to try to make a camp somewhere in the vicinity and prepare to spend the night. Usually one night out is all that is necessary, unless the lost person is a lone hunter and no others know of his absence, or in the case of a continued storm of several days’ duration. In any case the camp should be made as comfortable as possible.

Fire is the most important item in the camp. The hearth is the symbol of the home and nothing does more to make a man feel at ease in the woods than a good fire. Build it against a fallen tree or a dead stub so that there will be a back-log to hold the heat. Gather as large a supply of dry limbs and down-wood as possible, because an open fire can use a surprising amount of fuel in a night and it is no fun to hunt for it in the dark. Gather anything which might burn and which can be dragged. Long pieces can be burned into shorter lengths and damp wood may be dried enough to be burned after the fire has had a chance to get a good start. Sometimes it is hard to find enough dry wood which can be used for kindling the fire, but the dead branches on the lower part of the softwood trees are nearly always dry enough to start with. Any of these branches that will break with a snap are satisfactory. Some of the mosses which hang from fir and spruce branches may be used for tinder if there is no birch bark nearby.

Sometimes a man will be caught with no dry matches or other conventional means of starting a fire. In such cases it is possible to borrow a page from the days of the flint-lock, when the hunter would use his gun as a fire starter. This modern adaptation should not be used except in an emergency, but it is usually effective.

Remove the bullet from a cartridge and empty about half of the powder onto a dry piece of bark. Cover this powder with crumbled, dry punk which is found in decayed stumps or in the interior of dead trees, or stubs where woodpeckers have been working. Be sure to keep this dry. Fill the bullet-end of the partly loaded cartridge with cotton cloth, or, lacking cotton, any cloth of vegetable origin. Place the cartridge in the gun and shoot it in a direction that will permit recovery of the cloth. This cloth will be smoldering from the heat of the explosion. Place this smoldering cloth in contact with the punk and powder, using sticks to handle the burning cloth and being careful to keep the hands and face away from the flash fire which is almost sure to result. Powder will not actually explode in the open air, but will burn very rapidly with an intense heat which will ignite the punk, leaving a mound of glowing coals that can be utilized to start a blazing fire.

There is something that you should learn which could be useful when lost in the woods especially in the woods. These tips given above will help you in your fight to survive in the woods when you are lost in the deer hunting. You can starts practicing them now, if you have any plan to go deer hunting in the near future.