Hey friends, if you're looking for a 100% wool blanket but don't have a lot of cash, look for USGI Military Northwest Woolen Mills Blankets on eBay and in thrift stores. I have owned a TON of US Army wool blankets, and the Northwest Woolen Mills are the BEST. They tend to be the largest, heaviest, softest and highest quality of all the army wool blankets out there. I'm talking on the level of the famed Italian Army Wool Blankets, only a little lighter. Northwest Woolen blankets run about 4lbs to 4.7lbs vs 5lbs to 5.5lbs for the Italian Blankets. In my experience, they are just as warm as th ..read more

  50 Yards free standing (no rest) with a cheap Walmart red dot. Really digging this concept for a compact wilderness survival kit. Cheers! Jason ..read more

  Caught this large dust devil on my way home last summer ..read more

Photo credit: Jason Schwartz/Rocky Mountain Bushcraft ©2019 All Rights Reserved Friends, if you see this plant up in the mountains, observe it from a distance and do not touch it. Monkshood is very toxic and potentially deadly if eaten. In fact, even handling the plant is toxic enough to cause illness, so beware! Cheers, Jason Photo credit: Jason Schwartz/Rocky Mountain Bushcraft ©2019 All Rights Reserved Photo credit: Jason Schwartz/Rocky Mountain Bushcraft ©2019 All Rights Reserved Photo credit: Jason Schwartz/Rocky Mountain Bushcraft ©2019 All Rights Reserved Photo credit: Jason ..read more

Last year, I came across a knife destruction video by the Dutch Bushcraft Knives Channel while surfing Youtube. In the video, they tried to destroy a knife with a name that was most certainly NOT easy to remember - the "Terava Jaakaripuukko" (try pronouncing that name with your friends at your next bushcraft gathering!). The knife is a 5.5" high carbon 80CrV2 Finnish military survival knife sold by military surplus outlet Varusteleka of Finland. Some of you may be familiar with Varusteleka because they sell a ton of hard to find European military surplus gear to bushcrafters i ..read more

Photo credit: Mikhail Merkurieff/Rocky Mountain Bushcraft ©2016 All Rights Reserved Elite Survival Systems sent me their cool Liberty Gunpack a while back to test and review. Unfortunately, I wasn't able to get the review posted before my old military injuries caught up with me, causing me to have to step away from RMB for a while. I've been using this pack on and off since then for my Glock 29 10mm Mountain Pistol, and it has been a great piece of gear.  What I like most is that the pack has an inconspicuous appearance: Photo credit: Mikhail Merkurieff/Rocky Mountain Bushcraft ©20 ..read more

Photo courtesy of DougRitter.com Hey friends, cool knife buy alert! A couple of years ago, CRKT stopped production of the Doug Ritter RSK Mk5, a cool little "Fits into an Altoids Can" survival knife.  For 2021, Smoky Mountain Knife Works has managed to bring them back into production. According to Doug Ritter, the knives are still made in the same factory as the original CRKT versions using the same exact steel, so the quality is identical.  However, these knives now retail for HALF the price of the original CRKT versions, with a street price of just $11.99 at Smoky Mountain Knife ..read more

Back in March of 2017, I reviewed Aguila's Ultralight 12 Gauge #7.5 Mini Shells shotgun shells as an option for survival use. Aguila's Mini Shell is basically a shrunken down 12 Gauge shotshell (only 1 3/4" long) that is extremely light (as light as a 410 shell), yet still throws excellent patterns.  As great as the little Mini Shell was, it suffered from one major drawback -- price. At roughly $20 for a box of 20 shells, Aguila Mini Shells are more expensive than most 12 Gauge High Brass loads.  For the budget-minded backcountry trekker, this could be a real deal breaker, espe ..read more

Have you ever eaten a crow? I have. Back in 2014, I decided to put my money where my mouth is so to speak. I wanted to know -- if Crow were the only meat available in a survival situation, would it be barf-o-rama, or would it be tolerable? So....in the spirit of educating myself in order to share the experience with you, I ate crow..... Into the pot it goes - yuck! Crow are carrion feeders, so I had to boil it for 30 mins straight to ensure that no bad microbes remained. Shown here is the Crow after it has been fully cooked:   Unfortunately, a huge thunderstorm rolled up and a ..read more

  Photo credit: Buck Knives ©2021 Buck Knives has just released a super groovy version of their classic 119 Special in S35VN Supersteel. Called the 119 Special Pro, the knife includes an eye-pleasing green canvas micarta handle, black leather sheath, and a polished nickel silver guard and pommel.  Photo credits: Buck Knives ©2021 For more information visit: https://www.buckknives.com/product/119-special-pro-knife/0119GRS1-B ..read more