James Burnette, Author at Survivalpunk

How To Make Pemmican With Coconut Oil

March 11, 2012August 18, 2016 James Burnette 23 Comments

Pemmican

Pemmican is a natural super food. It’s the original energy bar. Pemmican is dried meat with rendered fat in a 50/50 mixture. Dried berries and honey are also added depending on the season.The Native Americans created Pemmican. It was eagerly adopted by the Europeans that came. For those reasons I have been very eager to try some but finding it locally is impossible.

I’ve seen a few places online that have traditional pemmican for sale. The reviews however are mixed. Besides that I’m a DIY guy so I decided to make my own. Once again I ran into an issue. You can’t just go to the grocery store and buy tallow. So I got to thinking about using coconut oil. The list of health benefits is long, it’s a solid up to 76 degrees, has a neutral flavor and the big part is you can find it everywhere and fairly cheap.

Ten survival lessons learned from Punk

March 9, 2012September 16, 2016 James Burnette 6 Comments

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I know what your thinking, Punk music is as far from survivalisim as possible. Well I’m going to give you ten lessons from punk that can be applied to you survival philosophy. Punk is a very big genre and not every idea is shared with all bands. But to me if you boil it down to its core these are the main take a ways you get.

Hike!

March 8, 2012March 8, 2012 James Burnette

Just a short post for now will have a real one up later tonight. Had a great hike today at Long Hunter State park With James and Mike from Skills and Gear. I had intended to do some gear testing but the rain made it a short trip. Two lessons learned though. One replace the paracord on the GHB holding the wool blanket with fast tex buckle strapping. The jostling from hiking kept making it come lose. Second add rain pants. The poncho worked awesome. At keeping my upper body dry while dumping water on my pants.

The Get Home Bag

March 7, 2012March 7, 2012 James Burnette 1 Comment

The Get Home Bag, affectionately know in the survival community as the G.H.B. Because we all love acronyms right? So what is a G.H.B and why should you have one. What goes in it? And why not just carry your Bug out bag? Well I’m going to tell you.

I tried to get a dictionary definition or at least a urban dictionary definition of a GHB anything. All I turned up was forum posts and a few blog’s. Guess this will be another. So I’ll define it for you

A GHB is a bag whose purpose is to be able to get you from one place to another, usually home, with the minimal necessities required.

Well im no Webster but that’s the essence boiled down. Basically it’s a bag/ container carried in your car and possibly on your person at all times. With the exception of in your home. In your home you should have a Bug out bag (BoB) packed and ready to go.

The Container Store: Survial store in yuppy camo?

March 6, 2012March 6, 2012 James Burnette 9 Comments

The other day I was online looking for a sturdy metal lunch box and came across a really awesome looking one on Google shopping. For once it actually said there was one in stock nearby!? There is never anything I want nearby. I click on the link and look at the map, it’s located not too far away in a trendy/ yuppy mall. I figure I have some time to kill so I’ll go check it out.