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Harrifer:
...that's sods law for you!

No neccessarily true, but the title hooked you, didnt it? Anyone ever HAD to use any primitive skills?

Radon:
Well, not really a survival siuation but on the other hand...?:

I was doing some trekking/canyoning with my girlfriend when her trekking sandals obviously didn't like the water and fell apart. I tried to fix them with some first aid bandage (no survival situation there yet).
After a while she got fed up with the bandage soaking full with water and slipping away all the time. But I had tied them very well and had neither a knive nor scissors around. So I quickly chopped a stone to get a sharp enough blade to release her from the bandage.
A pissed off girlfriend in the middle of the wilderness might easy enough lead to a survival situation  ::) >:D
 >:( for the rest of the walk she wore my sandals and I walked barefeet  >:(

Radon

leapingbare:
One time i was out hunting about 8 miles from anything, and i got my front tire stuck on a log, i could not back up or go fowred i was stuck.. i had no axe and no saw and no jack. i was stuck..
 neather myself or my hunting buddy smoke so we had no matches or lighter, it was wet and cold out and we had about 2 1/2 hours before sundown so we went to look for fire makein mistrials i found a Mullen stalk and a a dead creeper vine, i used my  knife to make the hearth and spindle , my Buddy came back with a wad of shredded cider bark.
 So i started spinning away i got smoke but no coal i tyred until i was exusted. i had all but given up when i went to the back of my blazer to get some water and seen my jumper cables "WAha!" i said we started the blazer and attached the cables and put the cider bark under a well placed pile of sticks and i touched the cables together under the cider bark. POP snap Crack SPARK.. and than Flames!!! We were victorious we had fire, we moved the fire under the log that the blazer was stuck on and burned through it during the night, and we ate the Turkey my Buddy had shot earlier that day, we hunted the next morning and drove away around noon.

Minuteman:
Anybody fool enough to go "canyoning" "whaever that is" while wearing sandals deserves to find himself in a p-ed off girlfriend situation! :D
 I'm about to wet myself laughin here !
 WHAT IN THE WORLD IS A CANYONING SANDAL?
 Is that like an assault pillow or maybe an attack trained Guppy?
 Sorry to get off topic here.
 No I've never been in a survival situation where I needed to use primitive skills I'd learned. Hope to some day! ;D

mullet:
  When my son and I were fishing one morning after hiking up the river about 2 miles, we heard a strange noise. It turned out to be rain hitting the trees and cabbage palms about a mile away. We had a dense overhead canopy, so really couldn't tell it was going to rain. It didn't take long to figure out when the first bolt of lightning hit and then relized what the noise was.
    I always carry a pair of clippers, for pruning bushes with me. Well we started cutting cabbage palm limbs and started building a big lean too against a massive oak tree trunk. It took about twenty minutes and we were inside when the big squall line hit.While we were inside we amused ourselves by tying all the leaves together. The storm lasted about 2 hours but we came out of it nice and dry. I always wondered what somebody thought when they walked down the river and found that hut.

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