My Hidden Woodsmen Haversack Kit

This my Bushcraft Haversack Kit & what's in it. I am planning on doing an overnight with this survival kit. I will add a bedroll to the haversack kit & camp out in the wilderness. Outdoor living is a learning experience.

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[jamesaritchie]

Good looking haversack.   I love a haversack, and carry one, but I don't even attempt to keep my shelter in it, or my food, above a sandwich, or a little trail mix. 

I love bushcraft, but I started life as a woodsmen, which around here, at least, isn't quite the same thing.  A woodsmen probably loves the woods, and does most of the things bushcraft calls for, but he isn't in the woods for bushcraft, or just because he loves it, he's after food for the table, or money for his pocket.   He hunts, fishes, traps, and often cuts firewood for himself, and to sell to others.

Anyway, I grew u using haversacks because almost everyone did, but I never even heard the word "bushcraft" until I was in my thirties.  When in the woods, I just used whatever gear came to hand, and didn't worry about what it was, as long as it worked.  No woodsman I knew owned a ferro rod, and certainly didn't use flint and steel, or friction fire.  Most could do these things, and they taught me how to do them, but they just didn't see a reason to use them unless they had to, and they pretty much never had to.  The idea of doing them for fun just didn't enter their minds, or mine.

The standard fire kit was a box of strike anywhere kitchen matches, and a newspaper.  A match, and half a sheet of newspaper, started your fire.  When that box of matches and newspaper started running out, you got another box of matches, and another newspaper.

At age eighteen I discovered the world of military gear, and from that time until now, a large part of my woods kit was and is military.   My cover is two G.I. ponchos, and my main cook set is the G.I. canteen cook set, along with the G.I. mess kit.   I carry a small sleeping bag, and when it gets cold I add a thick wool blanket.  In some areas, at some time of the year, I take along a tent just big enough to crawl into. 

I try to catch or shoot most of my meat, and forage for as much plant matter and fruit as possible, and carry only as much food as I have to, but not because of bushcraft.  It was imply the way most of us lived when I was young, and it's first nature to me.

So in a way, I've been a bushcrafter since I was seven because I grew up almost living in the woods, and had to put food on the table by hunting, fishing, foraging, and trapping, but in another way, bushcraft is as alien to me as another planet. 

I carry a haversack, I carry a small belt kit, I always have the tools I can't easily do without on my belt of in my pockets,   but I simply can't slip into the eighteenth century as so many seem able to do.  I wish I could, but I can't.  I'm working on it, but I think I'm just too old a dog to learn new tricks.  I'm a woodsman, and always have been.  I love the wilderness,   I can't find much joy in using flint and steel, or friction fire.   When I'm in the wild I'm hunting, trapping, fishing, or foraging because that's WHY I'm there. It's a way of life. 

With any down time, I read, or I write, or I sit and think.  I don't do bushcraft things like carve spoons or bowls or cups because I don't need those things, and a lifetime of habit is hard to shake.

I really wish I could be more "bushcrafty".  I learned to make a bow and arrows to kill a deer well before I was twelve, but once I did it, I haven't done it again because like most of the things people do in bushcraft, I consider it a survival skill that I'll use when and if I can't do a thing in a faster, easier, modern way. 

I'm starting to leave modern things at home so I can't use them, but I feel naked.  I don't think it's going to work.

I'm rambling, but I wish you the best of luck and the most fun possible in your quest to be a pure bushcrafter.

[jasonwolf]

I have watched this video more than once. You, Sir, are too polite. I enjoy your videos. Keep making them.

[vancemccolm]

Hey Angry - I like your haversack kit, especially the kitchen set. That is a great idea and one that I will be doing. I just subscribed. I think this is going to be a good and creditable channel.

[temujin]

would be nice if you could add a small first aid kit for emergency. you could also use the cylinder hole in the first cordage that you showed to stow other essential items... but overall, nice setup. goodluck!

[paadin]

Great kit. You are an excellent narrator as well, keep up the good work.

[MrSIXGUNZ]

well done!! great mix of usable Goodies!!

[sosteve]

great kit buddy,
think you van go a long way with it

[scenicdriveways]

Tool Roll as a kitchen set, I like it! Great thinking!
Nice kit, thanks for sharing.

[yvonnecraven]

Great use for the tool roll... beats having everything loose in a traditional zip bag. Great straight for award vid!

[derykmacleod]

I would carry the water bottle on the outside of the bag for convenience.

[Thebald]

Cool kit man.. Have you tried the Mountain House Chicken And Dumplin's yet? They're kicking.. And I can't eat the Mountain House Breakfast Skillet, they're too heavy on the onions

[bsd]

Very nice kit... where did you get the haversack? What size?

[icebergo]

Helpful hints: Lose the Mountain House meals. too much money for relatively few calories. Cruise the dried soup section of the grocery store and other areas. you'll be pleasantly surprised how many packs of soup, noodle, potato, and tuna you can find with as many if not many more calories for just $1 and up. And most of the grocery store items are also in sturdy packaging that'll allow you to pour in hot water and eat out of the bag. Mountain House meals, to me, are like trail treats. Like, I can eat dried fruit, Muselli and hard cheese for days out on the trail and be happy. But sometimes a biscuit and gravy meal is a nice change. Great vid, keep up the good work.

[AdirondackBadger]

Really like that tool roll for the kitchen set. I might have to try that out.

[mr.delacruz]

Thanks for all your content and look forward to more videos from your channel! Glad I subscribed!

[stmpdog]

Great video, and kit. New to bushcraft myself, and really like the small kits. I'm personally going to try a 10 to 15lbs kit once spring hits my area. You should check out BCUSA forms, great info and people. Happy trails!

[walterbond]

thank you for helping me for not being angry prepper and you know what I mean

[greatscott]

new subscriber. SSGT Badass mentioned you so I thought I'd check you out. really like the tool roll idea makes it easier to locate gear & see if anything is missing. Well packed haversack too, fitted everything in so neatly.

[scottsmith]

I have the xl bush box titanium haven't tested it yet

[wakemeupfacto]

me and you should get tighter and I can show you some backwoods skills you have a good start but I think I could teach you to use different gear and help you out so you can help you and your family better !!!