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That’s a wrap on Wild Camp 2026 🔥

We’re home, unpacked (mostly), and already missing the fire.

I’m grateful to have been part of this year’s instructor lineup, and even more grateful for the people. Jason, Patrick, Bowdier, Tom, John and everyone who showed up ready to learn, teach, and help each other out: thank you.

The weather cooperated all weekend. A quick storm rolled through Saturday afternoon, but it didn’t slow anything down.

Thanks to @rewyldoutdoors for building something special at Doe Lake. We’re already counting down to next year.

Deus Vult Illud. God Wills It.

#wildcamp #rewyld #bushcraft #bushcraftcommunity #survivalskills

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Fire challenge at Wild Camp 2026, right before the storms rolled in.

The rules: everything had to come off the property. Ferro rod only. First to bring 16 oz of water to a rolling boil wins.

@hoboforge_survival took it. Jason spent years as a high-risk SERE instructor, so this one was home turf.

What won it wasn’t the striking. It was the prep. He had a big pile of tinder and kindling ready before he ever threw a spark. Most fires fail long before the ferro rod comes out.

The best part came after he won. Jason went straight over to help several of the younger competitors get back in it and finish the objective.

That’s the whole point. Skills are worth more when you pass them on.

Thanks to @rewyldoutdoors for putting it on.

Deus Vult Illud. God Wills It.

#firecraft #ferrorod #firestarting #bushcraft #survivalskills

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20.9% oxygen. Clean meter. Everybody’s happy.

Twenty minutes later it reads 19.5%.

Still in range. No alarm. Nothing flashing.

Do you keep working?

Here’s what that 1.4 actually means. If something displaced that oxygen, it’s now filling roughly 6.7% of that space — about 67,000 ppm of something.

Ammonia’s IDLH is 300 ppm.

Your meter didn’t alarm because your meter can’t see it.

Full breakdown in the pinned comment below ⬇️

What’s your call — keep working, or pull everyone out? Tell me in the comments.

Deus Vult Illud. God Wills It.

#confinedspace #confinedspacerescue #technicalrescue #gasdetection #4gasmeter

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This is my vehicle water setup: a Scepter 20L jerry can, made for drinking water, a jug of plain household bleach, and two ways to measure it. When the tap stops being an option, this is how a can of questionable water becomes a can of drinkable water in larger quantities.

A while back we covered why plain bleach beats Betadine for emergency water. This post is the how-to.

The dose depends on your bottle. Read the label for sodium hypochlorite. Household bleach runs 5 to 9%. This jug is 7.55%.

Clear water:
→ 1 quart or liter: 2 drops
→ 1 gallon: 6 to 8 drops, depending on strength
→ Full 20L jerry can, 7.55% bleach: 1.7 mL
→ Cloudy, colored or very cold water: double it

Stir, cap it, wait 30 minutes. It should smell faintly of chlorine. No smell? Repeat the dose and wait another 15.

Why a syringe AND a measuring cup? Because the batch size picks the tool. The cup’s smallest mark is 10 mL, which is right for a 55-gallon drum (about 18 mL) and way too much for a jerry can. A full 20L can takes less than half a teaspoon, so that dose goes in the 3 mL oral syringe. A splash from the cap is a guess, not a measurement. The syringe costs about a dollar at any pharmacy. Keep one with the bleach.

💬 Comment “BLEACH” and I’ll DM you the one-page field guide: the dosing table for 6%, 7.55% and 8.25% bleach, the process step by step, how to sanitize and store your containers, and the limits you need to know.

The bottle rules, and what bleach won’t do, are in the pinned comment below. ⬇️

Deus Vult Illud. God Wills It.

📌 Tag someone with water stored and no plan to treat it.

#DVIBushcraft #DeusVultIllud #WaterDisinfection #EmergencyWater #Bleach

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Huge thank you to @oldmancopper for gifting me this authentic Hawaiian shirt straight out of Kauai — picked up while he was there for a wedding. A real one, from the actual islands. That’s the good stuff right there. Appreciate you, brother.

And a massive shoutout to @cookscatapults, who is currently in Spain competing in the Slingshot World Cup 2026 — and still found time to post his Hawaiian shirt this morning. The man took Hawaiian Shirt Friday international. That’s commitment. Go show him some love and good luck out there. 🇪🇸

Now — on to today's actual message.

Check your gear. Every single day.

Not once a season. Not when you remember. Not the night before you need it.
Batteries die in storage. Lighters drain in a pocket. Tourniquet windlasses crack. Filter cartridges foul. Zippers seize. Tape loses its tack. Meds expire. Straps fray where you can’t see them. Every one of those failures happens quietly, while the gear is just sitting there doing nothing.

The problem with gear failure is you almost never discover it at a convenient time. You discover it at the exact moment you reach for it — which is, by definition, the worst possible moment.

It takes five minutes. Open the pouch. Lay it out. Look at it. Put hands on it. Does it work? Is it still in date? Is it where it’s supposed to be? Close it up and move on with your day.

Five minutes of boring, unglamorous discipline buys you certainty when it counts. That’s the whole trade.

#DVIBushcraft #DeusVultIllud #HawaiianShirtFriday #OldManCopper #CooksCatapults

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Fire isn’t a single tool. It’s a system.

This is my PACE fire kit — the one that lives in my 4Runner. Four independent ignition methods, sequenced by what gets flame fastest with the least cost, and backed up by what still works when the first three fail.

P — PRIMARY: Bic lighter wrapped in Gorilla tape. Not pictured — it lives in my right front pant pocket where body heat keeps it warm on cold days. Instant flame, one hand, no technique required. The Gorilla tape doubles as a flame extender when you need to buy time with marginal tinder. Limitations: finite fuel, hates freezing temps, poor or useless when wet, clumsy with gloves unless modified, and it’ll silently drain if the button gets depressed in a pocket or pack. Don’t throw it out when it’s empty — that flint wheel still throws sparks.

A — ALTERNATE: Ferro rod. Thousands of strikes, effectively an unlimited resource. Burns hot. Works soaking wet. Requires technique and good tinder, but it does not care about weather.

C — CONTINGENCY: Storm proof matches. Works in cold. Burns hot enough to dry out damp tinder. Consumable, but when conditions are bad enough that the first two are fighting you, these solve the problem.

E — EMERGENCY: Solar lens. Never runs out. Works when wet. Costs nothing but time. But it only works in direct sun during peak daylight hours, and it needs genuinely dry, fine tinder to produce an ember. Cloudy day or damp tinder and it’s dead weight.

No single method covers every condition. That’s the entire point.

💬 Comment “FIRE” and I’ll DM you the PACE Fire Kit Field Card PDF — the full reasoning behind the sequencing, what each method costs you, and where each one fails.

Full gear list and pouch details in the pinned comment below. ⬇️

Deus Vult Illud. God Wills It.

#DVIBushcraft #DeusVultIllud #FireKit #PACEplan #FireCraft

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IYKYK….#TheRock

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Water will kill you faster than almost anything else out there — and it’s the one thing you can’t carry enough of.

So you build a system. Not a gadget. A PACE plan.

This is my PACE water disinfection kit. Four independent methods, each with different strengths, different failure modes, and different conditions where it’s the right call.

P — PRIMARY: Grayl GeoPress Ti. Press-filter, fast, removes pathogens and improves taste. Mine runs the French press accessories (of course), and the titanium body means I can boil in it if I need to.

A — ALTERNATE: HydraPak Seeker 2L. Gravity/squeeze capability, packs down to nothing, lets me process volume while I handle other tasks.

C — CONTINGENCY: Aquatabs. No moving parts, no clog, no freeze damage. Weighs nothing. Works when hardware doesn’t.

E — EMERGENCY: Boil. Pathfinder nesting cup with lid. The oldest method on the list and the one that has never once failed anyone who had fire.

Every one of those gets fed by pre-filtering first — Millbank bag or shemagh — because sediment is what kills filters and wastes chemical treatment.

💬 Comment “WATER” and I’ll DM you the PACE Water Disinfection field card — 4x6, double-sided. One side is the full kit inventory. The other side is the PACE plan with the reasoning behind every selection and log-reduction performance data on what each system actually achieves against bacteria, protozoa, and viruses.

Full gear list and the reasoning in the pinned comment below. ⬇️

Deus Vult Illud. God Wills It.

#DVIBushcraft #DeusVultIllud #WaterDisinfection #PACEplan #WaterPurification

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Confined space rescue work starts the same way every day — with a proper brew. ☕

This morning on a DVI Bushcraft & Survival job: @methodicalcoffee ’s **Bombe Abore** from Ethiopia, pulled through an AeroPress. Outin Fino grinder, MSR Pocket Rocket on a Jet Boil canister, titanium bushpot for the water. Simple kit, serious coffee.

Now — why am I showing you another coffee company’s bag? Because Methodical is **our** roaster. We work with them to roast the flavor profiles behind our Legend Series, and I was sampling their lineup for a reason: a new Forest Edge roast is coming. Lighter body, still bold, loaded with flavor. Stay tuned!!!

We don’t hide who roasts for us. Methodical is one of the best in the country — not a factory, not a one-man garage operation. They’ve built real, long-standing relationships with coffee farmers around the world, and they roast with the kind of craft that honors what those farmers put in the ground. If you love what’s in our bags, you’ll love what they put out year-round. Go check them out.

Forest Edge isn’t cool branding on average coffee. It’s the freshest, finest specialty beans, roasted by one of the best in the business, delivered to your door.

Brew slow. Step outside. 🌲

#ForestEdgeCoffee #MethodicalCoffee #LegendSeries #BombeAbore #EthiopianCoffee

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Spent the day in the field working friction fire — @hoboforge_survival Forager knife, bow drill set, the slow kind of focus that primitive skills demand. No shortcuts. Just technique, patience, and repetition until it clicks.

And when it’s time for a break? There’s nothing better than a cup of Nessmuk’s Morning. Caramel, dark chocolate, smooth and rounded — the kind of cup that earns its place beside a day of real work.

Same philosophy, different skill set. Slow down. Do it right. Brew slow, step outside, and get your hands on something real.

#ForestEdgeCoffee #NessmuksMorning #BrewSlow #StepOutside #FrictionFire

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Trying to figure it out once we’re called isn’t an option. By then it’s too late.

This is preplanning. And it’s the single most important thing we do on a job site that nobody ever sees.

Today’s space: a confined space inside an exhaust stack at a power plant during a maintenance outage. Contractors performing hot work — welding and grinding — six stories up inside a steel cylinder.

What makes it a confined space:
→ Limited means of ingress and egress — a single 24” x 36” opening on an elevated platform
→ Not designed for continuous human occupancy
→ Hazardous atmospheric conditions requiring continuous monitoring and control
→ But still large enough for a person to fit through — which is exactly what makes it dangerous

The interior is scaffolded the entire height of the stack — roughly six stories. Work platforms alternate at each level, with a center eye well and ladder to reach each one. Every level is a different rescue problem.

Full breakdown of our PACE plan in the pinned comment below. ⬇️

Deus Vult Illud. God Wills It.

📌 Tag someone on your team who needs to see this.

#DVIBushcraft #DeusVultIllud #ConfinedSpaceRescue #PrePlanning #PACEplan

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