Greetings fellow survival folks.

I have been reading this forum for a while, mostly due to one of my best friends joining a while back. He is a survival nut, and although he has a big fancy house and lots of cool toys you will often find him in the woods with nothing more than a backpack, a knife, a gun and some homemade items testing out some skill or another. I don’t profess to be at that level but he is always ragging on me about being an armchair survivalist. He is correct. I have all the fancy gear but don’t use it much. He has actually succeeded in getting me quite hooked on the topic of survival though. I really began to read this forum a lot more knowing it was one of my buddies doing the talking. In fact, half the unit reads this forum now because of the guy. He is currently away for the next few months tending to business overseas. Little does he know that he was voted to become the unit advanced survival instructor upon his return to Canada. He is going to love that one. He always tells me that I should join the forum rather than just reading it. I finally broke down I guess.

He goes by the name of TAURUS on this forum. If you are reading this Mac, you win dude. I am here finally. Hope all is well over there. Take care brother. stay sharp


I hope I can learn a lot here. I am Looking forward to having some knowledge by the time TAURUS gets home so he will stop picking on me.

Now.......where do I begin?

Welcome to ETS! I hope you'll enjoy it over here.

Any friends of Taurus are a welcome here. As for where to start, just go for a walk in the woods and start trying some of your gear.

Or better yet, mail it to me and I'll test it for you!

-Blast

Welcome and join in with questions and/or commnets.

Pete

Hold it Blast. You're already getting your own TV-show , so we'll let someone else do the testing right..

+1 to that. We all love that guy...in the manliest sense possible of course.

And another Edmontonian (I'm assuming of course you live in or near here) is great in my books

If we get enough of us here we'll have to *gasp* actuall meet up some time and talk to each other the old fashioned way...or better yet go out into the hinterlands and put our money where our mouths are.

Welcome to the ETS Forum friend, you will find this site very educational and addictive. Your input is most welcome.

Mike

First of all..Welcome to ETS.

Taurus is a great guy and can't wait for his safe return.

Now...Plow through the old forums until your eyes bleed. There is gobs of stuff available to you. Research, research, research: practice, practice, practice.

Last but not least...do not send BLAST anything!! He doesn't use that name for no reason...

Again, welcome.

Welcome to the forums new guy!!

Welcome, and glad you could make it - lots of good folks and information.