How to Make Beef Jerky. Eldredge Tie Knot - How to Tie a Eldredge Necktie Knot. Manvotional: Do It Now. Editor’s note: This week’s article on giving more compliments reminded me of this poem. It’s a simple poem, but I like it very much, I suppose because I’m a simple man. Do It Now By Berton Braley If with pleasure you are viewing any work a man is doing, If you like him or you love him, tell him now; Don’t withhold your approbation till the parson makes oration And he lies with snowy lilies on his brow; No matter how you shout it he won’t really care about it; He won’t know how many teardrops you have shed; If you think some praise is due him now’s the time to slip it to him, For he cannot read his tombstone when he’s dead.
More than fame and more than money is the comment kind and sunny And the hearty, warm approval of a friend. 'If', by Rudyard Kipling. If If you can keep your head when all about you Are losing theirs and blaming it on you; If you can trust yourself when all men doubt you, But make allowance for their doubting too; If you can wait and not be tired by waiting, Or, being lied about, don't deal in lies, Or, being hated, don't give way to hating, And yet don't look too good, nor talk too wise; If you can dream - and not make dreams your master; If you can think - and not make thoughts your aim; If you can meet with triumph and disaster And treat those two imposters just the same; If you can bear to hear the truth you've spoken Twisted by knaves to make a trap for fools, Or watch the things you gave your life to broken, And stoop and build 'em up with wornout tools;
How to Haggle Like a Pro. With summer traveling season just around the corner, the fortunate among us will be setting off for faraway lands in search of adventures of every sort. If your travel plans for the near future include stops in cities or towns known for their street markets, or if you plan on doing any souvenir shopping while abroad, you need to know how to get the most bang for your buck. Learning how to properly negotiate prices, especially in a street market setting, will save you some of those precious funds and provide an interesting cultural experience at the same time. Here are some tips for making the most out of your street market experience: Do the Research First and foremost, you need to know the area you will be traveling to.
Know Your Limits So you are standing in front of a street vendor and you see something you want, but how much is it worth to you? Maintain a Low Profile Often your initial reaction to something you want will entice the dealer to push for a higher price. Be Extremely Picky. Camping Tips. Editor’s Note: On Tuesdays, we’ll be featuring an excellent article or video that was originally posted in the Art of Manliness Community by a community member.
Today we’ve selected a post from Michael Halbrook. Summer is finally upon us, and that means a few solid months of baseball, BBQ, swimming, and camping trips. Nothing says “summer” quite like sitting around a campfire with friends, heading back to the tent and finishing a good book, and cooking your own meals over a camp stove. This year, I plan to take my oldest son camping for his first time, and I knew that my usual suitcase of rations for my business travel wasn’t going to cut it. So I pulled out the old Boy Scout Handbook and jotted notes from the “What to take Camping” page. Luckily, some friends had made me proud with wedding gifts from the “camping and outdoor” section of our wedding registry, so I didn’t have to look far to load up the bags. No list is going to be perfect or complete for every situation. The Tent The Knife. How to Be a Hobo.
Source: Life Am I the only boy who secretly dreamed of becoming a hobo? Riding the rails, traveling across the country, and carrying everything you own on your back has a romance that appeals to every man’s desire to wander. In a 1937 issue of Esquiremagazine, an anonymous writer penned an article called “The Bum Handbook.” Unlike most bums, he had chosen his vagabond lifestyle. Although much has changed since the 1930′s, if you by chance find yourself a hobo during this Great Recession or desire to become a bum by choice, perhaps you can learn some tips from hobos of old. Keep yourself clean. Stay away from the cities. Avoid intermediaries. Travel by highway and not be rail.Automobiles provide slower travel but the rails have more serious disadvantages, not only the filthy and bumpy riding of the freight cars but also in danger.
Speak forthrightly. Do not use hyperbole. How about other necessaries: tobacco, clothing, beer? How to Make Bannock Bread. Unless you’ve spent a lot of time in the woods on longer trips, you’re probably unfamiliar with bannock. Bannock is a Gaelic-rooted word that comes from the Latin panecium, which means baked things. Add a thousand years of passing the word from Hadrian’s soldiers to Scottish ones and you see how panecium became bannock.
A bannock is a small, flat loaf of bread risen by a leavening agent, most often a chemical one, although yeasty bannocks are sometimes baked, as in a sourdough recipe. They are meant to be cooked hearth-side, whether a fireplace or a campfire. They are simple, and in the woods, simple is good. Add some honey to some simple bread and after a few days or weeks of bagels and Wasa bread, it tastes like manna from heaven. About twenty years ago I shared a workspace with a really cool woman. Until then I had been using a bannock recipe that came from old-style camping legend, Calvin Rutstrum. How to Make Bannock Bread Ingredients Bannock MixWater Basic Bannock Mix Directions 1. 2. How to Perform the Universal Edibility Test. Edible Wild Plants: 19 Wild Plants You Can Eat to Survive in the Wild.
How to Play Mumbley Peg. Blacksmithing for Beginners. Visit a living history site and there will be a crowd around the blacksmith. It pulls people in…How does he do that? 150 years ago most census records showed that a fifth of the respondents listed their occupation as blacksmith, including my 3rd great-grandfather, Roger Farrer. I don’t know what Grampa Farrer fabricated every day, but if he was like most smiths, he was making everything. Horseshoes were a small part of the job. He was more likely fabricating or repairing a farm implement, making hardware like hinges or pulleys, or even something as mundane as nails.
The box of nails we buy at the hardware store for a few dollars were once made one at a time–by hand. The methods Grampa Farrer used are essentially unchanged. Since most people don’t know a blacksmith, I get a lot of questions about the trade. “Where’s the coal?” Many blacksmiths still use coal, and there are good reasons for it. “Where do you get steel?” From a steelyard. “How hot does it get?” Very hot. 1400 degrees, big F. How to Sharpen Edged Tools. This post is part of a series brought to you by RAM. For more information about RAM Series trucks visit us at: this? We’ve all seen it before—the pocket knife that you couldn’t cut warm butter with on a hot July afternoon. It’s a little rusty, the joints are gunked up with who-knows-what, and the only thing it’s good for is opening letters.
Almost as bad (or worse depending on your viewpoint) are the kitchen knives that can’t cut tomatoes, or anything remotely tough without repeated sawing.There’s no reason it has to be this way. I think sharpening edged tools is one of the more useful outdoor skills, and it has a glorious payoff in the home as well. The good news is that it’s no longer an art practiced exclusively by mountain men who eat only bear meat. Let’s start with knives. Sharpening Knives The essential sharpening process isn’t rocket science. This isn’t meant to be a piece on metallurgy. Techniques What sort of edge do you need? Your Guide to the Perfect Dog Companion. The bond between man and dog has grown over tens of thousands of years. A dog provides a special sort of companionship that’s hard to have with people. They can be unconditionally loyal and loving. A good dog will be there to lick your wounds even when everyone else in your life leaves you.
You can talk to your dog about your problems and he’ll just sit and listen without interrupting or judging you. When you have a rough day at work, you can always count on your dog to be waiting for you at the door anxious to get outside and brighten your day. A hunting dog will sit with you in a cold and wet duck blind for hours without whining. Moreover, some dogs can provide protection to you and your family. Choosing Your Canine Companion While it’s tempting to choose a dog based on their size, appearance, or the memory of being choked up during Old Yeller, this isn’t the best way to choose your new best friend.
The Dogs Golden Retriever Image by fiona j Exercise requirements: Playfulness: Playfulness: How to Throw a Knife. One of my favorite movies is Gangs of New York. The antagonist of the film, William “Bill the Butcher” Cutting (played by the always intense Daniel Day-Lewis) remains one of the most memorable characters of recent cinematic history. Bill the Butcher was a bad, bad dude, but the man had mad skills when it came to throwing knives, which came in handy for entertaining crowds, hewing down would-be assassins, and fighting on the mean streets of NYCs Five Points. During the Civil War, Confederate soldiers threw knives in battle and for entertainment at camp. Like the tomahawk, throwing a knife in combat has a significant downside–even when you’ve successfully stuck it in an enemy’s back, you’ve still lost your weapon.
Which is why knife throwing has always been more popular as entertainment, sport, and simply as a method for whiling away time. If you're going to get into the impalement arts, you'll need to convince a beautiful dame to be your assistant. Throwing Knife Types Throwing the Knife. How to Throw a Tomahawk. It was the ambition of the boys to be able to throw a tomahawk with the skill and accuracy of our pioneer forebears, and the ability soon acquired by the boys in throwing hatchets at targets was really remarkable.
They would come up to within thirty feet of an old board fence with a whoop and a yell, then “click! Click! Click!” Would go the hatchets, each and every one sticking fast in the board, either in a true vertical or horizontal line as it pleased them. Ever since those glorious days of my boyhood in Kentucky it has seemed to me that throwing the tomahawk should be one of the regular feats at all American athletic meets. You’ve probably seen it in countless movies. But contrary to popular belief, Native Americans and mountain men rarely threw their tomahawks, or ‘hawks, during battle. Instead of throwing their tomahawks in the heat of battle, mountain men and Indians hurled their hawks mainly for fun.
A Brief History of the Tomahawk Osage Warrior with Tomahawk Pipe What You Need. How to Choose the Perfect Survival Knife: 6 Features to Look For. Editor’s note: This is a guest post from Creek Stewart of Willow Haven Outdoor. I don’t remember my first kiss or even who it was with. I can barely recollect getting my license to drive. I vaguely remember my high school graduation and my entire time spent at college is a blur. However, I remember exactly where I was, what I was wearing, and how I felt when I got my first survival knife over 20 years ago. Just thinking about it brings back some of my fondest childhood memories. That was a rhetorical question. According to the Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA), 2010 marked the highest number of disasters in one year for the United States–totaling in at 91.
I have the privilege of strapping a survival knife to my hip on almost a daily basis here at Willow Haven. A “survival knife” is just as it sounds–a knife that can help you survive. When it comes to your survival knife, less is typically more–despite what you may see on TV. 6 Important Survival Knife Features Bottom Line Creek.
How to Criticize (and Take Criticism) Dealing with criticism is a skill every well-adjusted man should possess. We give and take criticism among our co-workers, our friends, and our family. Criticism is an important part of our personal self improvement, for it is other people who can point out mistakes and shortcomings that we can’t see because we lack objectivity. Unfortunately, many young men today don’t know how to offer and accept criticism like a man. Instead they handle criticism like little boys. When giving criticism, they opt only to give snide, cutting jabs that do nothing to improve the situation.
When receiving criticism, they sulk, make excuses, and argue with the person criticizing them. Because we all face situations every day that require us to give or take criticism, we provide the following guidelines on how to make the process more constructive. How to Give Effective Criticism Go in cool, calm, and collected. Be specific. Criticize the action, not the person. Be a diplomat. Personalize your approach. How to Make Introductions. Have you ever been at a party with a guy who runs into somebody he knows and starts yammering away while you stand there awkwardly, holding your drink? Man, I hate when that happens. You’re left in social limbo. I usually have to just take things into my own hands and introduce myself, which is fine, but the exchange would have been much smoother had my friend introduced me to his buddies.
Being introduced invites you into the conversation and makes you feel like part of the group, which is why making an introduction shows your respect for your guest. Neglecting to make an introduction leaves a person feeling ignored and, well, awkward. Making introductions is particularly important in business settings as they establish a rapport of respect, get relationships off on the right foot, and give you an aura of being confident, prepared, and in control.
With our more casual culture, the art of the gentlemanly introduction has disappeared, but we’re here to help bring it back. The Big Rule. Increase Punching Power. How To Win a Street Fight. Let’s say you’re out with your buddies (or maybe a lovely young lady) having a good time, when all of a sudden some jackass shoves you. You didn’t do anything to instigate the guy, but it doesn’t matter. There is a special breed of males, that when inebriated, start fights with random people. This breed, when found in their wild habitat, are often accompanied by their similarly boneheaded buddies. Or perhaps you and your posse end up in a rumble with the Socs because one of your buddies killed a Soc while trying to save Ponyboy from being drowned by a douche bag Soc. Man, I hate them Socs. Stay golden Ponyboy. What can you do to prepare for a street brawl and protect yourself in this type of situation? 1. 2. 3. 4. 5. Knee to the groin. 6. A punch to the head. 7. 8.
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