DRB's Almanac of Outdoor Wisdom

Personal Locator Beacons

April 5, 2018 Comments (0) Do's & Don'ts

Many people find themselves in life threatening situations often due to a lack of navigational skills or equipment, proper equipment planning, bad luck, acts of god, poor decision making, physical exhaustion or injury. It can be argued that in hind-sight, many SAR

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Practical Fire Making Part 4: Get Lit!

March 22, 2018 Comments (0) Field Craft

We started this series with a post about the “why’s” of making fire – questioning and wondering about why we ought to learn and practice traditional fire starting methods. Between that post and this one, there were a couple of posts about a

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Pistol Plinking

March 8, 2018 Comments (0) Field Craft

Plinking is a rite of passage and anyone who claims to have had a great childhood can probably also credit this to the distinct “plink” sound cans make when they are hit and fall to the ground. Who would think hitting cans would cause such pleasure? I really

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The Snowshoe Hare

February 22, 2018 Comments (0) Fauna

The Snowshoe Hare (Lepus americanus) is a resident of upper North America from Alaska across Canada and stretching south along mountainous areas of California, New Mexico and the Appalachians. Also called a Varying Hare or (erroneously) a snowshoe rabbit the Hare’s

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Practical Fire Making Part 3: Flint and Steel

February 8, 2018 Comments (5) Field Craft

It’s often called “percussion fire making.” In today’s super high tech world, using a carbon steel striker and a piece of hard rock like chert or flint to start a fire is one of the most satisfying outdoor endeavors one can accomplish.

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Practical Fire Making Part 2: Ferro Rods

January 18, 2018 Comments (0) Field Craft

First, let’s get some funky nomenclature out of the way. The term “firesteel” was, probably for centuries, used to describe the carbon steel striker for flint and steel fire making. We’re going to talk about those in a future segment.

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DRB Wallpaper Pack 14 – Live Wild Wise and Free

January 16, 2018 Comments (0) Wallpapers

Check out our latest wallpaper pack 14 with the new design of DRB on a motorcycle. Desktop Laptop Smartphone Desktop Laptop Smartphone SaveSaveSaveSave

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Practical Fire Making Part 1: The Why’s

January 11, 2018 Comments (0) Field Craft

If you camp, cook out, or just have a backyard fire pit, you likely understand the deep, almost primal satisfaction you get from creating fire where there was none before. Fire is a part of our species’ survival from the earliest points in our history, and a

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