The Practical Woodsman
Education • Travel • Preparedness
The Practical Woodsman is a way to share love of the wilderness, as well as my observations, thinking, and approach to what folks today are calling 'bushcraft' and 'survival'. The focus is on what is practical, as well as pointing out certain things being demonstrated by 'bushcrafters' today that are not practical at all.
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Beautiful Chattanooga, Tennessee - right on the Georgia border. That’s Lookout Mountain there in the background. A billion tourists all swarming around the top of it. Take the tourists away and the area is really beautiful. (I say this paradoxically, because I was there as a tourist.)

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Various Tree Types & Their Characteristics

Short, simple, sweet, useful.

Credit @ leviobrien_trees on TikTok.

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When things get really interesting in the woods

Happening now: Conditions I’ve been caught in a time or two out in the middle of the nowhere woods.

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God Bless the Woods
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The Two Infamous Crusader Mugs

I own both the black Crusader cup and the standard "silver" Crusader cup. Lotta folks may wonder what the difference is.

The black cup is for those who are primarily interested in appearances. It's for folks who are mostly interested in what "looks cool". They want their mug to match their black water bottle and look all tactical and whatnot.

The black Crusader mug is the exact same cup as the "silver" cup, except that it is painted with a sort of teflon-type black paint that peels and falls out of the interior in little specks and flakes the more you use it, and those specks and flakes get into your food which you eventually ingest. You'll have a harder time finding and purchasing this mug, and you'll pay more for the privilege of ingesting those little specks and flakes.

What's more, the regular "silver" Crusader cup - which you'll have an easier time finding and that'll cost you slightly less - gets black on its own after just a few uses on the campfire, anyway.

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July 20, 2025

@PracticalWoods after a day of fishing with nothing wanting to bite in this miserable heat I went to the bar for dinner and saw something that made me think of y'all.

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It’s been one o’ them summers, folks
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