everybody wants to make wisecracks!

for hunting, learn to use a compass including dead reckoning. That just means how to go in a certain direction for a ways and know which way to go to get out! And you should have a little kit for all your needs if there is any possibility you would get lost and spend the night. You need especially to be able to make a fire.

Stay out of rush hour traffic...

Read the posts on the Survival School Message Board on this site. Most of the tips there are good. Always carry a knife (two is better) and at least two tried and true methods of making fire. Practice the skills of making fire before your life depends on it. Read my book, "Life in the Wild vs. the Alternative".

Dress in layers, tell people where you are going, and when you expect to return, take a quality compass, avoid areas where unsafe people are hunting, if you ever drive a four wheeler out of a truck back end take enough time to properly secure the ramps, check the tension on chainsaws and watch for debris that the tree has grown over, wear safety glasses and have back ups, maintain your tree stands and any that your guest will be using, identify the inexperienced people you hunt and camp with and watch them and don't drive four wheelers too fast. Cell phone and back up, join the boy scouts.

Don't eat the yellow snow or the wild chocolate that sometimes grows nearby.

Don't die. That is the best survival tip given me by an Instructor.

buy a survival manual and read it.

Never put yourself in a situation you cannot get out of. If you're in the woods,never,never,never, sleep where the bear sits or eat skunk dung. It gives you really bad breath according to somebody I met once sleeping in the woods.

Basics of survival
1-Positive mindset
2-Shelter
3-fire
4-Water
5-First-aid
6-Signal [mirror and/or whistle]
7-Sleep

"Rule of 3's"-you can survive:
1. 3hrs without shelter or fire
2. 3days without water
3. 3weeks without food

Don't piss into the wind and don't wipe with leaves you don't know.

ALways make sure a reliable person knows where you are going and when you plan to return and stick to the plan always.

Stay indoors.