I guess it might be a little late now... but the boy scouts were a good source of info for me years ago
Experience is about the best way to make things work. I have always lived out where I knew the land, and needed to know it, but the thing is whatever I learned, I always had to adapt it. There are always different rules for different people.
Such as... in alaska in the winter the "cotton kills" rule. I still wear cotton socks under my wool sock, because wool or synthetics make my feet sweat too much, making them wet and cold. Find some seculded place, take less stuff than you need, and go out for a couple of days. Two or three days, as long as you dont get lost, without all you need isnt going to kill you, but it is going to tell you what you want and need to have with you.
Also, the "mountain man" skills can be fairly area specific. A lot of those videos show things such as broken off lower large branches of spruce and such being used to make a lean-to. What if in your area it is only tall new growth trees, so no such resources are available to make a shelter? Once agian, you just have to get out and find what is around you, and adapt to your environment.
