Primitive Archer
Main Discussion Area => Around the Campfire => Topic started by: sleek on October 18, 2016, 08:49:50 pm
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I have decided I am by far, a better fisherman than a hunter. Im not much of a gatherer, and because I have no idea where I may be if stuff goes down, or if I am lost wandering, i cant depend on local fauna knowledge for food. I would be stuck hugging water as a food source.
I wish I could think of a way for guaranteed food source. I have my water situation figured out with those microbial filters you can buy at walmart. I recommend them too. Keep em in your bag, your car, and house. You never know where you will be of a quake bits, or russia does.
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Trapping is my thoughts. You can be fishing or doing other chores while your traps are on duty. You can use those fish scraps as bait....
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Now that's survival thinking! Get meat, I hate the idea of bugs n grubs etc!
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Now that's survival thinking! Get meat, I hate the idea of bugs n grubs etc!
As they say, Ugly First. Start eating the worst looking stuff right off the bat and then the kinda gross looking stuff looks better.
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LOL Jojo... Gonna have to get hungry to start surviving aren't we???
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I fish pretty dang good and frogs taste great. Crawdads all over around here i think i can get by for a few days not like i can't miss a few meals lol
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Now that's survival thinking! Get meat, I hate the idea of bugs n grubs etc!
As they say, Ugly First. Start eating the worst looking stuff right off the bat and then the kinda gross looking stuff looks better.
As a younger, single man, I used to call that going ugly early.
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Water is initially more important than food so I am in agreement with the filters.
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Now that's survival thinking! Get meat, I hate the idea of bugs n grubs etc!
As they say, Ugly First. Start eating the worst looking stuff right off the bat and then the kinda gross looking stuff looks better.
As a younger, single man, I used to call that going ugly early.
>:D If at first you don't succeed, just lower your standards. Works for food too.
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You'd better get your fire situation figured out first.
Even wild food is safer for your gut cooked. Not to
mention boiled water. Forget about frostbite and
a good nights sleep.
Zuma
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Fire is simple. If its not simple, you dont belong there.
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Sleek fire is never simple in an emergency, sure i can start a fire with flint and steel but what if all the starter is soaked? There is always a wtf moment in an emergency
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Fire is simple till you need it most. When everything is soaking wet and your shivering so bad you can't even hold anything then fire can be almost impossible. Then it pays to know every trick in the book. Fire is all important maybe not essential but all important.
Bjrogg
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If you are around water like we are in Florida, get yourself a Cast net and learn how to throw it.It is legal down here in saltwater or fresh. And I'm with you, I'd probably park myself near a large body of water. Usually plenty to eat whether in the water or aroung it.
It may sound like cheating but I have Bic lighters stashed everywhere.
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"If stuff goes down"
Can you get filters and bic lighters?
Here's a small list.
Fruits, berries, nuts, grains, grasses, tree buds, mushrooms, cattail, inner barks, groundhog, opossum, racoon, squirrles, rats, mice, snakes, lizards, frogs, worms, crickets, hellgramites, minnows follow the buzzards and crows etc, etc
Oh yeah bring Outback Bob
Zuma
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If you are around water like we are in Florida, get yourself a Cast net and learn how to throw it.It is legal down here in saltwater or fresh. And I'm with you, I'd probably park myself near a large body of water. Usually plenty to eat whether in the water or aroung it.
It may sound like cheating but I have Bic lighters stashed everywhere.
When it comes to staying alive, there is no such thing as cheating. 3 bic lighters should last you many years, if not forever. When I was homeless in florida, I used my little 4 ft cast net ro catch so much food. Schools of mullet, crabs, flounder, a few other fish that I wont admit to. A cast net is a life saver, and a go to survival aid for me.
I have used a cast net in a field to catch locusts for fish bait. You could theoretically catch rabbits too, mice, snakes... never mind the obvious fish, frogs, and turtles. The frogs and turtles id just as soon use to bait traps than eat them. Yuck.
A net is also good for making a shelter roof to throw leaves on, pit fall traps, the lead weights are good slingshot ammo if the net comes apart. There is lots of cordage in the tether line and heavy weight line on the draw strings. It also can make a bag to carry things is. Point is, a cast net is a must for me no matter if I am near water of in the desert.
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"If stuff goes down"
Can you get filters and bic lighters?
Here's a small list.
Fruits, berries, nuts, grains, grasses, tree buds, mushrooms, cattail, inner barks, groundhog, opossum, racoon, squirrles, rats, mice, snakes, lizards, frogs, worms, crickets, hellgramites, minnows follow the buzzards and crows etc, etc
Oh yeah bring Outback Bob
Zuma
If stuff goes down it doesn't mean all of the lighters you have quit working.
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Well Eddie,
I kinda thought sleek wanted to know how to
survive in the Andies if his plane crashed and
everything material got burned to ashes but
him and a young good looking woman.
Zuma
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Everything but me and a good looking woman?! You know, it aint the plane crash, but my wife that will kill me when I get home!