Primitive Hunting

If you're living off the land and want meat, other than fish, then you hunt or trap. It's really common in rural areas.

even fishing deserves a trap if your living wild if you spend yr time on trying to feed your self with hook and line youll starve!! traps are the way let your inteligence do the work for you you will have plenty to do outher than waiting for a meal! this is not to say to not hunt but traps will feed you while your taking care of buiss, hunting exclusivly youll starve! keep things in pespective educate your self and dont be squemish!!! lol, some dirt worms grubs but realy if you want gourmet, traps are it!!! happy trials!! thats not a joke!!! hehe! peace!

 

Good job on the stick breaking... me and my friends used to do the same thing in my party years, and I too usually had the edge from curing first.
As for Deadfalls, yes, they work, but are damn hard to set up, and stay that way. A good wind or falling tree branch will knock it over, or a passing animal too.
It's pretty easy to make a short length of rope for a snare using a bent tree, very effective too. Also try the drag snare along a animal trail, no bait needed.

 

ive found that the lobster trap desing is very effiecient and esiely modified for the prey intended, ie.. spikes net sticks in a tidal pool ect.. but if your on the move destroy them before you leave! no need for ussless suffering!! be respectful !! in turn what you need will come! i still warn folks that have no experiance in the woods to LEARN, before going into a willderness situation! even if you think you can do it, your biggest problem will be,,,, lonliness!! if you cant do a week! dont go by yourself!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! its a sure way to turn you off!!

 

i am capable, but i perfer companionship! certainly not every day but as they say no man is an island! some can some cant , take a week alone and see! if you cant it just means your HUMANE!! happy trials!! peace!

 

is any one getting my trials,, rather than trails thing??? heehee !!

 

I hear ya man... I'm used to exploring alone, usually make my own trails, but another person does help with the mental part, and with the chores too.
Also, I agree with the fish trap, if set up properly, the fish swim in but not out, then you can literally walk over and pick up the fish from the center. But use a pointed stick or whatever anyway in case something else is in there, like a snapping turtle or a snake.

 

do you guys bait the fish traps with anything, assuming it's in standing water and not a stream/river?

 

i heard about, on television, about a woman lost 2 weeks in the amazonas, and she survived by eating piranas, apparantly she caught them with insects as a bait, but it was not mentiond how exactly .....

 

maybe with a little piece of anything that could be used as a rope and tied to one of her finger or just a stick of wood

 

This place holds a seminar every few months where you come and stay with them and learn primitive skills like hunting, fishing, home building, etc... Check it out if you can get a few dollars and free time.

 

I have heard you can eat any snake, if you remove the head and the guts. (then the poison will not be there any more) the meat is supposed to be really nice.

 

I've heard similar, though i think the key comes in removing the head correctly so as not to cause venom to "infect" the remaining meat.

 

It's supposed to be really good, rolled on a stick on fires ashes

 

Most snake venom is only poisonous if it gets into the bloodstream directly.. im sure it wouldn't taste nice, but you would probably be OK with a bit of venom tainting.

 

Most forms of primitive hunting are very illegal, mostly for the fact that animals are usually very hard to kill and when people go trying to kill them with rocks and sticks it usually just injures them and makes them suffer.
Snakes a pretty easy to kill with rocks and sticks if you can stomach gutting them and eating them (nasty IMO).

As far as big animals if you go to a place where you can hunt it is usually hard enough to get one with a gun. I would recommend starting out with a 12 gauge you could do a wide variety of hunting with one. Maybe after a bit you could move up to bow hunting and if that not enough of a challenge you can start doing some ninja stuff with rocks and sticks.

But in reality hunting animals is very challenging, people think it is easy when you see them around town and they are half tame but when you go somewhere they are hunted they are pretty cleaver and hard to kill.
But I would start out with a gun and hunting license before you try any fancy stuff.

 

there's a way to cut the snake's head so you don't get poisoned.

 

^You just cut the head off the venom in glands are in the head. I’ve eaten a few rattlesnakes before they don’t taste to bad but gutting them is a nasty job they squirm all over while you are trying to clean them even for hours after they are dead. The best way to do it is cut off the head it put the body in a plastic bag and put it in a cold creek or a cooler full of ice
for ½ hour the body squirms less when it is cold.

Evil creatures I’ve cut them in half before and had half of the dead body come after me and try to bite me.

 

lol that's funny.


I've heard that some snakes are pretty decent taste.

 

The point isn't really to hunt down big animals in the first place.

 

Hey everyone, As for poisonous snakes, for safety reasons, always bury the head to prevent an accident with the poison. It's safer not to mess with them to begin with, but if you have no choice, and manage to kill, then they taste pretty good and make a good sized meal, depending on the size of the snake. Forage for some wild onions or leeks to enhance the flavor. Save and clean the skins for use later on, like a belt or a strap and such.
Peace