Top 10 Non Firearm Meat Gathering Tools

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morning folks I'm Dave Canterbury with self-reliance outfitters in the pathfinder school what I want to do this morning is put together a little seminar for you guys based on an article that I recently wrote for a magazine called the top ten meat gathering resources that you can place into your pack and these could also be put into a five-gallon bucket everything on this table except this takedown bow will all fit into one five-gallon bucket making it very easy to store for an emergency situation in your vehicle especially and that's kind of the mentality I had when I wrote this article was if I were going to have my Jeep and I had that ability of conveyance and I could just put one thing in that Jeep or one container like a five-gallon bucket that was going to have lots and lots of things in it I could secure meat sources with for a medium term length of time what would they be and there's a lot of items that I chose that could also be put into a backpack for daily carry or for the bug-out type scenario if that's what you choose to call it just to make it easier for you to get some type of food sources if you wanted to not that you have to have them but when you're talking about the very long term or a self-reliance scenario I think you have to just understand and just put it in your mind that you're going to have to have steel traps you're going to have to have those heavy-duty steel traps for modern trapping we've talked about that in past videos they're heavy they weigh a lot but they last forever they're fairly easy to use you can use them in blind sets without bait depending on the trap you have and they hold game very very well and some of them kill the game instantly which means you don't have to worry about the animal being alive when you get there and have to dispatch it so all of those things are advantageous when it comes to those steel traps steel traps again are fairly heavy so when I wrote this article I based it on things that you could put in a backpack if you want to without adding a lot of weight to it in some combination of this stuff that's laying on the table here or you could put all of this pretty much into a five-gallon bucket except to take down bow and throw that somewhere and save it for safekeeping for emergencies later so let's

walk through these items one at a time and we'll talk a little bit about my mentality behind why I chose these items so I think what we'll do is we'll start with what I would call on the water's edge because on the water's edge to me is the most prolific place that you're going to find food meat source type food you have fish you have frogs you have turtles you have birds you have all the mammals that have to go there to drink you have reptiles all of those things are going to be around water so a water source area is going to be my main target to find food easily alright so looking at this on the water's edge mentality one thing that I carry with me all the time is like a veil or a net and I carry this instead of a Smollett most of the time because it will do everything a Smaug will do but it also gives me that ability of having that net to use as a seining net or deb net and it works for everything else that you would need it for from just something to cool yourself down by the creek some type of hygiene first-aid all of those things

emergency slings and bandages can all be made with this but it also gives you an easy way to gather both food sources and bait with small fish crayfish and things like that that you could dip in that with an implement like this very very easily so I didn't really include this in the top 10 because I think it's something you should have on you all the time now the other thing I didn't include in the top 10 other than this spear knife and we'll talk about that in a minute is a knife a lot of people would say oh well a knife is for hunting no a nice really not for hunting a knife is for processing that food after you find it if you have to go out and kill game with a knife you've really done something wrong to begin with in my humble opinion but with that said I would have some type of knife that is basically a throwaway and that's why I had this cold steel Bushmen because they're so cheap it's a throwaway it's like a moor if I lose it I don't care by damaging I don't care but it's made out of one solid piece of steel so it's going to be hard to tear it up it's going to give me that ability of making a spear if I really need it in a dead emergency

if I have to maybe I have to kill a large pig or something that's in a trap that I've snared along the trail and I have to put him down this will allow me to do that with a stick on the end of it from safe distance instead of having to get up close and personal which I would do if I were hunting and there were plenty of people around and I've done it lots of times but it's not something you want to try the key man in an emergency scenario and possibly get yourself hurt you want to put a stick in this thing and do it from a distance so this will work for that but it's also good for processing wood processing game it holds a pretty decent edge and again it's a throwaway so this is not my one tool option belt life that I carry with me all the time and it's not really a knife I'm adding to this kit it's more of a utilitarian type tool that happens to have a cutting blade on it as well so that is a good ad for something that's fairly cheap in my opinion now let's get back to that on the water's edge for a minute so first things first I would say that probably the easiest way to catch food other than with some type of dip net is going to be with some type of gig whether that be fish frogs snakes whatever the case may be right there by the water's edge or right up against the bank even small fish a gig is going to get that done for you and you could use a fairly small gig like this number 30 B M which is a frog type gig you could also be used for fish and I just made a PVC sheath for it it's just a flattened piece of beam you see it's duct taped over to protect any of my gear when it's in my pack or you could choose to use a bigger type spear like this number four that's got really really heavy duty tines and barbs on it that are almost the size of a 20 penny spike on there and this is going to do lots for you as far as something that will kill much bigger type prayer animals then say this gig right here is going to do so for me probably the number one item I would add if I were to make a list of top 10 items a fraud or fish gig would be the number one item would add and the reason for that is it doesn't take up a lot of room it's fairly flat it doesn't weigh a whole lot but the longevity of a tool like this to use over and over and over again for multiple applications from pinning down snakes to killing an animal that's in a trap to spearing fish and frogs all of those type things and the fact that I can put this on the end of a stick to get to reach I want to pull something out of a tree if I need to whether it be a bird nest pulling off nuts scraping nuts off of a branch hickory nuts and things like that or walnuts all of those things make this a huge tool to add your pack so that would be number one for me right after this okay looking at on the water's edge again I would probably look to add some type of fishing equipment some type of terminal tackle and I'm not going to worry I'm going to stage that depending on what I'm packing it into you I'm just putting this stuff in my backpack I'm probably going to go with a simple pocket fishing kit because I can catch bluegill right the edge of the bank all day long with this thing and fill my frying pan this is the perfect option for that a small lightweight it's got terminal tackle on the inside bobbers hook sinkers you've got line on the outside you can store an extra length of line on the inside as well for an emergency if you needed to and it just gives you the versatility of being able to catch those small fish very very easily that are bigger than what you're going to catch in something like this but you don't have to employ any type of cast net or gill net or anything to catch them this is lightweight so this would probably be my number two item after a frog gig now if I was going to expand my fishing a little bit then I would add some more terminal tackle I'll have a double sided case like this one that has sinkers and hooks in it and things like that different size hooks bigger ones are smaller ones and remember that small hooks catch all the fish big hooks when we catch the big fish and unless I'm setting limb Loring's trout lines things like that I'm not worried about catching you know eight pound catfish a five pound bias I'm worried about getting four inch bluegill those are easy enough to get right off the bank with this if I'm going to expand my kit then I'm going to add bigger things for bigger fish

and I'm going to add larger diameters of line or stronger lines like possibly this number 36 tarde Mariners Bank lines or trout line or something like this Kevlar heavy duty 200 pound test line and then I'm probably going to add a real simple yo-yo type reel like a Cuban yo-yo that I can actually throw this thing out to fish and they cast like this basically holding your hand like this and you just hold it in one hand cast with the other and it pulls a line off and then you can use this as a reel when you catch it fish so you could actually just put this on a tree stump and it will unwind or start to pull out as the fish runs with it you can pick it up off of there set the hook and reel them in this is a pretty good add that doesn't take up a lot of weight and if you're using like up what I use a lot of times for a lot of my kit like that is just like a 10 liter bag and this thing fits down perfect right in the bottom of that 10 liter bag with everything else stuck on top of it so it's a pretty good add that doesn't add a lot of weight to your kit if you're trying to diversify your fishing okay the next item I'd probably add to my kit would be a steel rat trap and I say steel because of the longevity these things have lots of areas and holes in the bottom of the steel plate to be able to attach this to limbs logs tie it off with bank line or paracord so they can't run away on you but they're really really heavy-duty rat traps there's no doubt in my mind this thing will kill a squirrel in a second and they have jaws on three edges here of the trap which makes them even more lethal for catching larger animals but Chipmunks mice rats are not going to have a chance around this thing so putting six of these in your bag gives you six quick easy sets around your camp where those small pipe animals may be coming into anyway you don't have to walk long distance to catch that food or that bait depending on what else you're using for trapping all right so that would probably the next item that I would okay so probably the first longer distance weapon I would choose would be the slingshot it's easy to pack it's easy to carry it doesn't take up a lot of room I shoved into a cardinal pocket and it gives me that longer-range ability to hunt small game spur-of-the-moment and it could be a wrist rocket type slingshot like this one or it could be like a scout slingshot from simple shot that doesn't have the wrist brace but once you get used to shooting a slingshot you'll understand that it's a very effective small game hunting weapon and there's going to be times that you're going to want that because you'll see something off in the distance that you want to hunt and you're not going to build a trap it because you're seeing it on the spur of the moment so you have to have something in your range or your arsenal to allow you some medium shots on games spur-of-the-moment slingshot gives you that so that would be my next choice now I have water's edge ability I have ability to trap smaller game around my camp area and now I have the ability to hunt game at range smaller game whether it's around my camp or while I'm at the water's edge out checking and setting traps or out fishing I have that ability of an at range shot spur of the moment so with that said that would be my first choices now if I'm going to expand out kit even further I'm going to add a few more items the first one I would probably add going back to that water's edge mentality would be some type of a net needle and a gauge of material a gauge of cordage that I could make gill nets with now this is going to assist you in your trotline it's going to give you extra fishing line it's going to give you repair material for making repairs on gear but it's also going to give you the ability with a net needle that you can actually manufacture off the landscape fairly easily as long as you have the knowledge to be able to make Nets you can make that gill net on the fly to stretch across a creek or whatever the case may be you can make dip nets but being able to make net is a very important longer-term skill that's very easy to affect if you've got a big roll of cordage like this so that would be the next thing that I would add would be that next roll of cordage and possibly a net needle if I didn't want to manufacture one because I can also use this to carry line on as as a line winding device so it just gives me something easy to put my pack that I may already have for carrying cordage that can also be use multifunctional as a net needle and I can always use my knife sheath as a mesh gauge or my fingers or I could just cut a piece of wood for that as well so that gives you that much more versatility in your fishing type kit now if I'm going to improve on my trapping and go a little bit beyond the rat trap scenario now I'm probably going to think about do I want something that's going to be longer term or short shorter term use and snares while they're very very effective and they can be used without any type of bait because they're blind sets most generally speaking unless you're snaring rabbits they're going to be a one-time use with a steel snare steel cable snare is going to hold larger game very very well they're not going to get away from this but it's a one meal deal you got twelve snares you got twelve dinners that's pretty much the way you have to look at that because if you catch anything bigger than a very small opossum or a rabbit in a snare like this it's going to be destroyed beyond use as soon as you catch that animal in it so what you can do is you can add twelve snares as your next priority or for me I think my next priority would be something like a ready-made trap trigger like these D F fours and I like these DF fours really well for a lot of reasons a they're lightweight they're made out of machined aircraft aluminum and a whole bag of these things a whole bag of these things of 12 probably doesn't even weigh a pound and a half so I've got 12 pretty much instant traps right here that I can create on the fly with simple deadfalls and they are very very sensitive traps to me again I can carve these things out of wood I can bushcraft or primitively craft these type trap triggers but they're never going to be as easy they're never going to be as long-lasting and they're never going to be probably as sensitive or effective as this is this thing takes barely anything to set it off and it's very very secure it also holds a large amount of weight remember that with a deadfall you need two deadfall five times heavier than the prey you're trying to kill so if you're trying to kill a 10 pound raccoon you're going to have to have a 50 pound deadfall this will hold 50 pounds it's very difficult to construct a figure-four trap trigger that's not monstrous in diameter to hold 50 pounds of weight and then the bigger those components are the less likely it is to work very very effectively for something as big as a medium-size rack in these are very effective they hold a lot of weight they're lightweight and they're long-lasting they don't take up a lot of room 12 of them fits in this bag like it's nothing and it doesn't take up hardly any room in a pack on a side of a water bottle pouch whatever you decide to put it in but these df4 trap triggers I believe are great add in my top 10 then I would go to snares and I would put 12 snares in there knowing that's going to guarantee me 12 meals at least because we're not talking about forever we're talking about longer term we're not talking about the self-reliance scenario I'm going to have steel traps for that so this guarantees me 12 meals if I get lucky and they don't trash the snare and I can use it more than once then maybe I get 13 to 15 meals out of it trap triggers first snares next all right now now I want to expand on everything a little bit I want to expand my hunting abilities and some of my on the water's edge abilities the simplest way to do that is with the takedown bow because I can replace the string if I have to I have plenty of material to do that material bank line makes a fine bowstring so I can use bank line replace the string I can replace the arrows if I have to with straight shafts out of the woods what's hardest to recreate is the bow itself that's long lasting to me my mentality compound bows things with pulleys on them with it's a crossbow this compound or a longbow this compound is out of the question because they're too easy to damage and they're not long-lasting so I want a regular traditional longbow or recurve bow and for me for an emergency kit I want to be something that I really don't care if it just sits there for a while and I never touch it and I also don't want to be something that if something does happen to it it's going to break my heart why would I want you know a $600 Matthieu switch back in my truck and I'm not going to use it for an extended period of time and then when I do need it and I drop it or something happens to it an emergency I can't use it anyway it's damaged and I'm out 600 bucks it's much easier to get some type of takedown recurve one of the takedown survival bows on the market or something like this which is just an old solid fiberglass Ben Pearson takedown longbow this is a 45 pound bow strong enough to kill anything in North America by a long shot

it's solid fiberglass with a leather-wrapped grip it comes in two pieces fiberglass is almost indestructible so this thing is going to last forever it's probably 70 years old now and it's going to last another 70 or 80 years beyond the shot of a doubt because fiberglass just doesn't go bad over time it's also not going to be as susceptible because it's thick heavy fiberglass to warpage that you would get from a thinner limb wider limb type recurve bow of today so if I store this thing around heat or something like that it's not going to be near susceptible to delamination or warpage over time again that makes it more preferable to me and it's easy to string it's easy to maintain and it's fairly easy to learn to shoot now let's talk about bow accessories that are going to make this thing a little more versatile the first thing I would want maybe is something that I could fish with it so you can get these gadget adapters very inexpensively and they just wrap around the bow here and all you do is wrap these straps around it and cinch them off and then you can attach a fishing reel to the front of that bow just like this and now I have the ability if I have a fishing area or if I have you know my cordage which I already have and I want a manufacturer one out of wood I have the ability to make a fishing type implement with this bow so now I've increased this bow from not only hunting upland game hunting around the water as well a couple of cheap flip-flops style limb Quivers for any errors that I make so I don't have to carry them on my back through the woods if you've ever carried a quiver on your back through the woods you know that that's just complete pain in the neck because they catch on everything I'd much rather carry those arrows on the limbs of my bow when I'm walking around if that's what I need to do but my preference would be take down arrows if I was going to carry something and then just hope I didn't lose them and when I did I could replace them with wooden shafts easier than I can replace a bow take down arrows like these that we saw at the Pathfinder school and self-reliance Outfitters are very very good they come in three pieces they have almost zero run-out there's been a lot of technology that's went behind these and testing and building these arrows so they're a very good reliable arrow they have feather veins on them so that she very good out of any traditional bow even if you ended up having to make a bow these arrows would shoot out of it very good we've shot these out of a 60 pound compound and the Sheep very accurately out of a compound bow as well but they take down into a very small package with three pieces and they're easy to store that way so I can put a whole bunch of these in that five-gallon bucket or whatever the case may be and have them for the longer term if I need fishing arrows the same way the last thing I would probably put in my kit would be some type of box that add some extra tips and broadheads in so I'm going to have a few extra broadheads in there maybe an extra fishing tip a few field points and maybe a few hex blunts or rubber blunt points for small game hunting so I'm not sticking those things into the dirt and they kind of bounce off things when they hit instead of sticking in and breaking my arrows off so those would be just in a small box like this and that would be in my kit as well that really rounds my kit out because now I can hunt at longer ranges I can use different types of ammo for hunting

I have several ways to trap several ways to fish and several ways to hunt or kill game up-close-and-personal from gigs to a spear knife if I have to use it for that then I have what I need to get the smallest of game possible or bait because I have small fishing hooks small fishing line and I have some type of netting material that I can use for sanding or catching create this that gives me a very very well-rounded kit with only ten Agha so to go over those ten ives with you real quick and I got them listed here just in case you don't want to rewind this thing to follow through I have on here a gig a pathfinder fishing kit or a pocket fishing kit and terminal tackle a sling shot steel rat traps snares and D F fours whichever order you want to go with them the D F fours would be my preference first and then snares trotline with bigger hooks and things like that the spear knife I take down bow and then something to make a Gill net with really these aren't in the specific order we talked about but they're pretty close but it gives you that top 10 items and you can pick and choose from there if I were to say hey I'm building a very small pack that I'm going to carry with me most of time when I'm in the woods and I just want something with me in an emergency that I can hunt for some food while I'm waiting on someone to come find me in case my stomach starts to rumble what I tell you is throw a simple frog gig in there and a pocket fishing kit and you're pretty much going to have food next thing I'd say is throw a slingshot in there between those three items you're not talking about hardly any room or weight whatsoever to put those three small items into a backpack that's a single pocket and you can actually put a tube of ammunition in there as well for the slingshot if you wanted to so you already had some to start with before you find any and that gives you a pretty well-rounded a little hunting kit and fishing kit in a very small package so that would be my advice to anyone asking hey if I was only going to put a couple items in a bag to be able to secure meat sources what would I put in there those would be the top three that I would go with okay folks well this was just a quick little seminar to show you some ideas of items that you could gather together place in one container one backpack to give you a good variety of hunting and meat gathering tools in one place for an emergency or some simple items that you can add to your daily packing or daily carry if you wanted to in case you ran into an emergency scenario and you got a little hungry before you got rescued so I'm Dave Canterbury with self-reliance Outfitters in the Pathfinder school

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