Sustainability Long Term,Modern Trapping Series Part 42

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all right guys got the big beaver over here right here was our set right there's some fresh sign he's hanging right there there he is right there this is a perfect catch you've got two big toes and that thing so yeah morning guys Dave Canterbury the Pathfinder school just got finished with the Hudson Bay trapping class and I'm kind of in-between classes at the moment we had some really really foul weather out here the last week it's been pouring down rain for 4 to 5 days straight and I want to have a discussion with you guys today about the realities of trapping and I want you to first understand that a lot of what you see on the internet as far as what people would use or take along with them or keeping their packs for long term self-reliance of survival is a bunch of bunk ok if you think for one minute that you can take a pellet rifle out into the woods and live off that pellet rifle you got another thing coming you might get the occasional squirrel maybe once in a while you get a rabbit but you're not going to eat very good long-term your body's going to deteriorate from lack of calories you've got to learn to do things the old-fashioned way if you want to learn how to be self reliant into wilderness you've got to be able to take game and you've got to be able to take it on a regular basis and you're not going to do that with hunting alone you know the American pioneers the frontiersman the mountain men of the Old West none of those guys relied on only a firearm and it sure wasn't a pellet gun to secure all of the meat that they ate on a daily basis they relied on traps trapping is a staple item for anyone who wants to be long-term suffer lion not only for meat and for food and for calories and for fat and for proteins but also for the hides you're not going to make anything usable out of a squirrel hide or a rabbit hide unless you've got a lot of them and rabbit eyes are very very thin you're gonna need bigger animals than that bigger animals than that are gonna require bigger traps and bigger guns bigger weapons which is why professed a 12-gauge so much a 12-gauge shotgun will kill anything in North America yes the ammo is heavy it doesn't matter tough it out your kit should be light enough once you've figured out what your tin sees the survivability you're going to be once you've figured out what your shelter options going to be which could be a hammock with an under quilt and a heavy sleeping bag it's going to keep you warm enough and drying up with a good tarp for some very very cold weather long-term build yourself a big heavy-duty shelter like the debris hunt we've got back here at the hunters camp but for the time being you can live for several days in just that hammock if you need to while you're building something better but all that time you better be looking for food nuts berries that stuff's not gonna get it you're gonna have to have long-term sustainable proteins and fats and that means you're gonna have to have a lot of meat now Lewis and Clark on their expedition they recorded in their journal that the people that were with them when it was available ate nine pounds of meat per day per man nine pounds that is unfathomable to me how anyone could eat nine pounds of meat a day but I guarantee you I could eat two or three pounds a day and that's a whole lot more than one squirrel every couple days with a pellet rifle or one rabbit every now and then with my 22 you're gonna need a lot of meat trapping is the way to do that

traps are heavy okay let's talk about traps for long-term self-reliance for a minute don't kid yourself you're not gonna catch a lot of stuff with makeshift primitive traps and primitive snares even snares made out a picture wire frame or picture wire material are going to be very limiting their usage for short term survival they're fine same thing with bank line your rabbits you can catch squirrels you get anything bigger than that in a snare that's made out of bank line or picture wire and he's going to destroy it it's not going to be there when you get there in the morning you have to rely on heavy-duty cable type snares a snare like this that's made for a bobcat or a coyote will hold a deer if it has to so this is seven by seven cable alright understand that don't carry little pity and snares with you if you're going to try to affect long-term survivability or building a bug-out bag or whatever you want to call it for a long term stay in the woods or in the wilderness or outside of an urban area you're going to need heavy-duty cable snares you can use thinner wire diameters than this for smaller animals and carry 12 of those but you can carry some of these too and they don't take that much room up in your pack and they don't weigh that much from what they'll do for you but remember back to our discussion about snares these are a one-time deal you get one big Coon hung up in this snare and it's over you'll never use this there again so if I've got 12 of these snares I got 12 catches in a long term self-reliance or survivability scenario that's unacceptable

the only thing that leaves of steel traps steel traps will catch you all the food you could possibly need save your ammunition for emergencies but now you're talking about carrying this alright you're talking about carrying 10 15 20 pounds of traps with you on top of your kit that's where being in shape comes into play all right you need to be in shape for this kind of stuff you're not gonna walk through the woods Tramp through the woods miles or whatever the case may be running any kind of a trapline even if it's a daisy chain outside your camp that's just a couple of miles

you're not gonna hump through the woods with this stuff very easy if you don't have pretty good stamina so while your kid is lightweight your longer-term stuff that's gonna supply you food which is what you've got to have and fur and things like that they're gonna be heavy but they got to be bulletproof these traps right here are all Victor's these are all Victor's single spring traps number ones and number twos and I guarantee it not one of these traps in a string is probably less than 30 or 40 years old and every one of them traps is good today as it did 40 years ago so they don't have to be brand-spanking-new all shiny happy traps you can get this stuff off eBay and get a rummage sales garage sales antique stores just look at it make sure it's not all pitted with rust and if it's not you can bring it back into good working order

just like these are I could carry this string of traps right here with me in my pack and I guarantee you I wouldn't go hungry now if you're gonna try to catch something big these are great for Coon great for opossum they'll hold a coyote hold a fox but if I want to catch some real sustainability me you know like a big 40 50 pound beaver now we're talking this okay and I would I would not go anywhere without at least one of these in my repertoire because you're not gonna hold a beaver with anything smaller than this a beavers got a foot that big around okay so if you're trying to catch that beaver on a bank set and I'll put some footage at the end of this video of a set for a beaver that was live released and it was set up to hold him alive this is what you're gonna have to have to get his foot in that trap he's not gonna get his foot in some little baby trap you're gonna have to have a big trap for that thing bigger animals require bigger traps that's just the name of the game but you can get away with these number ones and number twos and catch all the meat you want Connor bears there's always a place for Connor bears but I would definitely go with a couple to 20s if I'm going to do that and not all one tends because the size of that Conibear dictates the size the end when you're going to catch these Connor bears are set up the number of the Conibear dictates how many pounds per square inch of crushing power that trap has a 110 is 110 pounds per square inch at 220 its 220 pounds per square inch but the size of the diameter of this inside just square the inside is what dictates how big of an animal you can take this will take a beaver it might not take a great big giant beaver but it'll kill beaver and it weighs less than this not much less but a little bit less but you got the capability with us getting Coons that you're not gonna have with this so long term I'm gonna take few of these Connor bears with me as well yes your traps are gonna have some weight to them I'm not gonna sit here and be su and try to lie to you and say oh traps don't weigh that much traps were heavy you get 10 15 20 traps here pack you're gonna be humping a load but I can guarantee you if you learn use those traps you understand the capability of those traps their versatility of those traps you will not go hungry and that is the only thing long-term that's going to keep you alive is to be able to feed yourself and most people in the survival world today Preppers long-term survivalists things that people that built bug-out bags and bug-out kits that's where they're fooling themselves they don't understand that long-term you've got to have food and I don't care if you store food or not sooner or later it's gonna run out and without these or a heavy caliber firearm

you're not going to sustain yourself in meat so get used to that fact now learn how to trap learn these skills learn the skills of the frontier era learn how the mountain men lived learn how to tan further learn how to make buckskin learn how to do things that you can make clothing with footwear with if you have to in a long-term emergency learn how to put meat on the table for yourself and for your family the way to do that is trapping trapping is much much more effective it's much less calories expended than hunting once I set these traps in the ground I can leave them there yeah I got to check them every day but I don't have to check them you know constantly like I would if I was hunting I don't have to walk around the woods looking for the next animal to shoot all I have to do is let this trap sit and work for me the animals that I catch make a lot of things they make bait for the next animal they make lures for other animals they make food for the table and they'll make clothing or trade goods if I need them if I've got trained tan brain tan hides so those are the things you need to think about and that's what this video is about is I want you to think really hard about long-term survivability and quit letting people fool you into thinking that a few little pieces of picture wire and a pellet rifle or a 22 are gonna carry you through long term because they're not going to do it you're gonna need something bigger as far as firepower and you're gonna need something bigger

as far as trapping goes and this is the way to do that okay well I appreciate you guys joining me for this video today i'm dave cameron pathfinder school hope this wasn't too over-the-top for some people because it's a stuff that not too many people talk about but i wanted to get it out there to you while I was doing this trapping series I appreciate your views I appreciate your support I appreciate everything you do for me for my school for my family we've got a survival trapping class coming up weekend after next I'd love to see you there

you can check our schedule bwd pathfinder school llc.com we'll be talking all about survival mentality and trapping thanks guys you