Utilizing Resources (Making Venison Jerky) Part 2

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you can see I'm keeping a lot of punky wood on this fire and it's got some moisture to it because I don't want big flames like I said but I do want a lot of smoke and I want some heat you can start to see that it's meat I just turned it again it's still soft so it's nowhere near done but it's starting to get the right color to it and right consistency of jerky or dried meat okay so back to our discussion here about Nesmith for a minute one of the things that he talks about in his journal he talks about or in his book he talks about what he calls his ditty bag and this is very similar to what they called a Possible's bag very similar to what we nowadays call our survival kit and it was basically his self-contained bag that he described as four inches by six inches that had the things in it that he thought he would need other than his tools in an emergency situation and to facilitate him being able to procure meat and what he talked about in this kit was he talked about having several different size hooks and he talked about having several gangs of line measuring 6 yards each in different diameters and different weights from the smallest to things that would catch a 10 pound fish and he doesn't really talk too much about having things like snare wire things of that nature because like I said Nez m'q was not a hunter he was a fisherman and where he was at and the adirondacks fish were very plentiful so you'd have to worry too much about procuring meat other than fish he doesn't talk too much about trapping at all in his book he talks quite a bit about fishing the other things that he mentions having in his in his ditty bag or his little survival kit were several different size of darning needles he talked about having some heavy-duty thread he talked about having a match safe and nowadays I would think that that would you know mean a Ferro rod to us and some wet fire would be my match safe I would never trust matches in any situation even if they were waterproofed and in a waterproof container I'd much rather have wet fire and a strike force but those things weren't available to him

so he had a match safe at his hand all the time

now he discussed that he had his large butchering type knife attached to the back of this bag and around his neck so he carried this bag on his person all the time with his emergency essentials inside it and he discussed a couple of the things that were inside just Kidd as well and it's well worth reading this book if you've never seen it now he discussed clothing in this book a little bit as far as what he wore and he talked about wearing basically a flat sole boot leather boot and he talked about wearing wool garments wool hunting shirts like this and wool trousers now this hunting shirt is plaid it's very similar in pattern and nature to the other wool hunting shirts that I've worn and made in recent videos we have found a source for these wool hunting shirts in a green collar very similar to the green army blanket color that we made the one out of in our video and we are going they're professionally made they are not hand-sewn there machine sewn but we will be offering them on both my website and canteen shop comm within the next few days we could not find a good picture of this item so we're having one sent to me that we can photograph for pictures on our website for you to buy but they're very similar to the well blanket shirts we offered a couple years ago and they'll be somewhere in the sixty five dollar range I believe if I remember right but we'll have them before Christmas for purchase I wanted to go over the story of Nez m'q with you a little bit and a little bit of his writings today so that you could look up this book again called bushcraft and camping if you cannot find a copy of his book let me know on Facebook or by email and I will try to provide a copy of that somewhere on my web site for free download because I think it's a very important book it's provided in many of the research CDs that I sell as well as the Pathfinder system and the path iron youth system because I think it's that important of a book to be read so with that said let's get back to our segment on smoking and jerking deer meat here and

look at that some more and we'll talk more about other people who have written books and things of that nature that I think are important for you to read in the near future I just wanted to share that story with you today while we're spending a few hours out here smoking our meat over the fire getting a little bit windy out here just get a little bit cold so one of the things that I can do to help myself out help speed this process up protect it a little bit is I can build myself a small tripod here and interlock a couple four inches over top of my grid sure those aren't going anywhere like that then I can actually get inside my shelter grab my grass mat out of there

I can actually spread that grassman from the top of that tripod just like this that will help keep the wind in a smoke keep the wind off and the smoke in and I'm set to adjust after where I have it even that's going to build me somewhat of a small smoke house right there on top of that meat okay man we need to look at this rock here see what we got going on here and how this meats doing looks pretty good we don't lose any of us we got to be careful turn this over again I can definitely feel the heat there ain't no absolutely no questioning that there's plenty of heat under there now because I've got this closed end now I can let this fire burn down a little bit and I'm still going to concern a lot of heat now I have to worry about the flames getting up onto my grass mat which that's okay I just need to pay closer attention to my fire now that's off

keep it spread out so that the four names stay down low this will help speed the drying process up now that the winds kicked up and it's chilly you know a lot of what I've been doing while I've been out here today smoking this dear is I've been adding to my shelter and just going around adding leaves adding debris shorting everything up and that's part of what you have to do when you have a permanent shelter structure like this you've got to constantly maintain it so while you've got the time that you're sitting here for several hours camp tasks are the things that you need to be doing to pass the time it's going to be a little while before this meats done I broke a piece open a minute ago and with still some moisture in the middle of it so it's not done yet

it's going to be a little while so I'm just taking this time to go ahead and shore up my camping work on my gear sharpen my knives sharpen my axe things like that and these are the things that you want to do while you're waiting on things that take a long period of time like smoking meat well fellas let's get a piece of meat off the back of this rack here see what she looks like okay that's a piece of done meat right there I think it's cracked open in my hand just like she loved it there's no moisture inside there that's a perfectly done piece of jerky right there time to taste oh man ooh son what good mm-hmm okay

now let's talk about storing this for traveling the woods okay once we get this meat done it's smoked and it's now jerky we don't want to store this in a plastic bag of any kind because they'll collect moisture no mildew it will go bad on us we've got this real fine mesh rag that we use the other day we made our tallow and stuff we've been carrying our common man kit I transfer that over to my kit today and that's perfect the story of stuff in we can just put that right down inside of it wrap a couple pieces up and then we'll put a couple more pieces in and we'll wrap it over the top of that again and we'll continue to wrap that and that will give us a breathable cloth that we can store this meat in and it won't go bad on us on the trail this will keep for a long long period of time we can put this right in the bottom of our however sack or our backpack carry it with us as long as we make sure it doesn't get wet it'll be good to go if it does get a little bit damp because it's a breathable fabric it's going to dry out anyway that's what we want we want to keep it dry so once we get that wrapped up then we can just put that you don't have a sock or in our backpack like I said and take it with us on the trail

we've got probably a pound or pound a half a meet there and that will last a good two or three days mixed with our other food items well I'm Dave Canterbury the Pathfinder school and I hope you enjoyed this segment today I'm making jerky in the woods out of deer meat venison jerky yeah took about five and a half hours from the time we started the fire and got our meat on at the time it was finished and ready to go and put into a trail bag took about five and a half hours so it's not something that you're going to do in a quick hurry but if you noticed a lot of things that we've used in the last few videos out here the spider shelter have been repetitive items that we've used for different things and that's the key to all of this stuff is to make everything that you use multi-purpose I thank you for joining me in this video and I thank you for your support and your views I appreciate your time

I'll be back to another video real soon thank you very much