Meat Preservation Concerns and Setting Snares

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Dave Canterbury, David Canterbury, The Pathfinder School,Bush Craft ,Survival skills, Historical Lore, Primitive Skills, Archery, Hunting, Trapping, Fishing, Navigation, Knives, Axes, Fire, Water, Shelter, Search and Rescue

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you know when we're sitting around camp like we are right now is the time we do small chores and one of the things that I'm going to do tonight while I'm cooking up some food here is I'm going to make some snare stands so that I could snare some small game I've got a half a dozen small game snares in my pack the only thing I really need for that is some sticks and a roll of trapping wire and my pliers and I keep these pliers in in front of my pack but when I'm on the trail out in the woods I generally keep them tucked in my boot right here when I'm on the trapline so I can get to it really easy and they're just a pair of heavy jaw pliers that have line cutters and dimmer wire cutters in them on two sides so I'm going to go ahead and move this camera closer for you guys so you can see what I'm doing and I'm going to show you how to make a quick and easy snare stand that you can use for small game snares stay with me okay so any stick will do that's nice and straight and fairly hard wood and I prepare the top of that pretty much just like I would a steak now I was going to put in the ground by bulldozing it over on the top so that when I hit it with my ax or whatever to drive it in if I have to it's not going to mushroom out then the bottom just needs to be very simple it can either be just a wedge or you can go ahead and cut it down to a three-sided point a four-sided point doesn't matter you're just going to put that in the ground anyway okay this is all we need now to go along with that we're going to need about I don't know ten inches of wire and this is just regular trap wire bailing wire bailing wire from a hardware store worked fine for this and you're just going to take this and wrap it around a couple of times and what I like to do is when I'm done with that I'll just take my pliers and I'll squash it down real good on there make sure I've got that tab bed over and just crimp it real good on there just like that so when I'm done I want something looks like this now the next step in this to complete this is just to take a turn and I usually go the width of my plier jaws and take a turn just like this and bring that down and that's where my whammy is going to go is on that and I'll crimp that down on top of my whammy

we just took a rabbit out of this clearing about an hour ago there's a lot of small game trails coming out of this wooded area right here besides just clearing and this is like a pipeline and there's brush all along here heavy amounts of brush with small game trails coming in and out so I think what we're going to do is we're going to take our snare stands and we're going to set up about a half dozen small game snares in here see if we can test our luck let's get after it you

here's our squirrel we cook up pull it up and you know we got a little bit of an issue that we need to think about tonight this can happen to you in any situation like this right now we're living high off the hog we got a coyote we got to wrap it and we got a squirrel all inside of three days the squirrel cycled frozen rabbit skinned and gutted coyote hanging the reason I'm eating a squirrel right now instead of eating some coyote meat is because tomorrow is supposed to be above 40 degrees once it's above 40 degrees now we got problems now a coyote is good and frozen all the way through the squirrel was frozen tube he's going to thaw out fast because a small block of ice the rabbit same thing so what I'm going to have to do is I'm going to have to stuff myself with food today and tomorrow morning because I know I'm not going to preserve it without using some other technique now I can smoke it or something like that

but if I cook the meat it's going to preserve it some I could cook this meat hang it up in a tree and it'll be good tomorrow just as well as it is today just like leftovers in your refrigerator it's going to be that cool it'll be right around 50 degrees but it's not going to be cool enough to preserve raw meat it's going to have to be cooked so I'm going to eat squirrel now I mean here a bit tomorrow I'm hoping that my snares that I've got out right now the Coyotes nares the small game snares things like that in a couple traps that I have out don't produce too much tomorrow that's my hope because I don't have to try to preserve the meat my problem is that as it warms up the animals will start to move more and that could cause me to have a heyday on the trapline and be a huge pain for meat preservation things so those are all the things that you have to contend with when you're trying to take your meat and take your sustenance off the land those are all things that you could think about so I'll just go in today you know into the next day just like I am today I'll see what happens and the weather's gonna dictate what I have to do next folks I'm Dave Cadbury Pathfinder school I thank you for joining me I here for another video

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