Journal of the Yurt 27 Securing More Meat

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Tags: Dave Canterbury,Pathfinder,Survival,Bushcraft

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okay guys here we go that squirrel it was stealing my black walnuts what got him okay he's in a live trap like I said live food never spoils I don't have to eat him right now I don't like to process him right now so I can take that trap back to the yurt and when I get ready to process them we can take care of that we'll make sure he's got water he's obviously got food because he's still not on his walnuts in there but uh that I use for bait fact of the matter is you know I've got two of these smaller traps like this and I've got two bigger ones the small ones fit inside of that's for live traps primitive trapping is illegal in almost every state in the United States so I'm showing you at this point with this series of the yurt I'm showing you how to catch your animals in a live trap that is not illegal especially for nuisance animals like squirrel possum things like that so I'm showing you the utilization of live traps to capture food squirrel is in season right now in Ohio for hunting as well

morning guys uh before I go out on a scout for some wild edibles things like that I can you collect them it is rain today I said you guys are really I caught the squirrel in this live trap and you know for sake of these videos in a self-reliant situation where you've got three four five live traps you can't sustain yourself and me pretty good just by using bait that's around you this squirrel was caught just using the local black walnuts so the bait was local the walnuts are past being good for human consumption anyway but we caught the squirrel now the next question becomes how do we dispatch this world and that's what I want to talk about is I think it's an important lesson for this video we could just take a gun and shoot it laws in the cage and that would waste ammunition that we could use to secure other meat in a situation where he might be low on ammo we could put a glove on our hand reaching the cage and grab the animal to just fashion but in that case you know I take a chance on getting bit tore up whatever the case may be I take a chance on personal injury the best thing for me to do to be honest with you in a situation like this is to drown the sound in the cage okay you know it may not be the most humane thing in the world as some people would see it but squirrels have such a fast metabolism

they're not going to hold their breath he's going to suck water into his lungs and drown almost immediately upon being submerged in the water so all I need to do is find an area of the creek like where I'm at right now that actually has water as deep or deeper than this cage and submerge the cage so I'm not going to show that on video but that's exactly what I'm going to do so when I pulled the squirrel out of the water he's going to be wet okay guys I pulled that cage out of the water now that squirrel was in the water for less than 45 seconds and to tell you the truth he stopped moving after about the first five seconds so it took no time at all to drown that animal that's actually pretty humane compared to way animals are killed you know for beef and things like that every day of our lives so it's part of you know self-reliance it's a part of survival it's something that you need to understand it's not necessarily something I need to show but I did need to show you the beginning and end results of that so that you understand what's going on now this animals safe to handle he's not going to tear me up I'm not going to waste the ammunition like Glenn processus animal just like I did in the previous video and I've got more meat in the next couple three days all right our squirrel all cleaned up now what's up in there [Music]

yeah hang out here for a second so d1 our anti-rattle tail so give it some saltwater for a little while make it taste a whole lot better from the time cut sometimes I'll do this and then I'll hang them outside if I'm going to refrigerate them you know hang them outside the tree like I did that last it's not a problem just want to make sure he gets submerged out of the water get some

so our sons box over here some saltwater here we go okay now we're ready go out and hike around and see if we could find a few wild greens and things to go with this island pick some pine needles today to go ahead drink some pine needle tea to get some vitamin C in my body honey is really good for staving off a cough and cold but you got to have vitamin C so I'm gonna I got tons of pine out here there's no reason for me not to go out utilize it I just leave this guy sitting here for a little while to soak we probably end up having to squirrel later on anyway

so all right guys here we go if you guys can see this or not I'll try to zoom in a little bit if I can but I just came up here on this Ridge the backside of my property to collect some pine there's a whole flock of buzzards it looks like in a tree up here you know all North American birds are edible some of them have to be boiled really good but they're all edible so in a self-reliant situation food is food guys see what we can do to take care of one of these bad boys I don't know if I've got these guys in the screen or not but they're already real skittish see if I can reach out and touch one by sneaking up here little bill if you guys can see them or not well guys I'm guessing it I was out of range you know for that shelf how'd you do the trees they were starting to get skittish as I got closer and closer but no that's a wasted shot shot you missed no meal there no buzzers definitely would be my first choice of things to eat but if I can kill one that's a big burden things are sized with turkey so I would definitely boil need some of that meat for sure but with God you know we've got more shells where those came from so we'll get a pair of Scout a little bit see if we can get some pine things like that throwing our haversack I brought my hammers hiked up your empty to collect some things and we'll go from there you know real quick while we're up here on this flat collecting these pines I thought I would quickly address a comment from one of the videos I did on putting a cap on the front end of your 12-gauge it's been raining pretty much most of the day here so I've got a cap on this 12-gauge so I'm not getting any fouling or mud in the barrel if I sit down or something I was carrying upside-down shoulder and upside down like this to keep my water from going down to muzzle but at the same time when you squat down in that position

you're libelous dig that muzzle right into the mud so it's a give-and-take but I've got it capped off as soon as I saw those buzzards and decided I was going to load the weapon as you can see it's not loaded right now okay as soon as I break this thing open to load it this is coming off you're not going to forget to take that thing off it's huge okay so that's what you have to think about when you're doing this stuff is if you got a load to gun keep the cap off it's that simple now I am the load this gun right now because the others probably some game up on this Ridge okay the main thing I was after here guys is some of this pine just to make some pine needle tea I'm just gonna strip some of these off like I said I brought me however sack up your empty and I don't want the brown ones only with the green ones they're the ones they're gonna have the vitamins in it now pine is a huge resource not only for the pine needle teeth but you know the pinecones all over this tree right now and those pinecones number one if they haven't opened up yet they'll have pine nuts in them number two whether they've opened up or not they're going to be full of resins this one's opened up pretty much you can see there's not too many nuts left in this and it's pretty dead but this stuff burns really really well it's got resins on the outside of it you know pine cones make a great fuel for your campfire so that's something to remember while you're out collecting resources you know pine cones are good fire starters so I'm going to throw a few of these in my Harbor sack just because I can even start firing my wood stove as well you