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I have been reading this topic just waiting for someone to bring up the second most basic of woodland skills:
Gathering food with a knife and your woodcraft skills.
Can you harvest root plants, berries, and other fruit in the wild? do you know how to test them for toxicity?
There are several "trip" traps that are useful: a figure 4 snare and dead fall to name just two. There are also "fish" traps that can be adapted for use on game trails just as well as in the water. Does anyone else have others that are useful? My favorite "small game" trap is a squirrel run with loop snares placed along it. They are very productive and do not require advanced skills to make or use.
Do you have a favorite kind of trap that you prefer that can be made in a wilderness area with just your knife and what is around you?
( I will allow paracord - it's easier than making cordage from plants)
Gathering food with a knife and your woodcraft skills.
Can you harvest root plants, berries, and other fruit in the wild? do you know how to test them for toxicity?
There are several "trip" traps that are useful: a figure 4 snare and dead fall to name just two. There are also "fish" traps that can be adapted for use on game trails just as well as in the water. Does anyone else have others that are useful? My favorite "small game" trap is a squirrel run with loop snares placed along it. They are very productive and do not require advanced skills to make or use.
Do you have a favorite kind of trap that you prefer that can be made in a wilderness area with just your knife and what is around you?
( I will allow paracord - it's easier than making cordage from plants)