| The snake kept moving even after the head
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| | They include the following:
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| was cut off, the insides taken out, and
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| | Porcupines
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| the skin removed. I had strung it up from
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| | These prickly, slow moving animals are
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| a branch to clean it. When it finally
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| | one of the best survival foods out there.
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| stopped moving, I put it in a plastic
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| | If you can walk and hold a stick, you can
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| bread bag and stuffed it in my knapsack.
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| | hunt a porcupine. They were traditionally
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| Later I would split the pound of meat
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| | left alone by mountain men, in order to
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| into two pieces. One was for a stew, and
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| | leave a ready supply of easy food in the
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| the other for roasting over the fire.
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| | woods for anyone who was lost and hungry.
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| I was fourteen years old, and I wanted to
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| | They don't die quickly, so you'll have to
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| know everything about wilderness
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| | club them hard and repeatedly. To clean a
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| survival. I am more interested in
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| | porcupine, roll it over with a stick and
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| backpacking now than in wilderness
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| | cut it open from below. Be careful of the
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| survival trips, but the survival lessons
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| | quills. You should be able to skin it
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| have stayed with me, and they make me
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| | from the underside without getting stuck.
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| feel more at home in the wilderness. It
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| | Then you can cook it over a fire (they
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| is safer to be out there if you know how
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| | taste good, by the way).
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| to survive. Knowing things like which
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| | Fish
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| berries you can eat also means you can go
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| | If you can see fish in shallow water,
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| lighter when backpacking.
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| | they are probably easier to spear with a
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| However, there is something I have
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| | sharpened stick than to catch with a hook
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| noticed when talking to backpackers who
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| | and bait. Another way to get them is to
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| have an interest in wilderness survival.
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| | wait with your hand poised over a spot
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| Very often they are interested in how to
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| | they swim by, and quickly pin them to the
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| make a bow and arrows, or traps for
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| | bottom with your hand as they come into
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| animals, or spears and bolas. These
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| | range. I have caught 30 small fish in an
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| things are interesting to me too, but it
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| | hour or two in this way.
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| is a mistake to think that these are the
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| | Other Easy Animals
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| skills most likely to save the life of a
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| | Snakes can be caught by hand, or with the
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| lost hiker.
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| | help of a stick (preferable in the case
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| Wilderness Survival - Killing Animals
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| | of venomous ones). Crayfish can be found
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| First of all, survival for a lost
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| | under rocks and logs in lakes and
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| backpacker is rarely a matter of food.
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| | streams, and boil up just like miniature
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| Shelter, water, avoiding injury and
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| | lobsters. Quail and other birds that nest
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| getting found all take precedence over
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| | on the ground can sometimes be killed
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| food. When it is time to look for food,
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| | with a well-aimed rock, and usually
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| though, animals are the surest source of
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| | circle back to give you another chance.
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| calories and protein, and the surest way
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| | Bird eggs don't run away to fast either.
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| to obtain this food is to look for the
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| | Clams, insects, grubs from rotten logs,
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| easiest animals to kill and the easiest
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| | turtles - these are some of the other
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| ways to do this.
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| | foods that can be caught by hand. This
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| This does not include fancy weapons that
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| | isn't about proving your "skills" or
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| take hours to fashion. You are not trying
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| | being the mighty hunter. Look for the
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| to live out there, remember, but only to
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| | easy ways. When it comes to food,
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| stay alive long enough to be found. What,
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| | wilderness survival is simply about
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| then, are some of the easiest animals to
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| | efficiently gathering calories.
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| hunt and the easiest ways to kill them?
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