-In Most
Survival Situations, Weapons ARE NOT Essential.
In most
survival situations, food is not an essential; therefore most weapons are not needed
or even wanted.
You can live
only a few days without water, but you can live for weeks without food and the
energy used to find and hunt for animal food sources can often burn more calories than are given back.
But, if you have plenty of water, are not sick
or injured, and your camp is set up, you can spend some time looking for food. ALWAYS START WITH PLANTS; because while water is a prime need to human survival; drinking it is not always necessary; hydration (water) can and will be derived from consuming vegetation.
Many animals; especially birds and reptiles, do not actually drink; they have little need for "FREE"water, except to bathe, play, or dunk their food in.
Many animals; especially birds and reptiles, do not actually drink; they have little need for "FREE"water, except to bathe, play, or dunk their food in.
Later, streams
may provide you fish or crayfish.
You can use worms,
grubs or insects as bait: or you may eat them if absolutely needed.
Canada, and
most civilised countries, have very stringent laws concerning the carrying and
or possession of firearms and other deadly weapons; therefore you are very unlikely
to have any available in a survival situation-as previously stated; they are
not usually needed or wanted in any case(remember they would have to be
carried).
Snares and traps
do require some expertise, practise and skill to use successfully; but with
most game it is easier to trap than to stalk and kill, in a survival situation you
do not want to be hunting large game in any case.
While setting
traps leaves you with time to attend to other duties like foraging or shelter
building, the title of this page represents the principals of hunting trapping;
your trap must effect to either bash, crush, dangle, destroy, hang, slash,
tangle, mangle, strangle, KILL, your quarry-or, perhaps, acquaintances,
friends, relatives, or other would be survivors. Yes, traps are dangerous;
lethally so. Using them is also, in all likelihood, illegal. Don't attempt to
use them except in an extreme survival situation; when the survivor’s own
preservation must take precedence over humanitarian principles. It's not big;
it's not clever; it’s not macho.
Putting up
several traps around your shelter/retreat gives you more than one opportunity
at a time to catch a meal, check all traps regularly to prevent escape and or
undue suffering.
If, not
overdone, starting a routine of regularly doing the rounds of your traps can
provide you with a positive activity and mind set, however BE PATIENT, you will
need to study the habits of animals to site traps effectively. ©Al (Alex-Alexander) D. Girvan. All rights reserved..
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