This is why I really like to watch your videos. Your rope method was very ingenious, and I can honestly say that your method of using the fat, and hide for a common man, self reliance approach is a great move on your part. You are keeping to the common man way, and I will continue to support you in ways that I can. Thank you Dave for being you! God bless!!
Hey Dave! I would enjoy a video of you creating a piece of outdoor clothing from the fur you have, in a way one would in a middle to long term survival situation. Great work as always an I hope You still get a smile on your face just like we all get when there is a new video from you.
Hey Dave thank you soo much for teaching all of us with taking the time out of your day & all. I watch all your video's, tv shows I cant get enough of your knowledge. I wish GOD gave me a father figure like you. It would be a blessing to have something that you actually made with your your hands, how would I go about such a request? Dont stop we all love your work!
Thanks Dave I love your videos !!!% most of all the black powder in a modern day 12 gage ))) I have gotten a 22 lr adapter from Short lane - Best thing for 12 gage well ? Better than sliced bread - for your 12 gage ) lol ) thanks for the entertainment and knowledge of the pathway to self reliance !!!% thank you brother lXl
Perhaps one of the best ways to survive in a self reliance situation is by spending the least amount of calories hunting and gathering food. Trapping happens to be a great way to get meat versus actively searching for a critter and wasting valuable energy. Dave knows what he teaches.
Once you render the fat, how would you store the fat until you could process it into whatever workable material you wanted to use it for, if you were in a non-homestead situation for an indefinite period of time? Do you just throw it into an old can or is there a way of preserving the fat for future use?
im planning on getting some leg hold traps from your website, but i want to wait till that butchers knife comes out. what is that knife you used? the handle is weird.... Jon
So if you were just going to tan that hide with the fur on, would you just flesh it and then go straight into brain tanning? Does it need to be dried after fleshing?
It does take a lot to cover the subject well. Very true statement. Good to see someone in the survival/bushcraft community doing it justice. The old rock and figure four deadfall aint gonna cut it. Kudos to Dave for presenting trapping to folks that otherwise would not be exposed to it. Trapping is something you just have to go out and do. You can hang a tarp a time or two and you are good to go on that skill...trapping is not that way....you have to do it a fair amount to develop the skill set.
delivering newspapers when I was 10 years old the quickest route between delivery doors was thru backyards in this little town of 225. I was on a flat out run one sunday morning about 4 am when BOOM I found the first of the skinned beavers with my feets and landed on the other 5 face first. I came out the other side covered in blood and when I got home everybody thought that I had tangled with bobwire until I let them know the whatfor.
Good video, thanks for sharing - just a quick slightly unrelated question - does the Pathfinder store ship to the UK? Sorry if this has been asked someplace else.
Real quick question. I know raccoons tend to be great hosts for rabies and other diseases. How would you know if they had a disease and if the meat is good to eat or not? I'm just curious because I've never really thought about really having to survive on meat from a raccoon.
Great video Dave, come to Australia one day, i will take you shooting for Kangaroo, i would like to see how you would skin a Kangaroo, ive never done it myself, but the fur would be great to keep and the meat tastes awesome
In NYC there's a high end place called Henry's End that serves exotic meat (had kangaroo there once) and they serve raccoon and beaver sometimes. I heard they buy it from hunters from the upstate of NY.
Hi Dave I love you videos. I am looking to go on my first hunt on my nan's farm and i was wondering if you have any advice for skinning a rabbit. I ask as i really don't have anyone to gleam this knowledge from. Also i would just like to check that that method that you showed in part 26 would work for a rabbit. Thanks Alec
Do you / can you eat the meat from them? Is it any good? Never knew how red they are. Good catch Dave, glad the season is finally open and I look forward to see watch you catch next!
Hey Dave, I was wondering if you could maybe take a second to explain Skinning Hygene. How to avoid diseases and stay sanitary. Since you do this without gloves it seems that you would be very confident you wont get any kind of illness. Thanks!
I am not a expert in the matter, but those Swedish Mora knives like Dave is using in the video are a great knife. They have excellent edge retention, and are easy to resharpen while in the woods. They are also very in-expensive. If you research bushcraft knives and mora knives, you will see there is almost no difference in blade styles. I have two of them myself. I usually use them to butcher deer. I dont believe they would be suitable for batoning large peices of wood.
Another great video Dave. Thanks for the rope technique. And that WAS a great coon. Very healthy. As far as some of the comments on whether something had rabies or not? I don't think a sick animal would act as a normal animal would (like visiting trap sets). I would only worry about eating animals that were caught in unbaited 'trail sets'.
i'd like to see the entire process from setting the trap to the dinner plate. if you could do that in one video as sort of a montage that would be awesome!
You forgot something, though. Man can benefit the environment, much like an eagle, by eating the things in that environment. Look at gathering firewood- If someone gathers dead dry wood that they may not even have to break they get the fire they're looking for without having to chop for hours (potentially), it's lighter & easier to carry, doesn't smoke too much or throw off a lot of sparks, & it gets the brush out of the way so the other plants can get sunlight.
Great video, thanks for sharing it. Gotta try the rope trick. Pretty cool idea. For any of your viewers who might also enjoy it, I have a video on my channel showing how to grill raccoon.
Hey Dave you might want to check out 5911ryan, I have watched some of his videos and they are very good, He knows what he is doing, might be a good tool just to get the odd little pointer here or there to pick up on.
How did you kill it??? Shoot it, smash it with a rock??? I've never hunted or trapped so I am just wondering. I do love fishing though.... :) Did you make your hat??? .... Looks really warm. . Merrie-Merrie
Gen 9:2-3 The fear and dread of you will fall upon all the beasts of the earth and all the birds of the air, upon every creature that moves along the ground, and upon all the fish of the sea; they are given into your hands. Everything that lives and moves will be food for you. Just as I gave you the green plants, I now give you everything.
My fur buyer friend showed me that trick but your supposed to use rope to pull the hide down after you get the tail out then you use the rope to pull the hide all the way down to the animals head
Leviticus 24:21 Whoever kills an animal shall make it good, and whoever kills a person shall be put to death. Genesis 9:3 Every moving thing that lives shall be food for you. And as I gave you the green plants, I give you everything.
never mind Dave,I got it skinned missed up the noise part and the front legs around the front foot area did manage to keep the ear intacked.Now I don have a fleshing knifewhat else can I use to flesh with
you couldve cut back a lot of time on the legs if you cut around the feet and then made the money cut. never seen anyone do that stick method. just my two cents, nothing wrong with it.
