Solo Bushcraft in the Rain: Catch & Cook Squirrel

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I head into the woods in heavy rain and use bushcraft survival skills to setup shelter, start a fire and catch my own food to eat. Now winter is here, the leaves are off the trees, which means small game can be more visible for hunting.
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@bumpercarjoe6391 7 месяцев назад

EVERYTHING is harder in the rain. I spent 2 months starting in the sweltering heat of August through the September rains and October chills living in my tent here in NE United States. It wasn’t by choice and it was not easy. The hardest part was staying clean and dry. While the nicest part was taking a hot shower by fire light. I didn’t hunt, and had no gun. My trusted dog kept the Raccoons away. And she kept terrific company. It was as this Nov came and it started to become unbelievably cold I decided I needed to get my dog shelter and got her somewhere safer. I miss her. She’s with my daughter and ex and all of their dogs on a big piece of property. So she’s happy!

@codassong 7 месяцев назад

You ok?

@bumpercarjoe6391 7 месяцев назад

@@codassong thanks for asking. I am now. I have a roof over my head. I miss my dog and daughter. I blew a head gasket on my car and didn’t have the $4000 to fix it. But working a little part time job trying to get a new set of wheels. It’s weird though, I strangely miss some of my time in the woods. Definitely not the place to winter unprepared however.

@windhamearl4544 7 месяцев назад

Sounds like you kept your head. Good on you. Hope you end up landing in a better place

@willemvanthoff8708 7 месяцев назад

@@bumpercarjoe6391stay strong!

@kieranoconnell3423 6 месяцев назад

I'll be going with way next month. Though my company will be a bonsai tree and some of her baby's I have I a cup of water😅 gonna see if I can leave the plants at college though coz I don't want them to die in the frost😅 im worryingly excited about going homeless 😂

@stephenbell5217 7 месяцев назад

“Lovely bit of squirrel Jackie!”

@jonathansweetchunky 7 месяцев назад

Controlling greys is so important and you getting a meal out of this is a double win. And the rope clips are great. Keep up the good work.

@aojohn2 7 месяцев назад

Tell me about it. I tell you what else needs managing. Earths human population

@cash5627 7 месяцев назад

You know what I appreciate about this video? "A good teacher never assumes". Your describing all the little details as you go, such as burning a frayed Paracord end. Now, what if a viewer didn't know to do that? Now they do. Well done.

@Timmyjg2004 7 месяцев назад

You really need to do a video about laws in the uk, about land, building on it and hunting

@graceygrumble 7 месяцев назад

Went to the woods, not last night but the night before. I had six beers out of the eight. We had 8/8 hotdogs , 6/6 burgers and 3/3 baked potatoes, with ’accoutrements’. Nothing was shot... except targeted tree knots. Six egg banjos were consumed in the morning and the trail back to the car - through the snow - showed us we had been surrounded by wildlife. hey ho! I got back home, sorted the gear and still had two beers. Happy days!

@Beast-gx3rr 7 месяцев назад

I love how happy he is walking around the woods 😂 I’d love to get out more

@chrisegnoto 7 месяцев назад

I hear you, I go camping every 3 weeks or so and the rest of the time, I am indoors :/

@YorkshireBoyOutdoorsXtra 5 месяцев назад

What is stopping you.? 😊

@Finwolven 7 месяцев назад

Back in the day, stamped money in Finland (in pre-independence times) was scarce, and squirrel skins became a semi-official currency. It's still a slang for any unit of money in use, at least with older people who consumed a lot of romanticized Finnish black and white films. There's also a tradition of making fur mittens or gloves out of squirrel skins, you might need a couple more for a pair but they'll make quite nice winter wear. Grey squirrel is a notorious pest and is crowding out red squirrel (which doesn't damage trees as much) even up here.

@osu_zach 7 месяцев назад

Mike I’ve been a subscriber for such a long time. You deserve the growth and success you’ve seen. Happy for ya man. -Zach

@RainesMedia 7 месяцев назад

Really good video mate, makes me so jealous I don't have land to hunt and camp on hah! Keep them coming :)

@christophercarwile3983 Месяц назад

Squirrel hunting & camping. Got a new favorite video, plus nice looking sxs shotgun.

@bretwalda8543 6 месяцев назад

Lovely bit of squirrel Jackie

@georgesakellaropoulos8162 6 месяцев назад

Unless the rain has been going on for a day or so, squirrels tend to hole up and wait it out. If you're just destroying drays, and picking up what happens to fall out, that's one thing. If you really want to rack up the numbers, your best day will be a still, sunny morning after a heavy evening rain. This really brings them out, and everything on the ground is still wet, so you can move quietly.

@glorfendell2967 7 месяцев назад

Great vid. It's nice to see another side of the woodland management. As far as hunting squirrel alone, we used to roll our thumb and forefinger together and "chirp" like a squirrel. They are so curious they will come back around the tree to see what all the fuss is. Thanks for the vid Mike!

@kevslife 7 месяцев назад

Hi Mike, you need to set up a feeder with peanut and aniseed in it.. the greys will use it and you sit there with an air rifle hidden whilst they come to you.

@Slikx666 7 месяцев назад

And then the comments arrive.. "How could you? Killing poor innocent animals like that" "That's horrible! Why don't you just buy the squirrel meat from the supermarket like everyone else?" "I bet you don't even have a gun license!" "I'm going to complain to RU-vid because i didn't turn off the video!" There's going to be so many.... Well done mike, sometimes things need to be done. 🙂👍

@suburbanhiker5975 7 месяцев назад

Those are pretty slick clips. You could put one at each end of the cordage and not need to tie any knots, if you wanted. Nice Shootin', too!

@NickGoldsmith776 7 месяцев назад

Great stuff Mike , Reminds me of the early days of watching MCQ bushcraft 😊 hope all is well 🤝

@bluesleeper16v 4 месяца назад

Exactly what I was thinking!

@greenvalleyoutdoors 7 месяцев назад

Love those rollarcam hooks. I'm always looking at ways to make my tarp quicker and easier to deploy. Great vid, thanks Mike

@jameswatts9618 2 месяца назад

15 dollars per clip😂

@greenvalleyoutdoors 2 месяца назад

@@jameswatts9618 😂 not into those prices 😂

@_stoatchaser 7 месяцев назад

If you had driven into the woods in your light weight Land Rover that would have been video heaven complete. Great stuff

@cee8mee 7 месяцев назад

Even people here in the Midwest US often don't recognize squirrel nests, even though I can walk out my front door and look up into the barren trees and probably see at least 4 or 5 in about 30 trees. People think birds use them. I laugh at them.

@clarky4492 7 месяцев назад

Squirrel dray

@guaporeturns9472 7 месяцев назад

Why do you laugh at them? Is that funny? I don’t understand

@cee8mee 7 месяцев назад

@@guaporeturns9472 They're huge! Bird nests are tiny and not very noticeable. I laugh because it's absurd, and anyone giving it any thought should be able to recognize that. But people don't think about it and then make silly assumptions. I find that funny.

@guaporeturns9472 7 месяцев назад

@@cee8mee It’s not really that absurd. I watched a magpie make a nest up in a tree right next to a tree the squirrels made a nest in… in the winter after all the leaves came off it was kinda hard to tell them apart. I could but to the untrained eye they were very similar looking from the ground . Instead of laughing at and ridiculing people why not just be nice… maybe try to educate them in a nice way?

@ajherring92 7 месяцев назад

I've got a squirrel nest directly behind my back porch but I agree, most people I know don't recognize them. Cheers from Illinois!

@russeljohn3471 7 месяцев назад

Great video and good to see you doing important work controlling the invasive grey squirrels. 👍

@ArielleViking 6 месяцев назад

Great catch and cook Mike. Those roller pulls look like a real game changer. 👍🏻

@jestr102763 7 месяцев назад

Reminds me of the old mcqbushcraft videos. Love these.

@Koffling 7 месяцев назад

Sure do enjoy Mike's adventures, but I also miss MCQ.

@PropTM 7 месяцев назад

Been watching you since the first bushcraft camp you made with the watch tower, been loving you videos ever since. You inspired me to start getting some gear to spend time in the woods myself! :))) would love to see a full kit collection from everything to clothing to tools.

@tony_ofthe_north6604 6 месяцев назад

Hey man he posts his kit on his website based upon each episode

@tony_ofthe_north6604 6 месяцев назад

In the description below With links to purchase the gear youself

@PropTM 6 месяцев назад

@@tony_ofthe_north6604 appreciate it but i was meaning more of a video going through all the gear mike has collected over the years from clothing all the way to tools.

@tony_ofthe_north6604 6 месяцев назад

@@PropTM I swear he used to have a link on his website talking about all of it

@hugohammond1301 7 месяцев назад

Met the guys that produce your TA camp axe on Sunday. It really is a thing of beauty, would definitely recommend anyone to pick one up.

@dazzbedford68 7 месяцев назад

Love those roller cams, great bit of kit. See if your dad wants a squirrel tail, a bloke used to have them off me and used them to make fishing flies

@markbillingham3011 6 месяцев назад

I love your videos, as a wildlife manager i spend a lot of time controlling grey squirrels, we are fortunate to still have reds in our area. It would be great to see how you prep and use the skin, keep up with the pest control.

@ArtandDiamondsWithEskies 12 дней назад

Just a bit of information for you, the tale fur from the squirrels is highly sought after by watercolor artists in brushes. I don't know if maybe you want to learn to construct some and sell them because that's a big thing for you can find a company to sell the tails to then there is no waste of the animal.

@tomf819 7 месяцев назад

Have you ever thought about using an air rifle for hunting small game to avoid having shot in your food, I have a stoger XM1 bullpup which would be ideal for some small hunting.

@christaylor9112 7 месяцев назад

Nice video and nice camp and particularly like those line tension adjusters on the tarp. As for the food who can beat a lovely bit of squirrel (Friday Night Dinner).

@HonkyTonkHellraiser 6 месяцев назад

I've been subscribed to your channel now for a while. The new guy at work is from England and I told him about your channel. He's binge watching all your videos now. He wants to spend some time outdoors here in British Columbia this winter

@davehumpleby3440 7 месяцев назад

I couldn't help but laugh at this edit, Mike. You are so excited by the ingenuity and time-saving advantages of those roller cams, then lose all the time saved fashioning tent pegs. Prussik loops have the same adjustability of those cams yet weigh considerably less. So carrying prussiks and a few light weight tent pegs means less time setting your tarp up, they have the same adjustability, and they no doubt cost a lot less too. Using a traditional ridge line also has the advantage of giving you a dry line under the tarp to hang gear on; so is more versatile to boot. I know this from experience as I've been using the NiteIze camming karabiners for various tasks for years.

@chrisegnoto 7 месяцев назад

Wow, your channel is rocking, man. I remember when you started. Hats off to you. I need to bring my camping channel back, instead of filming camping filled with wildlife documentaries lol. I walk ten feet and end up filming the secret life of an Antlion or picking up a and filming a Black Widow or something - lol

@outdoorsbeyondnature1980 7 месяцев назад

Mike, you are truly a outdoors man survivalist. What does squirrel 🐿️ taste like?

@TAOutdoors 7 месяцев назад

To me it tastes a bit like pork chop

@timtate8520 7 месяцев назад

@@TAOutdoors pork chop… really? Your English greys must taste vastly different that ours over here in the States!

@stephencopps1561 7 месяцев назад

Those windproof lighters are great and I also take a small amount of newspaper and/or Amazon packing paper in the inside pocket of my jacket! It all helps 😁

@martystacey4429 7 месяцев назад

A great wee adventure Mike! And, love those rope cams😎My pal in the village is the 'red squirrel man' and works for a national charity conserving Reds and culling Greys exactly as you demonstrated👌Well played indeed👍

@samajier2566 7 месяцев назад

Amazing

@backwaterwoods 7 месяцев назад

Love those rope tensioners! I use them on all my tarps.

@mnsadat1 7 месяцев назад

Would you happen to have a link for the ones in the video? Thanks

@naturesadventurer-theamate3140 7 месяцев назад

Great vid. Would love to see more bushcraft/hunting videos. 😊

@jockspice 7 месяцев назад

Great video, awful weather! Always something to learn in your videos, have now added rope rollers to the Christmas list.

@peterott-tn6pf 7 месяцев назад

Awesome hunt brother! What a great way to enjoy my lunch break!!

@murdered6046 6 месяцев назад

These roperollers are game changer. Going to buy some right now😮

@aka5742 7 месяцев назад

Can’t help but laugh at the excitement of how time saving and simple those rope rollers are, and then spending significantly more time on carving stakes… 😂 Wait till you discover titanium stakes! Just messing. Might have to get a set of those myself. Thanks for taking us with you.

@TAOutdoors 7 месяцев назад

Haha I did laugh at that bit when I was editing 🤣

@spc3461 7 месяцев назад

Wow, what an amazing video! I really enjoyed watching you build a shelter, make a fire, and hunt for food in the rain. You have some impressive bushcraft and survival skills, and you make it look so easy and fun. I admire your passion and dedication to living in harmony with nature. Thank you for sharing your adventures with us, and I look forward to seeing more of your videos in the future. Keep up the great work!

@benking5838 7 месяцев назад

Love this

@BraxxJuventa 7 месяцев назад

Thanks for filming Mike. 😁👍🏼

@aquenecloud4238 7 месяцев назад

Love watching your videos. Extra special with your dad too. Great outdoors adventure today! Wish you all the best on the channel and Merry Christmas!

@TheHellfiremissile 5 месяцев назад

One of the best Bush-Craft vid's I've watched since one of Mick McQuilton's early vid's Cheers.

@jasper4574 7 месяцев назад

Great video again mike. Plenty of ground coverage plants availabile for a nice pinch Such as ground Ivy or Herb robert around this time of year if youre ever in a pinch for a nice hot drink. Very ingenious with the tarp pulleys!

@Johnrag1000 6 месяцев назад

loved it..

@scottmcintosh2988 7 месяцев назад

We used 22 long varment loads like a mini shotgun shells !

@marchood99 7 месяцев назад

Like the look of they rope locks 👍👌

@kevinduver 7 месяцев назад

You don't really understand how rain effects your mood and day until you're out in it. Still a fun challenge. Cool to see you hunting too. A further reminder of where we as humans came from before MREs and Ramen noodles lol

@Tosadar_Outdoors 7 месяцев назад

Amazing experience and amazing forest 🔥👌🍻💯

@tjk355 6 месяцев назад

i like those clips. very similar to the prussik knot.

@FreezyAbitKT7A 7 месяцев назад

if you use a prop stick/pole with your guy lines, you can reduce how long your lines are

@vincentrogister5006 7 месяцев назад

Love these videos that combine my two favourite hobbies hunting and camping

@james_lessick892 7 месяцев назад

Nice wet day in the wood. Great Tarp innovation with the rope rollers. Love the catch and cook. Stay dry...

@mosleyman3136 7 месяцев назад

This is certainly one of the bushcraft videos

@youngking1310 7 месяцев назад

Our boy got +15 HP and +5 radiation from those squirrel bits.

@jacobravenwood7968 6 месяцев назад

Lol fallout nice 😅

@cerethpainting6606 7 месяцев назад

We put up the same type of fly for our gear last year at philmont in New Mexico USA.

@seedy-waney-bonnie4906 7 месяцев назад

Cool.

@kokopelau6954 7 месяцев назад

Milk and/or egg wash, alternate flour and corn meal dip, season to taste and fry. Best way to fry rabbit, squirrel, fish or whatever strikes your fancy. Old time country cooking.

@Travis_Hackney 7 месяцев назад

This is cool, Glad you’re sharing this aspect of survival I’ve always wondered about personal hygiene tips to include going potty…🤷🏼‍♂️👍🏻

@mistertea4487 6 месяцев назад

Fell out of the tree like out of a movie 😂

@DimitriLambermont 7 месяцев назад

Those clips are really handy. 👍

@BeeseChurgar 7 месяцев назад

Love this type of videos

@thelaiq 7 месяцев назад

Inspiring

@168Diplomat 7 месяцев назад

Put your squirrel in a pressure cooker for 12 minutes at 15 lbs of pressure. It will be falling off the bone then brown it in a skillet. Use the drippings left in the skillet to make gravy and add the gravy over biscuits. Two meals out of one squirrel. Or one kinda big meal. It’s good eating. 😅

@user-cm1fn2ss1i 6 месяцев назад

this is so good omfg!!!!

@davidtoastivine707 7 месяцев назад

Great video we are hoping to get some woods our selves in the near future. I’m learning a lot about wood management from your vids, I do think a 12 gauge was a bit over kill though lol 😅

@stevenyemc 7 месяцев назад

I am surrounded by squirrels. My cat used to bring them home as friends. They do look kinda tasty!

@earlgrey691 7 месяцев назад

The shot in the meat could cause absolute carnage to a tooth and would have me using the most powerful air rifle i could acquire rather than such a blunderbus (grin) as seen here, but l appreciate this is land management thing and the food is a bonus.Whoever introduced those pesky greys here from over the pond has a lot to answer for, given they've all but decimated our beloved, gentler,indigenous red squirrel populace ?

@gkeyman565 7 месяцев назад

Nice gun, good luck hunting. Have a great day

@wobba1981 5 месяцев назад

Cool device’s!, I have two pieces of paracord x4 connected by a tarp hitch I use the same way (I keep them on each corner of my tarp 👌

@pyeitme508 7 месяцев назад

Awesome

@CampWithMatt 7 месяцев назад

Lol. When you were sharpening your knife, I was thinking, that finger could easily get nicked. Couple of shots later: plaster on finger! Hope you're OK Mike, those little cuts can take ages to recover...

@typicalchannelname3796 5 месяцев назад

My mans was STRAPPED for a squirrel hunt lmao

@dalroache 16 дней назад

Overkill I use gzk f!at bands on my slingshot with 9.5 mms steel Ballbearings headshot king all day

@JEBOOUTDOORS 7 месяцев назад

Good times, Mate, great video! Only disadvantage of those pulley lockers is you don't have a ridge rope inside the tarp to hang staff on or dry your wet clothes

@TAOutdoors 7 месяцев назад

There is a way of having a ridgeline with these, I’ll show it in a later video 👍🏻

@JEBOOUTDOORS 7 месяцев назад

@@TAOutdoors Thanks, looking forward to the next videos as always, Mike!

@elsathal7359 7 месяцев назад

Thank you for sharing ✌️✨️🧚‍♂️🤟🌻🐝

@skyhighfootage53 7 месяцев назад

quality video yet again :D

@freddyoutdoors 7 месяцев назад

Ace watch mate

@thanasisliosis2881 7 месяцев назад

Every man of woods has to eat squirrels. In my country we also eat hedgehogs. 🇬🇷 Nice video. Keep up the good work!

@gregoryluc2876 6 месяцев назад

Nice show mate! Bushy tails are delicious, I dig that side by side shotgun.

@natefish1 7 месяцев назад

Great stuff!

@davidchase7166 7 месяцев назад

On the farm I put squirrel feeders up at this time of the year and use a PCP air rifle to manage their numbers, half a dozen or more can be had in an hour or so as it doesn't scare them off. Using a shotgun and a belt of cartridges is like using a sledge hammer to crack a nut.

@jakesnider9365 7 месяцев назад

Will there be a separate video for the squirrel skinning? is that even allowed on YT? Interested to see the Opinel in action

@jacobravenwood7968 6 месяцев назад

No, he said he didn't record it On another comment on this video. because of RU-vid. RU-vid is Overly sensitive about these things, but there are plenty of videos, on youtube showing animal skinning and processing But chances are those videos have been fully demonetized by RU-vid. So no money can be earned on them. That seems to be how it works nowadays.

@fletcher0601 7 месяцев назад

Cheers for the new video mate they are always great to watch, if anyone is trying to find them clips there is something similar made by nite ize, called cam jam

@matrixis 7 месяцев назад

Those roperollers look great, shame they only ship to US/Canada. But loves the vids, keep em coming!

@KJ-to3gz 7 месяцев назад

I'm in Canada. Do you know where can I get the roller cams? Do they go by another name?

@nelistheron83 7 месяцев назад

Whoohoo!! Nice one!! Nice axe !

@lewisdiamond7850 7 месяцев назад

First time watcher/subscriber, and I love the videos which are very informative on the damage that Greys do to trees, which i never knew. Only thing that was missing here was how you skinned they grey etc, think i might give it a go myself given the chance.

@youfoundslag 6 месяцев назад

Awesome video, Mike. I was thinking once you said you could feel it in your mouth, and see it on the pan, that hopefully you're using some sort of lead-free shot, haha. Stay healthy, Keep it up!

@moo-mooha 7 месяцев назад

👍

@jimmygoins3770 7 месяцев назад

In Desert Storm we used tarps in the rain and for Sun shade on the sunny days.

@WiLLiAMOnline 7 месяцев назад

Yo! Where do you get them rope rollers from buddy?

@TAOutdoors 7 месяцев назад

I’ve put a link in the description to the site 👍🏻

@WiLLiAMOnline 7 месяцев назад

@@TAOutdoors You'll do for me mate. thankyou and nice one.. i've added you to my now 4 best youtube bushcraft people 👌🏻

@TheCooperman666 7 месяцев назад

Your probably going to do more damage with that 12gage tbh. For hunting vermin the size your looking at you'd be better off with a long 410 shotgun, save some on ammo too and keep the 12gage for duck/bird hunting in open fields.

@brain8484 7 месяцев назад

i commented on his choice of weapon shooting squirrell and it was deleted . beware

@TAOutdoors 7 месяцев назад

More damage to what? The meat? Or the tree? As the most effective way of getting the best meat from the squirrel is to setup a feeder and use an air rifle. But this is more about removing the dreys as well as the squirrel. I get where you are coming from.

@TAOutdoors 7 месяцев назад

I haven’t deleted any comment from you mate. Chances are RU-vid’s algorithm has detected something in your comment that it doesn’t like. Try and comment it on this thread and see if that works instead 👍🏻

@brain8484 7 месяцев назад

@@TAOutdoorsmy comment was about the squirrell being full of shot it would be better to use a 22 rifle Aiir or Cartridge instead of the shotgun .

@jacobravenwood7968 6 месяцев назад

@brain8484 He is right though RU-vid has programmed It's algorithms to look for KEY words and phrases. the algorithm has the authority to remove comments and it doesn't have to alert you as to why it removed the comments. Chaotic censorship at its best.😅