Now this video is probably the most important of all of them in settings the record straight. I would even suggest putting this video first before everything else. People need to understand this before they do anything else with long term survival or self reliance. Fantastic job. Thank you.
Excellent reality check. A refugee with a backpack will be better off than the completely unprepared. But one who listens and acts upon the experience and history of others becomes wise. Thank you for being kind and sharing the truth with us Dave.
Can you imagine 250 million pilgrims competing on the frontier for survival, after stuff hit the fan, tomorrow morning? Even the settlers didn't have that kind of chaos to contend with. Thank God.
Dave Canterbury can tell it like it is, and in general its the way it has to be, because he is out there doing it and living closely that lifestyle. Dave has the skills and knowledge that no book or Internet site can teach because he has figured out what exactly what works for him from his own trial and error of ACTUAL EXPERIANCE. That should be at the #1 spot of every bug out bag, survival kit, and prepper list. Thank you for your videos Brother I really enjoy watching them.
If this video is too over the top for some ... then you got future corpses watching your channel too Dave! Keep on with all the VALUABLE info you provide. Thank you so very much brother.
I appreciate the honest talk.In a protracted economic crisis in order for best chance at prolong survival it's imperative to have professional traps learning how to procure wild game for life sustaining nutriment. It’s better than being emaciated susceptible to deceases, an early death and hungry to eat your neighbor. If you can’t wean yourself off relying on the corporate society Nanning what good is it being a survivalist! We're headed back to tribal time where the noble savage is top dog.
i have no problem admitting that out of all of the skill sets that you teach, trapping is my poorest subject. this series has taught so much of the realities of trapping to me. thank you so much for all you do for us. this is a subject i will be looking at much more in 2013.
Hi, Dave. To those who used to live in comfort, your message is somewhat - "an arrow into nowhere". For me - this is a message of another "think point". Many thanks for what you have tought me so far. Keep up doing great job. You are a star. Respect. PS: I am from Russia. I believe you will be pleased to know that you are known here in my country. Kind regards,- Kostya
Thank God you did this video Dave. I get so much grief from my buddies about carrying 20 pounds worth of traps with me into the woods. I just keep telling them that I'm never going to die from starvation as long as i have them. Thank you thank you thank you! This video hit home! Austen New.American.Woodsman
Dave, this is exactly why I love your videos. You are a great instructor and tell it how it is without sugarcoating things. We need more of that in todays society because we are all babied too much in this country. When the crap hits the fan, only a select few will know these kind of things it takes to survive. Thanks again, really appreciate everything you have done for us and our families. Merry Christmas.
i just wanted you to know that your information has helped me re-think my long term survival/sustainability plans. the information you have provided will certainly help me in the long term to survive if necessary. so thank you dave i totally appreciate your input and your knowledge that you so willingly share. i have been watching all of your trapping series so far and have not yet finished it but will this week. shtf scenario i can hopefully survive and sustain both me and my fiance. i may be a 50 yr old woman but i am not the type to sit around and wait for someone to "save" me. and if time and money permits i will be taking your survival course as soon as i can. i live in ohio as well so you arent too far away.
I watched a show on TV the other day about this guy that went to Alaska to live off the grid in the wilderness. All he had was a .22 rifle. He died 113 days later of starvation. He recorded everything in a journal and with a camera. Even though he was able to hunt some things, even a moose at one time, it wasn't enough to keep him alive. In the journal he had not smoked the moose meat the right way and it went bad. That story is a great example of what you are talking about.
Preach it, brother! I just came across your videos and love the trapping and blacksmithing playlists. Thanks for all of the effort your put into making these educational videos. I've learned a lot already. Keep it up!
Thanks for a truly honest assessment about survival. I'm afraid most "preppers" that our popular culture is turning out will just be a bunch of bones bleaching in the wilderness. I hope a few of them leave some good stuff behind for the truly prepared to find and put to good use.
Thanks you Dave. What you said was the coldhard truth. Seeing people kid themselves with their precious "bugout bags" and how they can survive anything with it just irritates me. Youre the man Dave.
First I would like to thank you for being frank in your discussion of LONG term survival. It isnt what many people want to hear, but they need to. A trapper/hunter dispatching an animal is actually kinder than what a animal peditor would do. Reality is not a Disney movie. Great video, and thanks for reaching people.
Thanks Dave for really telling it like it is. Telling the truth will save more lives than those who try to make people just "feel good" about what they are doing. I've been practicing survival since I was about seven years of age and I find your content very spot on most times. As a side note: I saw you skin out a couple of animals and I could show you a very quick and simple way to take the tail off of any kind of animal be it a squirrel or a wolf or a deer.
very good video dave! iv been thinking that same thing about preppers storing hundreds of pounds of food. one that makes you a target, two theres expiration date on EVERYTHING, and three just as you said sooner or later you will run out. not to mention it ties you down to your house or where ever you might have stored all your food. mobility is key
I agree 100%. A bug out bag should only be a 3 day option for an emergency relocation to somewhere safer or short term evacuation, not for living out of indefinitely. Even an INCH bag is only for 7-10 days, max. Just the fact that someone is forced to hunt/trap for survival means that their livestock and crop preps are under-producing or nonexistent. Start a farm now and trapping can be just a hobby or supplement, not a necessity. Don't wait til you need the skills to work on them.
Dave I'm glad you clarified the pellet gun thing and about being in shape, my friends and I do five mile ruck humps sonedays my ruck weighs upto 70 lbs and some folks think they can conquer the world with a pellet gun
Wow! Very powerful speech, gave me chills. You reminded me of the biblical Noah. One thing I like about you Dave, is that you care about people and are concerned for them. I really hope that the economy doesn't get worse. It seems that your use of different types of traps, and your preferences have evolved over the last couple of years with dirt time.
OUTSTANDING Dave. Anyone that wants to disagree with you only needs to watch "Out of the wild the Alaska experiment" where the ones that made it each lost 20 pounds, they had a 22/410 over & under. Or research Chris McCandless that actually starved to death in Alaska, he had a semiauto 22, he did get a moose but he didn't know how to preserve the meat, which would have saved him.
Great video series Dave! The first thing about you that really grabbed my attention is your no BS mentality. I have a family of 7 and I know there is no way that a pellet gun and picture wire is going to fill the table if necessary. I have studied primitive trapping and tried to use several to complete my phase 1 training, but was unsucessful for over 4 weeks. I broke out a steel live trap and had it done in less than 30 mins! POint well taken and much appreciated brother! Thanks!
Too be honest I am new to Hunting and never wanted to do trapping, I just want to say thank you Mr. Canterbury on clarifying the trapping idea. I think I never saw the full need for it before, however your right if you don't shoot a deer or bigger at least once every few days then you will go hungry, and there are 2 things I hate being lost and being hungry, Long term I would rather be lost than hungry.
Good for you. Long term sustained living will only be accomplished living like we used to on the farm. Hogs, chickens, cows, horses/mules, and the knowledge to take care of them. Permaculture is even better. Wild game will just be a happenchance while boating to a trapline or checking for fish, or gardening. Most folks will litterally starve and those of us who have the knowledge will be physically unable due to age. It is truely scary times my friend. I hope you fare well.
Dave i was watching some old TV shows just the other day on netflix.I didnt know u was on one of those survival shows.It blowed me away.I dont know much about cody he seems ok but it did seem to me that u sure made his life alot better on any of the episodes.After i knew u was on that show i had to watch every episode LOL i couldnt get enough.I would like to thank u for sharing all of your know how with all others.I was brought up way back in the hills but u still show things that i learn from.
There's a movie about him called "into the wild" ... he was losing weight, nearly starving. he did take a moose with a .22, however what killed him was he mis-identified a plant that poisoned him, he was sick and unable to eat... so he decided to bug out back to civilization, but was unable to cross a high river to get back. THEN he starved due to that set of circumstances. That said, Dave is right on in terms of trapping and long term sustainability.
If you have it, you can wing it a bit better with that, at least. A good point, but you can figure it out a little more easily, if you have something to work with. Improvising things in unplanned or unexpected situations would probably come up in that scenario. Also, maybe figuring out where to go is part of the list. It's another thing to get to.
Building, traveling, foraging and hunting you will burn through calories fast. The guys traveling with Lewis and Clark burned 5000-7000 calories a day. After a day or two most of us will be so weak we couldn't do squat. Dave you rock for telling it like it is! I know I'm not ready for and thing long term and I'm hoping to change this predicament.
I re-watched this video for a second time. I must say it is one of my favorites of the ones that you have done. One thing that I wanted to discuss is the fact that the Ohio trapping season is so short, only for a few months. I understand about conservation and all that, but if people really had to live off the land and if hunting alone wouldn't cut it, then there would be a challenge to procure enough meat during non-trapping seasons. Wish trapping was all year.
One of the things I like about the traps is I feel like thier is less impact on game as apposed to sitting in that area all day stalking game when hunting and I like the idea of being quiet . Not that you always need to be quiet but just incase you do not want everyone in the area knowing what your working on .I think being honest has become a lost art today and that thier are a lot of people that are in the ground due to bad information .Dave thankyou !
I like how you let the beaver go. It really shows how humane trappers can be. If I wasn't injured I would have liked to have taken one of your trapping courses. God bless!!
Brilliant video, thanks very much, this cemented in my mind what i was already thinking, my experience of wandering through the bush trying to find a deer for endless hours made it clear that to survive you need to trap food, period. I was hopeful that if i had to, i could live off kangaroo and rabbit, but in reality, it's not going to happen. Storing food won't work either, because you need to be nomadic and move with your food source and the seasons.
Dave thanks for this video, I have been watching youf stuff for about a year now and I think that this vid was the most informational of all that I have seen yet. I have to agree with you that trapping is the way to long term survivability, the history books are rittled with stories of mountain men from the past, and the descriptions given are that of trappers, like you said there rifle was used as a " just in case" back up!
There is a video labelled alone in the wild - Full Season 1 [HD] that shows someone who tried living in the wild with a ton of survival gear gear but no traps. Worked out like your video said it would.
Right on Dave. Much has been said and written about the Native American’s skill hunting with the bow, but I’ve always suspected that they depended as much or more on traps; the bow being used as much to dispatch trapped animals as for actual hunting. Sure they used primitive traps until the white man came along, but they used lots of them.
Bro, you sounded super passionate in this vid man! Awesome. We need more people who tell it like it is. This video definitely sold me on having to learn more about trapping. Keep up the great work sir
BRAVO! Excellent video, Dave... These are the types of videos that keep me coming back to your channel, and hoping to one day find myself in a Pathfinder class!
get me pumped up dave. the only thing i haven't learned is how to tan a hide but hoping to find a class on that when i ETS and move back to idaho near the end of this month but yea my grandfather gave me all his old traps that he hasn't used in years when i was home on leave
LOL!!!!! I hope people are listening........ if not, that's more stew for us. Sometimes it takes a good kick in the butt to get the point across. Good eye-opening vid for those who might have been easily influenced by others. If I don't get the chance later, Merry Christmas to you and your family, and all the brothers and sisters at the PFDR school.....
wow, after watching that show on bbc called alone in the wilderness, within the first few minutes of this vid it answers a lot of problems the guy had. he was getting really malnurished toards the end of the show, he was trying to last a summer alone in the alaska wilderness. if anyones curious about it, some people didnt like the series cus he crys A LOT. but there are some nice moments where you get to see him learn some techniques and stuff.
My understanding of a bug-out bag was that it was for at most 3 days, it's not your long term survival (unless you count 3 days to be long term) gear. In that time-frame food is much less important than water, shelter, and others. Regardless, excellent video. Spot on.
A couple minutes in, and I can tell this is an important video. What about wild/tribal horticulture for long term sustainability though? Do you ever cover wild horticulture? A video or series on tending to the forest to give a well balanced diet in the wild would be so tremendously valuable. I truly believe humans can actually improve forests by properly utilizing them. I would love to see this being addressed more. Thanks for the videos.
I know you were asking Dave but I'm 16, a month away from 17, and i say now. My girlfriend wanted to go camping and i wanted her to enjoy it, i had a little over a week of preparation. i planned everything out, went to walmart and got a few simple supplies(cheap axe,matches,hotdogs, and hotdog roasting stakes). I walked out into the woods, sat on a log and thought about what to do, how and where to build a shelter, etc. A week later i had a platform that i built...go to next comment.
dave that tent behind you looks like the kind that the mongols used out on the steppe from what ive read in history books is its design based on those based in asia
In Europe trapping is illegal in most countries as far as I know. In my country trapping is allowed only in survival situations,hence I am mostly interested (and I guess many other) in improvised traps,so it would be nice to see more videos on this matter.
Well, short term, a 22 or a wrist rocket with some brass wire and a pocket fishing kit is good for securing meat. Slightly longer than short term, traps could be useful, like if whatever disaster/bug out situation is just in the US or your region. But for long term, better start catching ducks and rabbits alive, caging them, breeding them, and raising them on a homestead.
You definitely make some good points about bigger guns & traps.... So I guess a bazooka & a 10' foot pit with spears would be a bit over kill..... LOL I'll have to try and remember all this, I've got multiple small fishing kits for my B.O.B. but still considering traps that I would be able to set myself. . Merrie-Merrie
wow that was the first time I heard dave reference bug out bag or bugging out or even the entire prepping aspect, I think bushcraft is the way ot go in prepping
Fantastic series! Thanks very much for sharing your adventure, experience & expertise. Your enthusiasm & serious realism regarding long-term sustainability is very justified & appreciated. My BOB has been adjusted to include the considerations you share here... Hey, any chance y'all might produce a series on coastal foraging? Peace & Best Wishes to you & your loved ones & Merry Christmas to all!
Hunting and Trapping are second priority to me. Domestication and raising animals (rabbit, chicken, goats, cows, etc) have higher return than hunting and trapping. This is because in my area wild animals are hunted down. farming over ranching over trapping definitely over hunting
Great vid Dave. You keepin it real isn't over the top at. It is the same stuff "Buckshot" Bruce Hemmingway preaches. Ever see his book/vids? His long term sustainability is the same. Makes so much more sense having skills and tough unbreakable tools, thanks for the info!
Hey Dave,I found a great bait for rat traps. My kids had some candy called Airheads and laffy taffy. They smell really strong and they are moldable. I tried it out with some rats i was having problems with. Problem solved. As always I love your videos and the knowledge that you share. God bless you and your family.
I have been watching this video and your "Survivability vs Sustainability" video over & over. and are "must learns". Outstanding. Could you redo and combine them both together? And also add some pointers with a Victor rat trap and maybe come up with some kind of foolproof deer snare. I have seen several here on youtube and some do seem to be better than others. I posted the same thing you said about occasional squirrels & rabbits, a year or two ago, on a survival forum.
I like using traps you can make out of your surroundings. Like a deadfall trap. All you need is some sticks and a decent size rock for small game. It is more time consuming and tedious though. Cool video though. Makes me want to go hunting tomorrow. To bad its raining lol.
Excellent stuff as usual Dave. Thanks for the video. Some day I hope to come out and spend some time learning from you. You have a lot to teach. I have watched your channel since, I Think you started doing youtube. You have totally added and grown with your skills and knowledge over time. I have watched both you and the videos you do change and advance over time. It is always a fun to see what new and interesting useful things you come up with. Thanks man!
Dave, another great vid. Not over the top at all... It's straight forward and honest. (not something often seen in survival vids) I completely agree that you'll need to hump some gear if you wanna live. That's an unfortunate reality. Cheers man.
All great points Dave, but the point that is nearest to me is the need to be physically able to carry the necessities. I think the one thing that many people overlook is the need for physical conditioning. You can have all the skills in World, but if you cannot handle the weight, nothing else matters. Sitting on your ass contemplating what can happen won't get it done! Put your pack on and carry it. The last thing you want to do is wait til the SHTF, to find you're horribly out of shape.
by myself with trees i cut down, with an old saw and axe, nails and a hammer. The platform was off the ground away from the critters and i nailed a old egg crate mattress thing to it for more comfort(not necessary). i set my tent up on that and it was actually surprisingly stable and comfortable. i then slit fire wood and took dryer lent and Vaseline and started a fire. We had a great night, fire kept the bugs away and we were off the cold hard ground. i know i didn't COMPLETELY... next comment
