Gotta crawl before you can walk!
Type: Posts; User: Backwater Bill
Gotta crawl before you can walk!
I recently made my first Ojibway Bird Snare for a challenge and thought I would share. The challenge was to film yourself using your knife to make something in the woods. I used my Mora Clipper to do...
Careful what you ask for! LOL :eek2:
I agree! Way to get out there and do it! You know I think I would have put the ham down first too instead of the carrots and potatoes. Thank you for sharing what you learned! And I am very surprised...
I do not intentionally fish for gar but know some people who do for sport and to eat. I have caught gar on live bait and a spoon while fishing for catfish and bass.
Just a few weeks ago I was...
Great thread! Very cool guys. Makes me want to try this. I've got alot of cattail and corn here.
Welcome and greetings from S Indiana
This is my main approach as well. I do have a small aluminum pill bottle with some small hooks, lead sinkers, monofilament 6 lb. test but I don't think you can beat about 100 feet of bankline and...
Interesting about the microwave. What makes me question this source though is that it makes no effort to distinguish between Oak species when selecting acorns for food. I'm skeptical you can just...
I just ID some Smooth Sumac and was not sure if I had Staghorn Sumac or not. After doing some more research I learned that the Staghorn's stem where the berry cluster forms has a hairiness to it,...
I have not processed acorns for palatable nut meats nor flour yet because I've not learned enough to feel at least semi-confident that I will produce some good results, but I'm pretty sure that the...
I was amazed at the number of Poison Hemlock plants found along ditches, roadsides and culverts in Southern Indiana after I learned to ID the plant. It grows everywhere it seems and I've seen it next...
If anyone would like to see a back episode, you can visit vimeo.com and they have them for free with not commercial interruption. I've been following the program and find it interesting for the group...
Thanks fellas. I appreciate the warm greeting. We had high sixties here just three days ago and I just went outside to give my buddy back his Maglite he left in my truck and darned if it ain't...
Vimeo.com has all of the episodes available for stream viewing if anyone would like to watch the previous shows:
Here is episode #1: http://www.vimeo.com/20092065
I am married, mid thirties, enjoy hunting, fishing, reading and the outdoors in general. Since October of last year I've been studying and trying to practice wilderness survival skills. Looking...