in paracord. Both the hammock and gillnet offer 1000 ft of paracord, and you'll still have 2000 ft of very strong sheathing to twist or braid for use as lashing, too.
So it takes you a couple of weeks to weave all that netting, so what? Each day's product can be hung as a gillnet, giving you more food each day. The netting can be wrapped around sapling frames, and be baited to catch crabs, mammals, birds, or fish. You can weave netting by firelight, or while sitting in the tree-blind by the pile of fish guts, waiting to arrow a bear.
If you create small brush-piles all around your campsite, all within 50m so checking them is quick and easy, and start baiting them with fresh cambium strips and fish guts, you'll soon have animals using the brush-piles as cover vs weather and predators. Add some grass, etc, to help them vs rain and wind.. Get them associating your scent with food, not danger. Dont waste time and effort on the sort of half-arsed snares that you can make out of the gear that's allowed on this show. Basically, all they do is teach animals to be afraid of your scent. But if you make the boxtrap frames, set them in the brush-piles, and bait them, the animals will soon become comfortable going inside of the frames. Then you add the side netting, and re-bait them. When you see that the critters are entering open-ended trap, you add the x'd stick rear ends to the boxtraps. and re-bait them. When you again notice that the bait is gone, you add the triggers, but don't set them. Just have them present, so that the critters learn to not be wary of them.
THEN, when you see the animals are entering the traps for the bait, you add the sliding doors and set the triggers. Then you wont be teaching the animals anything, cause you'll have eaten them.
Such traps also provide some protection for your catch, vs predators and you'll have live critters. If you hold a rabbit by his hind legs and shake him a bit, he'll squeal, and that noise might well bring you another critter that you can arrow. Remember, those predators are eating YOUR game. So when you eat the predator, you're also saving other animals that you'll be eating later. This is a far better use for your time than making spoons and chopsticks, making an elaborate shelter, making a drum, chair, or dream-catcher.
the contestants ARE allowed to arrow a couple of bears, if they've previously obtained the required licensing and permits. A couple of 200 lbs bears, and a lot of netting will set to it that a team is all set for the win. It's not rocket science, it's not against the rules.
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