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feeds@yuku.com (troutwhisperer) — Tue, 08 Dec 2009 05:10:09 GMT

http://www.areavoices.com/troutwhisp/

Three-toed amphiuma (Amphiuma tridactylum)

feeds@yuku.com (panbreaux) — Sun, 06 Dec 2009 09:42:22 GMT

anyone ever eat one of these big salamanders?

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Rabbit stick success

feeds@yuku.com (Rolling Snare) — Fri, 04 Dec 2009 14:21:07 GMT

I just made a new rabbit stick. This one is made of eastern hornbeam. It flies great, perfectly horizontal and very fast. I went deer hunting yesterday and had a stalk busted by a damn gray squirrel. I'm not gonna carry a gun (bowhunting) just fo the tree rats, so I took a nice seasoned piece of wood I had laying around, rough carver it with a 12 in machete, and finished with a mora. Here it is, what do you guys think?

Gill net

feeds@yuku.com (BCbud) — Wed, 02 Dec 2009 23:21:02 GMT

Can anyone tell me what kind of knots are used to make a gill net and how you get nice straight lines and basically how to make one?

Beaver Pics

feeds@yuku.com (bglong) — Wed, 02 Dec 2009 11:24:11 GMT

Thre Beaver I caught this season. Little one in a 330, the others snared in trails.

This one is the biggest I've ever caught.. 55-60 lbs.

** I HAD TO SHARE THIS **

feeds@yuku.com (sandhills tracker) — Mon, 23 Nov 2009 03:26:46 GMT

go to youtube and type in, : CAROLINA CAMERA:THE SLING SHOT MAN.

it will blow you away at what a 70 yr old man can do w/ a homemade beanshooter=slingshot---seriously he is the best i have ever seen!!hands down!!--he literally fed his family w/ a homemade sling shot{flat banded!}---name is rufus hussey,,a news crew films this amazing man!-rob

Osage selfbow first deer kill!

feeds@yuku.com (knappin hixton) — Thu, 19 Nov 2009 06:54:37 GMT
I shot a doe last evening at dusk. Finally all the hard work pays off! Pictures are a little weak, it was raining.

I have been flintknapping for twelve years with the intention of hunting with my flint points. Four years ago I connected with Little Tree Bows (Brad M) and he taught me to make self bows in trade for flintknapping lessons. I have been hunting deer with my selfbow for three seasons now, with little luck and lots of broken and lost arrows. Only one real shot that I...

Selfbow Buck

feeds@yuku.com (Iowaselfbow) — Thu, 19 Nov 2009 02:36:41 GMT
Just wanted to share a picture of a buck I killed on Oct. 30th of this year. I was shooting a selfbow I build in 2003.

Taking a deer apart without a saw.

feeds@yuku.com (YTBM) — Mon, 16 Nov 2009 10:25:29 GMT
I didn't want to hijack Kiwi's thread about splitting a carcass so I started this one. These are pics of how I cut up my deer. I know a lot of you do this a lot but maybe some haven't yet and these pictures might help.

This deer was field dressed, I cut the lower legs off and removed the sternum to facilitate cooling the carcass. So it's split from the anus all the way to the throat....

R.I.T.H ?

feeds@yuku.com (staveshaver) — Thu, 12 Nov 2009 21:37:28 GMT
Just curios ,who might want to do a rabbit stick in the hat? I'd like to do it even if there is only a few of us in on it .

Butchering. Splitting the Carcase.

feeds@yuku.com (KiwiCoote) — Wed, 11 Nov 2009 22:51:31 GMT
Hi All

When I'm hunting, I will often just cut all the meat off the skeleton up on the hillside. No point in carrying bones for miles. While I've cut up dozens of animals, I seldom split a carcase and separate the chops.

Things could be a bit different now. I have an arrangement with a cousin that I will butcher an occasional sheep on her farm in return for some meat. So I want to learn more about 'proper' butchering techniques.

I butchered a...

making a blow gun

feeds@yuku.com (Oregon Abo) — Sat, 07 Nov 2009 13:42:28 GMT

I was wondering how to make a blowgun? Powerful enough to kill a rabit, but not enough to make my mom mad

ethno. books of interest list

feeds@yuku.com (aurox) — Sun, 01 Nov 2009 21:02:02 GMT
has anyone read any good ethnographic books on trapping, north american indian trapping, and other northern people in scandinavia and siberia as they have similiar animals to north america and recent recorded use of the traps, at least for those of us in north america, the best one i have seen yet is :

by john m. cooper, called snares, deadfalls, and other traps of the northern algonkians and northern athapaskans, he wrote it in the 1930's, hard to find but i get from library...

shell fishin lure...

feeds@yuku.com (weaselbear5) — Sun, 01 Nov 2009 10:33:11 GMT

yucca cordage, mussel shell, fire hardened privet hook,

First deer-Atlatl - Graphic photo included

feeds@yuku.com (Huey Tlatoani) — Sun, 25 Oct 2009 10:11:07 GMT
I got up early this morning to go do some goose hunting, and on the way to the marshes saw a doe deer which had been hit by a vehicle off the side of the road. It had managed to drag itself about 60 yards from the place where it was hit, and was still trying to get away despite the complete loss of function of it's hind legs. I had my atlatl and a triple bladed foreshaft which I made for "small" game, coyotes down. I hit it from about 15-20 feet away (so as not to get injured...

fishing hooks

feeds@yuku.com (weaselbear5) — Sat, 24 Oct 2009 20:08:05 GMT
locust.

My first Traditional kill

feeds@yuku.com (Quest for fire) — Tue, 20 Oct 2009 13:49:22 GMT
Hey how are you all?
I got my first Doe this year.
Even though it was not Primitive equipment I am pretty proud of myself.

Viper longbow,magnus two blade broadhead.
16 yards leaning out the back of platform with my bow arm shoulder smack dab up against a tree.

I cleaned...

coyote traps?

feeds@yuku.com (aurox) — Sun, 18 Oct 2009 21:19:33 GMT
does anyone out there ever found info on primitive coyote traps? i know they are some of the most challenging to trap with steel,

First rabbit stick

feeds@yuku.com (Rainy Raven) — Sun, 18 Oct 2009 20:59:36 GMT

All right, on another forum I read there was a discussion on the Cold Steel Bushman's usefulness as a spear (http://www.zombiehunters.org/forum/viewtopic.php?f=33&t=50608&start=24) where I opined that it would be better used as a cheap, effective backup blade than a spear and a rabbit stick would probably do more to put food in your belly, I made this:

Video: Cherokee fletching a blowgun dart

feeds@yuku.com (David Morningstar) — Thu, 15 Oct 2009 00:39:24 GMT
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-lPx9B_gR50

All done in one smooth movement, not like I've been doing it at all.

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outdoor blog

Three-toed amphiuma (Amphiuma tridactylum)

Rabbit stick success

Gill net

Beaver Pics

** I HAD TO SHARE THIS **

Osage selfbow first deer kill!

Selfbow Buck

Taking a deer apart without a saw.

R.I.T.H ?

Butchering. Splitting the Carcase.

making a blow gun

ethno. books of interest list

shell fishin lure...

First deer-Atlatl - Graphic photo included

fishing hooks

My first Traditional kill

coyote traps?

First rabbit stick

Video: Cherokee fletching a blowgun dart

I HAD TO SHARE THIS