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Easy instructions how to make a simple snare that can be used in a survival situation. WARNING... this should only be used in a survival situation. ...
All you'll need is: -a knife -a stick (see pic.) -some string
Take the string and fold one end over about an inch and a half. Now tie the the folded part in a lose overy-undery knot and thread the opposite end of...
Find a well used trail (look for a long line where no plants are growing and the leaves are packed down) and look for a place that creates a natural f...
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in Australia you can trap them without a license, you would have to check your local laws to find out what the requirement is.
There are many articles that can be sighted as to survival in the wilderness, however there are two reasons hunting is in the fall. Breading is over and animals starve in the winter that is why hunters cull the heard in the fall.
The snow shoe rabbit does not fully digest it food so in the winter when food is scarce the snow shoe rabbit eats its own fecal material.
I wouldn’t want to eat the rabbits dinner.
http://xkcd.com/481/
Good comic for intelligent people, btw.
I've done a several survival courses in my life and the instructors always admit that the use of snares and fishing line is mainly for entertainment purposes in a survival situation. They had us skinning cattail roots and gutting dandelion greens for food, and setting snares and fishing for amusement. One winter we made toasted pine jerky from the tender inner layer of pine bark, stole walnuts from squirrels, and dug up wild onions. The squirrels often forget their caches so no squirrels were actually harmed during that expedition in winter wilderness survival.
The vegan will come out on top because human civilization is predominantly built on plant predation and the vegan has made a study of plant food sources that hunters will ignore. In most hunter-gatherer societies the gatherers keep everyone afloat when the hunters frequently come back empty handed. If you know your local vegetation you can eat well through the winter. Even the game that you might possibly catch with snares eats vegetation to survive, and so can you. The Roman army survived long marches by eating greens found along the way, accompanied by a bit of salt. The salt paid to the Roman troops was their "salary". In Icaria, residents eat wild greens and have an exceedingly long and healthy life. Their lifestyle and diet is being studied now to discover why greens are so life sustaining. I see bison and cattle surviving on greens and they are much bigger than I am. Obviously, greens in the wild is the real key to survival.
1. Killing is immoral. We don't kill humans, why should we kill animals?
2. The meat industry is the number one cause of global warming. Even if you meat-eaters don't care that your eating another living creature, you're still killing the earth.
3. I'm helping end world hunger. The ratio of food fed to cows and the amount of meat produced is 7:1. That means that if every family in America replaced 4 oz of beef with 4 oz of tofu, one meal of every week, there would be 10 gallons of fresh drinking water for every person on this planet.
4. It's healthier. While many people with "standard" diets may be obese and have various health issues, only 7% of vegetarians are obese.
5. It's not that hard. Despite what people may think, based on the rewards and consequences, it's not much harder to live a guilt-free life.
6. It's much cooler. There are many celebrities and famous people that are vegetarian and even vegan. If you want the list go here: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_vegetarians
7. It's different. 'nuff said...
Even YOU are admitting that you think it's okay to eat meat because society says it's okay.
Hence, Ironchopstix = Sheep
These teeth are called Canine teeth...I'll let you think about that one for a minute.
I've never hunted, I avoid stepping on ants and carry spiders outside instead of killing them.
I also eat meat. I'm an omnivore, and the convolutions and compromises I would have to go through in order to eliminate meat and animal products from my diet are onerous and unnecessary. The reason I have never hunted because I never *had* to, but growing up poor in the backwoods with a father who used his rifle to put much needed food on the table made the whole idea of vegetarianism seem like well intentioned drivel to me. You must kill to live, and while I personally think that americans eat far to much meat, I don't kid myself by saying that eating a cow is any more murder than decimating the cabbage patch.
Believe me, if it ever came down to a survival situation, you'd kill poor Thumper with your bare hands if you could, hunger has it's own realities, not that you seem to be a big fan of reality. And if you somehow harnessed your innate human sentience to starve yourself to death instead of eating poor little Thumper all it would prove is that intelligence may not have completely proven its worth as a survival trait in the strictest Darwinian sense.
Good tutorial by the way, but wire would be more humane if you had it, the last thing you want is for the animal you snare to survive and suffer from injuries from a poorly laid snare.
Adult dolphins kill seals and baby dolphins just for fun life is cruel.
Chimps make spears to hunt other primates with, Apes are not vegetarians. Would you argue that monkeys are not animals?
http://news.nationalgeographic.com/news/2007/02/070222-chimp-video.html
(chimps hunting monkeys with spears)
Sorry to step in here and I really could care less eat you eat unless you are pregnant, don't have a sick malnourished baby do to your religious beliefs. As for the veggy thing do you have any idea how many animals have to be killed to grow and harvest an acre of any vegetables?
As for the cool people that are doing it, name one Olympic or professional level athlete that is a vegetarian (surfers don't count), they do not exist.
For the egg people , a vegan one explained to me that eating a chicken egg was the equivalent to sucking on a bloody tampon, but then again the vegan people are OK with eating a human afterbirth (placenta?) and consider it to be the only form of meat ok to eat.
Eat what you like and be happy, don't criticize others for what they choose to eat and don't be sucked into a cult. Never send money to an organization that manipulates your emotions to get a financial response from you. ie if an organization is posting disturbing images to try to get you to open your wallet they are manipulating you by getting you to react with your primitive emotional brain instead of you rational human brain, peta is just as guilty as the anti abortion groups in using nasty images to make lots of money while never accomplishing anything except taking your money.
Do you really thin it will become illegal to eat meat? then do not send these people your money. Just eat what you like.
Hmm... Waddaya know... The third animal in the picture is an insect DIPSHIT! I really didn't want an online argument to go that far, but you asked for it.