3 night bushcraft/hunting trip

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evbouret

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Hey guys,

Next month I'm planning a 3 night backpacking adventure on Kauai for goats and pigs. I'll be mainly going for a trophy boar, giving myself almost 4 whole days to get one. If I dont have anything in the bag by the last day anything I can eat is going down...30lb nanny goats to 50lb pigs are going in my pillow case.

The place I'm backpacking is 6 miles through ankle breaking trail. There is a small shack with a picnic bench that I plan on camping in. Don't need to bring a tarp, but rather sleep on top of the picnic bench. Nice and dry and bug free. I've camped here a bunch of times and am rather comfortable in the area with a minimum ammount of equipment. Wild freshwater prawns can be harvested for food, as can freshwater shrimp and small shellfish. This will supplement any other food I plan to bring.

I may end up bringing a 6x8 silnylon tarp and paracord for rigging, depending on how confident I am on getting to the shelter before anyone else.

Here's my list, please critique.

SLEEPING:
3/4 length sleeping pad
SnugPak Jungle bag

CLOTHING:
cabelas microtex pants
polyester tank top
LS cabelas hot weather shirt
Fleece jacket
paclite goretex rainjacket
baseball hat
tabis
sunglasses
camo facemask
boardshorts + clean tshirt for around camp

COOKING + WATER
aluminum pot
small piece of sponge and chunk of soap
2 water bottles
iodine
Bic lighter
Some sort of firestarter, likely cottonballs and rubbing alcohol in a small vial.

BUTCHERING/KNIVES
3 6' pieces of 550 cord
2 pillow cases
sea salt
trash bag (to isolate gear from meat, meat will NOT go in trash bag)
Bark River Woodland Special - skinning knife
Forschner 10" butcher knife - trail knife/butchering knife
small diamond sharpener

HUNTING ACCESORIES
Bow
6 arrows/broadheads
Release
8x binoculars

MISC
Camera (fresh batteries, empty memory card)
Headlamp (fresh batteries)
Miniature hawaiian sling made from an old arrow shaft for spearing freshwater prawns
TP


FIRST AID/SURVIVAL
emergency blanket
moleskin
gauze pads
ankle wrap/pressure wrap
few bandaids
micropore tape
Bic lighter
 
year round...depending on the island you live theres different different seasons and game animals. Pigs for the most part are year round saturdays, sundays, mondays and state holidays and high bag limits, 2 per hunter per day in many areas. Goats are the same. wild sheep are more carefully managed and have limits of 1 phpd, feral cattle 2phpd, deer have lottery tags and stuff.

feral cattle, wild donkey, wild boar, spanish goats, mouflon sheep, feral sheep, axis deer, blacktail deer and thats more or less it for mammals

we have every kind of bird under the sun here

3-4 different pheasant species including ringneck pheasant and kalij pheasant, a few different francolins, quail, chukars, doves, I'm sure I'm missing some. Rio GRande Turkey
 
Here's my list, please critique.
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Never been to Hawaii but I'd recommend a hat with a full brim to keep the sun and rain off your ears and neck. I was a huge fan of baseball hats for most of my life 'til I tried a boonie hat, then an Akubra felt hat.

Other than that, I see nothing wrong with the list. Have fun and best of luck to ya. Please let us know how the trip goes.
 
Here's a photo of the shack from a prior trip down there. We enjoyed BBQ'd ribs that night roasted over guava coals

Good note on the brimmed hat, I have a woodland camp boonie hat that I normally wear when I go on this hike. The pigs tend to hang in the jungle where its cooler, but if I do decide to get a goat one day it's usually blazing heat out there. I might possibly pack a stick of face sunscreen too.

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Cool! I'm looking forward to hearing a trip report. I'm curious to hear how much effort and time go into prawn hunting and if that activity eats into the pig hunt. Keep us posted.
 
its actually really easy to get a feed of prawns. At night time with a flash light you can shine into the pools and see the eyes reflecting...walk to the shore, put the tip of your spear about a foot from them and let er rip. In an hour or so at night you could get enough for a few people. Day time you need goggles because they're hiding underneath rocks, but still could get a bunch in a relatively short time.
 
Can you trap the prawns instead? Set the trap, hunt then check the traps when you get back?
 
yep, i have 5 prawn traps at my house...but theyre more heavy and bulky to hike in 6 miles with me. easier to slide a skinny little arrowshaft with 3 spear tips in my pack. I may catch 4-5 prawns out of a pool with the trap, but if I had the spear I could maybe get 2-3 out of each pool but go pool to pool and not have to wait 2 hours for the trap to fill up.
 
One thing. I've found bic lighters to be very good, but I like to be redundant in the 'fire' area. I'd also pack a ferro rod.

Some of the islands get a lot of rain over there. I'm sure you know what you are doing, but I always take along a contractor trash bag. It weighs almost nothing and has a hundred uses.

Sound like a great adventure you have planned! I am envious. Do us a favor and post some pics of you hunt when you return. Mahalo.
 
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