Becker trap= dead squirrel. Warning-dead animal content

Hey Md 25v

Thank You for a great post and wonderful pix........I really appreciate your participation in the last contest and your willingness to share with us......You have ALMOST inspired me to do a little cordage making....BUT....nobody is quite that persuasive....LOL.......Very nice job and I really hope that your Scouts appreciate what you do.....YEAH.....

All Best....

ethan
 
orca8589 said:
They're excited, huh? To be going out in the woods (with - *ahem* - a well-fed adult) with not much in the way of grub, and catching/gathering their own vittles? Hmmmmmm . . . better be on the lookout for any 'man-size' traps out there.

Our boys have a running joke in our Pack, about earning their 'Cannibalism' badge, if we don't bring enough food. :D :p

Md25v - I'm interested to hear how your little trip goes out there. Sounds like it'll be a blast.

~Chris
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Well fed? Ha! I will be doing the whole thing with them!

The critters will be stashed at various points in the woods and they will have to navigate there via compass. I will have to do the same thing as them to get my grub. (The Scoutmasters will be hiding eachothers food as well.)
 
Ethan Becker said:
Hey Md 25v

You have ALMOST inspired me to do a little cordage making....BUT....nobody is quite that persuasive....LOL.......
ethan
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Have you ever heard of making cordage out of the intestine of your game animals? Squirrel, for example, can make a three ply bow string that is strong enough to use on a 35lb bow. There is a lot of interest in the Paleo community with using every part of an animal taken by primitive means and making "gut cord" is a pretty easy was to get some extra material out of your kill. Its also very strong. Here is how to make it.

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DerekH said:
Well fed? Ha! I will be doing the whole thing with them!

The critters will be stashed at various points in the woods and they will have to navigate there via compass. I will have to do the same thing as them to get my grub. (The Scoutmasters will be hiding eachothers food as well.)
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That sounds like a very interesting trip. :thumbup: Love the fact that the boys are "working for their dinner".

~Chris
 
Very nice.......

I had not gotten the word on gut cordage......My aversion to cordage making had more to do with dogbane and yucca and hickory roots as raw materials.....When all is said and done I can be a very impatient guy and cordage has always made me crazy...... .....Thanks for posting a very nice tutorial and thanks for doing it here......... really nice job.....

All Best.....

ethan
 
Great as usual Md. as you know I hold you in the highest reg
I've done a fair amount of back yard trapping my self it is great practice and loads of fun..
I am sometimes reluctant to eat yard squirrels however as i don;t know if they've exposed to poisons and what not.
 
also as far as cordage goes, I have never tried gut cordage (testimony to my lack of skill as a hunter)
but for readily usable temp cordage that won;t be put under too much stress Gree cattail leaves are a breeze to use for light purposes.. Here's a blue gil rig I made last fall
the cordage It had dried a bit and loosed up at this point which is noticed by the gaps in the strand..Also my skill is no where near that of my good bud md
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honey locust thorn as a hook
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mallard feather fly
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It was servicable and definitely could handle a pan fish if any of them would have been stupid enough to go for the fly

vegetative cordage however if put away wet will mold on you pretty quick
 
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RR, That's really cool. I never thought of using cat tail green. I though you had to dry it out, then rehydrate it to make cordage. I have cattail all over the place around me, gonna go get some after lunch and try that out!

P.S. the Skookum tasted blood for the first time yesterday:D
 
md it works great green, but once it dries as I mentioned it loosens up, But if you wet it again and it swells it;s fine.
 
RR- do you have to roll the leaves to separate the fibers before you start the reverse wrap or can you just use the leaves whole without going through the extra work?
 
I usually split them to make them finer and smack up with a stick over a smooth surface to tenderize the cellulose... It is not incredible cordage,. but is it readily accesible and usable..Try to pick leaves that are un-bent as creases weaken it allot
 
Quick and dirty cordage is all I'm looking for. I know that thinner and tighter cord looks cooler in pics and is stronger but most of the time the jobs I do with cordage don't require the strength and that means it wasted effort in making it.
 
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