Survival trapping

MaxTheKnife

MaxTheKnife

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I recently found a great site about trapping in general but mainly dedicated to survival trapping. http://www.buckshotscamp.com has everything you'd need for a survival situation and also if you just want to get into trapping for profit and food gathering.

After buying his book 'Buckshot's Modern Trapper's Guide For Xtreme Safety, Survival, Profit and Pleasure' I became hopelessly hooked on trapping as a means of providing some variety at the dinner table. And also as a means to keep the varmints off my chickens! Go to his site and look all around. You'll be busy for a while if you like to read. So far I've bought his trapping book, CD, a Palite ,one of his Deluxe trapping kits and five of his video's. Excellent quality stuff with great customer service! And he's a nice guy to boot.

He'll help you fix your critter problems and will take the time to answer your emails as he gets them. After reading his book I got out in the woods and set a box trap to catch a problem skunk that's been raiding my chickens. I wound up catching a 10 pound coon instead. Buckshot's book has a recipe titled 'BBQ Coon Delight' in it. I followed that recipe and had the best BBQ ever. Way better than beef. There's lots of other real simple recipes in the book too. And the CD has everything the book has in it and tons more. It's almost like information overload unless you're a hopeless sponge like me. I love it and can't get enough of it.

I don't mean for this to sound like a plug but you owe it to yourself to check out his site. Sign up for his newsletter if you like good down to earth information about a variety of topics. Your email address is safe with him. He hates spam as much as the rest of us. Just send an email to: buckshot2@chartermi.net with this message in the subject box: Sign up for newsletter. Brian, you'll get a kick out of Buckshot. His real name is Bruce Hemming but he goes by Buckshot. I love that guy! But wait till you meet him for yourself.
 
All my survival plans involve trapping for food to some degree. I've been hunting several times, and took the time to set snares while we where out. Suprisingly, I've done about as well with them as I have with the guns.
I'm going by numbers, not volume. It's hard to humanely and effectively trap big game, but little critters strike me as better survival food anyway.
 
That's true, and there's usually a lot more small game in a given area than big game so it's a more sustainable food source. If you'll go to Buckshot's site you'll find some snares that were designed to snare large game including deer in a survival situation. They're called 'cam-lock' snares and are designed to quickly kill the animal. So there's no suffering and very little thrashing around so it saves the snares from getting all kinked up. I've got a few of them and can see that they would do the job quite well.

What seems to be even better than small game snares in a survival situation is the Conibear #110 body gripper trap. I have no experience trapping with them but have watched Buckshot's 'Beginning Trapping' video and he demonstrates how to set them in great detail. All you have to do is stake them or wire them off and set them in a trail just like you would a snare. But when the trap fires it grabs the critter and quickly kills it. So you don't have to worry about lost traps or kinked up snares. They're small enough at 4 1/2" square to fit in most daypacks or survival kits.
 
Trapping for profit is a thing of the past. There's just not that much money in it anymore. Basic trapping methods are one of the most important survival skills you can have...wilderness OR urban.

Paul
 
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