All following tips are for survival use only. Use of any of the following hunting techniques in “normal” times will get you arrested by a game warden. Try at your own risk.
DL_Hunting_Tips001
Talked with a man, today, February 18, 2005, who is from a Finnish family. His father was in our military, and bought some land on the GI Bill, years ago.
Some of the conversation about that, and hunting, follows.
Some of it will be necessarily graphic, and bloody, so be warned.
This file will have the first few hunting tips, which are very good ones.
DL: The area we lived had been largely a copper mining area. When the copper
mines closed down, it left us in the middle of (what I think he called “Misery,”
Michigan. Misery was the area’s name.)
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Misery Bay QuickFacts page Average Snowfall: nine to fifteen feet
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“We had to hunt for what we ate, most of the time. Our land was so far out it took three days to get to the store and back. When my parents left my sister and I would be alone for three days, without food, unless we could hunt it. There was no electricity, no running water. Our food was either frozen, dried, or preserved (canned, salted.)”
“What would you eat?” I asked.
DL replied, “Anything, birds, skunk, rabbits, deer, whatever we could find. (My
questions about Skunk are answered below.)
“What would you hunt with?”
DL: 30.06, shotgun, 22, depending on what we were after.
TIPS: a few Hunting tips follow
Game Birds
“You can skin, or pluck a game bird, by a simple method. Put your feet on the wings of the bird, after it is dead, and get a hold of its feet. Pull slowly, (and I mean, slow-ly, DL said.) The breast will pull out cleanly, and you can just cut the legs off and cook the meat. The innards will come out in one little string, that you can then process. You know, like gizzard, heart, liver, and so on.”
Skunk
“Skunk is a very tasty meat.” “What about the odor?” I asked. “You have to hit them in the head, or you will have ruined meat, because the odor gland will go off, DL replied.” Next sentence a little graphic for some: “You grab the testicles of the animal, and make a deep cut, removing them and the anus, (getting the scent gland,) as soon as you kill them.” (It would follow that a similar method might be used with a female skunk.)”
Rabbits.
“If you are tracking a rabbit, it will always make a direct line for its burrow. Keep an eye on where it is heading. The first time it starts tracking around a tree, or other obstacle, stand still and watch. The rabbit will immediately be hiding and watching you. After that first turn, it will already be hiding. It wants you to follow the track it made around the tree. Don’t follow it, you will loose it.”
Geese.
“Geese will not fly at night. The will absolutely not fly at night. We would save our bullets by taking all our geese after dark. We would walk up to them while they were sleeping and just club them. They will stand there and let you do that. “
More about the snow.
Seven foot snows would be common. DL’s job was to climb out on top, and dig a tunnel, so light could get to the windows. They made their own snow shoes, out of Poplar wood. It took two days to get the bend in the wet wood.
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Keeping The "Slicing Edge." Or: Loose Your Belly, Ruin your Knife!
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Index to DL Dangerous Many of the practices of DL (no one's real name or initials,) and his father, are actually poaching. Tips given here are most certainly illegal, and probably dangerous. Use them at your own risk. Not Posted on the Web, but on my disks..