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DL Hunting Tips 002. April 16, 2005
("DL" is a "made-up" set of initials, not having anything to do with a real person's name or real initials.)
Various tips, not only on hunting, and a continuation about DL's life. Notes from various conversations, since last time. Use of any of these tips is "on you," as they say in North Carolina. Some may be dangerous, or illegal, or not work safely, if you don't do them right..
TRAPPING
DL's Grandfather did most of the trapping, with commercial cages. " His sauna was always filled with drying furs..."
FISHING
"My father always said that "trout will not bite if the wind is blowing from the East."
"I used
to take a hockey stick, and screw a treble hook to the base. Then I would lean
over the bank and look to see the fish. You could snag the fish with the hook on
the stick. If the game warden came by, I would use the hockey stick like a
walking stick, and the hook would be hidden. "
WATER
"Everybody up there, (In Misery Bay, Michigan.) carries a short length of hose. When needing water, they would break the ice, and put one end of the hose into the water. Creating a siphoning action with their mouths, the water would run out, on to the top of the ice, all night. No need to try to break the ice, again. When you needed water, you just used the hose."
HUNTING And HIKING.
"We didn't wear heavy boots when we walked. We would wear some sort of light, sturdy shoe. We would place one or two bread bags over our socks, and that would keep your feet dry, and not weigh you down. Always saved the bread bags for that... You know, those recycling bags they have now, in grocery stores, might work. too...."
PORCUPINES AND SAVING YOUR DOG'S NOSE
"My dogs seemed to get a lot of porcupine quills in them. If you clip off the end of a porcupine's quill, oxygen will get into the quill, and it will begin to back itself out. You don't have to tear up your dog's nose to help him.
A porcupine quill has a hook on it, and will continually bury itself deeper and deeper, if you don't get it out. Just pulling the quill out, will hurt your dog, so clip off the end and let it work itself out. ... Our dogs just always seemed to get into the porcupines, and want to play with them...."
KEEPING YOUR COFFEE HOT
"We used to keep our coffee hot while reading, by holding a Styrofoam cup over the candle. The liquid would carry off the heat, and the cup would not burn. You would get your coffee pippin hot..."
COMING OUT OF THE COUNTRY
"It was very difficult for me to leave Misery Bay, (more about that,) and come into what you call "normal." It sometimes, still is. ... You have so many laws here. We had laws there, but no one to enforce them.
I was eighteen when I left, and I staid in an apartment. You could not work on your car outside, you could not do most things I was used to. When you went to the park, there were all these people there..."
(DL had shared that he would often go out for a month at a time, in Misery Bay. Would take simple fare, like a shotgun, his pocket knife, and toilet paper. ... more to come about that...)
TOILET PAPER
Let me know if you like this open-style format of telling about these tips. paul@survivalprimer.com While on the subject of toilet paper, lets talk a little more. I asked DL what he would take if he had to take an emergency pack. His answer was to ask me for which season.
After thinking for a while, the first thing he came up with was toilet paper. Interestingly, he had more uses than what you normally think of it for...
"Well, there is the first use, but you can always use toilet paper to start fires, it will always burn. As well, you can cover any exposed parts of your body with it...."
MORE TO COME
DL promises to write some of these articles, himself, and to find some pictures. I think that the information DL has is from a standpoint of actually living in what we might call "survival times," and this section of http://www.survivalprimer.com will grow, greatly. Paul.
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