The thinking behind the Emergency Snare Kit

Many people have asked why the assortment of snares in your kit, what were you thinking. That is simple. The idea was to make a kit that weight under 3 and 1/2 pounds.  SEE DVD  Enough snares to supply a person with food if lost in the woods or a small plane crash for month or longer of food. Kind of general kit to cover as wide variety of animals as possible. Squirrels, rabbits, raccoons, possums, ground hogs, marmots, deer,  feral hogs, You could even use the small snares for ducks and geese too.
 
 The movie The Snow Walker where a small plane crashed up in the Yukon territory.  An Inuit girl and a bush pilot fight to survive. There was caribou that could have been snared. The fake running them down and spearing caribou part made me laugh. Why did I laugh because I have seen caribou in Alaska and you would have to be the six million dollar man to run one down so you could spear it. For the younger reader the 6 million dollar was a old TV show where they rebuild a man to be stronger faster super hero type. He could run 60 mph.
 
Another great movie ( not for children because of the R rated scenes) is "Into the Wild" Sean Penn movie of a young man that try his survival skill against the wild wilderness of Alaska.
My Review of Into the Wilds
 
Sean Penn put the story of Alexander Supertramp story to the big screen.
 
The movie starts with a quote that ends with It is not that I don't love man by I love nature more.
I think Sean Penn spend and wasted way to much time trashing the young man parents.  Instead of harping over and over and over about Supertramp parents he could have brought it up once and drop it the movie would have been ten times better. The great parts of the movie was the scenery the sense of adventure the need to touch and feel nature. What the common person has missed is the feeling of being in  harmony of nature. Not the flowery bubbly nonsense the environmentalist talk about. The one part in the movie that is so true a scene where he shot a moose and was unable to preserve it in the wild the wolves were eating it, I am paraphrasing- Nature is cold, uncaring, merciless and does not care if you are prepared or not. My feeling is just that Mother nature has a bounty but it is constants struggle if you are going to survive in it.  You see him carrying a fishing net but yet not once in the movie do you see him catch a fish. The movie ending is powerful and moving Sean Penn really capture it well. Not a children movie but a good 18 and up movie.
 
The scene with the Forest service is priceless. This I have been saying for years the attitude of the people who work as Park Ranger is like we the American people are invading their private property. They forget we are paying their wages and they should be helping in every way for the American public to have the most enjoyment out of visiting the park. Their attitude should be thank you for paying my wages so I can enjoy this great life. Here is where to go fishing here is great camping spot. The kayaking part is awesome  and his grand adventure down the river really capture the feeling.
 
Alaska is wonderful, beautiful, vast wild place. A cold un forgiven place for those without the advance knowledge of survival. Going "INTO THE Wilds" carrying a book on what wild plants are safe to eat is not the way to learn wilderness survival. When you set off and start your grand adventure it is much better to take it slow and work your way up into it. Practice practice practice. I can not stress this enough Mother nature had provide him with the moose enough food for one man for 1 year. He was in harmony with the land nature provide her bounty but nature did not care if he did not have the knowledge to preserve it. When nature turns cold and uncaring there is no lonelier place on earth. That is why I made my Survivor 3 video on how to properly smoke meat. It was base on the finding of this movie. What 3 DVD's cost is nothing compare to paying the ultimate price of losing your life.  When that feeling hits you and you realize you are in serious trouble is your most critical time in survival.  Mother nature doesn't care you are just another person so what if you made a mistake that cost you your life. The sun is coming up in the east and setting in the west. The young man learn in the end nature beauty is best shared with other people. End review
 
If he had the emergency snare kit chances are he would have improved his chance to survive greatly. What can the snare kit do for you.
 
Depending on where you are in the country you could catch 6 rabbits or squirrels, 3 beaver, 3 raccoons, 2 deer or 2 feral hogs if they are in the area. What does this add up to in pounds of meat? Figure 1 pounds each for the rabbit and squirrel 6 pounds, 3 beaver at 35 pounds each 105 pounds 3 coons at 15 pounds each 45 pounds and two deer or feral hogs at 130 pounds each for 260 pounds. So your little 3 1/2 pound snare kits could if the animals are there provide you with 416 pounds of food. Now add 1 repair kit and you could do it again. Now of course not everyone can just go buy the snares and catch this much food. There is learning curve behind snaring. But with my DVD's most people can catch some animals with this snare kit. Experience is the best teacher. I can only provide you the tools and a knowledge base to get started it is up to you to actually go practice and learn the art. Thinking of trapping and snaring like hunting. If someone buys a gun that does not make him her a hunter. Only after actually hunting does the person learn to become a hunter. Trapping and snaring is the same way.  They are awesome wilderness survival tools if you have the knowledge base to go with them.
 
When you are starving that raccoon in the snare looks like the best tasting steak in the world.

This coon was just shot in the head with a 22. Note the snare cable by his back leg. He was body snared and still alive.
 
But what else works 24-7 for you weights this little bit that can provide this much food? Nothing on the market even comes close. Now think about this what gun could you carry to do all this that weights 3 1/2 pounds. Are you going to stay awake for 24 hours a day? What happen if you miss?
 
Once you learn the art of snaring you will have a great understanding of how to quietly quickly efficiently harvest wild game for food. With the hard times that are coming down on the Untied States I highly recommend you learn this skill while there is still time to prepare.

Comment:

Buckshot,

Just read your article on the survival snaring kit and had to comment on something. "the attitude of the people who work as Park Ranger is like we the American people are invading their private property." I think you are right. While I realize this was just a general statement regarding attitudes it's not 100% accurate. I say this because I'm a ranger with the National Park Service. The park that I work permits hunting, fishing, trapping, and more. You'll not find a bigger supporter
of these things than me. I'm also one of your long time customers. I've
taken quite a few animals with your traps & snares.I used to trap a little
as a teenager too.I've also used a few techniques that are quite illegal
because my family needed food and I had no money.I'm not above it.I'm not
proud of it but I did what I had to do.I don't condemn nor would I arrest
anyone else doing the same.Point is that some, actually a lot of us
Rangers hear what you're saying and couldn't ag ree more. You're putting out some of the best information there is.  I've recommended you to many people.As of late I'm working some with Jeff Randall of RAT Cutlery teaching week long survival courses.I teach a bit on survival snaring and I always recommend your products as I've used them and know they work. Keep the articles coming.

Thanks, J.D.  -  ALABAMA

J.D.  -  I Tried to reply to your email, but it bounced back to me...




*20 August, 2009 is the date that Buckshot's Articles were migrated from the Trapping Section to his own sub domain on RuralSurvivial.info