Tuesday, June 7, 2016

What Will We Do When All the Game is Gone?


Some thoughts and personal observations on this topic from a dear friend and experienced 
woodsman who has lived in the mountains and seen the changes take place over many 
decades. Unlike from days of old we have lost the knowledge and ability to trap and hunt 
small game. Something that one day may become a necesity for some people as meat 
becomes far too expensive for the average family to buy and the large game disappears 
through poaching and overhunting.

Have you thought how you might cope in such a situation?

In addition to large wild game disappearing quicker than nature can replace it, farmer's in rural 
areas will become very sensitive to anyone moving across their land as rustling will sky rocket 
as soon as the game disappears.
Photo Credit Mark Kent

Anyone can pick up a book and read how something is done, but there is no school real hands
on experience.

There is more than tying a hook on the end of a line, and putting something on the hook to get 
fish to bite. 
Photo Credit Leonard J Matthews

A book can tell you where a good place is to set your trap, and it can give you all 
sort's of drawing's and picture's in how to make a trigger that will activate your trap, but do you 
have the skills to make and set your trap?

Fortune will favor the individual who can pick up and move into the deep wild wilderness areas, 
when the rural areas have been hunted out. 

To do this, one needs fare more skills to do better than making due, and to live comfortably.

Rusty 
June 10th 2010

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