info for after peak oil

kelee877 · Posted: Thu Mar 17, 2005 6:57 am Post subject: info for after peak oil

I am very fortunate to be dating a man that is a hunter and a trapper..and since we have been going out I have learned so much about the process involved in trapping and cleaning..he was skinning beavers last night..stinky wow..and the tools he has to do all of this process....just basic tools but the shapes and sizes...just thought that learning to skin would be a usefull tool for everyone..so getting some flat boards to dry the skins on is usefull...hey this is all fascinating to me..knowledge is the key to sucess..no matter what the knowledge is..

Barbara · Posted: Thu Mar 17, 2005 7:31 am Post subject:

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killJOY · Fission Joined: Feb 21, 2005 Posts: 2478 Location: ^NNE^

My husband, the hunter and trapper,
In furs looks awfully dapper.
He can skin with a cleaver
A big stinking beaver,
And in Spring he reels after snapper.
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Muffloj · Tar Sands Joined: Jan 03, 2005 Posts: 43

A fresh kill of beaver shouldnt be that stinky realy well depending on where you are hunting some beavers stink like hell when they are alive ( even a human can hunt down a stinky beaver by smell.. euwww). Unless he got into the scent glands while striping his hine legs, which can ruin the meat , your back yard for a few hours, and your appetite.
Skinning is an excellent skill, and hunting/trapping is almost a philosophy. Not just a chasing down and killing of animals. I requires an inate knowlege of your environment and its inhabitants. Trapping to me the most exclusive form of hunting. One who can determine where his prey has been and exactly where it is likely to return, silently capturing his prey with only the mechanichs of a few simple knots. That indivisual has the skills needed to hunt, shoot, trap any game he chooses. Along with this comes the the ability to skin, pluck, scorch, scale and/or gut by experience any game that comes your way. Along with this one can learn to cure and preserve his meat as well as tanning and leatherwork.

kelee877 · Posted: Thu Mar 17, 2005 12:56 pm Post subject:

thank you for the responses..the beavers where stinky because we had to freeze them for a few days..and then had to thaw to be skinned..we have other jobs on top of the hunting, trapping and fishing...

Pops · Posted: Thu Mar 17, 2005 5:36 pm Post subject: Re: info for after peak oil