Hunting, Trapping and Fishing

This is a guest post and entry in our non-fiction writing contest  by Colonel D from Nashville I’m intrigued when I read in various books, blogs or hear others speak of how they plan to “live off the land”. My first thought is good luck with that one everyone else will have the same idea. The [...]

Guest post by Bruce ‘Buckshot’ Hemming Being a Modern Mountain man I have traveled all over and have had some very unique experiences in my lifetime. I snared a wild pig in Hawaii, trapped arctic blue fox in Alaska, trapped monster sized mink in North Dakota, and had some hair rising Spring beaver trapping in [...]

“This is a guest post by JimShyWolf and entry in our non-fiction writing contest – where you could win $100 cash. (This contest ends on June 5 2011 so get busy)” Let’s clear the air first. I’m not a professional archer or bow hunter. I’ve never published an article in BowHunter or Archery magazine, nor have I ever [...]

by Anonymous Squirrel For squirrel, move into an area where there are large oaks with acorns or other large nut and bud bearing trees. Locate cuttings (nut acorn shells the squirrels have cracked open with their teeth. If you can locate a den tree with the bark worn off near entrance holes, sit yourself down [...]

Many of you, have watched the old war movies where the approaching enemy trips an alarm made of tin cans. The advancing troops trip the wire and the cans fly up into the air, making enough noise to alert the good guys to the approach, allowing them time to mount an effective counter. In the [...]

Build a Repeating Box Trap When I lived in town I had the damnedest time with raccoons getting into the trash. Every morning I would wake to ripped trash bags and garbage strewn about. They would push over the cans to get to the goodies inside.   I tried everything I could think of. I [...]

Let’s face it, it don’t matter how many hundreds of pounds of wheat you have stashed away under the bed or in the closet, at some point it will be completely used up. It would be next to impossible to put back enough food to last for the rest of your life, unless of course [...]