survival, foraging, etc

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Insufficient food is the one almost impossible situation to avoid for a long term stay in the wilderness, though times of plenty exist in meat supply if you have a gun no doubt ... year-round is tough, especially solo. There have been instances of sufficient meat but a lack of fat, the meat being too lean with venison, for example. 

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Mal de caribou (literally, “caribou sickness”) typically afflicts explorers and other cold-weather adventurers who attempt to live on hunted animals but only eat the muscle tissue. Rabbits (and most wild animals, actually) have very little body fat... If all you can score out in the wild are rabbits, plus the occasional deer, you run the danger of severe vitamin deficiencies, plus liver dysfunction caused by an overload of protein.

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Long term survival in the wilderness? I'd want a place with a lot of fish and good fishing equipment.

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Long term survival in the wilderness? t.

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One of my dogs poops facing northwest 99% of the time. I have been watching for the last two months. My other dog must be a sneaky pooper. I almost never observe him pooping.

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His video also disappointed me by not showing if he got anything with his traps. Insufficient food is the one almost impossible situation to avoid for a long term stay in the wilderness, though times of plenty exist in meat supply if you have a gun no doubt ... year-round is tough, especially solo. There have been instances of sufficient meat but a lack of fat, the meat being too lean with venison, for example. 

At least he went about trapping in a professional way, using leg-hold traps instead of snares. I've seen many a laughable episode in various survival programs where they don't know how to use snares, I saw one where the guy was trying to get a squirrel by setting a snare on a miscellaneous spot on a tree limb. 

The correct procedure with a snare is to set it up in an improved-by-you funnel situation on, say, a rabbit's well-traveled trail and attempt to startle the rabbit so that it sprints down the trail in a panic, then you have a chance. As with all hunting it goes a lot better in times of over-population. 

I saw a Bear Grylls episode where he at least put one out on a distinct trail. They supposedly caught a skunk this way, though of course who knows how they really got it. There was no talk of making sure an animal sped down the trail instead of just ambling down it normally, allowing no chance of success. Anyway he supposedly actually ate it, complaining about the smell that got all over him.

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I thought Chris McCandless had some poisonous beans/seeds.

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I interviewed for a voice part in the movie in Page Az. where McCandless hung out for a bit and did laundry uptown,