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Ray Mears gives some handy pointers on how to find food when lost in the wilderness. Tips include making last resort squirrel traps and survival fishing
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25 Responses to “Squirrel Trap & Hobo-Fishing – Ray Mears Extreme Survival – BBC”
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hobofising lomfao
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all that trap gonna do is pisses off the squirrel and gives it a headache.
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hobo fishing…..
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crunch there’s your meal …. lmfao
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Yes they also work on chipmunks and small birds. Unless we are talking about bait, big deal. That thing needed a rock on it to even work on a squirrel anyway. But the heavier they are the more of a pain it is to get the trigger right.
Put your calories into something that gives you more than you put in. He could have built a variety of snares for the time/energy spent on that dead fall.
He had fishing tackle. Looks to me like he planned on looking for food. So he could have also brought a 22.
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the words “extreme survival” almost insinuate that you most likely wont be completely prepared for finding food.. hence the reason he isnt teaching you how to shoot things and the reason he mentions both trapping and gathering is because there isnt much nutrition in squirrel hence you might want to find things to suppliment your diet like nuts or other wild plant life and animals. deadfall works on other things besides squirrels you know
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Whats a Brit know about survival….Red Squirrel? I know fox and cat squirrels.. Mushroom? Their afer hickory nuts high in protien…..Cool trap though.
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Who cares about surviving on mushrooms? They have almost zero nutritional value. Wouldn’t a little 22LR be a lot easier than making a dead fall? Oh thats right you Brits outlawed guns. Not that squirrels have much nutritional value either. They have very low fat content and cant sustain you for long.
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that doesnt really look like a brooky
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Ray is the man! it’s funny how some people get so touchy on Ray and Bear Grylls…..great entertainment
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Who you callin’ hobo?
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lol that squirrel is just going to get tapped with that thing lol
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look he caught bait lol
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who ate all the squirrels?ray did by the looks of things,rofl!
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alot of what bear grylls has learned is from the real hustle
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the fishing lure thing would work great in a place like this, if u try it somewere that is used to being fished it would not work as well : /
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Ray Mears = Legend
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hi what i do is just put my hands under a rock or somthing like that and very often i is a fish there then you just grab it and if the fish are small i just bite off the head and eat it raw that xstreme Survival.
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rock on man!
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HAHAHA SPOT ON!!
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My final point is that these programs are designed to entertain as well as inform. If you want to watch someone running around shouting “this is really dangerous” while eating live frogs,watch Bear Grylls.
However if you want to see some aspects of proper bushcraft, watch Ray Mears.
As long as you are enjoying yourself… does it really matter?
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The main reason that I think Ray Mears is one of the better masters of bushcraft is because he lives in harmony with his surroundings and can survive in them for many months.
Edward just charges through like a rhino with a hangover.
Oh and incidentally, the hobo fishing reel is because a lot of survival kits/ knifes come with several meters of fishing line and hooks/ lures…. he was showing you dont need rods or reels, just use what you have with you. anything tubular will work.
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Ray Mears is one of the most accomplished teachers of bushcraft in modern history.
Not only has he attained worldwide knowledge across the last 25 years, but he also teaches the military the art of survival.
A lot of what Edward grylls knows is from the teachings of Ray Mears.
Ray Mears has also studied Judo for most of his life and by all accounts is pretty damn good at it.
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bear grylls is a ***.
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Bear Grylls i think cause he was s.a.s but i dont know this guy could be a good fighter to lol