Keep in mind brian that a common survival situation is when you get lost while hunting. In that case, you'll have those hunting tools with you.

Can't argue with that. I can only hope that if I do get lost in the woods it will be while hunting rather than hiking. Unfortunately for me, I do a lot more hiking than hunting and most of my hunting is done in the same 5000 acre area that I know like my own backyard. Hiking however, I do all over the place and often places I have never been to before or maybe only been to once or twice. <img src="/images/graemlins/smile.gif" alt="" />

Scott:

If you agree with the need (Sometimes.) to hunt, do not wait until the need is thrust upon you.

As soon as you get done reading this message, go to the sporting goods store, buy a hunting license, ask someone you know and trust to take you afield and kill something (Legally!) that you will eat the next day.

I have said it before in other posts and I will say it again; if I encounter someone who could have been prepared for theirselves and their families and is not, it is highly unlikely that I will share what limited resources I have. If a person in any group I am in that may encounter an emergency situation, no matter how short or temporary, is not willing to kill and process game to supplement supplies we should have with us, I will not allow them to live off my williness to survive by hunting.

I know I come off as cold, but tough love gets more results than rubbing someones back and telling them not to worry as someone else can do it for them.

Now get out there and harvest tomorrows meal. <img src="/images/graemlins/cool.gif" alt="" /> <img src="/images/graemlins/shocked.gif" alt="" />

Bountyhunter

Brian:

You old Texas tycoon you. Buy a folding slingshot, set up a range with multiple hanging carpets for a backstop and a box under them to catch the "BB's", ball bearings, or any other ammunition you care to use in it. On dry land in the states, it is highly unlikely you will be lost long enough to justify taking down large animals. A rabbit, lizard, snake, or other small animal should be enough as long as you have sufficient water to digest the food. No water, and the biggest gun you can carry won't dig a well fast enough for you to process the food you kill or carry in. <img src="/images/graemlins/ooo.gif" alt="" />

Bountyhunter

I have a slingshot that I use for plinking rocks when Im sittin by the campfire and considering that I've hit a TEXAS SIZED jackrabbit with 410ga and watch him turn around and laugh at me bfore running off, I just dont see my slingshot getting much penetration on anything larger than cricket (and I could hunt them better with a throwing stick). You know that jackrabbits in TEXAS are bigger than Cyotes in New Mexico right? <img src="/images/graemlins/wink.gif" alt="" /> <img src="/images/graemlins/grin.gif" alt="" /> <img src="/images/graemlins/wink.gif" alt="" />

BTW if Jed Clampit can strike oil with a firearm why cant I dig a well? <img src="/images/graemlins/grin.gif" alt="" /> <img src="/images/graemlins/confused.gif" alt="" /> <img src="/images/graemlins/grin.gif" alt="" />

Jed Clampit was one of them "Hill people" whereas you're a "Flatlander", and everyone knows them "Hill people" have all the luck and they're not even Irish.

Bountyhunter <img src="/images/graemlins/grin.gif" alt="" /> <img src="/images/graemlins/wink.gif" alt="" />

Brian:

You have got to remember to NOT USE the .410 shotshells loaded with rock salt that your girl friends father gave you after he found out your intentions toward his daughter were "honorable?".

Do head shots with consistantly heavier slingshot ammo until the rabbits hit start to look like some of your compadres after a tequila sunrise. Once you have that down pat, the slingshot ammo will be heavy enough and you can walk up and finish the rabbit off with a quick snap of the neck.

I don't know about the size of your rabbits or the size of your Texas yarns, but I once worked in a bakery that had no mice or rat problems because the cockroaches ate them all. If you stepped on one of those cockroaches, they would carry you 30 feet before you could react fast enough to step off. One of the guys thought he had an answer to that and brought steel spiked golfing shoes to work. After stepping on the first cockroach with those shoes, word got around and all the cockroaches in the plant started looking him up because the shoes did such a nice job of scratching the itches they would get on their backs. We came into work one day and found his clothes on the floor with just his bones in them. One of the guys who spoke cockroach was told he wasn't scratch stomping them fast enough to make them happy so they decided to eat him.

Better keep your rabbits and your coyotes out of Wisconsin bakeries!

Bountyhunter <img src="/images/graemlins/cool.gif" alt="" />

Good point. <img src="/images/graemlins/smile.gif" alt="" />

Im pretty sure those were 12ga. I'll ask him when he's here for thanksgiving. <img src="/images/graemlins/smile.gif" alt="" />

Sounds like Texas cockroaches to me. <img src="/images/graemlins/grin.gif" alt="" />