Could you survive a week eating "wild?" (Oregon)

KATU.com ^ | May 26, 2009 | Meghan Kalkstein

[appleseed]

If she wants to test her self, she needs to do what Tom Brown, Jr. did. Go into the middle of the Northern Cascades for one year starting off with nothing but a good knife.

I heard it's best to have a few different knives for different situations.

[Gritty]

I wonder how her foraging would work if she were joined by 280,000,000 others?

[appleseed]

Just to be clear, the following is eatable:

[ExSoldier]

Used to fish with hand grenades in a pinch. Great way to feed a large group at once. Absent the use of "Dupont Lures" a way to get similar results is to get on a branch directly overhead a pond (if possible) and fire a 7mm magnum directly down into the water. The concussive effects have a similar effect on the fish.

Most meat gathering of any nature will not be via firearm, most (including birds and fish) will be trapped. A copy of the Poacher's Bible is always a useful reference. Also: How to Live Off the Land in the City or the Country by Ragnar Bensen is another great survival guide.

[ExSoldier]

Anyway, answering the initial question of could I survive a week living off the land? Well, yes. BTDT.

[Karma Police]

There will be plenty of time for this AFTER the coming atomic holocaust. Get a BigMac while you still can!

[Scythian]

Ummm, could you fry them up and make them available to all freepers please !!!

[CTOCS]

Since I don’t know anybody that would hire someone with a purple mohawk, she’d “better” learn to live off the land!

[appleseed]

I agree on trapping. I lost most of my traps on a flood we had last year in late spring. The explosive thing works good as you say. Anything is on the table when muskrats are ruining your levies.

[appleseed]

You probably know that they are the best eating on earth. One year my wife fried them with pancake batter which is excellent on fried green tomato's but drowns out the taste of Morells. Yep, she got time out for that.

[ansel12]

I used to have that same German gravity knife until a friend borrowed it to show around.

[tbw2]

What does BTDT stand for?

[ExSoldier]

What does BTDT stand for?

Sorry. Been There. Done That.

[ExSoldier]

We were taught "deadfall" style traps that would kill a deer, moose or even a bear. The key element is always the trigger and not to leave any scent near the trap site.

Heck we got deadly excellent at building man traps that were applicable in both urban and rural terrain.

[Vor Lady]

She's from the nutcase area of Portland. And she will not be looking for animal sources because I would bet big bucks that she is at the very least vegetarian if not Vegan or Macrobiotic. One does need to know what the mushrooms look like because Oregon boasts regular, psychedelic and poisonous.

[Squantos]

PA 312 Field phone was a good fishing tool to !

[Yorlik803]

I only eat what I shoot, over the weekend I shot a Bacon Cheeseburger and onions rings.

[SunkenCiv]

Should the trappings of modernity become unavailable to us one day, knowing how to find food without grocery stores or even farms will surely come in handy

...particularly for the small fraction of the current world population which can be supported by foraging.