Posted on 07/01/2014 1:30:42 PM PDT by aMorePerfectUnion
Paiute Deadfall Trap
The Paiute is a very quick trigger mechanism. It is also fairly easy to set. Unlike the Figure-4 trigger, it uses cordage. Examine the photos carefully and you will get an idea of how this trigger works.
The bait is placed on a long thin horizontal bait stick. This bait stick is held at both ends by friction. When the bait stick is moved, it slips off of the short trigger stick that the cordage is tied to (wrapped around the vertical stick). This allows the weight to fall. Be careful to place the deadfall so that it does not land on the vertical stick.
It is advisable to place the vertical stick on a flat stone. This will allow the vertical stick to fall out of the way as the weight falls (in the photo below, it will fall to the left).
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Bushcraft has been helping me get my mind off politics (when I need to do so) for several years now. One of the reasons (but not the only one) is that I think it comforting to know that the government can only take so much from you, and knowledge is one of those things. In particular, having this sort of knowledge makes a person exceedingly difficult for a government to control, unlike someone who depends of the grocery store for all their food.
You won’t find ebola in any animal on this continent and the only carriers of the hanta virus in North America are small rodents, and even then primarily in the southwest. The Paiutes would eat rodents, sure, but deadfalls were also used to take significantly larger game. There were even deadfalls made large enough to take deer. Also farm animals aren’t exactly disease free either, you know. Listening to a few Brandenburg Concertos certainly never kept me from getting sick.
It takes place before, the farmer takes a mouth full of
gin and sprays it on the beef and rubs it into the hide.
I had some in Japan in 65 and it was the tenderist
meat you ever had.
Sheeoot you bin a big bushmeat eater from way back and lookit how good you turnt out!
(brother these juicier threads just wouldn’t be nuthing without you lol)
I’m an Indian from a northeast tribe. We would make similar deadfalls on a much larger scale by splitting large logs and using that instead of rocks. You could get yourself a lot bigger meal than that ground squirrel with one of these traps in the right environment. However, I understand that for the Paiutes, food was scarce and they had a pretty rough life living out there in the desert.
I always laugh watching Les gnaw on those tiny squirrel bones for his breakfast, but the biggest kick I get is watching him fail to catch fish, I don’t think he ever caught one until well into the third season of Survivorman.
We finally realized that Les just goes out and basically starves for 5-7 days and tries to live through it. We love to watch him grouse about it or die from delight at finding some rotten fish an Eagle has dropped somewhere. :-)
this does not kill virii (hanta and ebola are two examples), nor does it prevent the infection during the preparation stage.
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That level of stupidity almost requires a license.....
Some of that Long-pig I'd have to pass cooked or not.
“Eating bushmeat” has been done on a regular basis since the dawn of Humanity.
you do know that the possum (which is fine eating) has the BEST immune system of all the animals out there.
It is almost unheard of for a possum to have rabies, or other dangers that wild animals might get.
Something to think about.
Honestly, if you put it in the right neighborhood I think it would.
your choice. you take the risk. I’ll stick to Campbell’s canned chicken soup. I don’t have all that much longer
to go, nothing else stays down, and I lack the energy to go much further than the soup and beer aisles at the market.
you have no counter argument, just a big mouth.
You're gonna need a bigger rock...
Dang, that'd probably get me trapped, too. Add a beer, and I'm done for.
That’s why I grow my own greens in front of the patio door.LOL
More power to him - let him stick to his avoidance of such food. Leaves more for others. Leads to the survival of those who are willing to try other options for sustenance.LOL
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