Hunting
UNLESS YOU’RE AN EXPERIENCED HUNTER and have a weapon with you, you
won’t have much success hunting for your food. I have yet to meet someone
who can run down and catch a deer with their bare hands. In North America
more than half of all people who get lost in the wilderness are hunters. But
remember that hunting is laborintensive, and as your energy level dwindles,
so will your ability to hunt effectively.
Making Hunting Tools
The best hunting tools, like the best traps and snares, are the ones you
can create simply and easily. For this reason you won’t find me explain
ing how to make bows and arrows. Not only are they extremely difficult
to make but learning how to use them effectively takes practice. A person
can’t, without years of experience, take a bent branch, attach a rope to it,
and bring down a deer.
The simplest yet most versatile hunting tool in a survival situation is
the throwing stick. A throwing stick is a wristthick piece of hardwood in a
A throwing stick is used intuitively:
you throw it at an animal or bird in
the hope of dazing or killing it. In
essence, the throwing stick is oppor
tunistic hunting. You should always
have one with you, so that if you spook
a bird or small animal while walking,
you have the stick ready. Food (^) | 203