Trapping for Food Post TEOTWAWKI

If there is a disaster and there is no food on the shelves, what will you eat? Where will you find food? I’ll be trapping for food. Let my meals come to me, so I can be doing other survival tasks.

Trapping for Food Post TEOTWAWKI

Picture this: No food in the stores. What is your first thought?

“I’ll hunt for food!”

That’s what I thought too, until I realized that everyone else will be hunting too. Wildlife will hide, people who aren’t usually hunters will shoot themselves and others, it will be forest mayhem. Plus we’ll be busy hiding and protecting our loved ones and supplies from roving gangs and looters. How will we have time to hunt? Even worse since everyone is trampling the forest and scaring the food, you’ll spend longer looking for wild game. This will keep you from doing other important things, like defending your family and watching out for bad people.

How can we make the food come to us?

The answer: Trapping for Food. Why hunt for food when you can catch food while doing other things? Multi-tasking will be the key.

Traps and snares
I’d setup leg traps and snares along trails and streams, creeks, and rivers.  Animals will hide from hunters and humans, but will still need to hunt and to drink water. Google “rabbit snares” and you’ll see how easy it is to snare small game with almost nothing but some wire.

While you are there setup some “trotlines” and Fish YoYos to catch fish without fishing.

For those of you who aren’t very outdoorsy, let me give you a quick tip:

Squirrels may not look like much, but many a pioneer survived on fried squirrel.

Luckily those suckers are lazy. All you have to do is prop a stick or log against a tree and they will take that new route almost every time. If you happen to put a bunch of snares on that log, they’ll walk right into the trap. Squirrels do have an unfortunate instinct to leap once they are caught, so they leap right off the log with the snare around their neck.

The funny thing about squirrels, they’ll go down the same log that just hung 20 of their friends just to see what’s going on with that.

Instead of searching to wilds for food, plan for tapping for food post TEOTWAWKI. Set traps in places that make sense. This allows you to handle other survival business, while the food comes to you. Many people think they can hunt, but how many know how to trap? Get some books and read up on trapping now, so you can feed your family and make cool fur crafts after the SHTF.

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