Deadfall trapping part 2 (Paiute Deadfall)

In this video I teach how to make and successfully use a primitive Paiute deadfall. Once I have success with my trapping I proceed to make a 100 percent wild meal and explain a couple of my favorite edible plants.

[@claudiacorradino4611]

Very informative ! Didn’t know nettle was so high in protein!

[@sammysmokies]

Very Cool. I gotta say it did look pretty juicy! Well done brutha.

[@rhysfontaine]

Thanks broski! hope you're doing well

[@andrewbevan3933]

You know a guy’s got mad skills when he passes over that shiny red lighter lying right there on the forest floor because it’s easier to just build a bow drill fire. Just busting your chops. 😁 Good video.

[@rhysfontaine]

Haha yeah I brought that just in case haha

[@SuzanneBarrettJustisArtist]

Awesome !! You will never go hungry.

[@rhysfontaine]

Thanks! Yeah I sure hope so haha

[@terryqueen3233]

You're exactly right five star does it get much better notice I said much better. I have a few tips for you if you don't mind taking in a few tips. As the gray squirrel is much drier than the fox or red squirrel if you leave the skin on the gray squirrel and sew it back up after taking the guts out it will be a lot more juicier or moist as opposed to cooking the raw meat over the fire. That was tip number one. Tip and fact number two above the nettles is Lamb's quarters. It is way more tasty even Raw and has a lot more vitamins and minerals than the Nettles plus it grows very good in the Eastern Woodlands and you should have been able to find wild onion even right around where you were as I looked at the ground. You may know more than I do but that was just a little bit of what I know. I've actually been doing this since I was 12 years old, I am now 71 and you can do the math. I've been prepping and practicing Bushcraft pretty steadily since 9/11 but it is starting to get a little hard to get out and do what I used to do. Well maybe you'll read this and maybe not it doesn't matter someone may run across it but it is always good to know what you can and can't eat as far as greens go because there is a lot and I mean a lot of stuff on mother Nature's Earth that you can eat, believe it. Thanks for the video I had forgotten to buy you trap so you see you helped bring that back forward in my brain and that's why I watch these things is that sometimes don't use it and it slips back in my mind and someone does it and brings it Forward just like you did so I want to say thank you actually for clearing some cobwebs in my old pea brain. Thanks again for the video don't forget stay vigilant! PS I'm on the East Coast also in the Eastern Woodlands to be exact Southeastern West Virginia or maybe that's West by God Virginia, LOL. Another PS I paused the video before I heard what you said at the end and did you know that you can take pecan bark and boil it down and it has a salty flavor to it so if you had known that then you could have had at least a little salt with your squirrel. Just another little tip.

[@wilrod140]

My mom used to mix poke salad in with our collard greens. Good stuff & good times

[@rhysfontaine]

Thanks for the advice! Glad you enjoyed the video and I’m glad it got you think about this stuff again 👍

[@theroguetrapper9524]

Awesome ! Deadfalls are underrated game getters.

[@neesbushcraft]

Great video, bud! Where are you located?

[@rhysfontaine]

Thanks man! I’m in eastern TN

[@critical-thought]

@@rhysfontaine I thought you might be in TN, the forest looks kind of familiar. I am NE in the Tri-Cities area. New subscriber - keep up the great content, your channel will grow.

[@russellsage4953]

Will be doing this from start to finish ☮️

[@rhysfontaine]

haha awsome!

[@xyzzy4567]

Great video! You should do one on trapping raccoons.

[@rhysfontaine]

Thanks dude! Yeah ill maybe give it a go, I've never actually trapped one before but it would be worth trying for sure

[@zoramtharafanai4749]

Are you still there in 2023 😮

[@rhysfontaine]

Hey, I go back and forth from East Tennessee and southern Utah