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Re: food stockpile
[Re: Hydropillar]
#6816138
03/24/20 09:15 PM
03/24/20 09:15 PM
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Joined: Mar 2010
Posts: 2,957
South Dakota
Hydropillar
OP
trapper
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OP
trapper
Joined: Mar 2010
Posts: 2,957
South Dakota
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id have bought more spuds but them buggers know its spring and dont keep that well !!
The only place you find free cheese is in a mousetrap !
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Re: food stockpile
[Re: Hydropillar]
#6816178
03/24/20 09:43 PM
03/24/20 09:43 PM
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Joined: Dec 2009
Posts: 20,331
The Hill Country of Texas
Leftlane
"HOSS"
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"HOSS"
Joined: Dec 2009
Posts: 20,331
The Hill Country of Texas
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I keep some food around and the wild pigs here are heavily hunted and trapped so I highly doubt the city boys road hunting if things get scarce will decimate the population
“What’s good for me may not be good for the weak minded.”
Captain Gus McCrae- Texas Rangers
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Re: food stockpile
[Re: Hydropillar]
#6816195
03/24/20 10:02 PM
03/24/20 10:02 PM
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Joined: Dec 2017
Posts: 6,221
Kansas
Pawnee
trapper
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trapper
Joined: Dec 2017
Posts: 6,221
Kansas
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We have 3 freezers full of meat, and keep 6 months of Wisefood in the basement.
Last edited by Pawnee; 03/24/20 10:02 PM.
Everything the left touches it destroys
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Re: food stockpile
[Re: Hydropillar]
#6816204
03/24/20 10:06 PM
03/24/20 10:06 PM
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Joined: Dec 2015
Posts: 6,340
se South Dakota
NonPCfed
trapper
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trapper
Joined: Dec 2015
Posts: 6,340
se South Dakota
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hey rags, so marble eyes from below the dam? How much water are they releasing about now...?
"And God said, Let us make man in our image �and let them have dominion �and all the creatures that move along the ground".
Genesis 1:26
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Re: food stockpile
[Re: NonPCfed]
#6816218
03/24/20 10:15 PM
03/24/20 10:15 PM
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Joined: Dec 2006
Posts: 9,664
se SD
rags57078
Humorist
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Humorist
Joined: Dec 2006
Posts: 9,664
se SD
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hey rags, so marble eyes from below the dam? How much water are they releasing about now...? Yes , they shut the gates the other day so fishing off the wall sucks but the boats are still picking them up
Off in my own world
Fish on !!!!!!!
47 years in this game of trapping
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Re: food stockpile
[Re: John-Chagnon]
#6816285
03/24/20 11:38 PM
03/24/20 11:38 PM
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Joined: Dec 2009
Posts: 20,331
The Hill Country of Texas
Leftlane
"HOSS"
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"HOSS"
Joined: Dec 2009
Posts: 20,331
The Hill Country of Texas
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Hi Leftlane
I remember a long time ago when stationed in army in Texas hunting big fat fox squirrels and filling my pockets with Pecans in the wild. Is such possible in a lot of Texas?. I spent two year in fort hood and a little time in El paso.
I'd think west of hood out towards Gatesville and what not would be chuck full of resources and low on population. Beautiful country for sure
“What’s good for me may not be good for the weak minded.”
Captain Gus McCrae- Texas Rangers
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Re: food stockpile
[Re: Hydropillar]
#6816291
03/24/20 11:45 PM
03/24/20 11:45 PM
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Joined: Nov 2017
Posts: 11,252
Maine, Aroostook
Posco
trapper
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trapper
Joined: Nov 2017
Posts: 11,252
Maine, Aroostook
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Any of you guys ever eat fiddleheads? My mom used to can about forty quarts of those a year. They'll be popping up around here in a couple months.
Last edited by Posco; 03/24/20 11:46 PM.
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Re: food stockpile
[Re: Hydropillar]
#6816292
03/24/20 11:45 PM
03/24/20 11:45 PM
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Joined: Mar 2018
Posts: 3,159
Pa.
Bigbrownie
trapper
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trapper
Joined: Mar 2018
Posts: 3,159
Pa.
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id have bought more spuds but them buggers know its spring and dont keep that well !! . I have an 18 foot deep dug well on the property. It was dug about 120 years ago. The water level is about 8 feet from the surface. There is a concrete cap onto with a steel door. I drop 40 lb sacks into the well and tie them off a couple feet above the water level. I put a couple hundred pounds in there each August. Took a sack out on March 2nd.....not a sprout on a single potato. ( white potato). The well offers protection from freezing and is the ideal humidity to store root crops.
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Re: food stockpile
[Re: John-Chagnon]
#6817760
03/26/20 08:06 AM
03/26/20 08:06 AM
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Joined: Jan 2009
Posts: 4,565
Nebraska
Trapset
trapper
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trapper
Joined: Jan 2009
Posts: 4,565
Nebraska
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Hi Trapset,
My part in the gig canning gig is to get suckers, clean them. My wife informed me that 3 Hours in a cold water bath for a quart. The only ingredients our teaspoon canning salt, 2 tablespoons white vinegar and tablespoon olive oil. I am also consume the most when it comes to eating the suckers in fried patties and with onions and mayo just like tuna fish. When Michigan restaurants shut down last week I started packing a lunch for my day time job at Pcs and rotate between honey and peanut butter and sucker sandwiches. Reminds me when I was in school and packed a similar lunch.
On a serious side I hope all trapperman members take this terrible virus serious. If you do not think it is going to effect you because you are young and healthy, take precautions to protect all the senior folks in your life, my heart wishes strength for Asa Lenon and all the other senior members of our society to fight off this terrible virus. Thanks John. Im a pressure canner guy when it comes to meat and I cant find a proven recipe for quarts. I know what you mean about the pints being too small. I need 4 of them to make pattys when all the kids are home. LOL
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Re: food stockpile
[Re: Hydropillar]
#6817793
03/26/20 08:53 AM
03/26/20 08:53 AM
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Joined: Jun 2018
Posts: 4,764
Beatrice, NE
loosegoose
trapper
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trapper
Joined: Jun 2018
Posts: 4,764
Beatrice, NE
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We've got at least two months of food stored, plus cleaning supplies, and bleach for water sterilization. The river's two blocks away, with a major creek running into it, so it's a major intersection for all kinds of game. Plenty of deer, turkey, beaver and fish to be had. It's all in town though, so that's saved for the apocalypse. Wouldn't be too hard to discretely hunt or trap it though. Plenty of greens and other edibles around too, not too worried about it.
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Re: food stockpile
[Re: run]
#6819228
03/27/20 02:21 PM
03/27/20 02:21 PM
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Joined: Jan 2009
Posts: 4,565
Nebraska
Trapset
trapper
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trapper
Joined: Jan 2009
Posts: 4,565
Nebraska
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I seem to have enough food. It's tp and hand sanitizer that caught me off guard. You don't really need to use the hand sanitizer at home if you wash with warm soapy water. I suppose the same is true for the TP too. LOL
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