Cooking and Eating LYNX!!! [CAT] | Over Open FIRE | FAR NORTH Bushcraft Lunch

Trout head soup in the dutch oven. Lynx haunch roasting on a spit. Guns in the tree. Mashed chokecherry patty drying beside the fire. Wild apples mixed with squash cooking in a small pot. Bush life. Link to studies about Native Foods: http://traditionalanimalfoods.org/ Life is a search for energy, eating is for the living, and killing and gathering is the economy of nature.... where will your next meal come from? We also look at chokecherries as a staple food cooked over the fire and dried, safely cross a frozen creek, identify sleeping animals in snow burrows and take a crack at a live hare. Maple Gazed Mystery Meat & Fish Head Soup Over Open Fire One moment nature presents an opening, and the next minute, it takes it away. Game of any kind is not easily taken and it doesn t offer itself for your consumption just because you re hungry. No doubt this hare was in shooting range, and Jeremy could have taken it, but trying to film the kill was too much to ask, so instead of scoring a hard earned meal, we were left with nothing. We also aimed to sample some exotic meats given to us by a trapper. Not being a typical food item gave me some reservation, but consulting the literature proved that many Natives did indeed consume it s flesh and when you re hungry, food is food, meat is meat. Still, we needed to find out for ourselves. Can typical furbearing mammals be part of a survival feast when less typical and desirable foods, like snowshoe hare, where not available? My research has shown that Natives ate more food items than most people think. While their nutrition came from big animals such as buffalo, moose, caribou, bear, deer and elk, they also ate marten, coyote, wolf, mink, weasel, wolverine, raccoon, fisher and even skunk, porcupine and chipmunks. Our daily special, the mystery meat, also made the list. Natives also ate such atypical things as loons, woodpeckers, herons, robins, jays, raven, doves, blackbirds, chickadees, and hummingbirds. But that s just a short list. In fact, the full list is much, much longer, and includes many birds, mammals, reptiles and amphibians that you would assume never was fit on any reasonable persons menu. Essentially, any animal with edible flesh, was eaten, so long as it would stay still long enough to be bludgeoned, speared, or pierced by arrow, or other. The Natives hunted and ate indiscriminately and unlike us, did not have to obey game laws or seasons - a distinct advantage in wilderness living. In many cases, it was the whole animal that was eaten, from the nose and tongue right to the tail and hooves. Blood, intestines, organs such as the heart, liver, lungs, and the head and brain were all eaten. From the snout, right to the tail end. Some even ate antler velvet, and of course, the marrow from the bones - rich in fat. In nature, waste is relative, but being wasteful is costly. It means that more work needs to be done in order to procure additional and sufficient resources. This may benefit other animals such as scavengers, which happily feast on man s waste, but can spell disaster to any person trying to actually live off the land. Guts and grease is the root of the Native American diet. Those who couldn t or wouldn t eat these things wouldn t survive. Eating the whole animal wasn t just a trending thing to do - it was part of everyday life - it had to be done. Catch n Cook Snowshoe Hare: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IVIg8LEeFeA&list=PLDg2Qmw9pKidQTwo3tX1ymww_RQ6DogvN&index=3 Catch n Cook Beaver: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kbwGLPtcjJU&list=PLDg2Qmw9pKidQTwo3tX1ymww_RQ6DogvN&index=14 Catch n Cook Native Trout: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qbMr3F2J6uU&list=PLDg2Qmw9pKidQTwo3tX1ymww_RQ6DogvN&index=13 Catch n Cook Winter Trout: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=238zfcixXwc&list=PLDg2Qmw9pKidQTwo3tX1ymww_RQ6DogvN&index=12 Catch n Cook Handline Fishing: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NHxLpioH5uI&list=PLDg2Qmw9pKidQTwo3tX1ymww_RQ6DogvN&index=11 Catch n Cook Wild Foraged Lunch: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fJ47bkadS2k&list=PLDg2Qmw9pKidQTwo3tX1ymww_RQ6DogvN&index=7 Catch n Cook Duck and Grouse: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=k-aqwymmU7o&list=PLDg2Qmw9pKidQTwo3tX1ymww_RQ6DogvN&index=5 Catch n Cook Duck and Grouse: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=C-x6Ga586Qw&list=PLDg2Qmw9pKidQTwo3tX1ymww_RQ6DogvN&index=4 Catch n Cook Trout Over Fire: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-Lxy5sFFA88&list=PLDg2Qmw9pKidQTwo3tX1ymww_RQ6DogvN&index=2 Catch n Cook Mystery Meat: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9WGJujzPyaY&list=PLDg2Qmw9pKidQTwo3tX1ymww_RQ6DogvN&index=1 Use code "WoodBeard" to get 10% off ASAT Camo: www.asatcamo.com Merch (t-shirts): https://teespring.com/stores/the-wooded-beardsman