Message from @UncleDrMrBaby
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Ah fuck thank you for the trail signs
I'd forgotten mine
Question to all of you: Have you ever challenged yourself to survive in the woods? A few years back a buddy and I went into the woods for 14 days with only a hatchet, firesteel, pot, a simple fishing kit, and a .22 rifle(with ammo)
We lasted 9 days before we went home early after killing a wild hog (didn't want to let 80+lbs of meat spoil)
I lost 12lbs in 9 days
I used to consider it though I never did pull the trigger on just doing it
I hadn't planned for anything extended
Fuck dude. I wish I could do that but there's no where in PR I could do it and I would probably die since I lack survival skills <:pinkwojak:673420781182779442>
Doing something like this would be more of an exercise in building those survival skills
Location scouting can be a bitch though
Totally agree with you
But man, I think I would have to survive off iguanas and lizards
Cause there's no big game animal in PR
People eat iguanas often right?
I mean it's frowned upon but I know people do it
Some areas of the island yea
You'll only learn through practice, and you can say "hell yeah I'm country I can kill a possum with a slingshot and eat its liver", but until you prove it, you'll never know.
Man wish i had the time off of work to bushcraft for a week
Nah, it became normalized cause there was an iguana pandemic and we had to kill a bunch so parts of the island started eating them
I was thinking about this last night and how I've done myself a disservice by not forcing myself innawoods
Ahh, I had Mexican friends who frowned upon it. So it must be a regional thing
@Mr. Verboten you don't need big game animals. The best meal I ate on that 9 day adventure was fish. We found wild asparagus, wild sage, and wild onion. We used that to make fish soup.
I forgot we also have caimans in the island
from a black crappie.
Well shit man
I'm really going to see if I can find a "camping" area in which I could go and survive for a bit
location scouting is a big part of it
Even if its just two days with one night, DO IT
I say fuck scouting. As long as its legal, just jump in and try it. Its not a challenge if you purposefully plan to be near a freshwater source or a food source
There's a fuck ton of iguana hunting business in Puerto Rico holy shit
That's awesome
I want to try iguana
Come to think of it, I've never had any reptilian meats
See that's the thing I like in the metropolitan area I would have to open up a map and see which areas in the island I could go and survive in
Gator is pretty big here which makes that kind of weird
I'll try to find pictures of our adventure and post them. We made camp inside a cave and scavenged trash from the river for bedding. We built a raft from wood and cordage for fishing.