Ways to obtain food in the wilderness?

Traps, snares, hunting, fishing, foraging...

Care to be more specific?

Just to be nice, I'll give you a freebie. No picture, I'm on my phone. The Squirrel Pole.

Get yourself a long branch or small sapling. Lean it up against a large tree where you have seen squirrels (oak trees most likely). About a 45 degree angle. Set your snares along the pole, about every 8" should do.

Wait. Check your pole every 8-12 hours. If you did it even remotely correct, you should have one. If you did everything right, and Mr. Coyote hasn't gotten to it first, you should have 3-4. Sometimes, if you're lucky, you might get a small coon or possum.

Low effort design makes it worth the nutrition you get out of a tree rat or two, and a coon or possum would actually be a net positive.

>>949110
Many thanks

>>949105
Learn your local greenery, you will find more plant food then any other.

>>949110
Not op but any live snare traps? My state has weird trapping laws.

>>949105

Short term: edible plants, simple deadfall traps, snares. If you have oak trees and a water source to leach tannins from the acorns, it would be pretty difficult for you to starve.

Long term: Learn traditional archery. Learn cordage, flint knapping. Learn what trees and shrubs the indians used to make bows and arrows. While you harvest the materials and wood and let it season, use your modern archery setup in the field and git gud. Blunts for small game, broadheads for large game. Day after day of acorns, invertebrates and rodent meat would push you in this direction real quick.

It's all 100% doable, you've got opposable thumbs and that brain of yours. The hard part is figuring it out weekend warrior style without a mentor, tragically we killed most of them off...

>>949110
Is trapping better than hunting? Seems like lower energy expenditure for higher reward. you just set them and if they go off, they go off

>>949105
you could always read a book or two lol bradford angiers how to eat in the woods is a good one for foraging and trapping.