Has anyone been on a survival bowhunt (on perpose)? Its been something Ive always wanted to do. I think it would be neat to get a few trad guys togeather every year for a annual 3 day "survival" bow hunt ! Any SW Va (or anyone else) guys up for that ?

My son and I have done it before and it is fun.  We ate woodchucks, caught trout with sticks and line and even ate chipmunk before.  You can get hungry but it really makes you concentrate on your shot when it comes!  We only used flint & steel for fires but that's no big deal.  The hardest ones are in the winter with no man made shelters along and game really thin.

I'm not in your area, but I'd be interested sometime.  I haven't done it but have thought about it.  I have been mighty hungry in the past a time or two, but not on a bowhunting/fishing trip.

Spent the night in Green's swamp one time after blood trailing a doe. Granted this was not "on purpose" but it was just as fun.  Backstraps roasting on a open fire while the yotes / red wolves howled half the night.  Not hard to imagine what life was like here 300 years ago.

Hey Longbowman, My Dad took me an my brother on a little survival trip down French creek from waterford to cambridge springs in 1964. Eight miles by road and three days by boat, what a great time we had hunting frogs an fishin an camping. Thanks for bringin back some old time memorys. Later Bob  Wonder how long it would taken us to get to Meadville d:^)

I would really like to do something like that but I'm a little far away.

I'd love to do something like that. Might get real hungry though the way I shoot. Lol!

I'd be interested, depending on when and where.  Sam Fadala used to write stories in TBM about his survival hunts in the SW US.

I went on a 7 day jungle survival trip in the Amazon Basin of Peru. We lived off of everything we could find in the jungle.  One strange things is that the natives did not want to eat the large bullfrogs we found.  But they would kill and eat a 18 inch caiman croc.We did all of the real hunting at night while we floated down the river.

I have often thought to myself before I went to the woods "I'm not hungry enough " To make the difference in my hunts .

I think it would make you really focus .


Carl

Nathan I'd be very interested in doing a survival bowhunt.  I'm between Richmond & Charlottesville. Send me a PM....

Have thought about it in the past,and has been thrown around in conversation with several hunting partners but never done it.I bet its a hell of an experience...

I would love to do something like this, I am the furthest south out of everyone so far.

Whatever state is picked to do this in...I guess you would have to purchase the respective license...I know losts of states now have some really complex lottery/tag systems (really sad by the way that hunting has come to that) that would come into play with this idea I assume?

They way I shoot, it sounds like a new idea for the "Biggest Loser" T.V. show!

Sounds like there is deffinatly plenty of interest ! Lets keep this thread going and see what happens. It would even be cool to document it on video, see just how desperate a man would get (and what he might eat)! Ha !

It's alot of fun guys and I would be willing to help out in anyway I can. I think I will do one this spring and test out some new stuff I have and some I need to make.

Tracy

I would be interested in doing this. I love to camp and hunt. To date I have not killed anything but I am willing to give it a go. I do have some fat reserves, so I could last a while or maybe not. (:

Martin

I have been wanting to do this for some years now. One of these days I'll make it happen. Been thinking about it lots since hunting season ended. Wish you lived near to here!

I might be able to get the land ( 100 acres ) to use in Virginia, if that is enough, unless your going to a state park.