BEING SNEAKY
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- Опубліковано 11 сер 2022
- TODAY WERE GOING TO TALK ON A OLD TRICK TO FIND OUT IF ANYONE OR THING HAS BEEN TO YOUR CAMP WHILE YOU WERE GONE. I WILL ALSO TALK OF A OLD WOODSMAN HUNTING TRICK TO FIND THE BEST PLACES TO HUNT DEER
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SORRY THIS IS LATE HOPE YOU ENJOY
No need for apologies brother..great video
No worries Blackie - it was worth waiting for. Hope you are feeling better. You look like it.
Hey Blackie!! What a great video!! I've been preparing to bike tour across country with my terrier. Being alone with little doggo and being a senior has my kids freaking out!! So.,I actually dreamed up the rock in a coke can idea....but you really expanded on it!!! Also a lot of other useful info I know will come in handy!!! Thanks!!
Really enjoyed your video. New sub 👍🏻
Well done Blackie
When monitoring the movement of game, use a cheap bedside alarm clock tied to a tree. Remove the battery cover and tie the thread onto the battery. That way when the game pass and pull the battery out you can see what time it was because the clock will stop when the battery pops out.
Just rig it to explode when the battery is taken out! Problem solved!
That's pretty awesome.
So 12:00 every time huh
@@crosseyedcricket2394 or you could get an electric analog clock.
I thought game cams have the date and time? Did i fall for it? You're being serious?
For monitoring trails for suspected poachers, don't tie the thread to an object on both sides of the trail. Tie it on one side, take it across the trail at a height about halfway between ankle and knee, then just lightly loop it over a branch on the other side of the trail. Not around yhe branch, just over it. That way it doesn't break, or bend or shake the bushes on either side. It just slides off the branch and slide across the poachers leg until he reaches the wind of it and it falls to the ground. And it points the way the poacher was going on the trail. Do this on multiple trail around the perimeter of your property and you can tell where he enters and where he leaves.
Would you use something stronger like kevlar thread for that ? I'm pretty sure I'd feel any thread that doesn't break, at least after a couple feet...But it'd still indicate direction, if they donn't pick it up
True to the Ranger handbook, I never take the same route to camp that I took from camp. When returning to camp, I always stop a terrain feature away from camp and listen for at least 15 minutes in total silence.
Well said, and make sure you are properly concealed from anyone straying from their group, should they be at your camp.
Why would you do this?
@@juicydruc2755 If you spent enough time in the backcountry you’d know that your greatest danger isn’t from bears, wolves or other 4 legged creatures. It’s from the 2 legged variety that’s up to no good. I have had my stuff ransacked and stolen before and I have found myself in the middle of someone’s crop. Just because your in the woods, doesn’t mean there aren’t thieves, scum bags and meth heads out there. I’ve always found it best to assume they are out there and be vigilant. I’m also always armed. No exceptions. If I can’t legally carry a firearm somewhere, I’m not going there. Hope that helps you out and if it seems over the top, I promise you you won’t think that the first time you’ve encountered a situation like that where dialing 911 was impossible. You think about it and decide for yourself.
@@juicydruc2755 Because the stupidest human in the world is still an apex predator.
@@juicydruc2755 makes it harder for anyone to track your movement pattern and harder for them to find your camp. Obviously "camp" is the loose term. I have practiced this since I was a young teen living in a crime ridden neighborhood. Never go the way you came is what I was told. And I tell my daughters the same.
Great ideas, there, as usual. The thought just occured to me that if this fishing yo-yo was illegel in an area that you were lost in might be just the time to use it. The search parties might miss finding you, but the game warden will so he can give you a ticket for ilegal fishing. But at least you'd get found. lol.
lol very true
😆🤣😅👍👍
Omg yes the game wardens will always fxcking get you
Who gives a toss about game wardens if you are hungry. I don't know about the US, but here in Europe, they cannot frisk you while you're walking in the woods here. And when you want to fish using these, you put it out after sunset, We call this a 'nachtlijn' translated this means a 'night line' here in Europe - set up and taken away after sundown, before sunset. Owning a yo yo like this is not illegal, walking around with it is not either, fishing with it probably is even with a license, but personally I wouldn't care and I dare them to catch me. I you are not fishing for profit or for distribution, the game wardens can go suck on a lollipop for all I care.
Also: two words that describe an identical activity - but have a different meaning in the dictionary are the following:
Poaching: 'The average Joe who hunt game to eat'
Hunting: 'The nobility who hunt game for entertainment'
Back in the early 80s after having re read Lofty Wiseman's SAS Survival Manual for about the 3rd time I attempted to make a 2 ounce tobacco tin Survival kit avoided some of the more militaristic items came to make a fishing kit no previous experience but I had my mini light bulb moment and I used 2 sewing machine bobbins loaded up with fishing line wrapped in clear tape to secure it never used it of course but I was proud of my thinking at the time
yep i have used them for years as fishing kits
Thanks for the idea Misolgit69!!!
In the army, to put back.on some buttons I got a lil sew kit from the store. It had a piece of thin cardboard with lil slits on the ends. The thread was wrapped through the slits and around the lil piece of cardboard. I had some black, white, green, brown.. and then a few needles through a lil piece of paper. I always like the flat thin cardboard idea to keep some thread handy.
Yeah I use a bobbin to put one of the inner strands of paracord on it, I use that to tie bobber stoppers.
I've recent just bought that book 👌 good read
These tactics can also be effective for those who are living in an urban environment and I have used them to discover a nosy landlord/thief in the past. Thanks Blackie. 🇦🇺
i have used them on hotel doors before to give me a warning
A magnet with a hook can make the thread reusable.
That grey sewing thread is a very good idea for testing game trails. I wish I had that knowledge when I was younger when I was unable to afford game cameras. I hope the youngsters are soaking up this information. It could out them in front of that big buck come hunting season.
it will help you see what size and what time the trails are being used a real help when hunting
On ATV trails I would set sticks up in the trail. Laying them across it and stacking a few small ones up. When you come back if the sticks are broke or have been flattened you know someone drove through.
I had one heck of problems with local cattle thieves so I fixed me a ring of phosphorous trip flares surrounding by claymore mines on delayed fuses. I lost my herd along with the poachers but watching that pasture on a 4th of July night was a magical light show under the stars.
This is the most Americannly,, hilarious thing I have ever read in my 30+years on the internet 🤣
Thanks for the idea I have the same problem with crackheads trying to steel my tools
LOL! Shit! I thought I was the only one!
It's kinda nice to see someone who still lives the good ole simple life. God bless stay safe out there.
Pretty interesting. Had a lot of trouble with poachers in my goat pasture. Used the thread idea but were connected to a mouse trap. Was surprisingly effective. Cost two poachers quite a bit.
Very cool!
Haha, get em on ice and bleed em
I hear my grandpa tellin me about moonshiners using tricks like this and to see if lawmen found their stills before they approached them. If they came across broken threads or any other evidence disturbance they would just continue down the trail away from their stills amd camp sites and loop back around to the other side and see if there were lawmen waiting in amush for them. If so they would do their best to leave the area and if they were stopped by officers they would just try to act like they were normal hunters walking around the area looking for game.
Go to the fishing store and get some 2lb monofilament fishing line. It's transparent and so much harder to see, it's even difficult to tie a hook. Also if you're tying it across a track leave it slack as it makes it harder to see than a taut line.
Hell yea!
I've had it with fish trespassing on my property!
REALLY good tip. I own a whole box of these gadgets and can see using them as an early warning system in case someone trespasses into my backyard. Should be more than enough to alert the dogs who have extremely good hearing and the kind of barking to scare the crap out of anyone. Thanks Blackie.
yep something to get the dogs attention
Just pray it isn't the atf or government officials/agents, they've been trained to unalive dogs first.
@@saltyheathen8113 More inclined to think criminals would be the first to visit. A noise maker followed by the barking of a 100 pound pitbull would give pause to such a person with ill intent.
@@Jaden48108 true, just a friendly reminder though just in case.
@@saltyheathen8113 I suppose I should be concerned about an FBI raid. It's getting harder to hide the nuclear missile I'm putting together in my backyard.
A black bear may get spooked with that can rattling and run right to you. lol but for 2 legged security that is a really good idea. Thanks for sharing 👍
down here our bears are very scared of humans and a sniff of a scent they take off
Great idea. (Late doesn't matter to the majority of us.) I hadn't thought of using cheap thread. I need this since someone or something is coming up on my patio at night. Placed high, I'll know it is human. Placed low, I'll know it is only racoons again. Take Care and Stay Safe, Blackie.
good luck with that
Any luck figuring it out?
@@strangelyfamiliar1729 It was a nosey neighbor. They got tangled in it. The raccoons were visiting still, but I rigged the thread for bigger game.
🤫 we used to hang cans with marbles in them on the barbed wire around ground level sentry points of the border crossing points in Northern Ireland…..just to ensure nobody was sneaking up to put the hurt on the sentry.
Smart and simple security idea 👍
simple is always useful
When I"am camping, regardless of stealth camping or simply camping, I set up a series of dead falls around my camping area on all avenues of approach, not to injure or hurt anyone, just make a lot of noise for the very reasons you stated. early warning and so I can make good my escape if need be. Someone approaches, trips a line and in the forest the approachers hear crashing and or thudding of limbs or logs or whatever the line they tripped was attached too causing that object to fall thus making noise, pulling their attention away from my location. I usually use very thin fishing line.
yep to be alert and then to decide what to do next
Useful information when camping alone, thank you Blackie.
glad to help
Excellent idea. Not all sewing machine bobbins are metal and not all metal bobbins have multiple holes. When trying to buy new bobbins from my old Singer and my new Brothers sewing machines, I had to hunt through several stores just to find metal ones. Love the tip, your channel just popped to my recommended so I think I'll be binge watching.
ok, interesting, as an Australian Ive never seen a yo yo fishing reel before, cheers for the knowledge.
Love it Blackie, great ideas, good instructions. Will give them a go this week. Thank you.
Just got another box of them! Thanks for the insight on the alarm type setup. Beats the flare any time or the bang noise maker! Thanks Blackie!
yes sir all i need isa little noise a big bag scares me and the badguy
Great tips here. I've always used the soda can alarms when I'm out at my cabin in the woods. After watching this I think I'll modify part of my warning system by employing the yo-yo reel. They surely are an item with many uses.
This video popped up in my feed so I checked out your channel. It has some great posts so I had to subscribe. Keep up the good work Blackie!
welcome to the channel
@@blackoracle69 Thank you, appreciate it.
They make trip wire that is thinner and breaks easier but not too easy. It’s booby trap trip wire and usually it’s OD green and it’s not that expensive. When You walk through it you don’t even know you did. But on dirt roads & driveways we would sweep the dirt with brush so you see any tire tracks or foot prints that go through. Those are old Warden & Sheriff’s Deputy tricks from my 25 years in LE for checking cabins for B&E trespassers.
Thanks, nice to see a bush crafter that lives near the Gulf. These guys that live further north pull all kinds of crap that would be fails camping near the Gulf. They still have good info, but you have to know the differences.
You bet
It's all good sir, worth the wait. I knew the brushing out of the tracks from Louis Lamour novels. I kinda knew about the trip wire things from the military, we used flares, and poppers that made sound. The use of yoyo's ingenious and I did not know that or the spear trap. Loved the lesson sir.
glad to help
Glad Im not the only one who remembers Louis Lamour novels!
I feel like I learned a lot in a short amount of time. Subbed.
Always great advice! Thank you!
You are so welcome!
Old age and treachery beats youth and enthusiasm every time.
VERY TRUE
Lot of Great ideas. Love hearing all the different content from an old timer who's been around. I know I've learned a lot since finding your channel. TY . Stay Healthy my friend, God Bless.
thanks for watching
Great tip Blackie. I have a pack of those sewing bobbin's, I was going to use one to hold fishing line for an emergency pocket fishing kit. Those fishing yo-yo's are a great idea. Thanks. 👍
Right on
I'd swap the white fishing line for #80 lb test moss green spyderline so it's a little more low profile.
For a speed winder, screw the nut tight to the bobbin, put in a drill..off you go. I keep several bobbins with various things spooled, fishing line included, in my BOB.
I never knew about the Yo-Yo fishing reel. I looked for it on line. Many available on Amazon, eBay, and other shops. Good information, thank you.
Thanks Blackie, these are some nice tips.
It's amazing how resourceful people can be with what they have.
Especially the tying of the string slightly higher than an average doe to see if a rack passes it.
Really cool.
Absolutely!
Like I always say..."Don't agonize, MacGyver-ize!" Great video! Just subscribed!
Thanks for the sub!
Everyone on my team had 4 of them in their pack . We used saplings . With cans .and small fishing bells too .! Great tip brother
thanks
Wow Blackie this is excellent! One of the best videos I've ever watched. Never thought about all those other uses for this reel. Thank you very much
Wow, thanks!
Great video, some really interesting and fine ideas here, made me look at some things a little different. Hope to see more like this
You can use a clothes peg too! Enough tension to hold your threads whilst it’s weak enough to let go easily! Nice job brother 👌🏽👍🏽😎
That's a good idea!
They sell bobbin threaders that r battery powered at the fabrick store for about 20bucks but I think they r online for 5-10bucks. So if ya plan on doing this alot, get a bobbin threader(if u don't already have a sewing machine) so u don't spend hours winding the bobbin by hand. 😀
good to know thanks
Most people already have a cordless drill just rig it up on there
@@crowbrocaw use a wooden dowel or pencil to attach to drill and spin away
Hours? How many bobbins are you filling? Lol
Thanks, that yo yo brought back many childhood memories from Horseshoe Lake AR.
This was excellent advice, Blackie ! Thank you for all you do !
You are so welcome
I absolutely love your content . I've been trying ta plan a trip to your gathering but it's hard for e me to afford it. I've learned so much from you. You have changed my life to the better. Really..
thank you and hopefully you will make it one day
For the most basic alarm that almost everyone already has the stuff to make. Use a regular old rod and reel with mono line to make an invisible perimeter alarm. People or bears? Run the line at knee high and tie it off to something near you that alerts you. It's basic, but, so easy and effective.
good idea
Great video and never thought about cotton thread that way... Thanks for the tips.
Thanks for the tips. New to Bushcraft, survival, and solo camping. This is very helpful!
Glad it was helpful!
So valuable. I'm living with bullies dominating my property. This is awesome!
Be careful I know a woman who has problems. And the trespassers relocated all her traps and game cameras around her house. The cops refused to do anything.
This is BRILLIANT. Old school, low tech, and just plain brilliant. You just got yourself a new subscriber and I’ll be sharing this video. Thanks for posting this. Really good stuff indeed!
“I learned a thing or two from Charlie don’t you know,
You better stay away from Copperhead Road.” Steve Earl
“We can skin a buck, and run a trot line and a country boy can survive.” Hank Williams Jr
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welcome aboard
You definitely have the right mindset and way of thinking. This is great info that would be useful for a survival situation. Enjoyed the video.
Charles
Thanks for the history lesson… great ideas!
thanks for the visit
If you do not have the fishing gadget a similar thing can be used with a trap. Basically putting a string around two trees close together and then using a stick between the two strands to wind it up and of course what ever trip you decide to use and or any other modifications. The point is if you got to run and leave stuff behind it would be better if the stuff you leave behind didn't cost you anything and can be easily made with a piece of string and some sticks.
Thanks bentley. That is a brilliant way to make a spring. I know that bent saplings have been used, but your method is easier.
Hello Blackie - Another good video. Hope your back is getting better. I love this particular video and how you crafted your description of these alert devices, AKA: field expedient early warning and movement detection traps, avoiding the term “Booby Traps”. Most folks use that term as a generalization of all types of devices, but they are distinctly different and in some states are against the law to set up.
very true
Setting up one of these systems to alert you on whether someone’s coming or not is not against the law in any state! That’s back yard fun…. Setting a trap where someone could get hurt is against the law everywhere!
Always great advice!
glad to help
This old guy liked your tips. Knew most, learned your alarm system/fishing rig hack. Will use it! Thanks and safe travels!
This was very interesting, really like your vibe too, first time I’ve watched one of your videos and I’ll be sure to check out more.
Coincidentally I’m having to do something similar at work. Im sure someone’s been going into my work space and taking pens, food, looking through my stuff etc. I have a tiny piece of paper on top of the door, so I know if it’s on the floor when I go in, someone’s been in. If I confirm that someone has been going in, I’m gonna do some home alone type stuff. Sure there’s a few cans of expanding foam laying around the site 🤣
good idea try this place clear tape on door knobs when you leave you will get good fingerprints
@@blackoracle69 unfortunately it’s just a push door, but damn I like your thinking
Cool! More tips like this please
they on the way
Wonderful info sir, thanks!
Very smart and explained well. That is why I subscribe.
Blackie I love watching your videos, reminds me of simpler times around the ones I consider old timers from the wisdom you share and pass down ( I mean no disrespect by saying old timer because I've met old people and you aren't one.) Keep sharing that old Knowledge.
Right on
Great stuff as always Blackie...I already had yoyo reels in my kit for survival fishing but you've opened my mind to a whole other use for them that I hadn't even considered, thanks a lot and keep the informative videos coming.
Glad to help
I have seen them used to make small snare traps as well. Mostly for birds but probably work just as well for squirrels or rabbit
You never cease to amaze me , thanks Blackie !!
Wow, thank you!
I think someone is walking up the side of my house into my backyard, I am about to set up 1 of these traps near my window with some cans on it so when the line breaks I will know ;) thanks for this blackie
When I was a kid I found some cap bombs in a joke shop that you were supposed to be put under a plate or something and when it was lifted the cap bombs would fire. Had a lot of fun with the scouts with these. Set them up so that when a cotton trip wire was engaged the cap bomb was pulled out of a tube made from a coke can making it go off. Not as stealthy as those in the video but good fun.
oh i remember those
growing up around shiners we got taught most of the tricks!! we've always used store brand clear 4 or 6 pound mono for trip wires!! i haven't used a yo-yo for a noise maker but i have used a whip before although if i'm going to the effort of making a whip anymore it will have spikes on it about crotch level! we've also used rat traps drilling a hole in it for a 12 gauge shell and fixing a nub on the bar to hit the primer and running a tripwire to it and we've made homemade friction igniters and rigged them to cherry bombs!
thanks for watching
All Good..
Blessings
Great Thoughts and appreciate the History Lesson on what Folks used to do in the Woods.
Interesting and useful.
Appreciate the detail in the making of this. 5 star quality content from me
Great knowledge transfer Blackie! Thank you!
My pleasure!
Thank You so much!
I really appreciate your video!!!
You are welcome!
Ole ya man. I use to have some of those as A matter of fact about 28 years ago in my fishing equipment.& Camping equipment to inside of my what I called my boogie bag.AKA also known as A buyout bag for survival.& Emergency situations like that to aswell.
Great idea, Blackie! Thanks. I am always looking for ideas for situational awareness
Any time!
Great stuff. Thinking intuitively and cleverly on the cheap with lminimum effort and maximum gain. Security and intelligence are nuanced things which you hace demonstrated.
I dig it. Thanks for the wisdom.
Any time!
Blackie Thompson we don't have those fishing reel type things in Australia but they are very useful thanks for the heads up
I've used fishing line and cans with rocks in them for a alert trip wires but never thought of the automatic fishing real or to use sowing string. A1, I'm subbing
I string a thread across suspected deer trails but I only tie on one side of the trail. This way, it don't just tell me they were there, but depending on the direction of the string, you know which direction as well.
Dang C Kabler, I didn't read down far enough before posting the same tip!
@@lkilkenny9426I actually thought of that on my own when I was just starting bow hunting. Funny to hear someone else does it. Works like a charm. 👊😎
*Thanks!* 💡
I kinda like the traps that were used in that old movie called "SOUTHERN COMFORT" you will definitely catch whoever is trespassing 😊
Blackie , We can't do anything about the weather , it's all good. Great and Outstanding and Information. I have used the black thread trick in my deer hunting woods that I hunted , cheap and good. Thanks for sharing your knowledge and wisdom and time. Passing On the Craft. You Are The Master Woodsman and Buschcrafter Thanks Again. Tim L.
thank you for watching
Thanks for sharing
Brilliant thank you for the info
No problem 👍
Always enjoy your videos Blackie your trick and tip just made things awhile lot easier than the old US Marine camp alarm where you tension a stick between two limbs of a tree and a stick spins around and slams a bunch of ration tins making a warning Tackett now all I have to do is find a fishing yoyo reel 👍
glad to help
Thank you sir. I'll incorporate that lil yoyo reel to my kit asap
Very cool. I've seen those yoyo fishing reels before, but never realized they are that versatile.
They are!
You earned another sub for this, absolutely some really cool stuff on your channel!
I tie branches together on narrow trails at different heights behind me as I'm walking the trail it also helps to figure out if you are being stalked.
Ingenious! ❤
Great tips Blackie , thanks for sharing , God bless !
my pleasure
Simple but effective.
Thanks, Blackie!
You're welcome!
Understood. Thanks for the lesson. I wont forget it.
Excellent teaching there.
Glad it was helpful!
Just saw this. Great idea thanks.
Great info, great tidbits, much appreciated! Thank you.
My pleasure!
Awesome! Thanks for sharing, Blackie.
Thanks for listening
10:00 I love this sneaky can trick!! I'd throw a few bb's or some gravel in the empty can so it makes a lot of noise. Great tips. Subscribed to you sir.
Love the video and tips. Some good ideas I didn't think of.
Glad it was helpful!
Thank you for sharing !
No problem 😊
This is good info, dude. Earned my sub, for sure!
Welcome aboard!