EVERYTHING is harder in the rain. I spent 2 months starting in the sweltering heat of August through the September rains and October chills living in my tent here in NE United States. It wasn’t by choice and it was not easy. The hardest part was staying clean and dry. While the nicest part was taking a hot shower by fire light. I didn’t hunt, and had no gun. My trusted dog kept the Raccoons away. And she kept terrific company. It was as this Nov came and it started to become unbelievably cold I decided I needed to get my dog shelter and got her somewhere safer. I miss her. She’s with my daughter and ex and all of their dogs on a big piece of property. So she’s happy!
@@codassong thanks for asking. I am now. I have a roof over my head. I miss my dog and daughter. I blew a head gasket on my car and didn’t have the $4000 to fix it. But working a little part time job trying to get a new set of wheels. It’s weird though, I strangely miss some of my time in the woods. Definitely not the place to winter unprepared however.
I'll be going with way next month. Though my company will be a bonsai tree and some of her baby's I have I a cup of water😅 gonna see if I can leave the plants at college though coz I don't want them to die in the frost😅 im worryingly excited about going homeless 😂
You know what I appreciate about this video? "A good teacher never assumes". Your describing all the little details as you go, such as burning a frayed Paracord end. Now, what if a viewer didn't know to do that? Now they do. Well done.
Back in the day, stamped money in Finland (in pre-independence times) was scarce, and squirrel skins became a semi-official currency. It's still a slang for any unit of money in use, at least with older people who consumed a lot of romanticized Finnish black and white films. There's also a tradition of making fur mittens or gloves out of squirrel skins, you might need a couple more for a pair but they'll make quite nice winter wear. Grey squirrel is a notorious pest and is crowding out red squirrel (which doesn't damage trees as much) even up here.
Went to the woods, not last night but the night before. I had six beers out of the eight. We had 8/8 hotdogs , 6/6 burgers and 3/3 baked potatoes, with ’accoutrements’. Nothing was shot... except targeted tree knots. Six egg banjos were consumed in the morning and the trail back to the car - through the snow - showed us we had been surrounded by wildlife. hey ho! I got back home, sorted the gear and still had two beers. Happy days!
Hi Mike, you need to set up a feeder with peanut and aniseed in it.. the greys will use it and you sit there with an air rifle hidden whilst they come to you.
Those windproof lighters are great and I also take a small amount of newspaper and/or Amazon packing paper in the inside pocket of my jacket! It all helps 😁
I love your videos, as a wildlife manager i spend a lot of time controlling grey squirrels, we are fortunate to still have reds in our area. It would be great to see how you prep and use the skin, keep up with the pest control.
And then the comments arrive.. "How could you? Killing poor innocent animals like that" "That's horrible! Why don't you just buy the squirrel meat from the supermarket like everyone else?" "I bet you don't even have a gun license!" "I'm going to complain to UA-cam because i didn't turn off the video!" There's going to be so many.... Well done mike, sometimes things need to be done. 🙂👍
I've been subscribed to your channel now for a while. The new guy at work is from England and I told him about your channel. He's binge watching all your videos now. He wants to spend some time outdoors here in British Columbia this winter
Nice video and nice camp and particularly like those line tension adjusters on the tarp. As for the food who can beat a lovely bit of squirrel (Friday Night Dinner).
Great vid. It's nice to see another side of the woodland management. As far as hunting squirrel alone, we used to roll our thumb and forefinger together and "chirp" like a squirrel. They are so curious they will come back around the tree to see what all the fuss is. Thanks for the vid Mike!
Unless the rain has been going on for a day or so, squirrels tend to hole up and wait it out. If you're just destroying drays, and picking up what happens to fall out, that's one thing. If you really want to rack up the numbers, your best day will be a still, sunny morning after a heavy evening rain. This really brings them out, and everything on the ground is still wet, so you can move quietly.
Wow, your channel is rocking, man. I remember when you started. Hats off to you. I need to bring my camping channel back, instead of filming camping filled with wildlife documentaries lol. I walk ten feet and end up filming the secret life of an Antlion or picking up a and filming a Black Widow or something - lol
A great wee adventure Mike! And, love those rope cams😎My pal in the village is the 'red squirrel man' and works for a national charity conserving Reds and culling Greys exactly as you demonstrated👌Well played indeed👍
You don't really understand how rain effects your mood and day until you're out in it. Still a fun challenge. Cool to see you hunting too. A further reminder of where we as humans came from before MREs and Ramen noodles lol
Milk and/or egg wash, alternate flour and corn meal dip, season to taste and fry. Best way to fry rabbit, squirrel, fish or whatever strikes your fancy. Old time country cooking.
Awesome video, Mike. I was thinking once you said you could feel it in your mouth, and see it on the pan, that hopefully you're using some sort of lead-free shot, haha. Stay healthy, Keep it up!
Can’t help but laugh at the excitement of how time saving and simple those rope rollers are, and then spending significantly more time on carving stakes… 😂 Wait till you discover titanium stakes! Just messing. Might have to get a set of those myself. Thanks for taking us with you.
Been watching you since the first bushcraft camp you made with the watch tower, been loving you videos ever since. You inspired me to start getting some gear to spend time in the woods myself! :))) would love to see a full kit collection from everything to clothing to tools.
@@tony_ofthe_north6604 appreciate it but i was meaning more of a video going through all the gear mike has collected over the years from clothing all the way to tools.
Wow, what an amazing video! I really enjoyed watching you build a shelter, make a fire, and hunt for food in the rain. You have some impressive bushcraft and survival skills, and you make it look so easy and fun. I admire your passion and dedication to living in harmony with nature. Thank you for sharing your adventures with us, and I look forward to seeing more of your videos in the future. Keep up the great work!
Have you ever thought about using an air rifle for hunting small game to avoid having shot in your food, I have a stoger XM1 bullpup which would be ideal for some small hunting.
Excellent work Mike. It is wonderful to see people looking after the natural resources with great respect, though I just hope you don't fall foul of the YT whingers and get stricken down with a complaint.
On the farm I put squirrel feeders up at this time of the year and use a PCP air rifle to manage their numbers, half a dozen or more can be had in an hour or so as it doesn't scare them off. Using a shotgun and a belt of cartridges is like using a sledge hammer to crack a nut.
Cheers for the new video mate they are always great to watch, if anyone is trying to find them clips there is something similar made by nite ize, called cam jam
I couldn't help but laugh at this edit, Mike. You are so excited by the ingenuity and time-saving advantages of those roller cams, then lose all the time saved fashioning tent pegs. Prussik loops have the same adjustability of those cams yet weigh considerably less. So carrying prussiks and a few light weight tent pegs means less time setting your tarp up, they have the same adjustability, and they no doubt cost a lot less too. Using a traditional ridge line also has the advantage of giving you a dry line under the tarp to hang gear on; so is more versatile to boot. I know this from experience as I've been using the NiteIze camming karabiners for various tasks for years.
Great video we are hoping to get some woods our selves in the near future. I’m learning a lot about wood management from your vids, I do think a 12 gauge was a bit over kill though lol 😅
Lol. When you were sharpening your knife, I was thinking, that finger could easily get nicked. Couple of shots later: plaster on finger! Hope you're OK Mike, those little cuts can take ages to recover...
Great video again mike. Plenty of ground coverage plants availabile for a nice pinch Such as ground Ivy or Herb robert around this time of year if youre ever in a pinch for a nice hot drink. Very ingenious with the tarp pulleys!
The shot in the meat could cause absolute carnage to a tooth and would have me using the most powerful air rifle i could acquire rather than such a blunderbus (grin) as seen here, but l appreciate this is land management thing and the food is a bonus.Whoever introduced those pesky greys here from over the pond has a lot to answer for, given they've all but decimated our beloved, gentler,indigenous red squirrel populace ?
Even people here in the Midwest US often don't recognize squirrel nests, even though I can walk out my front door and look up into the barren trees and probably see at least 4 or 5 in about 30 trees. People think birds use them. I laugh at them.
@@guaporeturns9472 They're huge! Bird nests are tiny and not very noticeable. I laugh because it's absurd, and anyone giving it any thought should be able to recognize that. But people don't think about it and then make silly assumptions. I find that funny.
@@cee8mee It’s not really that absurd. I watched a magpie make a nest up in a tree right next to a tree the squirrels made a nest in… in the winter after all the leaves came off it was kinda hard to tell them apart. I could but to the untrained eye they were very similar looking from the ground . Instead of laughing at and ridiculing people why not just be nice… maybe try to educate them in a nice way?
Good times, Mate, great video! Only disadvantage of those pulley lockers is you don't have a ridge rope inside the tarp to hang staff on or dry your wet clothes
Just a bit of information for you, the tale fur from the squirrels is highly sought after by watercolor artists in brushes. I don't know if maybe you want to learn to construct some and sell them because that's a big thing for you can find a company to sell the tails to then there is no waste of the animal.
First time watcher/subscriber, and I love the videos which are very informative on the damage that Greys do to trees, which i never knew. Only thing that was missing here was how you skinned they grey etc, think i might give it a go myself given the chance.
Love the vids Mike, although this one seems more rushed than your previous work. The other videos had a serenity over them. I kinda miss that in this one. Other than that this video is bonkers.
Evening, just subscribed. I really love your videos. Could you recommend a decent bushcraft knife that doesn't break the bank. You have really inspired me to get out in nature. Many thanks, Ashley
EVERYTHING is harder in the rain. I spent 2 months starting in the sweltering heat of August through the September rains and October chills living in my tent here in NE United States. It wasn’t by choice and it was not easy. The hardest part was staying clean and dry. While the nicest part was taking a hot shower by fire light. I didn’t hunt, and had no gun. My trusted dog kept the Raccoons away. And she kept terrific company. It was as this Nov came and it started to become unbelievably cold I decided I needed to get my dog shelter and got her somewhere safer. I miss her. She’s with my daughter and ex and all of their dogs on a big piece of property. So she’s happy!
You ok?
@@codassong thanks for asking. I am now. I have a roof over my head. I miss my dog and daughter. I blew a head gasket on my car and didn’t have the $4000 to fix it. But working a little part time job trying to get a new set of wheels.
It’s weird though, I strangely miss some of my time in the woods. Definitely not the place to winter unprepared however.
Sounds like you kept your head. Good on you. Hope you end up landing in a better place
@@bumpercarjoe6391stay strong!
I'll be going with way next month. Though my company will be a bonsai tree and some of her baby's I have I a cup of water😅 gonna see if I can leave the plants at college though coz I don't want them to die in the frost😅 im worryingly excited about going homeless 😂
You know what I appreciate about this video? "A good teacher never assumes".
Your describing all the little details as you go, such as burning a frayed Paracord end. Now, what if a viewer didn't know to do that? Now they do. Well done.
“Lovely bit of squirrel Jackie!”
Controlling greys is so important and you getting a meal out of this is a double win. And the rope clips are great. Keep up the good work.
Tell me about it. I tell you what else needs managing. Earths human population
Lovely bit of squirrel Jackie
Back in the day, stamped money in Finland (in pre-independence times) was scarce, and squirrel skins became a semi-official currency. It's still a slang for any unit of money in use, at least with older people who consumed a lot of romanticized Finnish black and white films.
There's also a tradition of making fur mittens or gloves out of squirrel skins, you might need a couple more for a pair but they'll make quite nice winter wear.
Grey squirrel is a notorious pest and is crowding out red squirrel (which doesn't damage trees as much) even up here.
Went to the woods, not last night but the night before. I had six beers out of the eight. We had 8/8 hotdogs , 6/6 burgers and 3/3 baked potatoes, with ’accoutrements’. Nothing was shot... except targeted tree knots.
Six egg banjos were consumed in the morning and the trail back to the car - through the snow - showed us we had been surrounded by wildlife. hey ho!
I got back home, sorted the gear and still had two beers. Happy days!
Squirrel hunting & camping. Got a new favorite video, plus nice looking sxs shotgun.
I love how happy he is walking around the woods 😂 I’d love to get out more
I hear you, I go camping every 3 weeks or so and the rest of the time, I am indoors :/
What is stopping you.? 😊
You really need to do a video about laws in the uk, about land, building on it and hunting
Hi Mike, you need to set up a feeder with peanut and aniseed in it.. the greys will use it and you sit there with an air rifle hidden whilst they come to you.
Mike I’ve been a subscriber for such a long time. You deserve the growth and success you’ve seen. Happy for ya man. -Zach
Met the guys that produce your TA camp axe on Sunday. It really is a thing of beauty, would definitely recommend anyone to pick one up.
Love those roller cams, great bit of kit. See if your dad wants a squirrel tail, a bloke used to have them off me and used them to make fishing flies
One of the best Bush-Craft vid's I've watched since one of Mick McQuilton's early vid's Cheers.
Those windproof lighters are great and I also take a small amount of newspaper and/or Amazon packing paper in the inside pocket of my jacket! It all helps 😁
I love your videos, as a wildlife manager i spend a lot of time controlling grey squirrels, we are fortunate to still have reds in our area. It would be great to see how you prep and use the skin, keep up with the pest control.
Great catch and cook Mike. Those roller pulls look like a real game changer. 👍🏻
And then the comments arrive..
"How could you? Killing poor innocent animals like that"
"That's horrible! Why don't you just buy the squirrel meat from the supermarket like everyone else?"
"I bet you don't even have a gun license!"
"I'm going to complain to UA-cam because i didn't turn off the video!"
There's going to be so many....
Well done mike, sometimes things need to be done. 🙂👍
Reminds me of the old mcqbushcraft videos. Love these.
Sure do enjoy Mike's adventures, but I also miss MCQ.
Those are pretty slick clips. You could put one at each end of the cordage and not need to tie any knots, if you wanted. Nice Shootin', too!
Great video and good to see you doing important work controlling the invasive grey squirrels. 👍
I've been subscribed to your channel now for a while. The new guy at work is from England and I told him about your channel. He's binge watching all your videos now. He wants to spend some time outdoors here in British Columbia this winter
If you had driven into the woods in your light weight Land Rover that would have been video heaven complete. Great stuff
Nice video and nice camp and particularly like those line tension adjusters on the tarp. As for the food who can beat a lovely bit of squirrel (Friday Night Dinner).
Really good video mate, makes me so jealous I don't have land to hunt and camp on hah! Keep them coming :)
Nice show mate! Bushy tails are delicious, I dig that side by side shotgun.
Nice wet day in the wood. Great Tarp innovation with the rope rollers.
Love the catch and cook. Stay dry...
Great vid. It's nice to see another side of the woodland management. As far as hunting squirrel alone, we used to roll our thumb and forefinger together and "chirp" like a squirrel. They are so curious they will come back around the tree to see what all the fuss is. Thanks for the vid Mike!
Unless the rain has been going on for a day or so, squirrels tend to hole up and wait it out. If you're just destroying drays, and picking up what happens to fall out, that's one thing. If you really want to rack up the numbers, your best day will be a still, sunny morning after a heavy evening rain. This really brings them out, and everything on the ground is still wet, so you can move quietly.
Wow, your channel is rocking, man. I remember when you started. Hats off to you. I need to bring my camping channel back, instead of filming camping filled with wildlife documentaries lol. I walk ten feet and end up filming the secret life of an Antlion or picking up a and filming a Black Widow or something - lol
Love those rollarcam hooks. I'm always looking at ways to make my tarp quicker and easier to deploy.
Great vid, thanks Mike
15 dollars per clip😂
@@jameswatts9618 😂 not into those prices 😂
A great wee adventure Mike! And, love those rope cams😎My pal in the village is the 'red squirrel man' and works for a national charity conserving Reds and culling Greys exactly as you demonstrated👌Well played indeed👍
Great video, awful weather! Always something to learn in your videos, have now added rope rollers to the Christmas list.
This is certainly one of the bushcraft videos
Those clips are really handy. 👍
Awesome hunt brother! What a great way to enjoy my lunch break!!
These roperollers are game changer. Going to buy some right now😮
Great stuff Mike ,
Reminds me of the early days of watching MCQ bushcraft 😊 hope all is well 🤝
Exactly what I was thinking!
Mcq yeah he is the man ......
You don't really understand how rain effects your mood and day until you're out in it. Still a fun challenge. Cool to see you hunting too. A further reminder of where we as humans came from before MREs and Ramen noodles lol
Milk and/or egg wash, alternate flour and corn meal dip, season to taste and fry. Best way to fry rabbit, squirrel, fish or whatever strikes your fancy. Old time country cooking.
Awesome video, Mike. I was thinking once you said you could feel it in your mouth, and see it on the pan, that hopefully you're using some sort of lead-free shot, haha. Stay healthy, Keep it up!
Great vid. Would love to see more bushcraft/hunting videos. 😊
Mike, you are truly a outdoors man survivalist.
What does squirrel 🐿️ taste like?
To me it tastes a bit like pork chop
@@TAOutdoors pork chop… really? Your English greys must taste vastly different that ours over here in the States!
@@timtate8520they should taste similar tho cus our greys came from america too
Every man of woods has to eat squirrels. In my country we also eat hedgehogs. 🇬🇷
Nice video. Keep up the good work!
Love watching your videos. Extra special with your dad too. Great outdoors adventure today! Wish you all the best on the channel and Merry Christmas!
Can’t help but laugh at the excitement of how time saving and simple those rope rollers are, and then spending significantly more time on carving stakes… 😂 Wait till you discover titanium stakes!
Just messing. Might have to get a set of those myself. Thanks for taking us with you.
Haha I did laugh at that bit when I was editing 🤣
Nice shot Mike! 🎯
Love these videos that combine my two favourite hobbies hunting and camping
Been watching you since the first bushcraft camp you made with the watch tower, been loving you videos ever since. You inspired me to start getting some gear to spend time in the woods myself! :))) would love to see a full kit collection from everything to clothing to tools.
Hey man he posts his kit on his website based upon each episode
In the description below With links to purchase the gear youself
@@tony_ofthe_north6604 appreciate it but i was meaning more of a video going through all the gear mike has collected over the years from clothing all the way to tools.
@@PropTM I swear he used to have a link on his website talking about all of it
Wow, what an amazing video! I really enjoyed watching you build a shelter, make a fire, and hunt for food in the rain. You have some impressive bushcraft and survival skills, and you make it look so easy and fun. I admire your passion and dedication to living in harmony with nature. Thank you for sharing your adventures with us, and I look forward to seeing more of your videos in the future. Keep up the great work!
I am surrounded by squirrels. My cat used to bring them home as friends. They do look kinda tasty!
Thanks for filming Mike. 😁👍🏼
Nice gun, good luck hunting.
Have a great day
Have you ever thought about using an air rifle for hunting small game to avoid having shot in your food, I have a stoger XM1 bullpup which would be ideal for some small hunting.
Like the look of they rope locks 👍👌
Love from India ❤।।।
Helo from Ukraine 😊
Excellent work Mike. It is wonderful to see people looking after the natural resources with great respect, though I just hope you don't fall foul of the YT whingers and get stricken down with a complaint.
Love this type of videos
On the farm I put squirrel feeders up at this time of the year and use a PCP air rifle to manage their numbers, half a dozen or more can be had in an hour or so as it doesn't scare them off. Using a shotgun and a belt of cartridges is like using a sledge hammer to crack a nut.
Whoohoo!! Nice one!! Nice axe !
Cheers for the new video mate they are always great to watch, if anyone is trying to find them clips there is something similar made by nite ize, called cam jam
quality video yet again :D
I couldn't help but laugh at this edit, Mike. You are so excited by the ingenuity and time-saving advantages of those roller cams, then lose all the time saved fashioning tent pegs.
Prussik loops have the same adjustability of those cams yet weigh considerably less. So carrying prussiks and a few light weight tent pegs means less time setting your tarp up, they have the same adjustability, and they no doubt cost a lot less too. Using a traditional ridge line also has the advantage of giving you a dry line under the tarp to hang gear on; so is more versatile to boot.
I know this from experience as I've been using the NiteIze camming karabiners for various tasks for years.
Love those rope tensioners! I use them on all my tarps.
Would you happen to have a link for the ones in the video? Thanks
i like those clips. very similar to the prussik knot.
Love the clips..gona get some for sure.
Great video we are hoping to get some woods our selves in the near future. I’m learning a lot about wood management from your vids, I do think a 12 gauge was a bit over kill though lol 😅
We used 22 long varment loads like a mini shotgun shells !
Lol. When you were sharpening your knife, I was thinking, that finger could easily get nicked. Couple of shots later: plaster on finger! Hope you're OK Mike, those little cuts can take ages to recover...
Great video again mike. Plenty of ground coverage plants availabile for a nice pinch Such as ground Ivy or Herb robert around this time of year if youre ever in a pinch for a nice hot drink. Very ingenious with the tarp pulleys!
The shot in the meat could cause absolute carnage to a tooth and would have me using the most powerful air rifle i could acquire rather than such a blunderbus (grin) as seen here, but l appreciate this is land management thing and the food is a bonus.Whoever introduced those pesky greys here from over the pond has a lot to answer for, given they've all but decimated our beloved, gentler,indigenous red squirrel populace ?
Even people here in the Midwest US often don't recognize squirrel nests, even though I can walk out my front door and look up into the barren trees and probably see at least 4 or 5 in about 30 trees. People think birds use them. I laugh at them.
Squirrel dray
Why do you laugh at them? Is that funny? I don’t understand
@@guaporeturns9472
They're huge! Bird nests are tiny and not very noticeable.
I laugh because it's absurd, and anyone giving it any thought should be able to recognize that. But people don't think about it and then make silly assumptions. I find that funny.
@@cee8mee It’s not really that absurd. I watched a magpie make a nest up in a tree right next to a tree the squirrels made a nest in… in the winter after all the leaves came off it was kinda hard to tell them apart. I could but to the untrained eye they were very similar looking from the ground . Instead of laughing at and ridiculing people why not just be nice… maybe try to educate them in a nice way?
I've got a squirrel nest directly behind my back porch but I agree, most people I know don't recognize them. Cheers from Illinois!
Globule is a word very much underused in my opinion.
Cool device’s!, I have two pieces of paracord x4 connected by a tarp hitch I use the same way (I keep them on each corner of my tarp 👌
Inspiring
Good times, Mate, great video! Only disadvantage of those pulley lockers is you don't have a ridge rope inside the tarp to hang staff on or dry your wet clothes
There is a way of having a ridgeline with these, I’ll show it in a later video 👍🏻
@@TAOutdoors Thanks, looking forward to the next videos as always, Mike!
Just a bit of information for you, the tale fur from the squirrels is highly sought after by watercolor artists in brushes. I don't know if maybe you want to learn to construct some and sell them because that's a big thing for you can find a company to sell the tails to then there is no waste of the animal.
Great to see the shotgun get out! :-)
Amazing experience and amazing forest 🔥👌🍻💯
if you use a prop stick/pole with your guy lines, you can reduce how long your lines are
That's really cool, love your content
First time watcher/subscriber, and I love the videos which are very informative on the damage that Greys do to trees, which i never knew. Only thing that was missing here was how you skinned they grey etc, think i might give it a go myself given the chance.
You manage to cut your finger rain sucks.All the very best 👍🏻🏴👍🏻🏴👍🏻🏴
Those roperollers look great, shame they only ship to US/Canada.
But loves the vids, keep em coming!
I'm in Canada. Do you know where can I get the roller cams? Do they go by another name?
Fell out of the tree like out of a movie 😂
Love this
This is cool,
Glad you’re sharing this aspect of survival
I’ve always wondered about personal hygiene tips to include going potty…🤷🏼♂️👍🏻
Love the vids Mike, although this one seems more rushed than your previous work. The other videos had a serenity over them. I kinda miss that in this one. Other than that this video is bonkers.
Great stuff!
Our boy got +15 HP and +5 radiation from those squirrel bits.
Lol fallout nice 😅
Nice video Mike 👍👍. Those Roller cams are awesome 👌. What happened to your finger 🤔, was it from sharpiing the knife.
Thank you for sharing ✌️✨️🧚♂️🤟🌻🐝
Awesome
this is so good omfg!!!!
Evening, just subscribed. I really love your videos. Could you recommend a decent bushcraft knife that doesn't break the bank.
You have really inspired me to get out in nature.
Many thanks, Ashley
In Desert Storm we used tarps in the rain and for Sun shade on the sunny days.
We put up the same type of fly for our gear last year at philmont in New Mexico USA.
loved it..