The Rural Ranger A Suburban And Urban Survival Manual & Field Guide Of Traps And Snares For Food And Survival

By Ron H. Foster

The Modern-Day Survival Primer For Solving Modern Day Survival Problems! This book will teach you the techniques to not just survive, but to use ingenuity and household items to solve your problems scientifically with a bit of primitive know how thrown in. A complete and detailed section utilizing explicit drawings and easy to understand photographs covers thoroughly the topic of survival trapping using Modern Snares, Deadfalls, Conibear Traps, and Primitive Snares. This book is dedicated for long term survival in the country or the suburbs to insure you survive and thrive! Build a solar oven or pasteurize water it's all in here! Catch your dinner, then cook it or preserve it too! Food procurement is the name of the game along with purified water in a survival or disaster situation. Are you ready?

What other book can teach you to take a oven baking bag. a cardboard box , a piece of string and catch and cook your dinner while making water drinkable and heating your house to!

• Language: English
• Publisher: Ron Foster
• Release date: Jun 27, 2018
• ISBN: 9781386444572

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FOREWORD

The author has been told many times why don’t you write a book . This happens after telling a story or two about his broad range of life experiences that are often humorous, and filled with bits of obscure knowledge the author uses in real life encounters with situations he solves by bits of backwoods or military lore. I decided to sit down and try to drain my brain for posterity and share some of these tid bits of survival lore. Because being a self-described wealth of useless information and an entrepreneur at that, of applying such sometimes useful knowledge, this seemed like a more than worthy endeavor to undertake.

I must admit though, any knowledge to me is useless if not disseminated to interested parties or remembered by those who need it when applicable. I hope maybe, some of it is remembered in the back of your mind somewhere if fate deals you a bad hand and suddenly you have a use for it.

I have tried for years to pass on to whomever that would listen, bits of what I consider to be fun or just good to know country lore. But most people today have no interest or desire to even hear about what they consider possibly some kind of Hollywood hillbilly ignorant notion or attitude, that someone actually can or occasionally wants to and does trap their own dinner. Well this knowledge is definitely handy item to know and no more so then, than now, what with the current state of affairs in the world. You don’t know what might possibly hurt you or force you into a survival situation. If you ignore this kind of knowledge, then you may not be able to provide for your loved ones when they depend on you the most. You probably will never need to use it, but you might just be the type of person like me that likes to remember the odd bits of outdoors lore just in case you ever did need it! It’s a good feeling to know that if you had to survive, you could.

You never know in this Old World when it might be a very useful and handy edge to have. It might just be too, that you have learned something from history, such as what did people do during the great depression to get by. Possibly you have pondered on or wondered about what you would do if you were suddenly thrust into that type of survival situation.

If you stop too think about it, this is not a too far-fetched notion and it can happen to any of us for any number of reasons.

They say that the majority of the people in the US are just one paycheck away from being homeless. If you had to camp out for a while before you get back on your feet could you do it? How about if your next job didn’t give you your first paycheck for a couple weeks, could you supplement your food somewhere or somehow?

Don’t just depend on living off the land for food, plan ahead and buy a bit of extra storage food a little at a time and chip away at adding to your survival essential equipment now and then, while you have an income stream.

You need to be prepared early on to handle life’s emergencies and nature’s disasters. With a little bit of common sense and a bit of knowledge gained from this book its easy to take stock of what you have at hand and what you need to cheaply supplement your equipment with. Take a run through all the stuff in your house and build you a basic survival kit. You most likely have all the items you need scattered around in the shop or a junk drawer. Therefore one thing to remember now that you acquired this book is to stick it in a ziplock bag and keep it with your Good To Go Gear so that your information to survive will be there when you need it in a complete format. I will tell you what to do with the baggy you stick in later as these can be more important than you know and can be used as a basic essential survival tool.

The authors intent and purpose of this book is to give the reader a more modern perspective on the practical art of survival in troubled times, and give them the understanding and the edge they need to do more than just survive a crisis. Try to thrive not just survive will be our motto from now on.

The title of this book was chosen after considering just how bad off your average Joe or Jane would be if they were stuck in an apartment, with nothing more than, oh say, the US Army survival manual. This book if it was all they had to advise them, and rely on for how to obtain sustenance during total water and power blackouts in this environment would be found to be greatly lacking in practical information for suburb survival. The city is shut down and I doubt they are thinking how to build a fire drill or chip flint into a spearhead. No, they are surrounded with all their comfortable and costly worldly possessions; and most likely will be thinking should I stay or go, and what to bring with them, depending on the current situation or state of affairs as they interpret the crisis at hand. That particular book would tell them nothing about how to cook their dinner in an apartment or at least warn them of the hazards of building a fire on their concrete balcony. The person stuck in a rural situation may have to try and live off the land for an extended time should the conveniences and supplies of the city be unexceptionally cut off.

The possessions around either the city person, or the rural person, will be viewed in a new light should a disaster strike. Simple items that they always have surrounding them, can with a little bit of clever know how, make it possible for them to have a much better degree of comfort if they just stay put in most cases and avoid the shelters or any thoughts of bugging out. But if they need to travel light and do the Bug Out routine for a perceived better place, they will know which items are the most important to everyday survival and bring these with them no matter how obscure or normally forgotten.

They will have learned to look at everything in a new light of usefulness in a situation that requires you Get it and Go, including their favorite Aunt Bessie`s family reunion picture. Not bringing it with them on an emergency move will no longer be a soul searching hand wringing affair that they might never see it again. Not unless it is in a frame that can be used as a magnifier, fire starter and bug repellent all in one will it even be a consideration to being packed.

By standing in front of the so-called kitchen junk drawer in the kitchen, an average person can grab 99% of what is needed to survive for weeks even months. Prefabricated 72-hour kits be damned, as they are generally a waste of money, for most households. Buy some more snares or just an emergency food bar instead. If you don’t have enough chow to last hours around the house now in your pantry you don’t have enough money to buy this book. 72-hour kits are good things to have in your car though if that’s all the gear you store there. I think there has been too much focus on these things lately and not enough common sense.

Their are enough useful items available in the average household to grab what you need and be gone with in a manner of minutes if the need or necessity arises. These items are found in the average modern day home with ease and have all the necessary components needed or required for improvising survival tools from. You can use these tools to improve the most desperate situations and sustain your life with a bit of fortitude on your part and a bit of knowledge and skill learned from this book.

By utilizing the everyday things that maybe we usually take for granted or most folks have an extra bit of available, we can, by adding a bit of knowledge to the mix, cover all the basic needs of life with minimal improvisation.

You will not come nearly feeling the bite of a disaster as bad as most of your fellow neighbors who ignored the warnings to prepare or that lack the knowledge to improvise and adapt to an emergency situation.

Please share your hard earned and learned expertise and help your community when you can should the world call on you to help your fellow man in a crisis.

When people decide that it is in their best interest to vacate an area there are many questions that arise. How long should they wait to leave, how will they obtain life’s basic necessities if they do? But go where and bring what? By the end of your reading I hope I have conveyed enough information to resolve all these troubling issues.

Think about what you will do, and what your friends and family’s actions should be if the unforeseen happens.

Will they go try to link up to an elderly relative that may need their help, or maybe Uncle Billy Bob’s farm is best place to ride out the impending social or civil break down? No matter where they are going they will have to travel through rural areas or hang out around various suburban ones (note not Primitive Wilderness, jungle or wilds of Alaska) to get where they are going for whatever reason.

That is the reason we will either not mention in this book, or just gloss over Primitive survival skills. I won’t try to teach you how to make cordage out of tree bark. The reason being, is that you will have access too the many accouterments of man always near by and need to be learning to use them instead of focusing on a naked in the wilderness theme.

Making cordage out of bark might be nice to know, but having sense enough to have a pair of fencing pliers with you, to take advantage of the miles of farm fences in a rural area is infinitely better than buying a fancy multi tool pair of pliers giz whiz that cant cut the wire in the fence.

This is just plain prepared and a better bit of knowledge to retain for a modern survivor to learn and apply when needed. Fore armed is fore warned.

All the basic survival gurus trying to make a buck keep saying, get out of the cities when the trouble gets hot. OK, that’s fine to say, but they don’t tell you how, when to leave, how to eat off the land as you go, or what to carry besides needing a wheelbarrow to carry it all. No they just say stock up on gizillion things and get to your mythical fortress retreat as soon as you can. The problem is that most folks don’t have the money and can’t afford those thousands of dollars worth of supplies proscribed, let alone afford another home or refuge in the mountains or wherever.

I will endeavor to show you how from bucks on up, according to your budget or preparedness goals, you can put together a superior survival package. And by utilizing this minimal gear thoughtfully in a walk out situation, you will hopefully soon realize that you are going to outlast, out think and out eat and drink most of the would be survivors sharing the road with you. If you are stuck in the suburbs, then this book will teach you that you have the means right at hand quite often in your own neighborhood to overcome any situation. The common everyday articles you take for granted will give you an unprecedented edge, as long as you remember to combine a bit of common sense and this books survival knowledge to an object to make it more useful.

You will be able survive with this knowledge by using improvised objects more practically than anything you can buy. Let me elaborate a bit on that statement before you give me an odd look or a sharp reply. For example yes the commercially made solar ovens are better than your homemade one, but they are usually bulky and don’t usually breakdown well for backpacking. As an example of this applied knowledge, my suggestion of adding to your survival kit a Reynolds baking bag will become very clear in the chapter on solar solutions as the wisest choice in flexibility and economics. But for now figure out which of those two items I mentioned you can carry with you with no effort for long distances without fatigue? Yea a baking bag.

Now I am not trying to advocate leaving your home and going out into the wilderness and trying to make it long term. Even the pioneers had to interact with trading posts etc. to get by. I strongly advise you too not to try a walkout of a city and instead just to do forays to obscure wood lots around your area or a mile or so from your house into the country when absolutely necessary. No, what I am trying to advocate is, that any scenario can happen and give you a little bit more knowledge and a bit more awareness of various possibilities or solutions to risk situations. If the worse case happens well then you will know a bit about reacting to it.

You will have gained a bit of expertise by reading this book of solving survival situations. This will enable you, should you ever be required to travel from a city or suburban environment through a rural area by car or foot to survive long term. It will be up to you apply your knowledge to evaluate options during a crisis and utilize this basic information but you will have the means to try to hunker down and stay in place and get by for awhile or go relocate as you decide.

History has repeatedly shown us though, usually in the case of war torn areas or city sieges that during civil break down the population would have to make forays out into the countryside to survive during a long-term crisis. I will show you how best to make these trips successful. Be it gathering wood for fuel, or food excursions you have forayed out for, safer and more productive should the need ever arise.

Mans view of his conditions is mostly a mental state. What is deplorable conditions or life threatening conditions to some, will, become more of an inconvenience to you than an imminent threat because you are a prepared survivor. The skills you will learn in the upcoming chapters cover what’s found in many survival primers but we are going to go several steps further by providing you with advanced, and very practical knowledge that will allow you to thrive when others falter.

This book provides a considered and heavy focus on survival snaring and trapping so that you may feed yourself and a very large family well, and continually, not just for a few days until help arrives. No this is long-term subsistence trapping and snaring techniques that are rarely made available to the public or are the author’s own invention or practiced technique here in print for the first time.

There are many basic fundamentals the author intends to provide the reader or would be survivor with, which are as listed below. It is these fundamental basic working knowledge blocks that will allow the reader to adapt and improve upon a given situation that they may find themselves in.

The Reader by utilizing these insights and specialized techniques provided in this book, along with their own common sense, will allow them a great deal of diversification and improvisation to problem solving. This knowledge is applicable in varying conditions as the individuals own experience or fates dictate to be the best solution.

No one skill can be considered to be a cookie cutter solution for all the varying geographic, political, climatic, and terrain etc. situations that could possibly exist. I shall give you basic proven skills that are readily adaptable to suit any condition and then expound a bit to give you insight into more advanced techniques to challenge you to learn more or improvise upon a given technique.

This book covers all the below mentioned skills and much, much, more! It takes quite a bit of time to absorb and remember all the various adaptations covered in this book so consider the following.

Remember to put this book with your gear, as it is a lot of info to try to retain. However, even without the book I believe if you read it and just grasp the general idea you will be far ahead of any average person in a survival situation.

A. The collection and purification of water from various sources.

B. The ability to cook food in most any environment with minimal resources.

C. How to trap and hunt for real! Not generic old timey survival crap that says set one or two snares and wait or other misinformation that has been copied over and over of things that just doesn’t plain work or are missing an important step. What we are going to learn here is Good ol boy tried and true southern style trapping, hunting or just