@The Wooded Beardsman
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Wilderness skills, hunting, fishing, trapping, bushcraft, and subsistence food procurement from the outdoors.
40 videos in Food & Water
Eating city squirrels: Viability and technique
Forty-five-minute exploration of whether and how to trap and prepare urban squirrels as a subsistence food source in a prepared lifestyle.
Cooking a Goat: Field Processing and Outdoor Cooking
Thirty-three-minute walkthrough of field-dressing and cooking a goat using primitive outdoor methods.
Deer Catch, Clean, and Cook Start-to-Finish
Twenty-two minute walkthrough of harvesting, field-dressing, butchering, and cooking a whole deer, emphasizing respect for the animal and zero-waste processing.
5 Gallon Bucket Survival Trap
Quick demonstration of a simple trap for small game using a five-gallon bucket and basic materials.
Art of Baking Meat in Mud
Seventeen-minute demonstration of primitive earth-oven cooking technique for wild game in a wilderness setting.
Learn to Trap a Beaver Easily
Step-by-step beaver trapping technique for subsistence hunting and wild food procurement.
Beaver Burgers – Catch and Cook
Harvesting, processing, and cooking beaver for subsistence food procurement in the wilderness.
Survival Trap Demonstration
Under-one-minute trap-building walkthrough for wilderness survival and food procurement.
This Wild Bird is Better Than Chicken
Catch-and-cook demonstration featuring wild bird preparation and cooking in a bushcraft setting.
Must Know Technique: Keeping Wild Meat
Short walkthrough on preserving wild game meat in the field and at camp—a foundational skill for hunters and subsistence food preparedness.
Armadillo: Taste, Preparation, and Subsistence Hunting
Twenty-two seconds on harvesting and tasting wild armadillo as a subsistence food source in bushcraft and survival contexts.
Eating Beaver Tail
Thirty-one-second demonstration of field-dressing and cooking beaver tail as a wild-food source.
Maple Bacon & Trout
31-second catch-and-cook demonstration: trout preparation with maple and bacon in a wilderness setting.
Singeing a Beast for Eating
One-minute demonstration of field dressing and singeing wild game over open flame — a traditional subsistence cooking technique.
Scavenging and Preparing Bones
Short walkthrough on locating and processing scavenged bones as a wilderness food source and subsistence skill.
This Weird Wild Meat — Everyone Loves It (and How to Catch It)
Hands-on demonstration of catching and preparing an unconventional wild protein source using primitive or minimal-gear methods.
3-Days Surviving in Canada's Wild
51-minute wilderness survival challenge: fishing, animal trapping, and shelter building using only gear that fits in a 5-gallon container.
Bang Bang Kabobs
Quick outdoor cooking technique for preparing freshly caught fish as kabobs over a campfire.
Porcupine Soup
Forty-eight-second catch-and-cook demonstration: field dressing a porcupine and preparing it as soup, a practical wild-game subsistence skill.
Squirrel Dinner: Catch and Cook
Fifty-seven seconds on field dressing and cooking a squirrel—a practical wild-game skill for off-grid subsistence.
Goose Burgers
Short-form demonstration of processing wild goose into burger meat—practical wild-game food preparation.
Smoked Wild Rabbit
Twenty-minute catch-and-cook walkthrough: trapping, processing, and smoking wild rabbit as subsistence food.
Cooking meat in mud
Thirty-second demonstration of primitive earth-cooking technique for meat in a wilderness or off-grid context.
Eating Carp: A Guide to Preparation and Cooking
Thirty-minute walkthrough on identifying, catching, cleaning, and cooking carp as a wild food source.
Crow Kabobs
Twenty-eight-second demonstration of processing and cooking wild crow as a subsistence protein source.
Bunny Burgers
Short walkthrough on processing wild rabbit for food, demonstrating field-to-table subsistence hunting skills.
Alder Smoked Trout
Catch-and-cook demonstration: fishing for trout and smoking the catch with alder wood, a wilderness food-preservation technique.
Bear Stew
Preparing and cooking bear meat as a subsistence food source in wilderness or off-grid contexts.
Bush Bird Butter Chicken
Forty-four-second catch-and-cook demonstrating how to prepare wild game using foraged ingredients and basic camp cooking.
Raccoon Burgers
Forty-one seconds on field dressing and cooking raccoon as a wild-caught protein source.
Spit roasting an entire deer
Field-to-table walkthrough: hunting, field dressing, and cooking a whole deer over an open fire.
Who's Eating Duck
Quick walkthrough of catching and preparing a duck as part of wilderness subsistence food procurement.
Making raccoon tasty
Short walkthrough on preparing and cooking wild-caught raccoon — a subsistence food-procurement skill from foraged game.
How to Eat Beaver
Field-to-table walkthrough on harvesting, processing, and cooking beaver as a wild-game protein source.
Preparing Bear Ribs
Quick walkthrough of field dressing and cooking wild bear ribs as subsistence food from hunting.
How to Catch Grasshoppers and Crickets
Hands-on demonstration of catching and preparing grasshoppers and crickets as wild-foraged protein sources.
Survival Skill - Easy Wild Grouse Clean & Recipe
Step-by-step grouse cleaning and cooking from field harvest to table, demonstrating practical wild-game processing for subsistence food procurement.
World's Most Impressive Squirrel Hunting Platform
46-second demonstration of a specialized hunting platform setup for squirrel hunting in the field.
Survival Skill - Sniping Squirrels!
46-second demonstration of a hunting technique for harvesting squirrels as subsistence food in a wilderness setting.
Survival Skill - Cooking on a Rock
23-minute demonstration of primitive cooking technique using heated rocks, applicable to off-grid and wilderness food preparation.