Priorities of survival – Food

Your next priority of survival is food, here you need to be thinking will the calories gained outweigh the calories spent. Trapping requires less energy than hunting, traps should be placed on game trails or near dens. Do not place them too close to the dens as animals are most wary when entering and leaving them, look for bottlenecks or funnel the prey to your traps. Try to mask your scent, bait them and set more traps to increase your chances of success. Should you find yourself near water this would be a good place to look for food.

Never turn down an opportunity, a good survivor is a scavenger. Sometimes nature does the hard work for you and you should try to eat anything you happen upon that is safe, you never know when or what may make up your next meal so you cannot afford to be picky. Your brain should be bigger then every animal or insect, so put that grey matter to good use and Think smart!

Make sure that if you have food spare to store it is out of the reach of any insects or animals it may attract, as the last thing you would want is unwanted attention from something that would also appreciate your meal such as a bear.

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