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I haven’t hunted in two years now 🦌 

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I haven’t hunted in two years now 🦌 

For a while I got my hunting license every year and headed out to the field in search of small game. It’s kind of tough to do regularly as I live in the city and nearby public lands are a ways away and many of them have a lot of hunting pressure. I hate sitting out on a ridge and peering down onto another ridge and seeing another hunter with his or her gun. Before and after deer season, it’s not so bad, but still obnoxious.

I know the big treasure is a big buck or a turkey in their respective seasons. But I have no place to hang or quarter a deer where I live plus my freezer is pretty small in my apartment. And what to do with the guts or entrails? I don’t have trash service and I would hate to put good organic material like that in the landfill.

I’d be better if I spent more time in the field. Podcasts and videos are great but they could only teach you so much. I probably would benefit from using a guide service. But it’s kind of hard not being a landowner and living in the city. Sure I don’t mind nights in the woods this time of year but even thru don’t happen all that often. Maybe when I own my own land.

I almost always pack my lunch for work 👝 …

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I am no fan of eating out, because I don’t like all the packing that go-food produces, to say nothing of all the unhealthy nature of it. 🗑 It’s easy enough to pack a good meal will lots of fiber and protein with beans or tofu, mixed with frozen or fresh vegetables such as broccoli, corn, peppers, and onions
and have a good lunch in a microwavable container to pop in the microwave when it’s lunch time. 🍱 Sure beats so much of the fat and sugar laden crap that commercial lunch places sell. Not only does it reduce waste, it also saves money. 💰 The reusable container gets washed out, and by purchasing the tofu and vegetables in bulk, the only waste that is produced is a few thin plastic bag that burns up to nothing.

Silvel Diesel Heater. Follow up video. THE TENT. What have I learned. Questions answered.

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They seem to work pretty good until the EPA catches on and starts to ban their import. They're relatively inexpensive and maybe some point I'll have to get one, as it sure would be nice to heat my truck cap with one, you can run it all night and just warm, dry air pushed into your truck cap or tent, while the dirty diesel burning part it's outside. Does require about an 1 amp of electricity an hour (12 watts) to run though though.

Map: Green Mountain National Forest North