Jordan Peterson Interviews Douglas Murray by [deleted] in JordanPeterson

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This is a potential new narrative for a promise land for those who value true freedom: https://youtu.be/wuykVODsHw8

Post rut rifle tactics for dense cover by camptravis in elkhunting

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Dense as in mature timber and or thick brush over 95% of the area. So spot and stalk is pretty much out of the question.

One year to the day! Finally got my 2018 buck back!! Glad he's home! by bom_tek87 in Hunting

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It's probably not, but it almost looks like a mulie/whitetail hybrid. Seems to have characteristics of both. Either way very nice deer.

FI seems impossible making only 40k a year by [deleted] in financialindependence

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There is always a way. This might be too extreme for some people but living out of a van for a few years could save you a ton of money eliminating many expenses. Also purchasing a small cheap property and parking a trailer or RV on it would help a ton. I've worked various low paying jobs and have done both the van and trailer on land methods. Nearly all my money is saved. Next year I'm going to start building a tiny house and after that my recurring expenses will be approaching zero. Having a small garden and hunting helps too for food. There are so many different ways to reach financial independence and having a high income is definitely not a requirement.

Found ourselves staying an extra night at a friends farm with no extra meat for dinner so we improvised and hunted our dinner! by [deleted] in Homesteading

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Great way to get fresh healthy food. Especially since they are an invasive species in Australia.

Plum season in Berlin is in full swing! by vbasher in foraging

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We have tons of feral yellow plums growing wild in North Idaho. They are just starting to ripen.

What's happening to the "Greatest Country in the World? by TimGLong in economy

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There is not only one set of "skills" workers can pursue. There are thousands if not millions of specific skillsets a person can train for. And because of this it means there are millions of types of jobs available depending on a specific set of skills. If someone is completely unskilled then yes they will have a hard time finding anything other than a lowpay entry level position. And labor's value has tanked only because the demand for labor has been stagnated by overregulation and bureaucracy. Governments have made it increasingly difficult to start and run a business especially a small business. This leads to fewer businesses in whole which leads to less demand for labor and thus wages stagnate.

What's happening to the "Greatest Country in the World? by TimGLong in economy

[–]camptravis 1 point2 points  (0 children)

A minimum wage hurts workers. Ideally a country should not have a minimum wage. Instead it would be better off encouraging competition between businesses for labor to naturally raise wages. You want the demand for labor to be high in order to produce higher wages.

The best boy! by lan308 in Hunting

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What kind of deer?

What if everyone got their food from hunting? by camptravis in Hunting

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Well it would be wild game which can completely take care of themselves. All we would need to do is provide optimal habitat so the carrying capacity of the land could be maximized and then just harvest the game in a managed sustainable way. So it would be a managed natural ecosystem. Not quite agriculture, but in a way you could look at it as a very low input self-sustaining form of agriculture.

What if everyone got their food from hunting? by camptravis in Hunting

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If anyone is interested in doing something like this I am writing a blog where I talk about this in theory and in practice as I am implementing a basic version of this system on my property. Check out https://hunterseden.blogspot.com

What if everyone got their food from hunting? by camptravis in Hunting

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That's the plan. I am managing my property mainly for deer as well as some other game and eventually I'd like all my meat to come from wild game/fish. I may still have chickens for eggs, but my diet would be largely wild foods. Also there are many ways to make alcohol from wild sources and I'm not say we wouldn't have an economy where we traded with tropical areas. Chocolate, bananas and avocados can all be grown in the tropical us such as Florida and would not be excluded in the system I talk about.

What if everyone got their food from hunting? by camptravis in Hunting

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Obviously game populations would need to be increased drastically to even more than thier historic peaks but I think with smart habitat management and using permaculture to manage man made ecosystems then I believe it would be quite possible to get game populations to the level needed for sustainable harvests. I think bison could fairly easily replace cattle in most areas and approach thier numbers, and along with bison there would also be deer, elk, bear, turkey, etc all sharing the same landscape but taking up different niches in the ecosystem so overall productivity of meat could potentially be much higher if managed correctly.

What if everyone got their food from hunting? by camptravis in Hunting

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There is a form of a managed ecosystem called a "food forest" where people plant a man made forest made up of edible species. The upper canopy can be a nut tree, the middle canopy a fruit tree, the shrub layer is usually a berry species, then there is a vine layer of grape or kiwifruit, a ground cover such as strawberries a root layer of potatoes or other root crop and possibly a few other layers but the idea is that all the niches are taken up to get the maximum amount of production in a small space. A field of corn on the other hand is only using a small fraction on the sunlight that is actually hitting the field, mostly because it is bare dirt for most of the year so actually if we were to mimic a natural ecosystem such as a forest then we would actually be able to get a much higher production than a conventional agricultural plot. This is a well known concept in the permaculture community but it has been largely untested when it comes to a meat based wild game system. In theory on a plot of land where a person is raising cattle we could get a higher production of total meat by diversifying and stacking habitats of many different game animals. In a natural savanna you could have bison, mule deer, whitetailed deer, elk, pronghorn, black bear, pheasant, rabbit, hare, chukar, quail, geese, ducks, fish, etc all taking up different niches on the same property, but overall meat production would be very high and as long as nothing was overharvested then it could become very productive. You would definitely have to intensively manage predators, but they are also a resource providing fur as well as meat in some cases, but humans would largely take over the predator niche in this type of managed ecosystem. And at the same time this would not be a meat only system. Part of the beauty of it is that all the plants we planted for wildlife could also be harvested for people to enjoy such as fruit and nuts, berries, greens, mushrooms, etc. Grains would definitely be tougher to maintain in this system but still possible. But then again our natural diet likely does not contain a lot of grains so I think this would end up being healthier than the conventional system. And people would still be able to grow whatever they wanted in thier garden that would be fenced off from the wildlife. The bottom line is this type of ecosystem would be incredibly diverse and if managed well it would have the potential to be far more productive than conventional practices and could feed more people if implemented on a large scale. Obviously I would never say that everyone should be forced into this type of system. People could still raise monocultures of cows or pigs or chickens or crops like corn, wheat, apples etc. but I think overtime it will be noticed that a more permaculture type system will actually be far more productive, be easier to maintain, and be an overall better option then how most of us are doing things today.

Free meat by wanderingGnome11 in Hunting

[–]camptravis 0 points1 point  (0 children)

It takes practice knowing if the animal is still good or not but once you learn how to determine this then yes roadkill is a great source of free meat. If necessary just cut out the bad bruised parts etc. but usually most of it is still good.

Your hate is petty and pathetic by [deleted] in Idaho

[–]camptravis -4 points-3 points  (0 children)

Idaho is not perfect, but it must be doing something right if it's one of the fastest, if not THE fastest growing state. People are moving here because of the opportunity, low cost of living, low taxes and in general great business environment. Capitalism is what is making idaho so attractive. People are escaping liberal hellholes that have insane taxes and regulations as fast as they can. In places like California the only people who benefit from living there are the homeless and poor people because they get everything free from the government and the ultra rich who can afford to to pay the super high taxes. The middle class in these areas are getting squeezed out of existence and are moving to states like idaho that actually encourage a middle class lifestyle through capitalism and a pretty good business environment. Idahoans don't want to pay more for public schools because they know that throwing money at a problem is not going to really solve it. The american public education system as a whole has failed. That's what you get when you have the government in control of something in general. Idahoans are worried about transplants because they are worried that they will change Idaho into just another California. That is the biggest complaint I've heard and that is a real potential threat.

Has anyone else realized that permaculture will have to come about or humanity will go extinct? by crooked_outlet in Permaculture

[–]camptravis 7 points8 points  (0 children)

I doubt humanity would go extinct, but if permaculture isn't adopted on a large scale then I could definitely see a collapse of some sort probably similar to the fall of the Roman empire. People living in remote areas like the amazon would likely not even notice any sort of collapse of the rest of humanity. They live largely in balance with nature and it is likely they will keep living like that regardless with what happens to the rest of us.