 Welcome back to the channel y'all and to the great outdoors. We're here at our bushcraft hunting camp down by the river in the woods and You know I was going through some old relics the other day and I broke out my old Ithaca 22 this is my first ever rifle a neighbor friend gave it to me. It's an extremely safe extremely simple operating Rifle that is just great. It's a great starter rifle And I got it out I cleaned it up and I was like, you know what I'm gonna take this to To the to the little bushcraft camp out in the woods because this would be a perfect addition. I Don't know how many squirrels this thing has under under its belt. I used to hunt squirrels on my grandma's farm and It's just a very simple little iron sight Lever action rifle. I love it. So it is time to do some squirrel hunt here at the bushcraft camp We've got a fire going I've heard some squirrels barking So we're just gonna kind of kind of do a little walk and do a little listening here and See if we can hear anything and then locate one and then take it back put it on the fire First of all, let me show you how the camp turned out The tarp held up great with the rain. I really like this tarp that water just beads off of it It did pull up a little bit. There was a little bit of thunder. I never had any lightning that I could see The hammock the hammock did really good. I like this bug net that comes with the hammock. You can take it off, but Didn't have any bugs last night, of course. So it was Probably in the low 40s maybe high 30s because I got a little chilled I slept with my camera gear and You know old mr. Pew Pew right there Right under me. So I have my 20 degree bag right here and Then I put a wool blanket under that Will blanket there and then I put my pad my sleeping pad Up under there and I had to do that because that wind was carrying under here and It was just it was hitting my my rear end and I was just not having it It was in the 40s with a with a wind and my tarp is flown Which means it's completely off the ground. So there was definitely a breeze coming in the heat off the fire Helped for the first two and a half hours or so. I would get these waves of heat that would come up under that awning and Just Convect over me and it was really nice. And then when that wore down You know, I had to I had to break out that sleeping pad Otherwise, I wouldn't got any sleep and as I was getting ready to go to bed just sitting here eating my dinner and stuff scanning with the thermals waiting to see like what is coming out here what is coming out and it was just Stuff wandering around the whole time. I mean hearing stuff all around me from raccoon raccoons possums those Little ringtail cat things. I'm pretty sure there was a porcupine as well That was up here I was not brave enough to go explore it and then we had the hogs and then we have foxes and coyotes and The hogs were just too much all the hogs were just insane. I had to take another one out That was just blatantly chewing Right in front of me while I was eating my dinner Ladies and gentlemen, we have a squirrel in our midst. I Can hear it barking back there. We have a fire We're hungry Let's go get some squirrel. Holy cow. Look at this outcropping right here guys Wow now this is 100% Livable cave right here. It's huge. Absolutely huge I can see another burrow right there from a hog. That sort of looks like an arrowhead Okay squirrel located right up in this tree. All right little buddy You're mine. Oh my goodness It's as simple as that y'all lever out Shell pops out and it's just one at a time. So we'll skin it up and that's our lunch I'm glad I cleaned it up and Still shoots great So we got our squirrel right here. It's probably gonna be pretty chewy Because squirrel meat is usually chewy. We got some olive oil. I've got some spices It's not gonna be like we're just primitive cooking this thing on a stick It's gonna be decent and they're just always chewy unless you pressure cook them or you let them sit Over ice for a few days or maybe even age them never aged a squirrel usually just kind of like Get it and go for me, but maybe I should so anyways nice little male squirrel Let's skin it up and let's get it on the fire. I don't clean squirrel that often But if I remember right We did it last time We just go around the cuffs of all the You know all the arms Just like you would on a deer. We'll make sure we do that good on the leg here His legs are tasty Just kind of using this Little old branch knob Just to lay him across and just have a little little pull a leverage I'm making these cuts. It always helps to have Tight skin when you're making them. I'm gonna skin this squirrel Right in the middle and then we should be able to just pull the two halves apart Now I've kind of got it under the skin where I can pull Start pulling these apart. The elbows are a little tricky But this one's coming out You can see one of his feet just popped out right there And then the other one we can just cut That's all the meat. We're really gonna need so we got our squirrel skinned in half now All we got to do is just clean out the entrails and stuff. I won't show that but the skinning part is It's pretty easy, you know on a fresh squirrel make that cut down the center just pull and then you know, obviously cut the Cut the dog it off and all that but it's For me, I think it's the easiest way and you don't get a ton of hair on it top of that spice Cosmo SPG Don't leave home without it man Salt pepper and garlic and I've even got some olive oil Olive oils are actually really useful for your for your blades as well Your metals to prevent them from rusting a lot of steels carbon steels. You have to do that anyways This is the knife that I need to use so I actually carry olive oil With me and I use it on my blades at home So I can use them for cooking as well and not just you know bushcraft type stuff Even on my axe. I find that olive oil Those types of oils natural oils work really well with that. So I'm just gonna put a little dabble do down the back here Rub that in Rub that in the tendies right there Get those arms if you guys watch the last video I suspended this grate over the coals Are over the fire really turned out to be a bad idea I Dropped half my food drop pretty much all my food in the fire So we're not gonna be doing that today. We're gonna use a different method. We're just gonna be using the coals And kind of sliding them over to our great much safer Operation here. I'll pepper this backside pepper that backside Get it. Oh, we've got some nice garlic chunks in there for squirrel that was expired about You know 45 minutes ago. I know this is gonna be chewy But it's seasoned really nicely. So let's see how good a fresh squirrel tastes in the wild It's always better when you're out in the outdoors. I promise you I'm gonna try to take some of these coals Scoot them up under here. We'll just stick our squirrel Think it might be time for a flip working with here It's feeling very hard just like a squirrel is She gonna be crunchy. It's a he actually he gonna be crunchy Maybe I should have boiled it first. I've never tried that I just heard another squirrel back there boil it get the meat soft and then do like a sear on it, but It's too late now It's gonna be like eat rocks. We are looking extra crispy I don't think there's any amount of Chick-fil-A sauce that is gonna save this, you know, it's not looking quite as Bad as I was thinking get me an arm piece throw it back on that midsection looks a little underdone There it is Steamy fresh little protein of the woods a Bone got me on that first try Shoulder blade. It's actually really good. That squirrel is not very tough That Cosmo SPG Use it on everything at home. I got a couple extra Containers of it not containers, but little bottles of it just to carry with me We're doing stuff like this truck camping and whatnot Wow That is just Really gave it a lot of good flavor not nearly as chewy as I was expecting Especially on like this arm piece right here. It's not bad at all We got some good squirrels out here. All right, let's get us a leg here Juicy leg Couple of hairs on it We'll remove daggum near impossible to Clean a squirrel and not get a couple hairs on it Steamy again, not too chewy those chunks of garlic in there make all the difference in the world Oh, man, if I had some biscuits and gravy right here, hmm I'll be hunting for more squirrels all day y'all it felt good to go down memory lane breakout the old vintage Ithaca And walk around and look for some squirrels my dad when I was little we used to go to His farm his family farm and I would walk around with that little 22 and I would Shoot squirrels and I got pretty decent at it. He told me to take it easy He taught me an important lesson. He said son, you know everything that you you shoot you should eat he had known that I had shot a raccoon and He made he made me go back get that raccoon that I'd got that morning take it back and He helped me cook it and I mean what a great dad He even took a bite and it wasn't good. It was greasy But it just taught me an important lesson really the only exception to that I think is hogs. We just have so many of them We can't control but you know, you just don't want to go around shooting every squirrel You see just felt good to get one bring it back cook it up And just go down memory lane with with the old lever action my first rifle ever pretty awesome Hmm that one had some bark on it. Go ahead and smash that like button for breaking out vintage classics Stay it out here in the great outdoors Camping going and getting ourselves some sustenance. It's just the basics of life. It's just good It just feels good. 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