21st CENTURY LONGHUNTER

Travel Back to the days of our Forefathers with this tradition course on Small Game Hunting, Reloading your own Ammunition, and Processing Game to cook over an Open Fire. This 4 day Course will involve many aspects of old school Woodcrafts and well as Traditional Methods of Feeding yourself off the Landscape.

Perquisite: Students must be at least 18 years of age. And ready for some walking with gear in a colder weather environment.

The registration deadline is 2 weeks prior to class

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Subjects to be covered (will cover all below time, weather, and personal allowance)

• Shotgun use and safety
• Reloading Shotgun shells with Traditional Black Powder and Simple tools
• Reading the Landscape and Environment to find Game
• Processing Game to include Rabbit and Squirrel after the Harvest
• Camp fire Management for cooking
• Camp cookery to add basic staple to complete wild harvest meals
• Cooking apparatus from wild materials
• Hunting safety
• Safe Axe use and Maintenance 
• Building Bucking stations
• Winter Fire Starting
• Winter Water Acquisition off the landscape
• Making a small game Keeper

  Required Kit Per Man

• 1 CAT and I Pressure Bandage
• Fixed Blade Knife and Folder
• Folding Saw and Hatchet
• Shovel Cold Steel
• 10x10 Oil Cloth or Canvas Tarp
• Queen Wool Blanket
• Winter Sleeping Bag
• Sleeping Pad
• Pillow Case or Sack Cloth
• Pack Basket 20” Min
• 30-35 Ltr Dry Bag
• Canteen and Cup with L Bracket handle cup (additional to Butter fly handle cup
• System like a Kit Bag
• Utensils for eating
• Skillet 10” Carbon Steel
• Woodsman’s Pantry (Empty)
• (2) Muslin Bags for Root Vegetables
• Haversack
• Large Shemagh 
• Flint and Steel Kit with Mag Lens
• Sunnto MC2 Compass
• Note Book and Pencils
• Map Protractor PF Scale 1-10,000
• 30’ Ridgeline (Pre set)
• 100’ Bank Line 
• 50’ 516” Braided Nylon Rope
• 1 SS 12GA (MUST BE SINGLE SHOT BREAK OPEN)
• Extra undergarments
• Outer Wear (Rain)
• Clothing Appropriate for weather and Personal Med/Hygiene Items

***ALL AMMUNITION AND RELOADING SUPPLIES WILL BE AVAILABLE DO

NOT BRING ANY

****Hunting and Trapping licence required

NOTE: IF YOU NEED TO ORDER GEAR FROM SELF RELIANCE OUTFITTERS YOU MUST DO SO NO LATER THAN TWO WEEKS PRIOR TO CLASS TO ENSURE YOU RECEIVE YOUR GEAR. ORDERS CANNOT BE SHIPPED TO THE SCHOOL PROPERTY FOR PICK UP.

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About our School:

    •    Fully Insured

    •    Red Cross Certified Training Facility

    •    EMT’s and Paramedic’s on Staff

    •    AED on Location 

    •    Epinephrine on Location

    •    Instructors are CPR and Wilderness First Aid Red Cross Certified 

    •    Low Student to Instructor to create a Pedagogy learning environment. 

    •    Most Instructors either former Military, EMS, or LE

    •    Dave Canterbury is NASAR Advanced Search and Rescue Certified 

    •    Dave Canterbury is Certified Expert Trapper by Fur Takers of America and a Certified Intermediate Herbalist by the Herbal Academy International School of Herbal Arts and Sciences

    •    All Instructors are equipped and licensed in HAM radio as well as PLB SAT comms for emergency communications away from classroom area.

    •    Training area is over 4500 Forested Acres 

Disclaimer:

Please make sure you take all gear with you at the end of the class. If gear is left behind, we will not be able to ship it to you, and will be considered abandoned. 

Due to property insurance restrictions: There will be no camping on the school property prior to the start of the class or after the classes conclude.

Each class is instructed by highly trained and professional outdoor/wilderness instructors. Each instructor teaches the Pathfinder School system and is authorized by Dave Canterbury. Instructors, including Dave Canterbury, can vary class to class.

NOTE: IF YOU NEED TO ORDER GEAR FROM SELF RELIANCE OUTFITTERS YOU MUST DO SO NO LATER THAN TWO WEEKS PRIOR TO CLASS TO ENSURE YOU RECEIVE YOUR GEAR. ORDERS CANNOT BE SHIPPED TO THE SCHOOL PROPERTY FOR PICK UP.