Fowler's Makery and Mischief

All you can do some days is THE NEXT THING. It's not easy to be thankful when you're 22 days away from family on Thanksgiving day. But no matter how hard it is or tired I am, I do the next thing. I rebate my fishing line and try something new. You don't give up, do you? Just keep on casting. And at some point you figure it out and you start catching catfish again. So you start the fire, you've got the catfish and you eat it. And if that's all you have strength to do. You do the next thing.

This is our first day fishing at the new location and so far, no good. I tried worms and lures, but thus far failed to catch any fish. If fishing fails to provide, we will be on a strict diet of raccoon more than likely. I was told there would be boar, rabbit and turkeys at this location. If that fails, then the last nine days is really going to stink. Fishing never seems to fail completely, but too long of a dry spell could really hurt us.

I woke to an empty camp. It's been over 10 hours since I heard him puking in the night and I haven't been able to find him. I'm going to have to hike out to where I can get a signal and see if there's any messages on his whereabouts.

It makes TEQUILA and you've seen agave syrup in your grocery store or in products sweetened with its nectar. It's about 1.5 times sweeter than sugar. And fortunately for us, the agave grows here in Texas. During my traipsing around, I managed to find a good number of agave plants. We are out here to catch and cook anything we can get our hands on. So we decided to harvest one of the agave, cook it to caramelize the sugars, and hopefully make it edible.

I have been hunting for days trying to get turkey, but so far unsuccessfully. So today I'm going to load the 50 caliber air rifle with the arrows and go dear hunting. This 50 cal air bow is awesome! Now if I can just get in front of a deer while I'm hunting !!!!

After the storm swept the majority of our crawfish traps away, I decided to make my own Primitive Crawfish trap. From day one, crawfish has been a stable source of food. The first day we set the folding traps, we managed to catch a pound of crawfish within an hour. We had been cooking crawfish for dinner almost every other day until the storm hit. Unfortunately the lightly constructed folding Crawfish traps did not survive the river rising 6 feet and they were swept away in the deluge. It took me a few days to find the resourcesTo repair my crawfish catching situation. To build a primitive crawfish trap I would need sticks And vines flexible enough to form the basket of the primitive trap. But once the Primitive crawfish trap was done We would be cooking crawfish again. And I can't tell you how nice it is When the majority of our meals of ben raccoon To be able to catch and cook Crawfish For dinner.

Finally got to take a shot at something with the 50-caliber air rifle. I have been out hunting every day with the Air rifle since it came and no luck on the Turkey or dear so far. Fortunately, I have a night vision scope and while I was on my way back I spotted a rabbit in the woods. I came across the 2 fairly skittish rabbits that ran off before I had a chance to line up a shot. The third rabbit I came across I managed to sneak up on with the air rifle. Yeehaw FinallySomething different to eat. When I set out that morning my goal was not to catch and cook rabbit So this is a pleasant surprise. The 50 caliber air rifle is slightly large For stuff like hunting rabbits But it worked awesome. And the rabbit cooked up To a most delicious meal.

We are half way to our 30 day survival challenge. Another catfish would be a Great. But now that I have the air rifleI'm really looking forward to turkey. I'll there's nothing to say I can't catching cook a catfish And a turkey. We do have plenty food right now. But if we don't keep at it We may miss an opportunity to catch more fish Or something big That'll carry us right through to the end.

We have eaten raccoon and crawfish for days now but it struck me last night when I was frying up some raccoon fat To make Them into pieces of bacon basically , That the rendered fat leftover will be great for frying other foods. What could be better than frying up crawfish in the raccoon fat. Well outside of turkey fried in raccoon fat. But I only just got that 50 caliber air rifle. After I sight it in today maybe Turkey will be on the menu Fried in raccoon Fat as well.

My new 50 Cal Air Rifle is coming today by DRONE DELIVERY! I feel like that kid from the movie The Christmas Story waiting for my air rifle to come on Christmas morning. Pyramyd Air an online Gun Mall became a Sponsor of the 30-day survival Challenge Jumped on board last minute. So their contribution of the 50 Caliber Seneca Dragon Claw Air Rifle and Night vision scope, Is just arriving now on day 13 by drown. This could be a game-changer for the adventure. The 50 caliber airgun can shoot arrows as well as slugs. The larger game Like deer and turkey which have been out of range up to this point are now within my reach. Or they will be once my 50 caliber air rifle Arrives. Thank you Pyramyd Air for making a young boy's dreams a reality I promise not to shoot my eye out ;)

Survival skills And Bushcrafting will get you through the night. But if you're in the long haul you got to build a better Tomorrow today !!

Catch And Cook Giant Soft Shell Turtle Day 11 Of 30 Day Survival Challenge Texas

Not every day can be a victory or can it? NEVER GIVING UP is its own reward.

We have been setting HAVE A HEART TRAPS in the hopes of catching a raccoon since day one and it finally paid off. It took 8 days but finally, our constant efforts paid off and Chris came back to camp with a raccoon for the stew pot. It's not a small raccoon so it should cook up to quite a feast.

I set out to go hunting with my slingshot expecting rabbits and found a very different sort of game. In fact i almost steeped the rattlesnake. That is not the recommended way to fine them let me tell you. Just about stoped my hart when i herd the rattlesnake at my feet start doing his thing. Slingshot hunting is hard enough but the dark makes it 4 times harder. And the way the rattlesnake was moving about made it even harder but years of practice kicked in and i didn't even think as i lined up on the rattlesnake with my slingshot and just let fly. As awesome as hunting rattlesnake is with a slingshot it is not a lot of food so i kept hunting and it payed of with a chance to take a opossum with the slingshot not even an hour later. Now we will be eating good!!! The opossum is the biggest game i have ever take while hunting with a slingshot.

"I Hate Snake" Hates a strong work i would hate to have a snake crawl on me. Or should I say Slither on me or bite me. But I think if I'm the one choosing to do the handling of them I'll be ok. And when it comes to eating I don't think there's anything I'm afraid to catch and cook. So if staying alive means catching cup water snake You better believe I'll do it.

It's that time of year again bath day. LOL NO NO It's my birthday !!!

After eating Nothing but crawfish for 4 days, something has got to give or I'm going to get really skinny really quickly. Catfish is our best option to right now to put a bunch of meat on the proverbial table. I have been working at catching one for a few days. And I think I am getting to know the way things work around here better every day. Today will be the day for sure that I catch and cook a catfish for dinner.

Health and wellness check and then I'm going to see if I can do some slingbow fishing. We were down at the river the other day and saw a good deal of gar rising. I don't have a lot of slingbow fishing experience but I kind of know my way around a slingshot so if there are as many fish rising again today we should do well with the slingbow and land us something good to eat.

You win some and you lose some when it comes to eating cacti if you do it wrong you definitely lose. The Red cactus tuna that grows on the top of the cactus here in Texas is very juicy and full of lots of sugars and carbohydrates. Under normal circumstances I don't eat sugar. In my day-to-day life, I Eat ketogenic. Meaning I don't do carbs or sugar. But in a survival situation When calories are what counts for keeping up your energy Nothing is off the table. Including risking a few thorns and your tongue to get a tasty treat off the cactus.

Have you ever eaten a turtle? Well, now I can say yeah to that, and I was kind of surprised. Catching and cooking Turtle is not something I can do at my home in Maine. Fortunately, it is covered under the hunting license I bought here in Texas. Catch and cook at its finest, beggars can't be choosers in a survival situation if it's safe and if it's legal down the hatch it goes.

Day 1 off a 30 day survival challenge here we go!!!! Youtube Creators, Zachary Fowler (Season 3 Winner History Channel's "Alone") Fowlers Makery and Mischief, and Chris Thorn of Drop Forged Survival will be collaborating and Surviving 30 Days in the State of Texas. Are there rules? No Food Brought with us as long as its legal we are going to catch It and we are going to cook it !!! In December the series will Air on both of our YouTube channels. 30 episodes about my days and 30 about Chris's days.