Residing in College Station, TX, Dr. Anthony Amoroso is a board-certified emergency physician in a level II trauma center that serves 55,000-60,000 patients per year. Aside from his professional responsibilities, Dr. Anthony Amoroso enjoys hobbies including fishing, travel, cooking, exercising, and hunting.
Hunting can pose a variety of hazards for even the most experienced outdoorsman. Every hunter should have basic survival skills including those discussed below.
Knowing how to locate clean water is a key survival skill for hunters. Obtaining water to drink from sources of precipitation such as rain, snow, and dew are ideal when water sources cannot be purified. One way to collect water is to press a cloth such as bandanna against grass or other plants covered in dew and then wring it into a container.
Finding food is an essential skill for hunters should they become stranded. Raw sources of easily obtainable food may include brown grasshoppers, crickets, earthworms, and grubs. Another option for securing food is to make a small spear from a tree sapling to use it for catching fish and small animals.
Every hunter should know how to make a shelter as a fundamental survival skill. An insulated shelter can be constructed using tree branches. Two smaller branches of equal size and measuring approximately three to four feet long can be fit together and leaned against a longer branch several feet in length. A large sheet of plastic can then be draped over the branches to create a waterproof shelter. To provide insulation from the cold ground, moss, ferns, and dried leaves should be spread around inside the shelter.
