Preacher wrote on Nov 26^th, 2010 at 5:38pm:

Mad_Mat wrote on Nov 26th, 2010 at 2:00pm: "And before you experiment with those snares, read your hynting and trapping regs to be sure it is legal - I'm pretty sure it would be illegal to snare a rabbit in Colorado, for instance. If I'm in a survival situation, regs be damned.  Food is food.  If it comes down to me or the last dodo, sorry dodo you're dinner tonight.

I believe he was referring to my experiments this winter with snaring techniques, which would be illegal in some places. During an actual situation of need, as you said, food is food.

You bring up a good point about the affect on cognitive actions as a result of stress and lack of food (and lack of sleep, as the case may well be). All the more reason to have redundancies in equipment and in means of marking your way - going back to the discussion about trail tape and the like.