Survivor Man is the only legit show for sure but yes Man, Woman, Wild is absolutely hilarious. Worth it for the comedy even if better survival shows are playing.
Doing “survival” stuff for real sucks. When I was in the military I did a few survival courses and spent a lot of time in the field with no food/tent/whatever.
SERE- (survival evasion resistance escape) was a POW school. Lived in the field for 4-5 days with basically no food or shelter before you’re “captured” and taken to the POW camp to be interrogated for a couple days… Lame
DEST- (desert survival training) A week long and hot as balls… sucked. The temp swing was horrible… I was spooning with my buddy all night and we were freezing our asses off app night one night. Horrible. Water is hard to come by. Catching dew and making solar sills only go so far. Animals are pretty hard to snare even if you find an active game trail.
JST- (Jungle Survival Training) 10 days down in panama… Worst of them all. Sucks when it’s humid and bugs are everywhere. Can’t keep your feet dry and they get TORE UP. Mosquitos are awful… Good supply of edible plants and access to water… But hard to start a fire with everything so wet.
So what I’m basically saying is that a real life “survival” situation would in fact suck balls lol
[quote]gregron wrote:
Doing “survival” stuff for real sucks. When I was in the military I did a few survival courses and spent a lot of time in the field with no food/tent/whatever.
SERE- (survival evasion resistance escape) was a POW school. Lived in the field for 4-5 days with basically no food or shelter before you’re “captured” and taken to the POW camp to be interrogated for a couple days… Lame
DEST- (desert survival training) A week long and hot as balls… sucked. The temp swing was horrible… I was spooning with my buddy all night and we were freezing our asses off app night one night. Horrible. Water is hard to come by. Catching dew and making solar sills only go so far. Animals are pretty hard to snare even if you find an active game trail.
JST- (Jungle Survival Training) 10 days down in panama… Worst of them all. Sucks when it’s humid and bugs are everywhere. Can’t keep your feet dry and they get TORE UP. Mosquitos are awful… Good supply of edible plants and access to water… But hard to start a fire with everything so wet.
So what I’m basically saying is that a real life “survival” situation would in fact suck balls lol [/quote]
Given I would have a choice to disappear though, I’d park myself somewhere comfy and harvest oysters by the beach all day.
Maybe self reliant hobo would have been a better title.
[quote]gregron wrote:
You guys ever watch “Man, Woman, Wild”???
That show is pretty funny. The guys wife cracks me up. Bear Grylles (sp?) show is entertaining because he does way “crazier” stuff because he’s not actually out “surviving.” he films his pieces and then rolls back to the hotel, that’s why he can do things like jump in freezing water all the time. Dual Survival is cool but Survivor Man was the best because it was the most accurate. That would be a SHITTY job… No wonder he got a new show lol[/quote]
Pretty good from what I have seen.
How about Mantracker?
http://www.oln.ca/details.php?id=14
The problem I have with Grylis is that some poor schlub that doesn’t know any better might follow his advice and end up dead. The getting wet thing really bothers me for some reason. Might not be to bad in the summer, but in the winter it could mean life or death.
[quote]Testy1 wrote:
[quote]gregron wrote:
You guys ever watch “Man, Woman, Wild”???
That show is pretty funny. The guys wife cracks me up. Bear Grylles (sp?) show is entertaining because he does way “crazier” stuff because he’s not actually out “surviving.” he films his pieces and then rolls back to the hotel, that’s why he can do things like jump in freezing water all the time. Dual Survival is cool but Survivor Man was the best because it was the most accurate. That would be a SHITTY job… No wonder he got a new show lol[/quote]
Pretty good from what I have seen.
How about Mantracker?
http://www.oln.ca/details.php?id=14
The problem I have with Grylis is that some poor schlub that doesn’t know any better might follow his advice and end up dead. The getting wet thing really bothers me for some reason. Might not be to bad in the summer, but in the winter it could mean life or death.[/quote]
Yes, wet is one of the major problems. I learned this from my dad as a kid. He was adamant about us not bundling up too much and getting TOO warm (and sweating in your sleep) when camping out in winter.
[quote]Iron Dwarf wrote:
[quote]Uncle Gabby wrote:
Flint and flint? Never heard that. I see hypothermia in your future.
When you strike steel with flint you’re shaving off tiny pieces of steel, which ignite in air. Really, steel is the important ingredient as there are many stones that are harder than steel and therefore can be used to make fire. Flint’s popular because it’s not as brittle as most.
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Maybe he’s thinking of quartz. I have several pieces of quartz in my backyard that spark when hitting 2 together.[/quote]
“Flint” is quartz. It’s got a different structure than quartz crystal (microcrystaline). “Chert”, “Flint”, “Jasper” etc.
Flint will spark with flint but you ain’t makin’ any fires from it.
[quote]Testy1 wrote:
The problem I have with Grylis is that some poor schlub that doesn’t know any better might follow his advice and end up dead… [/quote]
Exactly what happened here. Dude should have followed Les Stroud’s “Survivorman” show insted:
I feel like you took the zombie-thread idea and just renamed it.
I live in the Pacific Northwest and I don’t think I’d ever just take a gun, a few supplies, and try to see if I could survive. The cool thing about living out here is that there’s so much to explore and cool experiences to be had. I’ve seen mists pour at 6am from a temperate rainforest into the sky like a reverse waterfall, orcas breach 500ft out from the beach I grew up playing on, gone snorkeling, you name it. If I die trying to be an outback badass I wont get to climb Mt Rainier when I turn 30.
[quote]biglifter wrote:
We didn’t come this far just to go back to the stone ages for kicks. If I’m roughing it for longer than a weekend, there better be a cash prize upon my return.[/quote]
YOU didn’t have to go come anywhere, YOU were born into privilege and modern conveniences, it would be REALLY good for 99% of todays Males to actually have to go out and do some kind of manly survival training.
The world is now overrun with sissy men who can’t change their own tire, jump start their own car, change their own fucking oil, build a fire, hell even how to basically defend themselves. I think modern convenience and our way of trying to constantly build shit that does everything for us with less effort and less time is the very thing thats killing us as a society both in the health aspect and in the mental aspect. The ratio of men out there who don’t piss and moan about putting in an actuall hard days work is shrinking and its sad. We have turned into a bumch of soft motherfuckers…smarter maybe, weaker definetely, lazy for sure.
[quote]Oleena wrote:
I feel like you took the zombie-thread idea and just renamed it.
I live in the Pacific Northwest and I don’t think I’d ever just take a gun, a few supplies, and try to see if I could survive. The cool thing about living out here is that there’s so much to explore and cool experiences to be had. I’ve seen mists pour at 6am from a temperate rainforest into the sky like a reverse waterfall, orcas breach 500ft out from the beach I grew up playing on, gone snorkeling, you name it. If I die trying to be an outback badass I wont get to climb Mt Rainier when I turn 30.[/quote]
A bad ass wouldn’t die. Besides, I posted this way before the zombie thread.
[quote]HoustonGuy wrote:
[quote]gregron wrote:
Doing “survival” stuff for real sucks. When I was in the military I did a few survival courses and spent a lot of time in the field with no food/tent/whatever.
SERE- (survival evasion resistance escape) was a POW school. Lived in the field for 4-5 days with basically no food or shelter before you’re “captured” and taken to the POW camp to be interrogated for a couple days… Lame
DEST- (desert survival training) A week long and hot as balls… sucked. The temp swing was horrible… I was spooning with my buddy all night and we were freezing our asses off app night one night. Horrible. Water is hard to come by. Catching dew and making solar sills only go so far. Animals are pretty hard to snare even if you find an active game trail.
JST- (Jungle Survival Training) 10 days down in panama… Worst of them all. Sucks when it’s humid and bugs are everywhere. Can’t keep your feet dry and they get TORE UP. Mosquitos are awful… Good supply of edible plants and access to water… But hard to start a fire with everything so wet.
So what I’m basically saying is that a real life “survival” situation would in fact suck balls lol [/quote]
Given I would have a choice to disappear though, I’d park myself somewhere comfy and harvest oysters by the beach all day.
Maybe self reliant hobo would have been a better title.[/quote]
Better hope a red tide doesn’t come in.
Surviving near a beach would be easier for sure, but it is fucking nasty in the winter. Also, the water is freezing all year round. My boyfriend tried to accompany me for a swim the first year we dated. We were out there for maybe 20 minutes and he was shaking for 45min afterward, on a 95+degree day. If you didn’t grow up splashing around in it, chances are slim that you’ll enjoy it on the best day.
[quote]Oleena wrote:
[quote]HoustonGuy wrote:
[quote]gregron wrote:
Doing “survival” stuff for real sucks. When I was in the military I did a few survival courses and spent a lot of time in the field with no food/tent/whatever.
SERE- (survival evasion resistance escape) was a POW school. Lived in the field for 4-5 days with basically no food or shelter before you’re “captured” and taken to the POW camp to be interrogated for a couple days… Lame
DEST- (desert survival training) A week long and hot as balls… sucked. The temp swing was horrible… I was spooning with my buddy all night and we were freezing our asses off app night one night. Horrible. Water is hard to come by. Catching dew and making solar sills only go so far. Animals are pretty hard to snare even if you find an active game trail.
JST- (Jungle Survival Training) 10 days down in panama… Worst of them all. Sucks when it’s humid and bugs are everywhere. Can’t keep your feet dry and they get TORE UP. Mosquitos are awful… Good supply of edible plants and access to water… But hard to start a fire with everything so wet.
So what I’m basically saying is that a real life “survival” situation would in fact suck balls lol [/quote]
Given I would have a choice to disappear though, I’d park myself somewhere comfy and harvest oysters by the beach all day.
Maybe self reliant hobo would have been a better title.[/quote]
Better hope a red tide doesn’t come in.
Surviving near a beach would be easier for sure, but it is fucking nasty in the winter. Also, the water is freezing all year round. My boyfriend tried to accompany me for a swim the first year we dated. We were out there for maybe 20 minutes and he was shaking for 45min afterward, on a 95+degree day. If you didn’t grow up splashing around in it, chances are slim that you’ll enjoy it on the best day.
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The oceans I’m used to (gulf of Mexico and Caribbean) and where I would attempt my survival, are warm water bodies with protected lagoons and coves. It rarely freezes here in Texas and the Caribbean is warm year round.
[quote]LessTraveled wrote:
[quote]biglifter wrote:
We didn’t come this far just to go back to the stone ages for kicks. If I’m roughing it for longer than a weekend, there better be a cash prize upon my return.[/quote]
YOU didn’t have to go come anywhere, YOU were born into privilege and modern conveniences, it would be REALLY good for 99% of todays Males to actually have to go out and do some kind of manly survival training.
The world is now overrun with sissy men who can’t change their own tire, jump start their own car, change their own fucking oil, build a fire, hell even how to basically defend themselves. I think modern convenience and our way of trying to constantly build shit that does everything for us with less effort and less time is the very thing thats killing us as a society both in the health aspect and in the mental aspect. The ratio of men out there who don’t piss and moan about putting in an actuall hard days work is shrinking and its sad. We have turned into a bumch of soft motherfuckers…smarter maybe, weaker definetely, lazy for sure.[/quote]
I’m not so sure conveniences make us smarter. Gadgets reduce the need for.critical thinking.
Its seems from just reading wikipedia, the people who died didnt prepare well enough. Except for this guy. He lived their for 30years Richard Proenneke - Wikipedia
Texasguy after 6h hours
[quote]LessTraveled wrote:
[quote]biglifter wrote:
We didn’t come this far just to go back to the stone ages for kicks. If I’m roughing it for longer than a weekend, there better be a cash prize upon my return.[/quote]
YOU didn’t have to go come anywhere, YOU were born into privilege and modern conveniences, it would be REALLY good for 99% of todays Males to actually have to go out and do some kind of manly survival training.
The world is now overrun with sissy men who can’t change their own tire, jump start their own car, change their own fucking oil, build a fire, hell even how to basically defend themselves. I think modern convenience and our way of trying to constantly build shit that does everything for us with less effort and less time is the very thing thats killing us as a society both in the health aspect and in the mental aspect. The ratio of men out there who don’t piss and moan about putting in an actuall hard days work is shrinking and its sad. We have turned into a bumch of soft motherfuckers…smarter maybe, weaker definetely, lazy for sure.[/quote]
Funny that a dude who rants on like a whiner about today’s man calls himself “LESS Traveled” here.
lol
[quote]Iron Dwarf wrote:
[quote]LessTraveled wrote:
[quote]biglifter wrote:
We didn’t come this far just to go back to the stone ages for kicks. If I’m roughing it for longer than a weekend, there better be a cash prize upon my return.[/quote]
YOU didn’t have to go come anywhere, YOU were born into privilege and modern conveniences, it would be REALLY good for 99% of todays Males to actually have to go out and do some kind of manly survival training.
The world is now overrun with sissy men who can’t change their own tire, jump start their own car, change their own fucking oil, build a fire, hell even how to basically defend themselves. I think modern convenience and our way of trying to constantly build shit that does everything for us with less effort and less time is the very thing thats killing us as a society both in the health aspect and in the mental aspect. The ratio of men out there who don’t piss and moan about putting in an actuall hard days work is shrinking and its sad. We have turned into a bumch of soft motherfuckers…smarter maybe, weaker definetely, lazy for sure.[/quote]
Funny that a dude who rants on like a whiner about today’s man calls himself “LESS Traveled” here.
lol
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Hilarious Bro.
I thought the thread was going to be about who would be a better survivor between an actual caveman and a hobo. Darn.
I think a hobo would do better than a caveman as he would be able to find containers in the trash rather than go to the effort to make baskets and leather pouches for his tinder. Just a start.
[quote]comus3 wrote:
I think a hobo would do better than a caveman as he would be able to find containers in the trash rather than go to the effort to make baskets and leather pouches for his tinder. Just a start.[/quote]
But the cave man would whup his crazy, strung out ass and steal everything.