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[quote]twojarslave wrote:
I’m generally not a fan of the stupid box, but I would totally watch a show about survivalists who take lifting seriously. They could call it “Doomsday Pumpers”. Actually they shouldn’t call it that. Maybe “Iron Survival”.

Score them on protein supply source, current squat, bench and deadlift numbers, availability of other macro and micro-nutrients, durability of power cage, and then aggregate it all to calculate the likelihood of holding on to their gains in the event of a total social collapse.

I’d probably score a 3.

“Sorry, twojar. You’ll be down to a 405 deadlift within a year, and that’s being optimistic about your plan to raid the Wal-Mart distribution center immediately after the EMP goes off.” [/quote]

That sounds good. And at the end of each game the survivors have to fight each other to the death with improvised weapons and the last man standing goes on to the next game. A bit like The Running Man but in the wilderness and everyone is hunting everyone. They could use track their enemy, stalk them and ambush or set all kinds of deadly traps. Dig big bear traps with wooden spikes in the bottom covered by debris. And tension traps like the one Arnie makes to get the Predator at the end. That would actually be an incredible spectacle despite its moral dubiousness. Some of the games that were held in the Colossium would’ve been pretty spectacular too. Apparently, the exits from the spectators’ sections to the street was designed to allow the vomit to flow to gutters where it could be washed away. In addition to people with a light stomach throwing up from all the gore, it was also a common practice with the Romans to deliberately vomit up the stomach contents to make room for more food and the games in the Colossium often went on for days; weeks even. On one occasion it was flooded and a mock naval battle carried out. Bears, crocodiles, wolves, lions, tigers, hippopotami, snakes, elephants, panthers, cheetahs, baboons, apes and rhinoceros were all fought. What a show.

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[quote]twojarslave wrote:
I’m generally not a fan of the stupid box, but I would totally watch a show about survivalists who take lifting seriously. They could call it “Doomsday Pumpers”. Actually they shouldn’t call it that. Maybe “Iron Survival”.

Score them on protein supply source, current squat, bench and deadlift numbers, availability of other macro and micro-nutrients, durability of power cage, and then aggregate it all to calculate the likelihood of holding on to their gains in the event of a total social collapse.

I’d probably score a 3.

“Sorry, twojar. You’ll be down to a 405 deadlift within a year, and that’s being optimistic about your plan to raid the Wal-Mart distribution center immediately after the EMP goes off.” [/quote]

This would be hilarious and one of the only reality TV show’s I’d watch.

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Comes out in the summer. I love this site. Careful you could get caught up looking at shit for hours.

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Thought I’d bump this thread to show off two new additions to my gear.

Everyone seems to love the Ka-Bar Becker BK2, but I went a different way. Based on my experiences in the jungle, what I used most was a long, heavy machete-type blade (called a parang in Indonesia or enep in Thailand) for clearing jungle bush, chopping and splitting wood and bamboo, digging, etc., and a smaller, lighter knife for whittling, carving, cutting meat, and the myriad other fiddly chores around camp. The BK2 is, in my estimation, too small for clearing bush, and too heavy and thick for fine work, but I really like its two siblings, the BK9 and the BK15.

The BK9, or “Combat Bowie” as Ka-Bar calls it, is just the right length (9-inch chrome-vanadium steel blade, nearly 15 inches overall) and heft (a little over a pound) for chopping through tough vines, small trees, branches, bamboo, and coconuts (and by extrapolation, probably arms, necks, and skulls). It’s perhaps not as zippy as a machete, nor as choppy as an axe, but it fills both roles adequately enough, plus it’s stronger than the one and stabbier than the other.

As an aside, the Ka-Bar brand evidently takes its name from a letter the knife maker received in the 1920s, from a trapper in the north woods who used his knife to kill a bear. The trapper was not the most literate of fellows, however, and the account of ursocide was rendered “K a bar”, which the company gleefully adopted. Whereas I would not want to take on a boar or a bear with a camp axe or a machete, I would feel moderately more confident with the big BK9 in my hand. Or better yet, lashed tightly to a stout pole.

My BK15 has a 5-inch blade, subtly curved from tip to ricasso, light as a feather and perfectly balanced. It’s thick and strong enough to baton wood if needed (but why bother if I’ve got the big Bowie), but thin enough to slice vegetables without mashing them. I’m predicting that it will do a fine job as a skinning and butchering knife, as well as a carving knife of both meat and wood. Gonna have to go kill something to test this hypothesis.

My first Ka-Bar was a Marine Corps fighting knife, which I used for many, many years until I finally gave it to my brother. I can see these knives staying with me for a long, long time. When I’m no longer strong enough to carry them into the jungle, perhaps I’ll give them to my great-grandchildren.

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[quote]Varqanir wrote:
Thought I’d bump this thread to show off two new additions to my gear.

Everyone seems to love the Ka-Bar Becker BK2, but I went a different way. Based on my experiences in the jungle, what I used most was a long, heavy machete-type blade (called a parang in Indonesia or enep in Thailand) for clearing jungle bush, chopping and splitting wood and bamboo, digging, etc., and a smaller, lighter knife for whittling, carving, cutting meat, and the myriad other fiddly chores around camp. The BK2 is, in my estimation, too small for clearing bush, and too heavy and thick for fine work, but I really like its two siblings, the BK9 and the BK15.

The BK9, or “Combat Bowie” as Ka-Bar calls it, is just the right length (9-inch chrome-vanadium steel blade, nearly 15 inches overall) and heft (a little over a pound) for chopping through tough vines, small trees, branches, bamboo, and coconuts (and by extrapolation, probably arms, necks, and skulls). It’s perhaps not as zippy as a machete, nor as choppy as an axe, but it fills both roles adequately enough, plus it’s stronger than the one and stabbier than the other.

As an aside, the Ka-Bar brand evidently takes its name from a letter the knife maker received in the 1920s, from a trapper in the north woods who used his knife to kill a bear. The trapper was not the most literate of fellows, however, and the account of ursocide was rendered “K a bar”, which the company gleefully adopted. Whereas I would not want to take on a boar or a bear with a camp axe or a machete, I would feel moderately more confident with the big BK9 in my hand. Or better yet, lashed tightly to a stout pole.

My BK15 has a 5-inch blade, subtly curved from tip to ricasso, light as a feather and perfectly balanced. It’s thick and strong enough to baton wood if needed (but why bother if I’ve got the big Bowie), but thin enough to slice vegetables without mashing them. I’m predicting that it will do a fine job as a skinning and butchering knife, as well as a carving knife of both meat and wood. Gonna have to go kill something to test this hypothesis.

My first Ka-Bar was a Marine Corps fighting knife, which I used for many, many years until I finally gave it to my brother. I can see these knives staying with me for a long, long time. When I’m no longer strong enough to carry them into the jungle, perhaps I’ll give them to my great-grandchildren.
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Good looking combo.

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[quote]Derek542 wrote:

Comes out in the summer. I love this site. Careful you could get caught up looking at shit for hours. [/quote]

You might like this site too then.